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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index 6833f05..d7b82bc 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ -* text=auto -*.txt text -*.md text +*.txt text eol=lf +*.htm text eol=lf +*.html text eol=lf +*.md text eol=lf @@ -1,28 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Being a Boy - -Author: Charles Dudley Warner - -Release Date: August 20, 2016 [EBook #3127] -Last Updated: February 24, 2018 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEING A BOY *** - - - -Produced by David Widger - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 3127 *** @@ -56,10 +32,12 @@ lash, and shouting “Gee, Buck!” “Haw, Golden!” “Whoa, Bright!” and a the rest of that remarkable language, until he is red in the face, and all the neighbors for half a mile are aware that something unusual is going on. If I were a boy, I am not sure but I would rather drive the -oxen than have a birthday. The proudest day of my life was one day when +oxen than have a birthday. + +The proudest day of my life was one day when I rode on the neap of the cart, and drove the oxen, all alone, with a load of apples to the cider-mill. I was so little that it was a wonder -that I did n't fall off, and get under the broad wheels. Nothing could +that I didn't fall off, and get under the broad wheels. Nothing could make a boy, who cared anything for his appearance, feel flatter than to be run over by the broad tire of a cart-wheel. But I never heard of one who was, and I don't believe one ever will be. As I said, it was a great @@ -98,9 +76,9 @@ party, or at least she was the ruler of the others, and had the place of honor in the stable and everywhere else. I admire cows, and especially the exactness with which they define their social position. In this case, Decem could “lick” Novem, and Novem could “lick” Octo, and so on -down to Unus, who could n't lick anybody, except her own calf. I suppose +down to Unus, who couldn't lick anybody, except her own calf. I suppose I ought to have called the weakest cow Una instead of Unus, considering -her sex; but I did n't care much to teach the cows the declensions of +her sex; but I didn't care much to teach the cows the declensions of adjectives, in which I was not very well up myself; and, besides, it would be of little use to a cow. People who devote themselves too severely to study of the classics are apt to become dried up; and you @@ -134,7 +112,7 @@ of biting there is, not excepting the bite of fleas. But in cow society there is nothing of this detraction in order to get the first place at the crib, or the farther stall in the stable. If the question arises, the cows turn in, horns and all, and settle it with one square fight, -and that ends it. I have often admired this trait in COWS. +and that ends it. I have often admired this trait in cows. Besides Latin, I used to try to teach the cows a little poetry, and it is a very good plan. It does not do the cows much good, but it is very @@ -289,7 +267,7 @@ be a great deal slower in doing anything than one, and that the more you have to help on a piece of work the less is accomplished. Boys have a great power of helping each other to do nothing; and they are so innocent about it, and unconscious. “I went as quick as ever I could,” - says the boy: his father asks him why he did n't stay all night, when he + says the boy: his father asks him why he didn't stay all night, when he has been absent three hours on a ten-minute errand. The sarcasm has no effect on the boy. @@ -306,7 +284,7 @@ investigations the tin horn would blow a great blast from the farmhouse, which would send a cold chill down my back in the hottest days. I knew what it meant. It had a frightfully impatient quaver in it, not at all like the sweet note that called us to dinner from the hay-field. It -said, “Why on earth does n't that boy come home? It is almost dark, and +said, “Why on earth doesn't that boy come home? It is almost dark, and the cows ain't milked!” And that was the time the cows had to start into a brisk pace and make up for lost time. I wonder if any boy ever drove the cows home late, who did not say that the cows were at the very @@ -686,7 +664,7 @@ manner, the “hired men” will be very apt to dispense with his services and turn the grindstone for each other. This is one of the most disagreeable tasks of the boy farmer, and, hard -as it is, I do, not know why it is supposed to belong especially to +as it is, I do not know why it is supposed to belong especially to childhood. But it is, and one of the certain marks that second childhood has come to a man on a farm is, that he is asked to turn the grindstone as if he were a boy again. When the old man is good for nothing else, @@ -701,7 +679,7 @@ work?” Doing the regular work of this world is not much, the boy thinks, but the wearisome part is the waiting on the people who do the work. And the boy is not far wrong. This is what women and boys have to do on a farm, -wait upon everybody who--works. The trouble with the boy's life is, that +wait upon everybody who works. The trouble with the boy's life is, that he has no time that he can call his own. He is, like a barrel of beer, always on draft. The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge @@ -845,7 +823,7 @@ The boy's eyes dilate as he steals some of the treasures out of the wondrous pages, and he longs to lose himself in the land of enchantment open before him. He tells at home that he has seen the most wonderful book that ever was, and a big boy has promised to lend it to him. “Is it -a true book, John?” asks the grandmother; “because, if it is n't true, +a true book, John?” asks the grandmother; “because, if it isn't true, it is the worst thing that a boy can read.” (This happened years ago.) John cannot answer as to the truth of the book, and so does not bring it home; but he borrows it, nevertheless, and conceals it in the barn and, @@ -869,7 +847,7 @@ and with whom he has been known to exchange bits of candy wrapped up in paper, and for whom he cut in two his lead-pencil, and gave her half. At the last day of school she goes part way with John, and then he turns and goes a longer distance towards her home, so that it is late when -he reaches his own. Is he late? He did n't know he was late; he came +he reaches his own. Is he late? He didn't know he was late; he came straight home when school was dismissed, only going a little way home with Alice Linton to help her carry her books. In a box in his chamber, which he has lately put a padlock on, among fishhooks and lines and @@ -1015,7 +993,7 @@ taste much), until the world seemed to him to be made of fragrant spices, green fruit, raisins, and pastry,--a world that he was only yet allowed to enjoy through his nose. How filled the house was with the most delicious smells! The mince-pies that were made! If John had been -shut in solid walls with them piled about him, he could n't have eaten +shut in solid walls with them piled about him, he couldn't have eaten his way out in