peanutville

Updated: June 25, 2025

I tell you what it is, fellows, if I ever get a chance to get away, I hope I'll never see another inch of barbed wire as long as I live. If I was only back in Peanutville, where I used to live, I could be eating a plate of ice cream this minute instead of working like a dog and having to wash my own clothes Sundays when I might be hearing the band play in the park.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

He never understood how quickly things happened, but he signed a resignation blank almost before he knew it, and went back to Peanutville. "It so happened that one of the Rangers had friends in Peanutville, and the boys at the camp followed the youth's career with much interest.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

But when Wilbur told of the professor and asked about other greenhorns that had come to the forest, the doctor turned and asked him if he knew anything of "the boy from Peanutville." "He had just come into camp up here in the Sierras," said the doctor on receiving the lad's negative reply, "from some little place in the middle West that was giving itself airs as a city.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

Right now, down in the heart of a forest fire, when the Rangers are working like men possessed down some hot gulch, one will say to the other: "'Gee, Jack, if I was only back where I used to be, I could be having a plate of ice cream this minute. And the other will reply: 'I wish I might be back in Peanutville and hear the band play in the park. And both men will laugh and go at the work all the harder for realizing what a miserable failure the weak greenhorn had been."

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters