SOMETHING ABOUT BOYS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1266, 2 May 1883, Page 3

SOMETHING ABOUT BOYS.

A wide-awake boy is always a fruitful subject for newspaper talk. The Hawkeye man has this to say on the Subject, and we must admit that there is much of the real boy about it : 11 An exchange says a boy will tramp two hundred and forty-miles' in one ? day on a rabbit hunt and be limber in the evening, when, if you ask him to go across the street and borrow Jones' two-inch anger, he will be as stiff as a meat block. Of course he wilL And he will go swimming all day, and stay in the water three hoars at a time, and splash and dive and paddle and puff, and next morning he will feel that an unmeasured insult has been offered him when he is told by his mother to wash his face carefully, 80 as not to leave the score of the ebb and flow so plain as to be seen under the gills. And he'll wander around a dry creek bed all the afternoon piling up a pebble fort, and nearly die off wKen his big sister wants him to please pick up a basket of chips for the parlor stove ; and he'll spend the biggest part of the day trying to cor-net-ft -stray mule or a bald-back horse for a ride, and feel that all life's charms *biy<i 'fled when it comes time to drive tbe-cows borne ; and he'll turn a tenawe. lot-upside down for ten inches of angto-'wottrn.s, and wish for the voiceless iMnf>' y ii?hen ttie garden demands his attention. But all the same, when ycjj^teaut a friend who will stand by ysffijafiL sympathise with you, and be . titae^to . you in all kinds of weather, «ntfet one of the small boys."