The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-19

quiet place where a cupple Of boys
could rest up and be away from home
seems for a cuppleweeks.
The cupple Of boys we mean are
Henry and me and they are both in
a good deal Of trubble.
If they ever needed sympathy it is
rite now. Some place where they
could work hard and try to reform
without any more scoaldings is what
they need.
The way it is going now they
mite be driven to leave home and be
dessperit men. But it is possibul to
save them both if they are handled
rite.
If you happen to think of any nice
place in the country something like
yours where they could have a
change of air and bad company for
a while I wish you would rite and
let US know.
We would be willing to work for
our board and keep for a week in
hope it mite change our whole life.
We are not perticuler about the kind
of work if the meels are fare and
We can come any time in the next
few days because we are not going
to school for month by order Of the
school board last mite in a special
meeten. Henry and me were both
before the board which was very
fearce at US after it was all explain
ed to them. When Henry and me
went home after the board met and
susspendered us for a month it was
even wurse.
l was in the shedd with my father
for quite a vile and littul later l
was in the bedroom with my muther.
1t was neither one very pleasant
for any of US. But it was the leest
pleasant for me. 1t was dark mite
for both me and Henry. Henry said
he was also very busy most of the
evening after the board meeten. He
said he was so busy with his father
and then his muther that he hardly
had time to sit down and when he did
have time he did not care to.
Henry came over to our back fence
this mornen and we both leend agenst
the fence and talked it over.
Both of our cases were very much
alike only Henry's father used a
strap and mine had a shingu.
Both of our mothers had a hare.
brush.
A harebrush is very handy 70,
many things like combing driving a
tack and making you sorry you did
it. The shape of it seems to be Just
rite.
suppose you will be wandering by
this time what it is about and me
and Henry don't mind telling you the
whole truth and not spair ourselves
at all.
Me and Henry stopt in the drug
store the mite before it happened and
Elmer French the druggists boy
who sweeps out and sumtimes makes
soda water in big rush when there
is a serkus in town or sumthing let
Henry and me smell a peace of asa
fedity. It is not very much for looks
but it is nearly all in the smell. You
can hang some in bag round your
neck and kepe away dipthearia if
you can stand it. A little of it will
60 a long ways so Elmer French
said and it seemed to be so after we
smelt it. The minnit Henry smelt it
he wanted some to take to school
land have some fun with and Elmer
let him have peace about as big as
your thumb if he would not tell
where he got it. A peace as big as
your thumb does not sound very
much but it smells a great deal big
ger than it sounds and looks.
A good-sized peace of it outdoors
anywheres would make quite a scan
die for long distance round should
think.
That mite after we got it home we
berried it in the back yard in a
peace Of paper. We were afrade to
take it in the house for fear it
would kepe everybody awake and get
us in trubble.
Henry was afrade a dog mite dig
1T up but afterward happened to
think it would be perfectly safe from
any animle that was able to smell.
In the morning we dug it up and
1t was just as strong as ever and did
not seem to have lost a bit of sent
from being berried. We rapt it up
IN seVrel peaces of paper so we
could carry it without attracting too
much attenshun and we managed to
get it in the schoolhouse and put it
away in Henry's desk till resess.
1t wurked through the paper a lit
tut and everybody seemed to know
there was something rong in the room
but nobody seemed to know where it
was. Henry and me were both used
to it by this time and did not mind
it so much.
Our teacher is about twenty or
forty years old and sort of sad from