TIRED OF GOING TO SCHOOL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 13

TIRED OF GOING TO SCHOOL.

" The cause of education be hanged !*' he muttered, as he sat down on the curbstone on Fayette street. He was a lad of thirteen. His pants were supported by a piece of wire clothes-line girted around his waist ; his big flat feet appeared to be waiting for a thunder shower to wash them" clean. "That is what ails me I" he went on, as he pushed his toes into the wet sand. '• I don't believe in a feller dipping in and learning all there is to learn, and not letting other folks have a chance. There's lots of other folks in this world besides me, and I ain't going to be a hog, and try to learn all there is to learn." After a minute he went on : "Dont I know 'nuff ? Three times two are six, four times five are twenty, and four and four are eight. That 1 * as correct as I could get 'em if 1 went to school for a hundred years. And don't I know how to spell? C-a-t id 'cat' the world over, and I'll bet ou it every time. H-e-n spells ' hen ' and I know it as well as if I weighed a ton." He rose up to throw a stone at a dog across the street, and after resuming his Beat he went on : " Jogerfy kinder wrestles me down, but I don't go much on jogerfy. What do I care whether an island is entirely surrounded by water, or whether there ain't any water within ten miles of it? S'pose I'm going to buy and sell islands for a living. I don't eire which is the highest mountain or the longest river, do I ? I'm going to keep a feed store, and when I'm rolling bales o' hay-around will I care about mountains and rivers? I've heard the boys go on about exports and imports, and straits, and seas, and capes, but what's them ti me 2 If a feller wants a bag o' oats is be going to wait and ask me when the Island of Madagascar was discovered ?" — American Paper.