The farmer's boy . s]Xnt his e\enings very quietly. Hestudied his lessons at the kitchen table, or he drew up. Friendly help in pulling ojj his boots close to tile fitting room lire and read a stor\ 1 taper. Therewas not so much literature in the averatre famiiv but that 14 The Farmers Boy the boy would go through this paper from beginning toend, advertisements and all, and he looked at the ])ictureshalf a dozen times over. In the end, the paper was laidaway in a closet upstairs, and when he happened ondull times and didnt know what else to do with himself,he wandered uj) there and delved in t
The farmer's boy . s]Xnt his e\enings very quietly. Hestudied his lessons at the kitchen table, or he drew up. Friendly help in pulling ojj his boots close to tile fitting room lire and read a stor\ 1 taper. Therewas not so much literature in the averatre famiiv but that 14 The Farmers Boy the boy would go through this paper from beginning toend, advertisements and all, and he looked at the ])ictureshalf a dozen times over. In the end, the paper was laidaway in a closet upstairs, and when he happened ondull times and didnt know what else to do with himself,he wandered uj) there and delved in this ])ile of found such an experience })articularh- }jleasant, forit stirred up the echoes of past enjoyment by a renewedacquaintance with the stories and pictures he had foundinteresting long before. Evenings were varied with family talks, and some-timesthe boy induced his grandfather to repeat some old rhymes,tell a story, or sing a song. When there were severalchildren in the family, things often became (|uite li\elyafter supi)er. The older children were called on to amusethe younger ones, an
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