Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
HOW TO RUN AWAY.

HOW TO RUN AWAY.
Rules 10 Govern the Actions of an Abused
Boy When Leaving Home.
Come, my lad, but did you ever run
away from home? No! Then try the
experiment. The boy who imagines
that home is no place for him, that the
old folks are behind the age, that he
is being kept down, that the outside
world is aching to give him better
show than his father win, should make
up his mind to run away. I've been
right there and III tell you just how to
do it.
Some day, after your father has OBJ
served that you are getting altogether
too high headed and that the will
shortly have a seance with you in the
woodshed. 90 out behind the house and
sit down on the frame of the grindstone
and have talk with yourself as fol-
lows:
Am too old to be liclled?"
you bet am"
us father unreasonably tyrannical?"
"Of course he is"
Can a boy of my ambition amount
10 any thing in this town.
Not by joyful"
"Will father make slave of me as
long as l stay here?'
lie will"
isn't every other boy in this town
given a better show than have?"
Every one
"Wouldn't any boy Of spirit, situated
as am, run away and set mp for him
self2"
He certainly would"
Then you'll go, won't you?"
This very night.
Having come to this conclusion you
should set about figuring on what to
take with you. the hour of leaving and
the direction in which you will 20. An
outfit for a runaway boy of fourteen, at
which age the swell head begins, is:
One loaf of bread.
Two a, pies.
One package of salt
One piece Of cold meat.
Two boiled eggs
One iacllnife
About eleven cents in cash.
One bundle Of clothes
The best hour for leaving home, es-
pecially if you have to climb out of a
window and drop on d shed roof, is mid
night You should leave a note in pen
eli in your room, saying that ambition,
se1f-respect and personal dignity have
forced you to go away. but in going You
have mo ill-will You will go away and
never he heard OF more, but you viii all
ways think kindly of those left behind.
Before You go mp TO be bed kiss the
baby, fondle the eat. pat the dog and
try to look pale and weary. This latter
trick viii worry your mother, and next
day, when she finds you gone, She can
truthfuHy eNclaIm
THAT boy acted and looked 50 queer
Nv last night that | inst knew some
thing awful was going 20 happen"
1t may he hill spoollish for you 70
start of at midnight Everything is
very quiet Even the cows in the dusty
road are asleep You look back and
bid the yvood-shcd, and the smoke
house, and the old cherry tree and the
well-pump. fond adieu, and YOU
wonder how many years it win he be-
fore Won see the cider-mill and the
school-house and Tyler's spotted COW
again
Looks "pozerish" down the road, and
Goodhue'S dog begins TO bark and the
sheep Ii Smiths teu-acre lot take run
as You come along. but don't back out,
just think Of your father calling you
young man" and saying that he ached
to take some of the conccit ont Of You,
and brace up and push along.
4 smart, ambitious, runaway boy can
get at least ten miles from home before
r. begins TO see that he has made a
Ounce Of himself, and before he turns
to rctrace his steps. lie can meet a
dozen people who spot him for a run.
away, and advise him to so back a
dozen farmers dogs who look NJ him in
disgust and at least one tin-peddler
who saws that if he was his father he'd
make him jump Jim Crow and no mis-
take
The ocean which he is going to pillow
seems long ways off the philanthro
pists who would give him d bank clerk
ship don come along, and the further
he walks the faster he is convinced
that his father isn't such bad man at
ter all AT three o'clock in the after
noon he is home again, and the way h,
walks into the chores about the house i
agrateful surprise to father and mother