The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-25
CITY AND COUNTRY BOYS.
Respective Advantages and Dis
advantages.

Their Respective Advantages anu D1S-
advantages.
The half grown boy and his cousin,
the half-grown boy of the rural dis
tricts, are envious of each other, in
Nersely as the square of the seasons,
as the mathematicians would put it. For
instance, Just now when the April show
crs are falling and the flowers are COM
mcncing to bloom, the city boy sits in
the close school-rooms and wishes him.
self out in the country where there is
good fishing in the little streams and
where there are flowers in the woods
showing themselves, and where there
are birds and thousand other things
that lead to his enjoyment. The coun-
try boy is just as desirous of staying
where he is, for though he is in the
country the whole year round, he is just
as glad to live in the sunshine and
among the flowers and green fields as
the city boy would be. No, he don't
want any city mixed up with his life
when the charming spring weather
comes. But there is time when he
would like to be in the city; when he
plans and plans how he could get there
and what he would do if he were there.
This is when the summer work is over,
and the chilling blasts of approaching
winter are felt. The country is q
dreary place in winter, and the boy
thinks that if only he could be fixed like
his city cousin he would be supremely
happy. To tell the truth, the boy on
the farm has hard time of it in win
ter. There is always lot Of work to
do which the older people seem to
think is just the thing for the boys, and
therefore they have to do it. True,
they get some sleigh-rides and have q
little fun at school, but it is dreary
time Notwithstanding.
The city boy, if his parents are we'll
to-do. has great advantage in the
long lnn-he has long vacation in the
summer, and he can 60 out and spend
it with his country cousin. He has
nothing to do, and if his parents are in
q position to live half and half, that is,
the winter in the city and the summer
in the country, he is pretty well pro-
vided for. The cL.mtry boy can't do
anything like that. He has too much
to do in the winter to come into town
and have good time, and he is fort
innate boy if he can get a few days visit
every year to the city.
The country boy, if he don't like farm
life, and not onc-half of them do-not
because they are indolent or anything
of the kind, for they will work hard
enough at what they do like-will, in
course of time. drift away from the
farm and find himself clerking in a city
store or working in the shops. and hav-
ing much harder time of it than he
| had on the farm. Yet you could not
get him to go back. He may like to
get out of town occasionally and see
! the green fields, and fish in the streams
as he did when a boy. but a week or so
is enough. and back he comes to the
crowded city.
Boys are very queer some way or
other. and a really contented boy is not
found at every turn of your elbow.
This is the reason, perhaps, why there
are so many discontented men in the
world-they are so because they did not
have things to suit them when they
We're boys. -Ptttsburgh Chronicle TEL
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