The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-15
GONG TO SCHOOL.
Burdcttc Pours Out Some Philosophy o"
Painful subject.

. I'uluii ot'y'''
Dear little man, 50 you are back IN scnoo,
and Won don't like il pretty well don't tnins'
Well that's natural and boy like, but II Ism
right. Cong % school Is great fun, after you
are too old To 20 any more, winch VIII ps
when Won are old enough 70 die, ana thea
s,,npose Won viii 90 70 another school "hen
co.: vo,,r o.,e 1 don't think liked going TO
ecbool n littls bit, but that was because
didn't have very much sense when WIS
vonnr only worked and studied about SIX
ar seven hours a dSy then. and had but thrce
TEACHERS 10 ol,ev. was the gladdest boy you
eter knew. when got out OF school, ana you
meyer knew me. Since then | have been AT
work all the time. and have to obey more pee
rle than ever saw in school holse at one
Time Tho editor SAYS IL don't have my com
position ready by Friday night lac won't na'e
II at all. tho foreman says he mus ua'e u !"
hand Friday morning or 10 Won't 20 lu' wv
nroof reader saws il he doesn't get the pr'o's
Thursday night they viii have 10 ie'n 'n''i
selves and tie com -sitors-there arc sr'en,.
6r,.,r eighty of them-dec,are they VIII sulke
II don't write more plainly ana pGnctna'e
nropcrlv. and spell better. Then u'e-h 10
,eo,te before q small class, or thc s'hooi n'
mos. md row have - real my compost
ton and say ms piece before all the Su"''Ii
Lers When ! was boy the teacher cofreclei
me in the plesence OF the class, bat now ihe
critic a terrible .cllow De g., corrects me
MINT out IN print before everybody ana
,rIen don't sav ms lesson % suit hlm
doesn't he dust ~ jacket Cor me- '"ou5u'
Tho way be- makes the lint ny is e'ul'''',
and the worst OF it Is darcnt 'holler' ana
SO get over il, that would only make hli,'
uorsa. and beside everybody would laugh
at me and Try. Give him some moro IA the
samo nloce % lie can-and does-say Just as
nice things as be does rough ones, put you
have 10 dot your is and cross your Is 70 earn
his approval. Then have d work Tor my
landlord. and the grocery nan anu lhe tax
collector and the shoemaker, ana l don
know how many other people. have to buy
oil for the marching club OF my party ana
have TO march in the dust or the mud, ana
usten To long speeches and make some longer
ones myself. | have 10 say p ease ana
"thank you." and say "sir' When speak 10
the governor: daren't 90 IN my bare ieet,
and I've clly been fishing once TINS year,
and then didn't stay long and didnt eaten
ANYTHING: - the table, no matter now hungry
am have TO serve everybody else before
GET a bite T. eat myself and am always
the last one waited on; man down IN
Bo-ui Hollow SAYS he IS going 10 lick me Tor
shooting his dos-and he LOOKS like man OF
ms word, too-when everybody knows I'm
afraid of a Gun and couldnt hit il0cS oil
barns ANYHOW, On rest, and win SloOc
SIGHTS. another man threatens 20 put me IN
ilil if don't pay bill that have three re
CENTS for and a poor widow woman IN Rag
alley. who takes in washing and gin, Is golne
to sue me if don't pay her so because my
cow tore up her garden, when she mas i'
garden AMI never Owned COW IN my ne
| can't follow the circus procession can
STAY home when have the toothache, can
Get excused when the fish are biting, some OF
the bows in this great biz school are bulies
and some Of them are fools, and some OF then
are toadies. aud some Of them arc sne1hS
and some are iilrs, and some Of thcm ar
great. big hearted, loving fellows, that yo'
want ID b. with ali the time, bat they re $
busy YOU cla oaly snatch word with then
o.cs in long while. l. isl't 50 very muci
different from your own school after all ON,
the discipline is more severe, aud the Ieache
is strict. while be Is loving AMI gentle. Bu
every time YOU break a rule You smart Tor 1t
Idont wonder that some Of the Older pupil
are glad. glad. glad, when their lessons ar
all said. and ia, Llottci books are pat away
and they are called up into the higher room
where they Will b. closer to the Master, an
all the hard places ia the old lessons VIII b
explained away 50 lovingly and clearly tia
never sigh VII pInctaaio tlo recitation
ard never a tear blister the pages that I"
blur and b!undcr over 50 stupidity and bind
now. All, my little man, you'd better lear
to love Your sc-ool; you'll never set oat 81
until they send word 10 the sexton inaJ 70
have graduated 90 Robert ). Burdet'e
Brooklyn Eagle.