The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-13
Training Up q Boy in the Way for
Elm to Go
Bringing boy upinthe way you want

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W( hait and turn off
&"\ the Leastwise,
from wRat q have
NJ seen and heardand
learnt and know about the human fanS
lily in general, it is now my private and
public opinions that a whole passle of
money IS wasted in this country every
year training boys up into ways which
il was never intended for them to go
ways wherein they amt itten to 60
ways in which they couldn'tgo if they
wanted to, and wouldn't if they could.
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Stating the Mainest Facts.
Now in orderment to state the main
est facts of the case more in full / will
give yon the great common pint which
/ am driyin at so plain till a fooI-bInd
drunk and . runnin-mought read.
There was Tom Dick Simpkins, which
run for the legislature the first time l
was a candidate and got the livin day
lights beat onten him. Well, when TON
Dick was earlin boy at school he
was bright new money and terrible
smart in bis Books. He could git his
lessons, it did look to me like, more
quicker and easier than any boy in the
school and.always stood pat at the head
of his class. If he went foot like this
mornin be would spell up to head in
side Of three days without half tryin.
So consequentially about this time old
man Simpkins took up a fool notion to
the extent that Tom Dick was smart
enough to go to congress or run for
governor, and with that he give it out
amongst the neighbors that he was GO
in to spend money like water runnin
down hill on that boy and make q big
lawyer outen him. So then Tom Dick
he lit in and run through the Cross
Roads school as quick and easy al a
heavy dost of salts, and the next news
we got from him he was off and gone
to college. He went righton holdin his
own with the best and smartest boys
that the country could bring forth and
there want anything in the college that
could set him back or turn him down.
He made q smashin good record, and at
the finish he come down under the wire
first, winnin the race like a deerEinea.
walk. . &A
In the mainline old man Simpkins
was BLOWN his money in on Tom DicIs
like it was GROWN on the trees, and if
it so happened that he couldn't drop
his wad fast enough he could alwaysg git
plenty of help from that smart and
promisin boy. After comm through
college with a high and mighty furry,
Tom Dick soon got to be a lawyer, hung
out his sign accordin and lit in to build
up a big name and fame and let the
whole entire discovered world hear
from the Simpkins family.
But somehow or other the world
went Vaughn along at the reglar old
lick and the natives they wouldn't
startle any to speak of. Old man Simp-
kins had fixed the nest and set the eggs,
but, by gracious, the chickens didn't
hatch any at all hardly. lie had built
the mill and laid the rocks, but some
how the ding thing jest wouldn't grind,
and it didn't make a blame bit of differ
ence how he turnedthe water on. What
was the matter with Tom Dick2 The
good Lord only knows-T don't. He
went so far ID fine style and shape, and
then all Of a student like he come down
to a dead halt. If you was to go and ask
Andy Lucas, the great horse trader,
what was the matter with Tom Dick
more than probable he would tel you
that 1.-THE youngster had too much day
light under him and they didn't putno
packs in his feet" And / reckon no
doubts Blev Scroggins, the most swift
est nan with the documents around
Rocky Creek would tell You that the
mainest trouble with Tom Dick was
he thought-he was smart enough "to
come into the game Wilma pair and
win the pile" But as for me, / don't
Know for certain what was the mat
ter with that boy. lido but only know
that old man Simpkins sailed in and
spent a big pile of his money bringin
up Tom Dick in a way that he wouldn't
go and couldn't go and didn't go. After
piddlin and fumblin and foolin around
considerable. maxim out like he was d
lawyer and dabblin in politics here and
there. he finally at last stewed down
andpeaeredaout andquit.
Row to Pick q Winner.
Now there was an old man, Cas- Gar
ner-which he wassone of the mighty
few men 4 lever met pp with that
could he brung d boy in the way
he wanted him to go, and the boy went
that way. But old man Gas was dead
sot in his own notions about boys and
things and he played the game a whole
lot different froms1 man Simpkins. /
recollect olcs when 1 rid
over to the Gpf place ope Sunday
evenin and passed Z CIV pleasant hours
with il man lls folks
At t writin Old man Casand
Misses mner hFeen 4hem bad a3
boys four gtNA hadn't IN
the cradle yet. The old han called MP
the wh8le drove whilst l rs there that
evenin ahd stood them ouf in a row SO
conld take a good look them.
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