four weeks. There were dainties enough cooked in those two weeks to have made the entire year luscious with good living, if they had been scattered along in it. But people were probably all the @@ -1024,9 +1002,9 @@ feast. And it was not by any means over in a day. There were weeks deep of chicken-pie and other pastry. The cold buttery was a cave of Aladdin, and it took a long time to excavate all its riches. -Thanksgiving Day itself was a heavy dav, the hilarity of it being so +Thanksgiving Day itself was a heavy day, the hilarity of it being so subdued by going to meeting, and the universal wearing of the -Sunday clothes, that the boy could n't see it. But if he felt little +Sunday clothes, that the boy couldn't see it. But if he felt little exhilaration, he ate a great deal. The next day was the real holiday. Then were the merry-making parties, and perhaps the skatings and sleigh-rides, for the freezing weather came before the governor's @@ -1055,7 +1033,7 @@ would live to speak twice disrespectfully of her in his presence. IX. THE SEASON OF PUMPKIN-PIE -What John said was, that he did n't care much for pumpkin-pie; but that +What John said was, that he didn't care much for pumpkin-pie; but that was after he had eaten a whole one. It seemed to him then that mince would be better. @@ -1246,7 +1224,7 @@ meadow by the river, where the bobolinks sang so gayly. He never liked to hear the bobolink sing, however, for he said it always reminded him of the whetting of a scythe, and that reminded him of spreading hay; and if there was anything he hated, it was spreading hay after the mowers. -“I guess you would n't like it yourself,” said John, “with the stubbs +“I guess you wouldn't like it yourself,” said John, “with the stubbs getting into your feet, and the hot sun, and the men getting ahead of you, all you could do.” @@ -1265,7 +1243,7 @@ hair, dark, tender eyes, and the sweetest smile. There was that in her gracious mien and in her dress which reminded John of the beautiful castle ladies, with whom he was well acquainted in books. He felt that he knew her at once, and he also seemed to be a sort of young prince -himself. I fancy he did n't look much like one. But of his own +himself. I fancy he didn't look much like one. But of his own appearance he thought not at all, as he replied to the lady's question, without the least embarrassment: @@ -1280,9 +1258,8 @@ the best thing to eat he knew. He handed up a large bunch of it. The lady took two or three stalks, and was about to return the rest, when John said: -“Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more.” - -“I know where it's ever so thick.” +“Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more. +I know where it's ever so thick.” “Thank you, thank you,” said the lady; and as the carriage started, she reached out her hand to John. He did not understand the motion, until he @@ -1329,7 +1306,7 @@ hurt him dreadfully. His self-respect was injured somehow, and he felt as if his lovely, gentle mother had been insulted. He would like to have thrown a stone at the wagon, and in a rage he cried: -“You're a nice....” but he could n't think of any hard, bitter words +“You're a nice....” but he couldn't think of any hard, bitter words quick enough. Probably the young lady, who might have been almost any young lady, @@ -1381,7 +1358,7 @@ whistled, and the snow sifted. Those old barns were well ventilated. I used to spend much valuable time in planning a barn that should be tight and warm, with a fire in it, if necessary, in order to keep the -temperature somewhere near the freezing-point. I could n't see how the +temperature somewhere near the freezing-point. I couldn't see how the cattle could live in a place where a lively boy, full of young blood, would freeze to death in a short time if he did not swing his arms and slap his hands, and jump about like a goat. I thought I would have a @@ -1441,7 +1418,7 @@ history. Back of the schoolhouse rose a round hill, upon which, tradition said, had stood in colonial times a block-house, built by the settlers for defense against the Indians. For the Indians had the idea that the -whites were not settled enough, and used to come nights to settle--them +whites were not settled enough, and used to come nights to settle them with a tomahawk. It was called Fort Hill. It was very steep on each side, and the river ran close by. It was a charming place in summer, where one could find laurel, and checkerberries, and sassafras roots, @@ -1520,11 +1497,11 @@ hills really sets in. The boy is an important part of the garrison. He is not only one of the best means of communicating with the outer world, but he furnishes half the entertainment and takes two thirds of the scolding of the family -circle. A farm would come to grief without a boy-on it, but it is +circle. A farm would come to grief without a boy on it, but it is impossible to think of a farmhouse without a boy in it. “That boy” brings life into the house; his tracks are to be seen -everywhere; he leaves all the doors open; he has n't half filled +everywhere; he leaves all the doors open; he hasn't half filled the wood-box; he makes noise enough to wake the dead; or he is in a brown-study by the fire and cannot be stirred, or he has fastened a grip into some Crusoe book which cannot easily be shaken off. I suppose that @@ -1547,7 +1524,7 @@ produced by the almanac, the cardinal rule was that he should be at home before dark. John used to imagine what people did in the dark ages, and wonder -sometimes whether he was n't still in them. +sometimes whether he wasn't still in them. Of course, John had nothing to do all the evening, after his “chores,”--except little things. While he drew his chair up to the table @@ -1573,7 +1550,7 @@ to sit up just to see how much more solemn and stupid it would become as the night went on; he wanted to tinker his skates, to mend his sled, to finish that chapter. Why should he go away from that bright blaze, and the company that sat in its radiance, to the cold and solitude of his -chamber? Why did n't the people who were sleepy go to bed? +chamber? Why didn't the people who were sleepy go to bed? How lonesome the old house was; how cold it was, away from that great central fire in the heart of it; how its timbers creaked as if in the @@ -1749,21 +1726,21 @@ pretty well. But did John like the color of her eyes? No; John didn't like the color of her eyes exactly. -“Her mouth would be well enough if she did n't laugh so much and show +“Her mouth would be well enough if she didn't laugh so much and show her teeth.” John said her mouth was her worst feature. “Oh, no,” said Cynthia warmly; “her mouth is better than her nose.” -John did n't know but it was better than her nose, and he should like -her looks better if her hair was n't so dreadful black. +John didn't know but it was better than her nose, and he should like +her looks better if her hair wasn't so dreadful black. But Cynthia, who could afford to be generous now, said she liked black hair, and she wished hers was dark. Whereupon