Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-12-10
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ESSAYS on boy. ="
An Interesting Animal Faithfully Described.
Providence Journal

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Providence Journal
| The teacher in one of our intermediate
schools one day last geek had q lesson in
language, giving for the subjec the word
Boy" Che scholars to write what they
could about the subject, and this without
assistance and without any time for prep
aration. The following are two speci-
mems of the compositions written BY
two small boys, one and one 10 years of
age, and they showed a good idea of
punctuation and the spelling was excel
lent, but two or three words in each being
spelled wrong, and those the shorter and
more common words:
A boy is biped animal. one to three
feet high. Some boys arc wise, intelli-
gent, dull, bad, good, kind, gentle, cross,
unklnd, stupid, etc. Some boys are very
kind to their brothers and sisters. My
brother is very kind to me. Some boys
grow up to be great men, some mayors of
| cities, and some own great mills and
stores. Boys who study when they are
small become the greatest men. Some
boys who do not study when they are
! Young grow men, are poor, and have to
go out with pick-ax and shovel, shovel
ing out the gCtters and streets. Holidays
some boys sell lemonade and ice-cream,
and some such things as | have mention
ed, and earn lots of money. Last Fourth
of July l had lemonade and ice
cream stand, and earned some
money. Some boys learn how to swim,
and some save lives. Some boys steal
things and get arrested, and their parents
have to bail them out. Some boys are
cruel to animals. Some boys come to
| school with shoes and stockings off and
their hair uncombed, and are not neat.
The teacher does not like this, so she
makes them look neat. Some boys stay
home and take care Of the garden and
the baby, and some boys run away and
get into mischief. Some get hurt. Once
In a weeks vacation | went with Sylves-
ter Bennett to play in some sand 1t was
IN winter. We came in his yard, and
there was some ice on the ground, and he
took an ak and began ohopping it. l
went to pick it and he struck me in the
eye with the back of the ak. This was
an accident. He cried and | did Once
l was coming home from school. l
jumped on a milk-wagon. When jumped
lost my balance and fell fiat in mud
hole. Boys are not so good, kind, gentle,
| and stupid as girls are.
boy is a small biped, not very large,
but they are large enough to be in mis-
chief. In summer most of the boys steal
all the fruit they can, and chew tobacco
and smoke it, and fight and swear, and
course, and tell lies, and are lazy and
saucy and sulky, and are proud. In
school they whisper and play and do not
like to study when the the teacher is not
looking; and most of them come
with dirty hands and faces, and
they dirty up the yard and build
ing and run away. The boys play
ball, polo, shiny, racing, flying kites,
horse, switch, bull-in-the ring, hide-and-
go-seek, tag. chasing, tapping, jumping,
running, swimming. At homo some boys
sauce their mother and don't want to do
any errand. for their mother. / have
seen some boys ask their mother for a
cent, and if they will not give them one
they will begin to sing and laugh AID
jump. In winter they will be crying for
sleds. A boy asked me for match to
light pipe, and l told him his match
was on the state farm. Boys are always
into mischief.