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Show JOHNNY'S HOME LESSONS. Tells About His Work of Latt Yen and Hopes for Improvement. "Vacation Is over, nnd I must return to school again. I think ot this with the groatest pleasure. I shall fall In lovo with my teacher, and the walk between my homo and tho schoolnotlse will bo romantic. "Lnst term I had orthography, writ-lug, writ-lug, history, grammar, mathcmatlci, drawing, current events nnd about 11 othor things. This term I hopo I shall havo about 50 studies. "Last term I had to study all day and until ten o'clock nt night, and then get up. nt six In tho morning and go nt it again. This term I hope I shall havo to study all night and all day Sundays. "Nothing docs a growing boy io , much good ni to work his head sc i much that he has no nppotlte, and goel about wishing ho was dead, He . ought to bo mndo to tako up nt least 40 studios, that will be of no me to him whatever as n niliV. , -"LAsViAtpX i.crjicrjtQ.bopcrfMM In mv studies from AXf t6"Tlajr,f-iii4-to havo tho help ot my father, m; mother, my brUhor, my sister nnd mf undo Jim. Myfnther nnd Uncle Jim did tho swearing for the whole crowd , ot us. 1 "ThU term thiey will all help me aguln, and I Bliilll havo tho aid ot grandpa nnd grandma besides. I think ' wo shall get through tho work every night by midnight. ' "Thoro aro boys going to private schools who don't hav6 moro than six , studies, nnd who havo tlmo for recreation recrea-tion nnd sleep, but I don't envy them. It Is such hoyB that pjrow up to he como pirates In tho ttnd. The way to make a good man nf a boy U to send him to n public sc hool nnd cram him so full of knowledi e that ho wW go around with his oyo i half shut and , his mouth wldo ope n." Rochester Democrat und Chronlch ;. |