The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-09-05
School Boys Essays.

That boys can write essays of true lit
erary merit, showing real observation
and genuine thought expressed in con-
only furnished with reasonable subjects,
has been proved again and again. In
Longmans Magazine have appeared
some specimens of what can be done
when a boy tries. One of these on s'The
Donkey" is almost a work of genius:
NThe donkey is one of that tribe of beasts on
which the cane has no effekt, tor the harder
you hit it the slower it goes. Your fathers
never use a whip for there donkeys, because
they no it would not hurt them. For the don
key rather likes to feel a 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, broomstick cut in two
for backbone and legs He will then go be-
twixt four and five miles IAN hour. The don
keys which you see painted yellow and blue
on the school pictures are what are called
Jews asses. These tribes OF donkeys go ma
ny miles an hour, and will follow their mas
tiers like dogs and lambs becose of kindness.
The young one are sometimes called kolts
and TO ais 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.
Another embryo journalist, who is a
town boy, has evidently had new expe,
rience in the country and finds in that a
editorial position:
| Now in the country the flowers grow wild in
| the fields, though not close together. and
| not in sqwares and rounds. And nobody be
lieves 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 thers
fathers and mothers. And tile teacher SAID
that If we could only go the next day there
would be just as many flowers again. Some
i bows would not believe what the teacher said
but believe that it is true, for believe thai
i God can easy do miracles, because believe
i that the flowers are not stuck in by men OF
/ policemen after dark, else what about taking
j so much pulling out? When l am a man
| shall go the next day.
AS "a lesson in gentleness. this is very
i rich:
Ii they say to you as the moon is not all then
i thousands of miles or. else how could the Gov
jump over it?-do not call these poor boy
names, else you would be a cowher,l; but jus
tell them nicedly and gently as you never iii,
beleave about that there COW. Tell them a
not even racehorses could do it, but only han
gils, and they will beleave you, and thank 20,
for making them wiser every day.
But of this last one, which is Ameri
4 can, not English, in its origin, Mar
i Twain says, ut is full of naivete, bruta
d ruth, and unembarrassed directness, am
is the funniest boys composition hav
lever SEEM
Girls are very stuck mp and dignified i
their manner and be have Your. Thy thin
NOR of dress than anything and like TO pla
with dow1s and rags. They cry If they see
COW in the tar distance and are afraid of gum
They stay ut home all the time and go I
church on Sunday. They are always sic
they are always funny and making fun of boy
hands and they say how dirty. They car
play marbels. 1 pity them poor thing
/ They make fun of boys and then turn roun
and love them. don't beleave they ever H
ed cat or any thing They look out ever
mite and say oh ant the moon lovely Thir
one thing have not told and that Is they a
ways now their lessons bettern boys.