Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-11-24
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 Dear little man, So you are back In school 9is you don't like it pretty well don't thinkf E We'll, that's natural and boy lIke, but it isn't rjght Going to school is great fun, after you are too old t. go any more, which will be
 when you are old enough to die, and then I
 eappoSs you win go to another school When
 ! was your age don't think 1 liked going to .school little bit, but that was because dflnt have very much sense when l was
 5cung l only worked and studied ab~lt six or seven hours day then, and had but three { fteachers to obey. was the gladdest boy you ever knew, when got out of school, aLd you
 Ever knew me. Since then I have been at
 work all the time, and have to obey more peo- pie than l ever saw in school house at one fffne The editor says if don't have my com . V,sition ready by Friday night he won't have !, it ct all, the foreman says he must have it in . hnnd Friday morning or 1t won't go in, the pfoof reader says if be doesn't get the proofs Thursday night they will have to read them Hselves and the ompositors-there are seventy fhgeapr eighty of fthern-declare they w.N striAe I'd don't write moro plainly and punctuate ! Roperly, and spell better. Then used to
 rcite before a small class, or the school at noSt, and now have to read my compost E tIon and say my piece before all the subscri-
 bers. When I was boy the teacher corrected ne in the presence of the class, but now the 1u-itic, a terrible fellow he Is, corrects me InNght out in print before everybody, and ! Rh hen l don't say my lesson to suit him dpesn't he dust my jacket for me, thought The way he makes tho lint fly is caution,
 and the worst of it Is l daren't "holler,n and I.so get over it; that would only make him Norse, and beside everybody would laugh lat me and cry, "Give him some more in the sarne place" He can-and does-say just as < nice things as be does rough ones but you bave to dot your is and cross your tis to earn hs approval Then have to work for my [ landlord, and the grocery man and the tax f.epllector and the shoemaker, and 1 don't Anow how many other people. I have to buy .aol for the marching club of my party, and Have to march in the dust or the mud, and .listen to long speeches and make some longer ones myself. l have to say "please' and [ *thank you," and say '>sir" when speak to ,tfle governor; darent go In my bare feet, VI and I've only been fishing once this year. Ind then didn't stay long and didn't catch lsanything: at the table, no matter how hungry | am, have to serve everybody else before kget bite to eat myself, and am always { sthe last one waited on; 0 man down in ' Bogus Hollow says he Is going to lick me for his dog-and he looks like 8 man of 1 bis word, too-when everybody knows I'm Hfraid of gun and couldn't hit flock of x Barns anyhow, on rest, and with globe J, &ghts; aEother man threatens to put me in 1ail if don't pay bill that 1 have threo re- k,esipts for, and poor widow woman in Rag i. hlley, who takes in washing and gin, is going <& sue me if don't pay her S10 because my fScow tore up her garden, when she hes TO ' FBarden and never owned COW in my hfe i13 can't follow the circus procession ] can't istfay home when l have the toothache, can't
 get excused when the fish are biting; some of
 the boys in this great big school gre bullies, and some of them are fools, and some of them
 are toadies, and some of them are sneaks,
 and some ore liars, and some of them are | great, zffeaRted, loving fellows, that you
 want to be with all the time, but they're So ] busy you eah c4ily snatch word with them
 once in long while It isn't so very much | different from your own school after all, only l the discipline is more severe, and the Teacher
 Is strict, while he is loving and gentle. Dut
 aas.y G
 Idon't wonder that some of the older purls
 are glad. glad. glad, when their lessons d
 ull s..id, aud tho plotted books are put away
 and they arS called up into the higher room
 whereOhey will 6a~err1leer to the -HSaster 122iid
 all the hard places in the old lessons will be
 explained away so lovingly and clearly thas
 never a sigh will punctuate tie recitation,
 aud never tear blister the pages.that We
 blur and blunder over so stupidly and blindly
 now. An, my little man, you'd better learn
 to love your school; you'll never get out of it
 until they send word to the sexton that you
 have graduated. - Robert J. Burdet5e in
 Brooklyn Eagle.