But a boy won’t think and a boy won’t work,
Because he’s not built that way.”
Doubtless this is a gross exaggeration. All boys are not “made that way,” though there are some, who, at the thought—
“—of an errand are as ‘tired as a hound’,
Very weary of life and of ‘tramping around’;
But if there’s a band or a circus in sight,
They’ll follow it gladly from morning till night.
If there’s work in the garden, their heads ache to split!
And their backs are so lame that they ‘can’t dig a bit’;
But mention baseball, and they’re cured very soon,