John protested that he liked light hair--auburn hair--of all things. -And Cynthia said that Sally was a dear, good girl, and she did n't +And Cynthia said that Sally was a dear, good girl, and she didn't believe one word of the story that she only really found one red ear at the husking that night, and hid that and kept pulling it out as if it were a new one. @@ -1820,7 +1797,7 @@ but in front of Ephraim Leggett. And they two kneeled, and so forth. John was astounded. He had never conceived of such perfidy in the female heart. He felt like wiping Ephraim off the face of the earth, only Ephraim was older and bigger than he. When it came his turn at -length,--thanks to a plain little girl for whose admiration he did n't +length,--thanks to a plain little girl for whose admiration he didn't care a straw,--he threw the cushion down before Melinda Mayhew with all the devotion he could muster, and a dagger look at Cynthia. And Cynthia's perfidious smile only enraged him the more. John felt wronged, @@ -1880,7 +1857,7 @@ boy between the ages of eight and fourteen could be applied to some industry, we should see wonderful results. But a boy is like a galvanic battery that is not in connection with anything; he generates electricity and plays it off into the air with the most reckless -prodigality. And I, for one, would n't have it otherwise. It is as much +prodigality. And I, for one, wouldn't have it otherwise. It is as much a boy's business to play off his energies into space as it is for a flower to blow, or a catbird to sing snatches of the tunes of all the other birds. @@ -1986,7 +1963,7 @@ if it is not almost sirup. He has a long round stick, whittled smooth at one end, which he uses for this purpose, at the constant risk of burning his tongue. The smoke blows in his face; he is grimy with ashes; he is altogether such a mass of dirt, stickiness, and sweetness, that his own -mother would n't know him. +mother wouldn't know him. He likes to boil eggs in the hot sap with the hired man; he likes to roast potatoes in the ashes, and he would live in the camp day and night @@ -2146,7 +2123,7 @@ in the air, until he shook him off; but in his departure the woodchuck carried away a large piece of John's summer trousers-leg. The boy never forgot it. And whenever he had a holiday, he used to expend an amount of labor and ingenuity in the pursuit of woodchucks that would have made -his for tune in any useful pursuit. There was a hill pasture, down +his fortune in any useful pursuit. There was a hill pasture, down on one side of which ran a small brook, and this pasture was full of woodchuck-holes. It required the assistance of several boys to capture a woodchuck. It was first necessary by patient watching to ascertain that @@ -2163,7 +2140,7 @@ the woodchuck? Sometimes it seemed as if the hole was a bottomless pit. But sooner or later the water would rise in it, and then there was sure to be seen the nose of the woodchuck, keeping itself on a level with the rising flood. It was piteous to see the anxious look of the hunted, -half-drowned creature as--it came to the surface and caught sight of +half-drowned creature as it came to the surface and caught sight of the dog. There the dog stood, at the mouth of the hole, quivering with excitement from his nose to the tip of his tail, and behind him were the cruel boys dancing with joy and setting the dog on. The poor creature @@ -2176,7 +2153,7 @@ called “fair play.” They maintained perfect “neutrality” so long as the dog was getting the best of the woodchuck; but if the latter was likely to escape, they “interfered” in the interest of peace and the “balance of power,” and killed the woodchuck. This is a boy's notion of justice; -of course, he'd no business to be a woodchuck,--an--unspeakable +of course, he'd no business to be a woodchuck,--an unspeakable woodchuck. I used the word “aromatic” in relation to the New England soil. John @@ -2234,7 +2211,7 @@ of sin. If he had desired to defy all Divine law and outrage all human society, he felt that he could do it by shuffling them. And he was quite right. The two bad boys enjoyed in stealth their scandalous pastime, because they knew it was the most wicked thing they could do. If it had -been as sinless as playing marbles, they would n't have cared for +been as sinless as playing marbles, they wouldn't have cared for it. John sometimes drove past a brown, tumble-down farmhouse, whose shiftless inhabitants, it was said, were card-playing people; and it is impossible to describe how wicked that house appeared to John. He almost @@ -2276,7 +2253,7 @@ did work, and he was always ashamed when he was over his fit of passion. In short, you couldn't find a much better wicked boy than John. When the “revival” came, therefore, one summer, John was in a quandary. -Sunday meeting and Sunday-school he did n't mind; they were a part of +Sunday meeting and Sunday-school he didn't mind; they were a part of regular life, and only temporarily interrupted a boy's pleasures. But when there began to be evening meetings at the different houses, a new element came into affairs. There was a kind of solemnity over the @@ -2304,7 +2281,7 @@ over to hardness of heart. His obstinacy would show that he was not one of the elect. John fancied that he could feel his heart hardening, and he began to look with a wistful anxiety into the faces of the Christians to see what were the visible signs of being one of the elect. John put -on a good deal of a manner that he “did n't care,” and he never admitted +on a good deal of a manner that he “didn't care,” and he never admitted his disquiet by asking any questions or standing up in meeting to be prayed for. But he did care. He heard all the time that all he had to do was to repent and believe. But there was nothing that he doubted, and he @@ -2313,14 +2290,14 @@ of. It was essential he learned, that he should have a “conviction of sin.” This he earnestly tried to have. Other people, no better than he, had -it, and he wondered why he could n't have it. Boys and girls whom he +it, and he wondered why he couldn't have it. Boys and girls whom he knew were “under conviction,” and John began to feel not only panicky, but lonesome. Cynthia Rudd had been anxious for days and days, and not able to sleep at night, but now she had given herself up and found peace. There was a kind of radiance in her face that struck John with awe, and he felt that now there was a great gulf between him and Cynthia. Everybody was going away from him, and his heart was getting -harder than ever. He could n't feel wicked, all he could do. And there +harder than ever. He couldn't feel wicked, all he could do. And there was Ed Bates his intimate friend, though older than he, a “whaling,” noisy kind of boy, who was under conviction and sure he was going to be lost. How John envied him! And pretty soon Ed “experienced religion.” @@ -2328,7 +2305,7 @@ lost. How John envied him! And pretty soon Ed “experienced religion.” elect. And a change there was. And John wondered about another thing. Ed Bates