Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — Putting Up a Boy’s Bunch. [ARTICLE]

Putting Up a Boy’s Bunch.

Robert .1. Burdette. ] A recent writer—and she writes as one whom any boy would love—tells how she saw a mother put up a lunch for her bov. to take to school, and then she tells very prettily how daintily Bhe would have put up that lunch, and I know she would do just as she said. But she didn’t go far enough. Now, if I were going to put up a lunch for a boy 13 years old, I wouldn’t take a little tin pail nor yet a neat little covered basket. I would just take the market basket, if the family wasn't going to use it that day, and I would dut up a loaf of bread, and trim off every bit of crust to ke'ep the boy from lying about it, and telling me that he ate it and didn’t fire it over the fence, when he came home. I would cut that loaf of bread into slices and spread on butter until it began to fall off, and then I would stack on the sugar as long as it would hold. Then I would! load in a couple of links qf sausages and some slahsof ham; a dainfv cluster of hard boiled eggs—say a half a dozen—all the cake there was in the house, and fill up the rest of the space with pie, and then stuff two of his pockets full of apples to eat during school hours, and fill the rest of his pockets with nuts, and give him five cents to buy ‘taffy.’ Then if that boy came home at 4 o’clock and said he didn’t have enough luncheon and couldn’t he have a piece, I would give him the keys to the cellar, cupboard, pantry, cake chest, and fruit closet, and, yielding, to dark despair, go out into the barn and hang myself. We were a bov myself, once.