Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1891-11-28
OUR YOUTHFUL READERS
INTERESTING MATTERS PER-
TANNING TO THE YOUNG.
The Prairie Boy--Honest Regret
How Quarrels Begin An
Obedlent Egg--Paui and
ChIckablddy--
the Prairie
Looks
The Prairie Bow.


transplanted from Tile East, may find
life munotonous for while, especially
ii settlement on the land be made in
the fall
But when tine spring comes and the
farm or settlement begins to grow-to
add COWS, horses, pigs and towl-then
the boy has work enough and play
enough.
| Among the early experiences OF the
/ settlers hoy in his encounter with the
! laek.rabbit He meets them on the
| prairie, perhaps not farfrom the house
( The rack, startled goes few PAGES
stops and stretches ont his long ears.
"Ha." says the boy ~ want you. and
] Ill have you He advances cautious.
/ ". The Jack moves away on three
legs, apparently lame in every Joint.
| The boy makes d rush, when, lo the
| Jack has vanished. A few pieces OF fly
ing grass, vanishing streak OF yellow
! and brown, ana the vision is past
The boy rubs his eyes and wonders il
he saw any rabbit at all nm bring
Rover the next time, he says; he'll
| catch hint
| The dog has the same experience,
Jack puts himself ont OF sight with d
| Jerk and a twist Immediately. The
fact Is, only greyhound can catch Il
Jack, and a greyhound does not sue
coed unless he has been deprived 81
food three or four days Even then
| he IS not successful always.
But the boy has pets enough with
| ont the jack, although Jack, ii taken
In band in infancy, makes docile pet,
and 4 most destructive one, for hehas
q liking for everything OF vegetable
KIND, and one day III garden will
make great havoc
Quail came into the yard OF the
house at first, and prairie chicks take
| possession oi the corn field when the
corn begins to she'll Our boy traps
these for the table, and Tor market il
ne lives within ten or twenty miles OF
= large town; and oil young quail and
chicks he has several ia process OF
tanning.
Among the early acquisitions is
litter OF pigs. These may run wild,
but they must be rounded up at
night and put in the enclosure. This,
and the keeping OF an eye" TO them
All day, is part Of his labor or pas
time. OF the stock. the boy has
probably cali, "all his own, and ii
receives much attention.
His duties keep him busy and
neither his mind nor his body grows
rusty from disusc. 4 he lives on d
creek he has tile creek to play with.
but If he be a iar-east boy he NAV not
lind much pleasure IN it, for between
a prairie creek and an eastern brook
there IS as much difference as between
slow OK and fast horse The
prairie creek creeps along rs though
ashamed OF itself silently without
cheerful CLEAN or sparkle-much
different from the talking, laughing
dancing brook ofthe East!
But the browning OF the prairie
boys happiness comes when he il
sole owner OF n pony -aTexan pony,
perhaps one with yellow coat with
white dapple. white name and tall
the boys fortune is made now. The
pony can carry a man weighing 200
pounds. How easily, then. does the
pony carry the boy
The boy and the pony are INSOFAR.
able, and Of great usefulness, too,
Tor they herd the COWS, LOOK up and
bring home straying animals, and
constitute the express line" between
home and the outlying places, going o
town, twenty miles away, may be, for
the mail, and making really the con.
Meeting line between the new home and
the old home in the East.
The boy grows strong, wiry and
brown. His appetite is astonishing.
and he eats whatever comes without
question. His racing up and down
quickens all faculties He enjoys the
outdoor life, delights in all his posses.
slons and surroundings, and asks for
or thinks of nothing better. He IS
one OF the many boys racing on
to manhood full of hope, energy,
pluck. and good nature, OF which
the world cannot have too much.
Blessings on the prairie boy!-Geo. A. |
Stockwell, in Country Gentleman.