In Winter Quarters 



ever, the picture had another side. 

 And, more than that, they manage 

 these things much better for the boys 

 throughout the growing season on most 

 farms nowadays. 



I am sure that this boy loved his 

 parents at least as much as the average 

 active, normal, ragged, barefooted 

 specimen can. Nevertheless he had a 

 standing quarrel with his father as to 

 the funds to be burned on "the Glori- 

 ous Fourth" that being one of the 

 few red letter days that relieved the 

 long and strenuous weeks that began 

 with the heated term. This was due 

 to the fact that, as yet, he did not 

 altogether comprehend the full signifi- 

 cance attaching to the giving and re- 

 ceiving of that hoe. Usually he was 

 compelled to earn his own meagre 

 accumulation for that great occasion, 

 and opportunities for small boys to get 

 actual cash for any service they could 

 render were in that particular locality 

 not at all numerous. The one certain 

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