Being a Boy
- ISBN-10
- 1438531389
- ISBN-13
- 9781438531380
- Series
- Being a Boy
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 98
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Book Jungle
- Author
- Charles Dudley Warner
Description
Charles Warner was an American essayist in the late 1800¿s. As a boy he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts: the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. This delightful story of a young boy growing up on a farm begins, ¿One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that it does not last long enough; it is soon over; just as you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else, with a good deal more work to do and not half so much fun. And yet every boy is anxious to be a man, and is very uneasy with the restrictions that are put upon him as a boy. Good fun as it is to yoke up the calves and play work, there is not a boy on a farm but would rather drive a yoke of oxen at real work. What a glorious feeling it is, indeed, when a boy is for the first time given the long whip and permitted to drive the oxen.¿
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