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Show PLEASURES OF COYHOQD. I'd like to be a boy again, withou t a woe or care, with freckles sca!-tered sca!-tered on my face and hayseed in my hair; I'd like to rise at 4 o'clock and do 1 00 chores, and saw the wood and feed the hogs, and lock the stable doors, and herd the hens, and walch the bees, and take the mules to drink, and teach the turkeys how to swim, so that they wouldn't sink, and milk about 100 cows, and bring in wood to burn, and stand out in the sun all day and churn, churn, churn, and wear my brother's cast off 'clothes, and walk four miles to school, and get a licking every day for breaking some old rule, and then go home at night again and do the chores once more, ami milk the cows and i curry themules galore, and then j crawl wearily upstairs and seek my little bed, and hear dad say, ! "That worthless boy! He isn't j worth his bread!" I'd like to be a boy again; a boy has so much fun. His life is just a round of mirth from rise to set of sun. 3 guess there's nothing pleasant er than closing stable doors and herding hens and chasing bees and doing evening chores. Ex. |