used to go trout-fishing, with a tremendously long pole, in a meadow brook near the river; and when the trout didn't bite right off, -Ed would--get mad, and as soon as one took hold he would give an awful +Ed would get mad, and as soon as one took hold he would give an awful jerk, sending the fish more than three hundred feet into the air and landing it in the bushes the other side of the meadow, crying out, “Gul darn ye, I'll learn ye.” And John wondered if Ed would take the little @@ -2347,7 +2324,7 @@ If ever a boy honestly tried to work himself into a conviction of sin, John tried. And what made him miserable was, that he couldn't feel miserable when everybody else was miserable. He even began to pretend to be so. He put on a serious and anxious look like the others. He -pretended he did n't care for play; he refrained from chasing chipmunks +pretended he didn't care for play; he refrained from chasing chipmunks and snaring suckers; the songs of birds and the bright vivacity of the summer--time that used to make him turn hand-springs smote him as a discordant levity. He was not a hypocrite at all, and he was getting to @@ -2401,7 +2378,7 @@ hypocrite a little. But he was sincere enough in wanting to feel, as the other boys and girls felt, that he was a wicked sinner. He tried to think of his evil deeds; and one occurred to him; indeed, it often came to his mind. It was a lie; a deliberate, awful lie, that never injured -anybody but himself John knew he was not wicked enough to tell a lie to +anybody but himself. John knew he was not wicked enough to tell a lie to injure anybody else. This was the lie. One afternoon at school, just before John's class was @@ -2410,7 +2387,7 @@ love and respect, came in to visit the school. John was a favorite with her, and she had come to hear him recite. As it happened, John felt shaky in the geographical lesson of that day, and he feared to be humiliated in the presence of his cousin; he felt embarrassed to that -degree that he could n't have “bounded” Massachusetts. So he stood up +degree that he couldn't have “bounded” Massachusetts. So he stood up and raised his hand, and said to the schoolma'am, “Please, ma'am, I 've got the stomach-ache; may I go home?” And John's character for truthfulness was so high (and even this was ever a reproach to him), @@ -2424,7 +2401,7 @@ himself, lest somebody should see him, and know that chasing a woodchuck was inconsistent with the stomach-ache. He was acting a miserable part, but it had to be gone through with. He went home and told his mother the reason he had left school, but he added that he felt “some” better now. -The “some” did n't save him. Genuine sympathy was lavished on him. +The “some” didn't save him. Genuine sympathy was lavished on him. He had to swallow a stiff dose of nasty “picra,”--the horror of all childhood, and he was put in bed immediately. The world never looked so pleasant to John, but to bed he was forced to go. He was excused from @@ -2464,7 +2441,7 @@ time a newspaper, a secular newspaper, which had in it a long account of the Long Island races, in which the famous horse “Lexington” was a runner. John was fond of horses, he knew about Lexington, and he had looked forward to the result of this race with keen interest. But to -read the account of it how he felt might destroy his seriousness of +read the account of it now he felt might destroy his seriousness of mind, and in all reverence and simplicity he felt it--be a means of “grieving away the Holy Spirit.” He therefore hid away the paper in a table-drawer, intending to read it when the revival should be over. @@ -2519,7 +2496,7 @@ quaked out, and you can tell what land is going to be solid and keep its level twenty-four hours, and the swamps are filled up, and the deltas of the great rivers, like the Mississippi and the Nile, become terra firma, and men stop killing their fellows in order to get their land and other -property, then perhaps there will be a world that an angel would n't +property, then perhaps there will be a world that an angel wouldn't weep over. Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns. @@ -2584,7 +2561,7 @@ at the head of his company of flintlock muskets, with the American banner full high advanced, and the clamorous drum defying the world. In this he fulfilled his duties of citizen, faithfully teaching his uniformed companions how to march by the left leg, and to get reeling -drunk by sundown; otherwise he did n't amount to much in the community; +drunk by sundown; otherwise he didn't amount to much in the community; his house was unpainted, his fences were tumbled down, his farm was a waste, his wife wore an old gown to meeting, to which the captain never went; but he was a good trout-fisher, and there was no man in town who @@ -2642,8 +2619,8 @@ fresh in western Massachusetts. Behind John's house in the orchard were some old slate tombstones, sunken and leaning, which recorded the names of Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms, who had been killed by Indians in the last century while at work in the meadow by the river, and who -slept there in the hope of the glorious resurrection. Phineas Arms -martial name--was long since dust, and even the mortal part of the great +slept there in the hope of the glorious resurrection. Phineas +Arms--martial name--was long since dust, and even the mortal part of the great Captain Moses Rice had been absorbed in the soil and passed perhaps with the sap up into the old but still blooming apple-trees. It was a quiet place where they lay, but they might have heard--if hear they could--the @@ -2659,7 +2636,7 @@ him the trump of judgment, he could not separate it from the war-whoop that had been the last sound in the ear of Phineas Arms. The Indian always preceded murder by the war-whoop; and this was an advantage that the artillery had in the fight with the elderberry Indians. It was -warned in time. If there was no war-whoop, the killing did n't count; +warned in time. If there was no war-whoop, the killing didn't count; the artillery man got up and killed the Indian. The Indian usually had the worst of it; he not only got killed by the regulars, but he got whipped by the home guard at night for staining himself and his clothes @@ -2841,7 +2818,7 @@ linen coat and wide-awake hat,--dissolute, horsey-looking man. They turn up, of course. Ah, there is an establishment he knows well: a sorrel horse and an old chaise. The sorrel horse scents the water afar off, and begins to turn up long before he reaches the trough, thrusting out his -nose in anticipation of the coot sensation. No check to let down; he +nose in anticipation of the cool sensation. No check to let down; he plunges his nose in nearly to his eyes in his haste to get at it. Two maiden ladies--unmistakably such, though they appear neither “anxious nor aimless”--within the scoop-top smile benevolently on the sorrel @@ -3055,7 +3032,7 @@ of all and bore with his wildest pranks. When he was wanted to sing his part and was skylarking in the rear, the fat monk took