The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-08-04
A Third Reader Story.

t'i'iu Neader' 1t may not be jus
like the conventional Third Reade
stories. The only difference is, thi,
is probable tale, while the usua
story in the school books is not lik,
anything anybody heard before
This story is about two BOYS
Third Reader stories are AWAY,
about boys.
In novels and in polite literature
there are stories about girls, but in
Third Readers, they are about boys.
Generally about school boys. Third
Reader boys always go to school.
These boys were named George
Jones and Charles Barlow. II their
names had been anything but
Charles or George, they might have
been just as good boys, but they
would not have been suitable for
Third Reader purposes.
George Jones was an idle boy. He
would never study worth cent, in
school. All day long, he would sit
in the school room. catching flies. 1t
was winter and there were no flies.
but that cut no ice with George.
His teacher frequently told him if
he didn' study moie he would grow
up without any education and he
would then become a LAWYER or a
journalist and bring shame upon his
parents. although George was an orr
phan with only one pa and one ma.
George would take his books home
every night, but never study them.
But at playing baseball ard football
and all kinds of athletics there wasn't
boy in school who could touch him.
Charles Barlow was another kind
OF boy. He was just as industrious
as George was idle. Lots of DAYS at
recess, when the rest of the children
went out to play "Blackman" and
Go, Sheep. Co. he would remain in
the school room and talk about the
Copernican System and the Nebular
Hypothesis and the Transmigration
OF souls and MANY other things
about which neither he nor the teach
er knew anything.
Charles had sallow complexion
and no appetite. He had to be that
nav or it would spoil the story. He
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new rushes and curves and athletic
slang,
Finally both entered college, and
George had made such poor use off
his time that he would not have pass
ed if his uncle, who kept a grocery
store, had not been a member of the
board of directors.
After he got into college, he made |
so many blunders that the rest Of
the class all laughed at him. They
could not help it. Charles stood at
the head of his class. He won every
prize that was offered, as easy as
George ate pie or or threw curues
But when George got into the ball
nine, the scholars in his class began
to laugh out OF the other side OF their
Their school won all the
games and their intellectual achieve
ments didn't do no good"
When graduation day came,
Charles made a fine speech, but
his parents and relatives were
ashamed OF him. He couldn't run
half as fast as horse and his hair
wasn't any longer than other peo-
pies. He had high forehead, but
his muscles were not knotty like
carrot.
George won the prize for being the
best all round athlete in school. He
didn't know an isoceles triangle from
the specific gravity of a pot of hot
mush. But he brought fame and re-
nown to the college by being able to
kick harder than one of Andy Hauen-
STEMS big mules.
The last we heard Of them, George
was a director of athletics in a col
lege at $4,000 year. Charles was
preacher on country circuit at
$500 He preached three times SUI
days and had trouble with the
choir He had nine children and
fuss with the board of trustees.
They didn't like a preacher who
brought politics into the pulpit, no.
howl