Daily Republican., 1888-07-28
aow he WENT BACK TO sUHoOL.

I
tiOni "I'm going TO have peanuts al
ready shelled, and eat them wheI
teacher 10 not looking, and I'm going q
do lots o'things to mako the other boy
laugh, and aw going to act q
teAoher'll have to send nae homo, then
won't have 10 90 10 school any more
Obee'hee, won't It be funn And {
I'alr OF boz ish heels went up in the Aii
~ Tom threw himself bscS on the soft
and chuokled At what he thought very
smart speech.
Susie, who was eight years old, jue
two years younger than Tom, looked 1
little shocked at firft, bat when Tou
laughed 80 sAyly, she laughed too, theI
"Yes, hut whAt will mamma say X
such things, aud pAps2 Oh, pspa vii
be dreadful sober, aud ssy, my little
sonl in that way that always MAKES me
cry right ont when be says, MY little
dRuahterl"
"Oh, mamma will be kind Of sorry
ct first" said Tom, blsndly, "but SHE
will get over It pretty sooni and rs tc
papa, I'd make IL all right with papa
when tell him how q fellow hates ID
study" And Tom thrust his thumbs
into the Armholes OF his blouse and
| bkipu W WulbLLo.
fortunately mauma was in the hall,
and just about to enter the room when
Tom began his smart remarks, and DC
heard every word the children Eald
She was quickly back upstairs. and
neither Tom nor Susie auspsoted she
had hoard q word Of their conversation.
But just rs their mother expected
| when Dedtlna was approaching that
night, Tom began asking for story,
and Susie put down her dolly to hslp
Tom tease for what they both liked so
much, one OF their manuals nice
stories. Papa was over by the tabls
reAttng, but his face was behind the
paper, and the children knew the sound
OF mammals voice would not disturb
aim at all.
30 after Tom had seated himself upon
an ottoman, with bis hands In his
mammR's lap, and Susie WAS nestled
close by her, mamma began:-
"Onoe upon q time there Was fine
looking young man who was very un
fortunate, and very much 10 be pitied.
BE had good manners aud also had the
appearance Of being we'll brought nj;
but tho great trouble was he was not
faithful in anything. When he firss
went into town and tried to find work
he would generally succeed In getting
something to do In q store, perhaps, and
for . little whils ha would sesm to do
very well, but It was never long before
those who employed him would fiud
that be was not to be trusted, SO he
would bs obliged TO leave and try to
lind some other plsce Of employment.
"The tins would come when every
one In the town would know all about
him, and be would have to 90 come
where elae and begin all over again TO
try finding work by which to feed him
self. This was not At all happy life tn
ltRl, for Of course he had no settled
home, no friends in particular, and but
very little money, sometimes not enough
10 buy things he rsslly needed.
"Besides Rll,this there was no kind of
business he could engage in except the
very simplest, because he had never
learned how to do things which bring
In money to cay nmount, and are what
we call profitable. Don't you think be
must have felt very badly Whsn he
thought OF his bnyhood and his com.
Portable home aud kind parental"
"Did he have nice home and kind
parenth2" sskod Tom.
Certainly, Just As nice n home As
you have, and Just az kind parents"
"Then why didn't they teach him
things and send him 10 school," asked
Tom, his great blne eyes wide open.
"Oh, they DID," said mamma. "He
was Always carefully dressed in the
nestest clothes, provided with the best
Of food, aud wStehed over as teuderly
as you are through hin boyish years,
aRd every day he was ssut With his lit
tie sister to one Of tie finest schools"
''Thsn Why didn't he learn and grow
up to be = fRithtal young man, and
have = home and some money, and lots
OF friends2" asked Interested little Tom.
"Well, that is a very sad thing to tell
about" answered mAmmA, speaking
very slowly. "But the trouble IL, when
child first begins to do wrong, espe.
cially when he means and plnns to do
It, 1t is almost next to impossible TO get
back into the right path again. Ard
the truth Is, that young man when 8
little boy, all ~ onos made up his mind
after having had long, happy vsca
tlon, that he wouldn't study any more
nor behave we'll in school. So he would
start ont 10 the morning dressed nicely,
we'll fed, and with his mothers fond
kiss on his cheek; then he would enter
Ahe sohool-room and eat peanuts he had
already shelled, and when the teacher
wasn't looking he would do great
many things TO make the other chill
dren laugh, and finally Aotsd 90 badly
that the teacher had to send him to his
home"
"why, Tom Jenkinsl" cried Susie,
inteTrupting her mamma Rs these 70
millar words, "those are the very things
| you said you meBDt to do when you
| went back to so6ooll'
5usie's AmsEsnent got the better OF
her usual habit Of shielding Toms
faults.
Poor Toni His face had bean grow
ing very red, his cheHt WAS swelling
and his breath coming very quickly 81
the last part OF the story; but when hi'
papa slowly lowered his paper from his
fAos, and said In surprised tone,
"Why, my little sOnw 1t wBs almost
too much. Down went Toms fair little
head Into DsmmA's lap, and for q few
minutes the sound Of his crylpR was
heard In tie room.
Susie was ell pity and repentance,
and tried her beat TO tell how cory she
was that she had ''tola on him." Bul
after time Toms sobs ceased and be
became very quiet, Papa aud mamma
began talking about some other little
matters; then mamma said IL WAS bed
time. At this Tom raised his head and
sAid in low, reBnl1te voice:
"I'm just going back TO school Mon
day morning to be the ast boy theSs itI
l Am not going to gIow up not to have
any home and NO friends, or not To
know how to 90 thinzs real proper.
really did mean to be bud bog for q
little while, but II it's 80 hard to gel
good Rgsiu, Just Ain't going to make
my papa and mamma ashamed and
annIl my self, al 70. being bad y