Identifier: farmersboy00john (find matches)
Title: The farmer's boy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: Farm life -- New England Rural children -- New England New England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Crowell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nfidential, and told what calling they intended to adoptwhen they grew up. This one would be a storekeeper,this one a minister, this one a doctor, this one a singer.They all intended to be rich and famous, and to do finethings for their mother some day. They did not pickout anv of the callings for love of gain jjrimarily, but be-cause they thought they would enjoy the life. Indeed,when Tommy said he was going to be a minister, the rea-son he gave for this desire was that he wanted to ring thebell every Sunday. Bedtime came on a progressive scale, gauged by ihr ageof the individual. First the baby was tucked away inhis crib. Then the three-year-old went through a linger-ing ))rocess of preparation, and after a little run in hisnightgown about the room, he was stowed away in cribnumber two, and his mother sang him a lullab\. Thesetwo occupied the same sleeping-room as the jmrents,and il adjoined the sitting-room. The door to it hadbeen o))en all the e\ening, and it was comfortably warm.
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Winrer \n Girls and boys of eight or ten years old would take theiro\A-n lamps and manh olT by themselves at an earlv hourto the cold chambers. Some of the upper rooms hada stovepipe running through, which served to blunt theedge of the cold a trille, or there might be a registeror hole in the floor to allow the heat to come up frombelow; but, as a rule, the chambers were shivery placesin winter, and when the youngsters crept in between theicy sheets, their teeth were set chattering, and it was someminutes before the delightful warmth which followedgained ascendency. The boy who sat uj) as late as his elders was usuallywell started in his teens. Children were not inclined tocomplain of early hours unless something uncommonwas going on. I1iey were tired enough by bedtime.Even the older members of the family were physicallyweary with the days work, and the evening talk was aptto be lagging and drowsy in its tone. The father wouldget to ya\\Tiing over his reading, and the mother to noddi

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