The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], August 22, 1905, Page 15, Image 15

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Tuesday, August 22, 1905.
PKOGRESSIVE FAEMER AND COTTON PLANT.
15
SUNSHINE COLUMN
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OF INTER
NATIONAL SUNSHINE SOCIETY.
Mbs. J. M. Ransier, State President, Hen
dersoavllle. N. C.
xMRS. RANSIER'S LETTER.
A Boy and a Dog and a Moral for Par
ents.
The other day as I went into the
postoliice 1 heard the most unearth
ly yelling and screaming and on en
uring, saw a little boy stamping and
vcllinir to his nurse, who had two
younger children with her.
"Kick him! Beat him! Drive him
away!" he screeched.
Tlure in the middle of the floor
stood a beautiful, intelligent collie,
his lovely brown eyes smiling up into
our laces as if asking what all the
ins- was about, and what that little
boy was yelling and screeching like
a wild Indian or an insane monkey
for.' He glanced first at the boy
then into our faces with quizzical ex
pression, Uiat seemed to say, What i3
the matter? What is hurting the lit
tle boy ' Tell me. 1T1 straighten it
out.
Vaiz Ikss you, it was at the beauti
ful dog with more brains than he,
that the little boy was splitting the
air with shrieks. And although the
dog was not near him cr making any
move to go near him, little spoiled
boy missid the customary petting and
cajoling that he expected to come
from ueh effort and went at it with
renewed energy, especially when one
of the ladies in the vicinity, said, "Is
he seared;"' and took him up in her
arms and went to petting him, and
the nurse replied indifferently, "lie
always was scared of a dog." Then
the man in the posi.oiii.ee came and
tried to ii;t the dog out, and as dog
pie was not doing a thing in the
world wrong and just beaming good
will on everybody around, he resent
ed bring grabbed and expelled by a
stranger. But out he had to go, and
that with a culf and a kick.
Now it there was any cuffing real
ly had to he done, which do you think
oupht to have had it?
Oh, hat you say, "The poor little
buy was mi scared !"
X". he wasn't:
I had had a week's experience in
the neighborhood of that child be
fore, and he had yelled and screeched
and kicked at my dogs. I had then
aid t him: "Why, Tommy, you're
not afraid of dogs. You're a man.
Men are not afraid of dogs or any
thin?. They like them. We all like
them. Why my dogs watch all night
Ion? while we are all asleep and
kpep anything from coming and
hurtinir u. Why, we love our dogs
and they love us. Just see how old
Hurry-rp that's one of my dog's
name i smiling at you now, nut
your hand on his head and see how
Please : h,. wiH be, and how he'll wag
as tail to tell you so. See how he
loves me!"
And T petted the dear old fellow
and he hi id his head against my hand.
the little boy put out his hand
and bid it on Ilurry-Up's shaggy
0at and so they were friends.
-W day the little boy said: "I
ke Hurry-Up, but I don't like the
Hack dog, I'm scared of it."
'Seared of Sissy-Fuz?" I said. "Oh,
you re ,10t afraid of her. Why Sis-
, z 13 tne best dog in the world,
-ne s mine. She loves me. See how
iT j t?s mo " and I reached out my
-.r-i " . -oo. went tU UCIWUK H-
le country." Then
ft in the whoh
1 feed her.
IlPrG o xl- -lit .1 o
Tr ie UJe Wllcl dogs, mens
Sfaed. petting Sissy also.
, Wld dogs?" said I, "Why I don't
kn" any; do you?"
"Where I live there ain't nice dogs
like Hurry-Up and Sissy-Fuz; they're
wild. I'm scared oi them."
"I don't know what kind of dogs
you have in your town," I said "but
there are no wild dogs here. We are
chums. They love and protect us,
and we feed and love them. See Rob
there another little boy ; what fun
he s having playing with Fuzzer
Wuz," (another one of my dogs).
And this was the last we heard of
the boy being afraid of the dogs.
My husband said to the nurse the
next time he saw her: "You've been
scaring that boy about doers."
"Oh, no sir I No, sir! He always
was 'fraid of dogs. I never scares
him; he always was scared to death
of dogs."
My husband said: "Don't you tell
me that; I know better. Confess now:
Don't you ever tell him you'll call
the dogs?"
"Well, yes, sir. When he won't do
what he ought I sometimes does tell
him if he don't do right I'll get de
dogs to come."
"Well," my husband said, "don't
do it any more. You'll tell him he's
not afraid of dogs or anything else.
You don't want to make him a cow
ard, do you?'
You think the ignorant nurse was
to blame?
Not so. For I heard the boy's
mother doiner the same thing, and
she assured me, before the boy, lis
tening and takiner in every word that
"Tommy always was scared to death
of a dog."
"Oh " I said, "maybe he used to
be when he was very little, but now
he's getting to be quite a man, and
men ain't afraid ot anything, and
Tommy isn't afraid of dogs any
more."
The rest of the week that that
child was mv neighbor, he petted and
loved the dogs, as any little boy that
is half a bov. will lor a boy with
out a doir is only half a boy, you
know and then I saw no more of
him for a week or two till I saw and
heard the scene and yells in the post-
nffir-e and the innocent, lovely dog
suffering for the bad behavior of the
boy.
Who was to blame? Who needed
the paddling?
Well we know the dog didn t. lie
was the innocent victim.
Tht bov was bad. But with other
training along the lines of bravery
nstead of cowardice he might have
done differently.
The nurse?
T7 sppn that bov kick and bite
nnd scratch the nurse's hands, and
yell and screech and scream because
she could not do something he want
ed her to do. Of course, she could
not discipline him: the mother
would have discharged her for that.
Ml cVio nnnld do was in some way,
A. A M. -' A .
any way she could, still him and stop
him from abusing herself and an
noying everybody around. He was a
nuisance. And really nurses, you
L-nnw sire llO t erenerall.v supuosed to
have taken a course in kindergarten
How about the mother?
W11 s T should sav she was to
blame;' only, we don't know how silly
a mother she had (I think she must
have been pretty silly) or how she
herself had been spoiled in ner own
trainiug. In fact, I got a glimpss
of the grandmother, and she was
about like the one x torn you ui
our Chatter on grandmothers, who
was "skeery."
Well, we won't blame anybody, but
if you have any little boys or girls,
don't make cowards of them. En
courage them to be brave, kind, man
ly men and womanly women.
' I haven't heard from as many of
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Yrou understand that we are to
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