Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Just Like a Boy. [ARTICLE]

Just Like a Boy.

Joamrr is very fond of apples. He came into possession of about a peck of <hm the other day. Now ha is a generous boy at heart, and he picked' out four of the largest and beet, and placed them aside, intending one for his mother, one for his father and one aoiece for his two sisters. When his large share was gone, he still had a desire for more. He resisted the craving for some time, but he finally gave way. He devoured the one intended for his eldest sister, because she . did not like apples very well any way. He had heard his younger sister say one day that shedidn’t like fruit very well, and the second apple disappeared. Father probsblygot all ns ought to nave down town, and the third apple followed the road taken try the rest He would eat more, but

he did wish he had just another one. Would it do so give his mother an apple if he gave the real none? Bhe did not care so much for herself as she did for the loved ones about her (especially Johnny). No; it would never do. She would approve of no partiality. And then the fourth and last apple disappeared, relished by Johnny with more seat than all the rest. It was Just like a boy, and when we heard of it we could not help thinking of the time when we were young and growing, and experienced the great struggle with appetite and better impulses. — Burlington Hawk-Eye.