Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. The Argument.?Holidays: the Schoolboy's anticipations in regard to them. Improper use made of such times bv some Apprentices. Evil consequences of their conduct. An appeal to them on the subject. The sad tale of young Daycourt. Address to Liquor: its evils. William's holiday rambles. Father's birth-place. Tragic scene there. Farleton Knot. Glance back to Grandfather, etc. Joins Temperance movement. Visit of a man from Canada. His account of the country. Its consequences. William's taste in books. Rural rambles on business. Reflections on cruelty to animals. Retrospective glance. Conclusion. Hail, Holidays To you, with great delight, The schoolboy looks?exulting with his might At the fair prospect of enjoving play, Or visiting relations far awav. Ere your propitious dawn he lays, his schemes, And pleased, rejoices in his bright day dreams. He, in anticipation, views the charm Of being for days exempt from birchen harm When, free from tasks?nor caring much for books With some companion he can fish the brooks; Can ramble through the woods for flowers or nuts, Play with fair girls who live in sylvan huts, Mount with agility some green hill top, And, with a mate, roll full length down the slope; Or take his fill from loaded bramble bushes, Or from rich fruit bedecked in Autumn's blushes. Such is the bliss that's placed before his view, In all its fulness, Holidays by you. And thus, without a single shade of sorrow, He greets his mates with "Holiday to-morrow " These pleasures seem unto his boyish mind Of the right sort?and for schoolboys designed. He seldom thinks of all the anxious care His parents feel, to give their son a share Of useful learning, that he may discharge His part to God, to t...
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