The farmer's boy . nvpathetic gutTaws of laughter. They resented their ])arentsauthorit\; the\ liked to resort to the loaling ])laces whenthey had leisure. They asjiired to smoke and cliew andS])it, like the rest of the loafers there. Tliis may be anextreme j)icture, but there were a \ast number of boys itwould fit to a degree. Most country boys admired thegentilitx of smoking, and would be at great pains to ac-(|uire the habit after they got to be fifteen or sixteen _\earsold. I\r]iap> the average l)oy ne\er became a fre(|uentsmoker, but when he started off for a ride, he liked thepleasura
The farmer's boy . nvpathetic gutTaws of laughter. They resented their ])arentsauthorit\; the\ liked to resort to the loaling ])laces whenthey had leisure. They asjiired to smoke and cliew andS])it, like the rest of the loafers there. Tliis may be anextreme j)icture, but there were a \ast number of boys itwould fit to a degree. Most country boys admired thegentilitx of smoking, and would be at great pains to ac-(|uire the habit after they got to be fifteen or sixteen _\earsold. I\r]iap> the average l)oy ne\er became a fre(|uentsmoker, but when he started off for a ride, he liked thepleasurable feeling of inde])en(kn( e it ga\e him, to ha\c 148 The Farmers Boy a cigar tilted neatly upward from the corner of his stamped him a gentleman to all beholders, and thelookers-on were convinced from his manner and cicrar that. Ajtrrnooii 011 the jroiit porch he was a ])ers()n of xigorous and stoulK- held opinions willi whi( h it would 1)C \)v>\ not to altrmpi ;in\ fooling. Wiicn you saw a young man gayl}- riding by, sitting up ver}- straight, willi hi^ best (lothcs on and his fnc-cent C()iinrr\ Childrtn in (H-nt-ral 149 cigar scenting llir air with its gi-ntlr aroma, you migln knowhe was going to lake his girl to ride-. If iu- could b\- anymanner of means hnd the monty at this timr of his carfrr,the young man bought a fa>t horse and a shin_\- to])bugg\. He fairlv dazzled tlu beholders eyes as hellitlid swiftb ])a>l. Somrtimes it took more tlian onr liorseto rini>h his courting, for tlu- lirsl one might die of old agebefore he got through. HiU whatever disappointmentsthe young man suffered in his lo\e alTairs, and howeverhis fancy or chance made him thange one girl for anotlier,you could not see, when he started on his journeys, thathi- had e\er lost aught of that tirst freslmess of denu-anorwlii
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