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use them at their good discretion. Every 3'outh who aspires 

 to manliness ought to get and csiviy a revolver. 



A boy ought to cheat the penurious father who does not give 

 him as much money as he finds necessary, and ought to compel 

 him to pay. A good way to force him to pay liberally, and at 

 the same time to stop criticising his son's habits, is to find out 

 his own vices (he always has some) and then to levy black-mail 

 on him. Every boy, who does not want to be ' green ' and 

 'soft,' ought to 'see the elephant.' All fine manly young fel- 

 lows are familiar with the actors and singers at variety theaters, 

 and the girl waiters at concert saloons. As to drinking, the 

 bar-room code is taught. The boys stop in at bar-rooms all 

 along the street, swallow drinks standing or leaning with rowdy 

 grace on the bar. They treat and are treated, and consider it 

 insulting to refuse or to be refused. The good fellows meet 

 every one on a footing of equality — above all in a bar-room. 



Quiet home life is stupid and unmanly. Boys brought up 

 in it never know the world or life. They have to work hard 

 and to bow down to false doctrines which parsons and teachers 

 in league with parents, have invented against boys. To become 

 a true man, a boy must break with respectability and join the 

 vagabonds and the swell mob. No fine young fellow, who 

 knows life, need mind the law, still less the police. The latter 

 are all stupid louts. If a boy's father is rich and he has money, 

 he can easily find smart lawyers (advertisement gratis) who can 

 get the boy out of prison, and will dine with him at Delmonico's 

 afterward. The sympathies of a manly young fellow are with 

 criminals against the law, and he conceals crime when he can. 

 Whatever good or ill happens to a young man he should always 

 be gay. The only ills in question are physical pain or lack of 

 money. These should be borne with gayety and indifference, 

 but should not alter the philosophy of life. 



As to the rod, it is not so easy to generalize. Teachers and 

 parents, in these stories, act faithfully up to Solomon's precept. 

 When a father flogs his son, the true doctrine seems to be that 

 the son should run away and seek a life of adventure. When 

 he does this he has no difficulty in finding friends, or in living 

 by his wits, so that he makes money, and comes back rich and 

 glorious, to find his father in the poor-house. 



