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Show , "Consider what a boy on a farm Is required re-quired to do things that must lie done, or life would actually stop. It is understood lu the first place that he is to do all the errands, er-rands, to go to the store, to the post ollica and to curry all sorts of messages. If ha had ns mauy legs as the centipede they would tiro before night. "lie is the one who spreads the drawn as the men cut it; he stows it away in the barn; he rides the horse to cultivate the corn up and down the hot, weary rows; ho brings wood ami water and splits kindling; he gets up the horse and turus out tho horse. Whether he is in the house or out of the house there is always something to do. Just before school in the winter he shovels paths, and iu the summer he turns the grindstone. "And yet, with his mind full of schemes of what be would like to do, aud his hands full of occupation, he is un idle boy who lias nothing to busy himself with but schools and chores. lie would gladly do all the work if somebody else would do till the chorea, ho thinks, aud yet I doubt if any boy ever amounted to anything in the world or was of much use as a man who did not enjoy the advantages of a liberal education In the way of chores." |