Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1886-04-13
The Farm-Boy.
by SCOTT WAY.


My son, do not smile derisively at
the farm-boy, toiling contentedly yon-
der by the wayside. lie is not at
tired as trinity as you are; nay, his
trousers bag at the knees and hang
on him loosely by one suspender, his
hat is less shapely than it was spring
before last and his boots are coarse
aud rOomy, but some years hence
you may be down at Washington
begging his influence to help you
get a 81, 900 postoffice.
And the farm-boy may not write
as prettily as you do, but in the near
future his plain, everyday signature
may draw a great deal better than
your beautiful autograph, at the
bank.
No, my son, the farm-boy does not
begin his active career under a $lO
plug hat, neither does he leave his
vietuals untasted and fade away to
a shadow because he cannot have a
single-barrelled oye-glass, but not in
frequently he goes up front in due
season, without plug hat or single
barrelled eye-glass TO his back.
The farm-boy is not familiar with
the lap of luxury and in his working
clothes he does not resemble fragile
hot-house flower, but he is full OF
grit, my son, chock full Of grit. Very
likely he is not getting much more
than his board and clothes for his
labor just now, silver dollar may
seem almost us big as a cart wheel to
him, but he is storing up experience
that is better than gold-tine, al
wool experience full two yards wide
-experience that will pull hin
through places IN which you may
get mired in spite of your college
education and highly cultured legs.
l know that you can waltz al
around that uncOuth farm-boy, III!
shapely son, for he has not had tim,
to educate his feet so that they nigh
not get tangled up with each othe
in the mad, mazy whirl; but if yo'
don't keep your eyes open and tn
inside works of your head busy Ii
will be likely to waltz so far ahea
of YOU on the race course of success
that you won't see his coat tails afte
, the end of the first quarter.
Oh, no. the farm-boy hasn't muc
, time to read, but l do not doubt br
, that he uses well the little he ha
lis life is not sedentary. He has
4. great deal of exercise in the open al
!. His father is a very lively old MAJ
lie works like a barrel of new eide
!. and when his resonant voice is heal
l laundering through his ancestr
halls at 4 A. NJ, there is gener
a; resurrection on the premises.
!. At noon our merry farm-boy com
{; in with an appetite like sausa!
machine, and after he has swallow(
/; his dinner his father invites him OF
), under The early harvest apple tree
turn the grindstone while he is res
/; ing his back. The energetic old ia
:, mer can alwavs find something f
the farm-boy to do while he is res
!. inc his back at noon. and he genera
lv fiudsit.
!; In the evening the tired farm-b,
,, reads his few books and papers, al
is thus soaking in valuable inform
=; tson in small but effective dos,
8. whilst YOU. nv beautiful son, a
forgetting a large part of that know
!. edge which cost me a very hi
price. Mayhap. it does not seem
}. valuable to you because paid for
But you are not such a bad bt
a. after all his aid, and l am not findi
IS. fault with Won at all. I merely 81
o. gest in a gentle sort of way that y
shnuId not smile derisiyely at
e. toiling farm boy.
Look about YOU, nv son, amo
L. the successful men in every CALI
IS. A Iorga ma; ;o,;tv of them were n,