Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-05-23


Among Others one poor pa!c-looking
lad put out his hand.
"Well, B." said, what difference
is suggested to you?"
"Why SIR" answered the boy, glow
of feeling rising to his cheek "a sleeps |
heart is the softest; for you can bite n
Sleeps heart, but womans heart you
break"
And then ! remembered that poor lit
tie BIS mother lad died of broken |
heart, the result of husbands brutali-
ty and desertion.
The next essay from which / take an
extract was written by lad in the
Fourth Standard of the school. The
subject for the composition was Flow
ers.
After describing the flowers to be
seen in any ordinary garden plot the
young essayist continues:
Nov, in the country the flowers
grow wild in the fields, though not so
close together, and not in slSwares and
rounds, And nobody believes it till
they go in the train; but certainly boys
and girls can run amongst them, and
pull up as many as they like, and fill
their arms and baskets and bring them
home to there fathers and mothers.
And the teacher said that if we could
only go the next day, there would be
just as many flowers again. Some boys
would not believe what the teacher said,
but I bnliaua tbot ~ ic trua fnr | bo1iaua
that God can easy do miracles, because
believe that the flowers are not stuck
in by men or policemen after it is dark,
else what about taking so much pulling
out? When am man | shall go the
next day. ! should so like to live in
house in the middle of the fields, so that
l could always see them flowers all
round me, and the trains going by on
them green banks. Perhaps when /
am man | shall try to find house
there, and kind woman in the inside
of it,"
The following effort is a selection
from a Third Standard lad scomposition
exercise upon 1.-THE Donkey" Only the
first two paragraphs of the essay are
omitted:
"The Donkey is one of that tribe of
beasts on which the cane has no effekt,
| for the harder you hit it the slower it
goes. Your fathers never use whip
for there donkeys, becase they no it
would not hurt them. For the Donkey
rather likes to feel whip, as it only
tikles him and makes him feel joyful
and hungry The best thing to punish
a Donkey with is, firstly, a short thick
cane for ears and belly; and secondly, a
broomstick cut in two for backbone and
back legs. He will then go betwixt
four and five miles an hour.
The donkeys which you see painted
yellow and blue on the school
pictures are what are called jews asses.
These tribes Of donkeys go many miles
an hour, and will follow their masters
like dogs and lambs becose of kindness.
The young one are sometimes called
kolts and foals of asses. Therefore, if
you have niced young donkey show
mercy unto it, and it might grow into a
kolt or the foal of an ass. There is also
the tribe of wild asses which prowl upon
the top of rocks, and never slip over,
even in winter. They are larger than
our modern donkeys, and surer footed,
In the night time they climb down, and
feed like rabbits upon the poor farmers
hard-earncd vegitebles:"
The branch of secular work which
children abhor more than any other is
beyond doubt Grammar and Aualy
sis" | have frequently noticed that
during this session the lads grew rest
less and even irritable, and the diSci
pline becomes, in consequence, more
difficult to maintain.
Hence can very we'll understand thai
irritableness, quite as much as ignor
ance, was the cause of the startling an
swer given by a north-country lad to his
inspector during an examination il
grammar.
The inspector was dealing with the
genders of nouns and pronouns, and
among otherquestions, he asked:
What is the gender of the noun egg?'
'Sir," answered tall, shrewd lad be
hind, who probably surmised that it wa!
kind of "catch" question, and was de
termined to prove himself equal to tn,
occasion, you Gamma tell till it's hatch
edr'
During Scripture lesson from Tho
Book of Kings teacher, after having
gone through the life of the third mon
arch of the united jewish kingdom
solomon, had further intention of pro
coeding to the reign of Solomon's sue
cessor, Jeroboam, King of Israel.
Accordingly he put the question:
"Now, boys, who was it came after
Solomon?'
"The Queen of Sheba, sir,' cried out
an eager little customer, who enter
tanned a lively and delighted rccollec-
ton of the description of that royaI
lady's ''courtin'."
During Scripture lesson upon The
early life of Moses a teacher received al
| answer from child which was as anus
ing as it was practical.
The teacher had described how thu
babe was placed by the sorrowinl
mother in an ark, and how the little
vessel with its precious burden wa
, foated out among the reeds on the rive
| Nile, and he then put the question::
, "Now, why did the parents take goot
care to daub the vessel with pitch?"
| And one lad held out his hand, ant
' confidently answered;
$50 as to make the little baby sticl
/ Inside, sir!'
The following extract from an essa.
!. on THE Neon" affords, in defiance of it
: title, some most interesting glimpses o
sub-lunary homc-life:
s ITO look at the white moon shinir
4 | tl,rnu nn,1r ,Ninlnr ut rimht SitLinrr %,