The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-24

he WAS off somewhere ON the railroad
children exceptin little Speck was 90 as
to be up and about, but nothin to brag
on. Little Speck he was down with the
same disease that Simon Peters wifes
mother, or some of their hinnery had
he was sick abed with hot fever. He
was pale a4d thin and nervous. and
talked fast and quick and jerky like.
body In pArtie1ar and everything in
general back down there in the Rocky
Creek settlement: Was it warm enough
branch and bSiid fiutter mills ? Had
the trees put out SO the bark would slip
and could make some whips and wills
ties 1nten hickory he sprouts? Pr Did the
pond bite and was fish bait very plenti-
full ? Was the dewberries gettin ripe
yet and was the general fruit crop
Well sir. the boy went on tall<in at
that lick till burned if could stand it.
and SO when come back home that
evena4 little sPeck he come along with
and his mother didn't put in no serious
objections, though she lowed maybe
ohn hea Sss & hs da ksha e h h
would have to lump it. l could raise
twenty boys down here in the woods
and hills more easier and better than
in that little crowded campin place
where he lives. If I was to take right
young colt and pen him up clost in 2
on corn and fodder. and never let him
make a track out in the open paSter,
people would set me down right away
is about the way in which John Buclf
Galloway is tryin to raise his boys.
Inside of three days after got home
with SPsck he WAS considerable on the
mend. I had to keep s1e check rein up
for about q week, then gradually by
IONS till fnally at last / let him slip tho
bride and go.
There is plenty of prancin room
around here Speclk," says l, ''and if you
will but only fall in with the rest of the
boys they will soon learn I'm, you the lay
er the fish will bite or not, and where
the bait is most plentiful. They can
taiid the best hickory in the woods for
can take you to the best wash hole in
the creek. They have got to turn off a
whole passle Of odd jobs around the
and feedin the stock and drivin up the
cows and ropin off the calves. and So
forth and so on-but yet still they will
find plenty of time and plenty OF hand
romance for fun and frOlicin. -
rounded up a yoke Of little slab,sided,
razor-back steers for the boys and built
three runaway scrapes they got the
steers broke into the reglar service and
hauled up cook wood enough to last till
Christmas. Specl< was powerful neat
and nice with his 5clothes when he first
come down from the city. but it want
long before he got bravely over that
| think he is fully recovered by now.
He can git as ragged and dirty and hot
and tired and honEry as any of the boys
now, and he has also got as many diff
ferent sorts Of patches on the gable end
didn't give him any further trouble and
worriment with school books and med
icine, and for three or four months he
has been runnin foot-loose and free and
wild as a buck. But he comes up at
meal time reglar as pig tracks three
times day, and he comes like any
yearlin boy ought to come-healthy
and hongry and happy
Give Tho Boys CROWN Room.
The onlyest way to take a boy and
make full grown man out of him is to
f st him hold lis head up and feel ike
he is somebody. You recollect all about
James Sanders Scroggins, which the
same we called him Jimmy for short.
You remember no doubts how Jimmy
come along, a stray colt as it we're. and
sorter took APP at our house and stayed
there tn he got to t3l be grown up man
our house he had been browbeat and
bulldozed aud run over till he was the
worst hacked youngster / ever saw.
But took him and give him boys
chance and he was soon holdin his head
as high and proud as any chap, in the
settlement. About that time, along in
the fall of the year. l had started him
to school down at the Cross Roads
schoolhouse to a, man by the name of
Solomon. One Friday evenin Jimmy
come home lool<in powerful droopy and
down in the mouth. He didn't eat
nothin to speak of Saturday and Sun
day. Monday mornin come. and still
Jimmy didn't have no appetite to eat.
AT last he up and told me what was the
matter. He had went and got into a
fight with another boy and old man
Solomon had give it out that he was
goin to give them both n good iclxin on
Monday So 1 lit out right soon after
mons house to find out the facts in the
case. He didn't know nothin about it
except that Jimmy and the other boy
had got into fight ind he had told
them that he was goin to whip them
I Monday. Nobody didn't see the fight
aud he didn't know which one was in
wrong. but they had got into a fight.
which the Same was agin the rules OF
school and he was necessarily compelled
to give them a good lickin.
sinister Solomon" says I. ''that aim
American boy. You don't SO much as
know which one of them was in the
wrong. 1t maybe that Jimmy had to
fight or run. and it ma ybe that the 9TH
er boy had to run or fight. The chan
ces are that you will whip boy for no
better reason than that he want nat
ural born coward. I don't like that,
tie bit-and what is more, don't want
any of it. That boy Jimmy is an or
plant, but I have started in to make a
man out of him and YOU mustn't bust