Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-07-02
HOW 10 RUN AWAY.
miles 10 Govern the Actions of an Abused
Boy when Leaving Home.


pu,ss 10 Govern the Actions of an Abused
Boy When Leaving Home.
Come. my lad, but did you ever run
,wav from home? mol Then try the
s,neriment. The boy who imagines
,bat home is no place for him, that the
.old folks are behind the age, that he
/. beinr kept down, that the outside |
world Is aching to give him better
.sow than his father will, should make
nm his mind to run away. I've been
rgbt there and III tell You just how to |
doit
Some day, after your father has OBJ
served that you are getting altogether
TOO hirh-headed, and that he VIII
shortly have a seance with you in the
woodshed. 90 out behind the house and
i, down on the frame of the grindstone
ana have talk with yourself as fol
lows
Am too old to be liclSed?"
aYou bet am"
as father unreasonably tyrannical9"
"Of course he is.
Can boy of my ambition amount
to any thing in this town."
mot by joyful.
eWiIl father make slave of me as
long as | stay hereP"
"He willn
isn't every other boy in this town
given a better show than have?'
Every one =
wouldn't any boy Of spirit, situated
as lam, run away and set up for HIM.
self?"
ale certainly would.
"Then you'll go, won't your"
This very night.
Having come to this conclusion you
should set about figuring on what &c
take with YOU, the hour Of leaving and
he direction in which you will go An
outfit for a runaway boy Of fourteen at
which age the swell head begins, Isl
One loaf Of bread.
Two apples.
One package of salt.
One piece of cold meat.
Two boiled eggs.
One iaclznife.
About eleven cents in cash.
One bundle of clothes.
The best hour for leaving home, es-
peciallv il you have to climb out OF a
window and drop on shed rooi' Is iiio'
night You should leave note in pen
ell in your room, saying that ambition
self-respect and personal dignity nave
forced you to go away, but in going you
have no ill-will. You will go away ane
never be heard of more, but you VIII al
ways think kindly Of these left behind
Before you go up to be bed KISS tn'
baby. fondle the cat, pat the DOG am
try to look pale and weary. TINS latte
trick will worry your mother and mex
day, when she finds you gone, she car
ruthfully exclarm:
That boy acted and looked SO queer
~ last night that / just knew some
thing awful was going to happen
II may be bit spoolxish for you :
start off at midnight. Everything
very quiet. Even the cows in the dust.
road are asleep. You look back an
bid the wood-shed. and the smoke
house, and the old cherry tree, and IN
well-pump, a fond adieu, ana 20
wonder how many years it will be DC
fore you see the cider-mih ana Tn
sehool-house and Tyler's spotted COY
again.
Looks ''pokerish~ down tlfe road. an
GOodhue's dog hegins to bark ana ~
sheep in Smiths ten-acre lot take IN
as you come along, but don't back ou
Just think of your father calling 20
young man." and saying that he ache
to take some of the conceit out Of yo'
and brace up and push along
smart. ambitious. runaway ooN ca
get at least ten miles from home oeloi
he begins to see that he has maoe
Ounce of himself, and before he turn
to retr4ce his steps. He can meet
dozen people who ''spot" him for a rul
away, and advise him to go back
dozen farmers dogs who look at MN
disgust, end at least one tin-pedal'
who says that II he was his father nc
make him jump Jim Grow and no M
take
The ocean which he is going to pro
seems a long ways off-the phiian tnr
Tists who would give him bank eie1
ship don't come along, and the farth
he walks the faster he IS conVine'
that his father isn't such a bad man
ter all At three o'clock IN the a l'e
noon he IS home again. and the way
walks into the chores about the nous
sgIsteful surprise 70 father ana lno'N'