New-York tribune., 1901-07-21

SCHOOLBOY HUMOR.
NOT THE LESS sIDESPLITTING FROM
THE FACT THAT 1T IS UNCONSCIOUS
From Chambers's Journal.

From Chambers journal
To The majority of people, perhaps schooihas..
ters life appears monotonOus and rneventtui' d Gte
to one who is apt TO LOOK hep the fact Most boys
are careless irresponsible creatures in
the average boy A schoolmaster of hfteen years
standing writes: = have corpeGseI rs n NV time Some
S Si ce and 1anconsciously funny The fol-
boy aged ten. thus answers questi42In r,a,e as TO
the cause OF the Transvaal disturbances nj hI
and Kannerbulsm Is one. He is man & oI oiout out
Mr. Chamberng has wrote % & to- nm a9 fb SS Engiish You
have took he is boardutchman ana b a wEhrg goarg
heethin lord Kithener has sent Tor ms go
blud and to bring back his scandefiuS Heu ueu %
An ESSAY or Gladstone by boy of eleven states:
'4r Gladstone ovd everybody he l9yd pGpifaRS Eii B
come to England and have home rool but but MT Mr.
Cham6efn d says T P9rnr P9 mG Mr Gadstone died with
great Inspect and is burrid in Westminster Will
Rather ambiguous is this description of Of Queen
Elizabeth by another boy: Queen Elizabeth was a
81 fond Of dresses that She was never with
out one on she was beautefull and clever with
The bow writer Of the following decidedly back
ward in his Tennyson. Concerning the late poet
Ianraatn he writes: ..Tenyson wrote buteifu poims
with long hair and studid so much that n ne t sTu
ist p9im is called the idle king. he made
lord but he good man and wrote many m noteS nG
he luVd our dear Queen so much tnat ne Ihdue u
poim to her called the fairy Queen. ,,. ',
oay on .Pbe Choice of Procession he gives his
reasons in these words: A edtur IS always hapPy
day and pages of sweet luV poems. goou eultuI
has branes bur it must be very sad for him having
TO read meIankoe stories of luV as TO make MN
almost weep with tears from his eyes editur
and so has all this nterect for nothing.
one could hardly put the following IDEAS OF u, "a
certain yoIth on Honesty practical use III
is a nobel thing to be honist man: If you are
honist man YOU can look the world in its face ana
never be ashamed of the DEVIL. it Is good 10 De
honist when sum one is looking beeaws avs you you, may M
get a Reward ] know churchwardIng VINO Is a
hcnist man who collects money on Sunday IN ms
black clothes. if you hOnist when you are
young YOU may grow be rich and the lord mare
and then of caWs il dusn't matter. -
This is from essay My Hero: My hero
is my father because he is a Chrstyun clergy yInah
my fathe. says o my gro up like your father
and rispect yourself because nobody else VIII Inspect
you | sm soin' be clergyman because my
father saws | am a ass in school and nave no
Shakespeare is hardly appreciated by the young
hopeful who writes: shakespeare was a Janus
poit and poachur. he wrote luviy PLACE called the
tame shrew. hamblet and a scotch piece called Mac
were very rude but now everything is polite that
a nnercent father take his baby and it wont
disgust it Shakespeare was so i'll when he dled
that he cried out oh my cursd bones"
One youth, who is a poet in embryo, Is great
wrote a CRATE poem called The brik.' he butte
fully pOemses in this way-I stood on brik at
midnight and gaZed at the clock for an hour
A boy mourning the loss of uncle writes the
following letter his master: Dear Reverend Sir,
twice my unkel died with being old in three days
larst week. and We have had pleasant feWneral /
work in arithmetic sir you sed but
1t would be wckid if | did it with ded unkel my
her If don't get prize next term SuInthlnS
will happen-I am sir Your rispectabul pupil