THE TIM BUNKER PAPERS. 12.&quot;) 



Peruvian No. 1 and green crops, and it is much bettor to 

 do it with this than to have it lie idle. Mrs. Bunker is as 

 much pleased with the result as any body, for she says &quot; it 

 lias always distressed her to have any thing belonging to 

 the Bunker family lying idle.&quot; 



Yours to command, 



TIMOTHY BUNKER, ESQ., 

 Hoofartown, Dec. 10th, 1859. 



39. TDI BUNKER ON GIVING BOYS A 

 START. 



MR. EDITOR : &quot; Be sure you re right then go ahead. * 

 Davy Crockett got out considerable truth when he started 

 that proverb. I guess it is about as applicable to starting 

 boys in life, as it is to starting land on a right course to 

 make it profitable. Now you may take poor, run-down 

 land, and plow it, and crop it, as much as you have a mind 

 to, and you can t make it pay for the labor of working. 

 It needs the right start to begin with, and then you can 

 go ahead and get pay for cultivating. 



Now a great many folks make the same mistake with 

 their boys that I did in working Mrs. Bunker s dowry 

 lots, until I begun to turn in green crops. They don t 

 give em the right start. A good many work their boys 

 till they are twenty-one, and then send them off to shift 

 for themselves, without capital, and without any expe 

 rience in the earning and use of money. They stint them 

 on schooling in the latter part of their minority, because 

 their work is worth as much as a man s. They seem to 

 have as little regard for the future welfare of the bov as 