him by the ear and brought him forward; and when he gave the boy's ear a twist, the boy opened his lovely mouth and poured forth such a flood of melody as you -never heard. And he did n't mind his notes; he seemed to know his notes +never heard. And he didn't mind his notes; he seemed to know his notes by heart, and could sing and look off like a nightingale on a bough. He knew his power, that boy; and he stepped forward to his stand when he pleased, certain that he would be forgiven as soon as he began to sing. @@ -3077,366 +3054,4 @@ good fortune of the New England boy. - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Being a Boy, by Charles Dudley Warner - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEING A BOY *** - -***** This file should be named 3127-0.txt or 3127-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/3/1/2/3127/ - -Produced by David Widger - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Being a Boy - -Author: Charles Dudley Warner - -Release Date: August 22, 2006 [EBook #3127] -Last Updated: February 24, 2018 - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEING A BOY *** - - - -Produced by David Widger - - - - - - -</pre> - + <h1> BEING A BOY </h1> @@ -135,10 +106,13 @@ Produced by David Widger “Haw, Golden!” “Whoa, Bright!” and all the rest of that remarkable language, until he is red in the face, and all the neighbors for half a mile are aware that something unusual is going on. If I were a boy, I am - not sure but I would rather drive the oxen than have a birthday. The - proudest day of my life was one day when I rode on the neap of the cart, + not sure but I would rather drive the oxen than have a birthday. + </p> + + <p> + The proudest day of my life was one day when I rode on the neap of the cart, and drove the oxen, all alone, with a load of apples to the cider-mill. I - was so little that it was a wonder that I did n't fall off, and get under + was so little that it was a wonder that I didn't fall off, and get under the broad wheels. Nothing could make a boy, who cared anything for his appearance, feel flatter than to be run over by the broad tire of a cart-wheel. But I never heard of one who was, and I don't believe one ever @@ -179,9 +153,9 @@ Produced by David Widger was the ruler of the others, and had the place of honor in the stable and everywhere else. I admire cows, and especially the exactness with which they define their social position. In this case, Decem could “lick” Novem, - and Novem could “lick” Octo, and so on down to Unus, who could n't lick + and Novem could “lick” Octo, and so on down to Unus, who couldn't lick anybody, except her own calf. I suppose I ought to have called the weakest - cow Una instead of Unus, considering her sex; but I did n't care much to + cow Una instead of Unus, considering her sex; but I didn't care much to teach the cows the declensions of adjectives, in which I was not very well up myself; and, besides, it would be of little use to a cow. People who devote themselves too severely to study of the classics are apt to become @@ -215,7 +189,7 @@ Produced by David Widger detraction in order to get the first place at the crib, or the farther stall in the stable. If the question arises, the cows turn in, horns and all, and settle it with one square fight, and that ends it. I have often - admired this trait in COWS. + admired this trait in cows. </p> <p> Besides Latin, I used to try to teach the cows a little poetry, and it is @@ -394,7 +368,7 @@ Produced by David Widger of work the less is accomplished. Boys have a great power of helping each other to do nothing; and they are so innocent about it, and unconscious. “I went as quick as ever I could,” says the boy: his father asks him why - he did n't stay all night, when he has been absent three hours on a + he didn't stay all night, when he has been absent three hours on a ten-minute errand. The sarcasm has no effect on the boy. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:50%;"> <img src="images/{0041}.jpg" alt="{0041}" width="100%" /><br /> </div> <h5> <a href="images/{0041}.jpg"> <img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> </h5> @@ -412,7 +386,7 @@ Produced by David Widger would blow a great blast from the farmhouse, which would send a cold chill down my back in the hottest days. I knew what it meant. It had a frightfully impatient quaver in it, not at all like the sweet note that - called us to dinner from the hay-field. It said, “Why on earth does n't + called us to dinner from the hay-field. It said, “Why on earth doesn't that boy come home? It is almost dark, and the cows ain't milked!” And that was the time the cows had to start into a brisk pace and make up for lost time. I wonder if any boy ever drove the cows home late, who did not @@ -826,7 +800,7 @@ Produced by David Widger </p> <p> This is one of the most disagreeable tasks of the boy farmer, and, hard as - it is, I do, not know why it is supposed to belong especially to + it is, I do not know why it is supposed to belong especially to childhood. But it is, and one of the certain marks that second childhood has come to a man on a farm is, that he is asked to turn the grindstone as if he were a boy again. When the old man is good for nothing else, when he @@ -841,7 +815,7 @@ Produced by David Widger Doing the regular work of this world is not much, the boy thinks, but the wearisome part is the waiting on the people who do the work. And the boy is not far wrong. This is what women and boys have to do on a farm, wait - upon everybody who—works. The trouble with the boy's life is, that + upon everybody who works. The trouble with the boy's life is, that he has no time that he can call his own. He is, like a barrel of beer, always on draft. The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge @@ -999,7 +973,7 @@ The boy is armed with a pole and a stout himself in the land of enchantment open before him. He tells at home that he has seen the most wonderful book that ever was, and a big boy has promised to lend it to him. “Is it a true book, John?” asks the - grandmother; “because, if it is n't true, it is the worst thing that a boy + grandmother; “because, if it isn't true, it is the worst thing that a boy can read.” (This happened years ago.) John cannot answer as to the truth of the book, and so does not bring it home; but he borrows it, nevertheless, and conceals it in the barn and, lying in the hay-mow, is @@ -1023,7 +997,7 @@ The boy is armed with a pole and a stout for whom he cut in two his lead-pencil, and gave her half. At the last day of school she goes part way with John, and then he turns and goes a longer distance towards her home, so that it is late when he reaches his own. Is - he late? He did n't know he was late; he came straight home when school + he late? He didn't know he was late; he came straight home when school was dismissed, only going a little way home with Alice Linton to help her carry her books. In a box in his chamber, which he has lately put a padlock on, among fishhooks and lines and baitboxes, odd