The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-27
GOING TO SCHOOL.
BY ROBERT J. BURDETrE.


 
 Dear little man, so you are back in Ehool, and you don't like it pretty Tell, I don't think? We'll, that's nat |ral and boylike, but it isn't right. Roing to school is great fun, after you Fe too old to go any more, which will 'e when you are old enough to die, nd then I suppose you will go to an- ther school. When I was your age don't think I liked going to school a title bit, but that was because I |idn't have very much sense when I Fas young. I only worked and stud Pd about six or seven hours a day hen, and had but three teachers to |bey. I was the gladdest boy you yer knew, when got out of school, nd you never knew me. Since then have been at work all the time, and ave to obey more people than ever kw in 8 school st one time. he editor says if I don't have my bmposition ready by Friday night |e won't have it at all, the foreman kys he must have it in hand Friday horning or it won't go in, the proof ,ader says if he doesn't get the proofs hursday night they will have to read kemselves, and the compositors- kere are seventy-five or eighty of Aem-declare they will strike if l bn't write more plainly, and punct- hte properly, and spell better. When was boy the teacher corrected me
 the presence of the class, but now be critic, a terrible fellow he is, cor bets me right out in print before Fery body, and when I don't say my bsson to suit him doesn't he dust my cket, though? The way he makes he lint fly is a caution, and the worst E 1t is I daren't "holler" and 80 get yer it; that would only make him Forse; and besides, everybody would hugh at me, and cry, "give him some bore in the same place." He can-and |oes-say just as nice things as he does pugh ones, but you have to dot your |s and cross your t's to earn his ap- royal. Then I have to work for my kndlord, and the grocery man, and he tax collector and the shoemaker, nd I don't know hew many other |eople. I have to buy oil for the harching club of my party, and have b march in the dust or the mud, and sten to long speeches, and make some bnger ones myself. have to say please" and "thank you" and say Dir" when I speak to the governor. daren't go in my bare feet, and I've |nly been fishing once this year, and ben I didn't stay long, and didn't Itch anything; at the table, no mat
 r how hungry I am, I have to serve Fery body else before I get bite to
 t myself, and am always the last be waited on man down in Bogus pillow says he is going to lick me for |ooting his dog-and he looks like 8
 an of his word, too-when every bdy knows Pm afraid of a gun and luldn't hit a flock of barns, anyhow,
 rest, and with globe sights; an-
 her man threatens to put me in iail
 I don't pay bill that I have three
 ceipts for, and a poor widow wo-
 an in Rag alley, who takes in wash $g and gin, is going to sue me if I bn't pay her ten dollars because my pw tore up her garden, when she has D garden and I never owned COW in
 y life. I can't follow the circus pro-
 ssion, can't stay home when have he toothache, 1 can't get excused
 hen the fish are biting some of the bys in this great big school are bull 'es, and some of them are fools, and (me of them are toadies, and some of hem are sneaks, and some are liars, (d some of them are great, big |arted, loving fellows, that you want
 be with all the time, but they're so
 lsy you can only snatch word with hem once in long while. It isn't so ery much different from your school, 1ter all, only the discipline is more eFere, and the teacher is strict, while I'd is loving and gentle. But every ime you break rule you smart for {. I don't wonder that some of the 'lder pupils are glad, glad, when their essons are all said, and the plotted looks are put away, and they are alled up into the higher room, where hey will be closer to the Master, and II the hard places in the old lessons will be explained away so lovingly nd clearly that never a sigh will ,unctuate the recitation, and never 8 ear blister the pages that we blur and 'lunder over so stupidly and blindly low. An, my little man, you'd bet CT learI to love your school !; you'll iever get out of it until they send word to the sexton that you have ,raduated.-0an Francisco Post.
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