pieces of brass, @@ -1179,7 +1153,7 @@ The boy is armed with a pole and a stout fruit, raisins, and pastry,—a world that he was only yet allowed to enjoy through his nose. How filled the house was with the most delicious smells! The mince-pies that were made! If John had been shut in solid - walls with them piled about him, he could n't have eaten his way out in + walls with them piled about him, he couldn't have eaten his way out in four weeks. There were dainties enough cooked in those two weeks to have made the entire year luscious with good living, if they had been scattered along in it. But people were probably all the better for scrimping @@ -1189,9 +1163,9 @@ The boy is armed with a pole and a stout excavate all its riches. </p> <p> - Thanksgiving Day itself was a heavy dav, the hilarity of it being so + Thanksgiving Day itself was a heavy day, the hilarity of it being so subdued by going to meeting, and the universal wearing of the Sunday - clothes, that the boy could n't see it. But if he felt little + clothes, that the boy couldn't see it. But if he felt little exhilaration, he ate a great deal. The next day was the real holiday. Then were the merry-making parties, and perhaps the skatings and sleigh-rides, for the freezing weather came before the governor's proclamation in many @@ -1225,7 +1199,7 @@ The boy is armed with a pole and a stout IX. THE SEASON OF PUMPKIN-PIE </h2> <p> - What John said was, that he did n't care much for pumpkin-pie; but that + What John said was, that he didn't care much for pumpkin-pie; but that was after he had eaten a whole one. It seemed to him then that mince would be better. </p> @@ -1441,7 +1415,7 @@ Solomon would not hear the bobolink sing, however, for he said it always reminded him of the whetting of a scythe, and that reminded him of spreading hay; and if there was anything he hated, it was spreading hay after the mowers. “I guess you - would n't like it yourself,” said John, “with the stubbs getting into your + wouldn't like it yourself,” said John, “with the stubbs getting into your feet, and the hot sun, and the men getting ahead of you, all you could do.” </p> @@ -1463,7 +1437,7 @@ Solomon would not gracious mien and in her dress which reminded John of the beautiful castle ladies, with whom he was well acquainted in books. He felt that he knew her at once, and he also seemed to be a sort of young prince himself. I - fancy he did n't look much like one. But of his own appearance he thought + fancy he didn't look much like one. But of his own appearance he thought not at all, as he replied to the lady's question, without the least embarrassment: </p> @@ -1481,10 +1455,8 @@ Solomon would not two or three stalks, and was about to return the rest, when John said: </p> <p> - “Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more.” - </p> - <p> - “I know where it's ever so thick.” + “Please keep it all, ma'am. I can get lots more. + I know where it's ever so thick.” </p> <p> “Thank you, thank you,” said the lady; and as the carriage started, she @@ -1542,7 +1514,7 @@ Solomon would not a stone at the wagon, and in a rage he cried: </p> <p> - “You're a nice....” but he could n't think of any hard, bitter words quick + “You're a nice....” but he couldn't think of any hard, bitter words quick enough. </p> <p> @@ -1606,7 +1578,7 @@ Solomon would not <p> I used to spend much valuable time in planning a barn that should be tight and warm, with a fire in it, if necessary, in order to keep the - temperature somewhere near the freezing-point. I could n't see how the + temperature somewhere near the freezing-point. I couldn't see how the cattle could live in a place where a lively boy, full of young blood, would freeze to death in a short time if he did not swing his arms and slap his hands, and jump about like a goat. I thought I would have a sort @@ -1672,7 +1644,7 @@ Solomon would not Back of the schoolhouse rose a round hill, upon which, tradition said, had stood in colonial times a block-house, built by the settlers for defense against the Indians. For the Indians had the idea that the whites were not - settled enough, and used to come nights to settle—them with a + settled enough, and used to come nights to settle them with a tomahawk. It was called Fort Hill. It was very steep on each side, and the river ran close by. It was a charming place in summer, where one could find laurel, and checkerberries, and sassafras roots, and sit in the cool @@ -1761,12 +1733,12 @@ Solomon would not The boy is an important part of the garrison. He is not only one of the best means of communicating with the outer world, but he furnishes half the entertainment and takes two thirds of the scolding of the family - circle. A farm would come to grief without a boy-on it, but it is + circle. A farm would come to grief without a boy on it, but it is impossible to think of a farmhouse without a boy in it. </p> <p> “That boy” brings life into the house; his tracks are to be seen - everywhere; he leaves all the doors open; he has n't half filled the + everywhere; he leaves all the doors open; he hasn't half filled the wood-box; he makes noise enough to wake the dead; or he is in a brown-study by the fire and cannot be stirred, or he has fastened a grip into some Crusoe book which cannot easily be shaken off. I suppose that @@ -1792,7 +1764,7 @@ Solomon would not </p> <p> John used to imagine what people did in the dark ages, and wonder - sometimes whether he was n't still in them. + sometimes whether he wasn't still in them. </p> <p> Of course, John had nothing to do all the evening, after his “chores,”—except @@ -1819,7 +1791,7 @@ Solomon would not night went on; he wanted to tinker his skates, to mend his sled, to finish that chapter. Why should he go away from that bright blaze, and the company that sat in its radiance, to the cold and solitude of his chamber? - Why did n't the people who were sleepy go to bed? + Why didn't the people who were sleepy go to bed? </p> <p> How lonesome the old house was; how cold it was, away from that great @@ -2018,7 +1990,7 @@ Solomon would not No; John didn't like the color of her eyes exactly. </p> <p> - “Her mouth would be well enough if she did n't laugh so much and show her + “Her mouth would be well enough if she didn't laugh so much and show her teeth.” </p> <p> @@ -2028,8 +2000,8 @@ Solomon would not “Oh, no,” said Cynthia warmly; “her mouth is better than her nose.” </p> <p> - John did n't know but it was better than her nose, and he should like her - looks better if her hair was n't so dreadful black. + John didn't know but it was better than her nose, and he should like her + looks better if her hair wasn't so dreadful black. </p> <p> But Cynthia, who could afford to be generous now, said she liked black @@ -2037,7 +2009,7 @@ Solomon would not light hair—auburn hair—of all things. </p> <p> - And Cynthia said that Sally was a dear, good girl, and she did n't believe + And Cynthia said that Sally was a dear, good girl, and she didn't believe one word of the story that she only really found one red ear at the husking that night, and hid that and kept pulling it out as if it were a new one. @@ -2097,7 +2069,7 @@ Solomon would not never conceived of such perfidy in the female heart. He felt like wiping Ephraim off the face of the earth, only Ephraim was older and bigger than he. When it came his turn at length,—thanks to a plain little girl - for whose admiration he did n't care a straw,—he threw the cushion + for whose admiration he didn't care a straw,—he threw the cushion down before Melinda Mayhew with all the devotion he could muster, and a dagger look at Cynthia. And Cynthia's perfidious smile only enraged him the more. John felt wronged, and worked himself up to pass a wretched @@ -2172,7 +2144,7 @@ Solomon would not we should see wonderful results. But a boy is like a galvanic battery that is not in connection with anything; he generates electricity and plays it off into the air with the most reckless prodigality. And I, for one, would - n't have it otherwise. It is as much a boy's business to play off his + n't have it otherwise. It is as much a boy's business to play off his energies into space as it is for a flower to blow, or a catbird to sing snatches of the tunes of all the other birds. </p> @@ -2286,7 +2258,7 @@ Solomon would not end, which he uses for this purpose, at the constant risk of burning his tongue. The smoke blows in his face; he is grimy with ashes; he is altogether such a mass of dirt, stickiness, and sweetness, that his own - mother would n't know him. + mother wouldn't know him. </p> <div class="fig" style="width:50%;"> <img src="images/{0179}.jpg" alt="{0179}" width="100%" /><br /> </div> <h5> <a href="images/{0179}.jpg"> <img src="images/enlarge.jpg" alt="" /> </a> </h5> @@ -2463,7 +2435,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to his departure the woodchuck carried away a large piece of John's summer trousers-leg. The boy never forgot it. And whenever he had a holiday, he used to expend an amount of labor and ingenuity in the pursuit of - woodchucks that would have made his for tune in any useful pursuit. There + woodchucks that would have made his fortune in any useful pursuit. There was a hill pasture, down on one side of which ran a small brook, and this pasture was full of woodchuck-holes. It required the assistance of several boys to capture a woodchuck. It was first necessary by patient watching to @@ -2480,7 +2452,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to bottomless pit. But sooner or later the water would rise in it, and then there was sure to be seen the nose of the woodchuck, keeping itself on a level with the rising flood. It was piteous to see the anxious look of the - hunted, half-drowned creature as—it came to the surface and caught + hunted, half-drowned creature as it came to the surface and caught sight of the dog. There the dog stood, at the mouth of the hole, quivering with excitement from his nose to the tip of his tail, and behind him were the cruel boys dancing with joy and setting the dog on. The poor creature @@ -2493,7 +2465,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to best of the woodchuck; but if the latter was likely to escape, they “interfered” in the interest of peace and the “balance of power,” and killed the woodchuck. This is a boy's notion of justice; of course, he'd - no business to be a woodchuck,—an—unspeakable woodchuck. + no business to be a woodchuck,—an unspeakable woodchuck. </p> <p> I used the word “aromatic” in relation to the New England soil. John knew @@ -2559,7 +2531,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to felt that he could do it by shuffling them. And he was quite right. The two bad boys enjoyed in stealth their scandalous pastime, because they knew it was the most wicked thing they could do. If it had been as sinless - as playing marbles, they would n't have cared for it. John sometimes drove + as playing marbles, they wouldn't have cared for it. John sometimes drove past a brown, tumble-down farmhouse, whose shiftless inhabitants, it was said, were card-playing people; and it is impossible to describe how wicked that house appeared to John. He almost expected to see its shingles @@ -2608,7 +2580,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to </p> <p> When the “revival” came, therefore, one summer, John was in a quandary. - Sunday meeting and Sunday-school he did n't mind; they were a part of + Sunday meeting and Sunday-school he didn't mind; they were a part of regular life, and only temporarily interrupted a boy's pleasures. But when there began to be evening meetings at the different houses, a new element came into affairs. There was a kind of solemnity over the community, and a @@ -2636,7 +2608,7 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to fancied that he could feel his heart hardening, and he began to look with a wistful anxiety into the faces of the Christians to see what were the visible signs of being one of the elect. John put on a good deal of a - manner that he “did n't care,” and he never admitted his disquiet by + manner that he “didn't care,” and he never admitted his disquiet by asking any questions or standing up in meeting to be prayed for. But he did care. He heard all the time that all he had to do was to repent and believe. But there was nothing that he doubted, and he was perfectly @@ -2645,13 +2617,13 @@ Oh, the world had vast possibilities for John. Away to <p> It was essential he learned, that he should have a “conviction of sin.” This he earnestly tried to have. Other people, no better than he, had it, - and he wondered why he could n't have it. Boys and girls whom he knew were + and he wondered why he couldn't have it. Boys and girls whom he knew were “under conviction,” and John began to feel not only panicky, but lonesome. Cynthia Rudd had been anxious for days and days, and not able to sleep at night, but now she had given herself up and found peace. There was a kind of radiance in her face that struck John with awe, and he felt that now there was a great gulf between him and Cynthia. Everybody was going away - from him, and his heart was getting harder than ever. He could n't feel + from him, and his heart was getting harder than ever. He couldn't feel wicked, all he could do. And there was Ed Bates his intimate friend, though older than he, a “whaling,” noisy kind of boy, who was under conviction and sure he was going to be lost. @@ -2664,7 +2636,7 @@ How John envied him! And in Ed's face when he became one of the elect. And a change there was. And John wondered about another thing. Ed Bates used to go trout-fishing, with a tremendously long pole, in a meadow brook near the river; and when the - trout didn't bite right off, Ed would—get mad, and as soon as one + trout didn't bite right off, Ed would get mad, and as soon as one took hold he would give an awful jerk, sending the fish more than three hundred feet into the air and landing it in the bushes the other side of the meadow, crying out, “Gul darn ye, I'll learn ye.” And John wondered if @@ -2685,7 +2657,7 @@ How John envied him! And John tried. And what made him miserable was, that he couldn't feel miserable when everybody else was miserable. He even began to pretend to be so. He put on a serious and anxious look like the others. He pretended - he did n't care for play; he refrained from chasing chipmunks and snaring + he didn't care for play; he refrained from chasing chipmunks and snaring suckers; the songs of birds and the bright vivacity of the summer—time that used to make him turn hand-springs smote him as a discordant levity. He was not a hypocrite at all, and he was getting to be alarmed that he @@ -2739,7 +2711,7 @@ How John envied him! And enough in wanting to feel, as the other boys and girls felt, that he was a wicked sinner. He tried to think of his evil deeds; and one occurred to him; indeed, it often came to his mind. It was a lie; a deliberate, awful - lie, that never injured anybody but himself John knew he was not wicked + lie, that never injured anybody but himself. John knew he was not wicked enough to tell a lie to injure anybody else. </p> <p> @@ -2749,7 +2721,7 @@ How John envied him! And and she had come to hear him recite. As it happened, John felt shaky in the geographical lesson of that day, and he feared to be humiliated in the presence of his cousin; he felt embarrassed to that degree that he could - n't have “bounded” Massachusetts. So he stood up and raised his hand, and + n't have “bounded” Massachusetts. So he stood up and raised his hand, and said to the schoolma'am, “Please, ma'am, I 've got the stomach-ache; may I go home?” And John's character for truthfulness was so high (and even this was ever a reproach to him), that his word was instantly believed, and he @@ -2767,7 +2739,7 @@ The chasing a woodchuck was inconsistent with the stomach-ache. He was acting a miserable part, but it had to be gone through with. He went home and told his mother the reason he had left school, but he added that he felt - “some” better now. The “some” did n't save him. Genuine sympathy was + “some” better now. The “some” didn't save him. Genuine sympathy was lavished on him. He had to swallow a stiff dose of nasty “picra,”—the horror of all childhood, and he was put in bed immediately. The world never looked so pleasant to John, but to bed he was forced to go. He was @@ -2808,7 +2780,7 @@ The newspaper, a secular newspaper, which had in it a long account of the Long Island races, in which the famous horse “Lexington” was a runner. John was fond of horses, he knew about Lexington, and he had looked forward to the - result of this race with keen interest. But to read the account of it how + result of this race with keen interest. But to read the account of it now he felt might destroy his seriousness of mind, and in all reverence and simplicity he felt it—be a means of “grieving away the Holy Spirit.” He therefore hid away the paper in a table-drawer, intending to read it @@ -2870,7 +2842,7 @@ The up, and the deltas of the great rivers, like the Mississippi and the Nile, become terra firma, and men stop killing their fellows in order to get their land and other property, then perhaps there will be a world that an - angel would n't weep over. Now one half the world are employed in getting + angel wouldn't weep over. Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns. @@ -2935,7 +2907,7 @@ The flintlock muskets, with the American banner full high advanced, and the clamorous drum defying the world. In this he fulfilled his duties of citizen, faithfully teaching his uniformed companions how to march by the - left leg, and to get reeling drunk by sundown; otherwise he did n't amount + left leg, and to get reeling drunk by sundown; otherwise he didn't amount to much in the community; his house was unpainted, his fences were tumbled down, his farm was a waste, his wife wore an old gown to meeting, to which the captain never went; but he was a good trout-fisher, and there was no @@ -2994,7 +2966,7 @@ The slate tombstones, sunken and leaning, which recorded the names of Captain Moses Rice and Phineas Arms, who had been killed by Indians in the last century while at work in the meadow by the river, and who slept there in - the hope of the glorious resurrection. Phineas Arms martial name—was + the hope of the glorious resurrection. Phineas Arms—martial name—was long since dust, and even the mortal part of the great Captain Moses Rice had been absorbed in the soil and passed perhaps with the sap up into the old but still blooming apple-trees. It was a quiet place where they lay, @@ -3011,7 +2983,7 @@ The last sound in the ear of Phineas Arms. The Indian always preceded murder by the war-whoop; and this was an advantage that the artillery had in the fight with the elderberry Indians. It was warned in time. If there was no - war-whoop, the killing did n't count; the artillery man got up and killed + war-whoop, the killing didn't count; the artillery man got up and killed the Indian. The Indian usually had the worst of it; he not only got killed by the regulars, but he got whipped by the home guard at night for staining himself and his clothes with the elderberry. @@ -3128,7 +3100,7 @@ He was not fickle, and yet I had become a general, or written a book, or kept a store, to see him go away and marry another. He almost made up his cruel mind on the instant that he would never marry her, however bad she might feel. And yet he - could n't get her out of his mind for days and days, and when her image + couldn't get her out of his mind for days and days, and when her image was present, even Cynthia in the singers' seat on Sunday looked a little cheap and common. </p> @@ -3211,7 +3183,7 @@ Poor Cynthia! Long before John became a general or had course. Ah, there is an establishment he knows well: a sorrel horse and an old chaise. The sorrel horse scents the water afar off, and begins to turn up long before he reaches the trough, thrusting out his nose in - anticipation of the coot sensation. No check to let down; he plunges his + anticipation of the cool sensation. No check to let down; he plunges his nose in nearly to his eyes in his haste to get at it. Two maiden ladies—unmistakably such, though they appear neither “anxious nor aimless”—within the scoop-top smile benevolently on the sorrel back. It is the deacon's horse, @@ -3451,7 +3423,7 @@ Poor Cynthia! Long before John became a general or had and was skylarking in the rear, the fat monk took him by the ear and brought him forward; and when he gave the boy's ear a twist, the boy opened his lovely mouth and poured forth such a flood of melody as you - never heard. And he did n't mind his notes; he seemed to know his notes by + never heard. And he didn't mind his notes; he seemed to know his notes by heart, and could sing and look off like a nightingale on a bough. He knew his power, that boy; and he stepped forward to his stand when he pleased, certain that he would be forgiven as soon as he began to sing. And such @@ -3471,379 +3443,11 @@ Poor Cynthia! 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