American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-05-30
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH
L GOT. A-GoING, AND COULDN'T STOP.


4 GOT, A-GOING, AND COULDN'T STOP.
A little boy named Frank was standing in
the yard, when his father called him.
"Frank!" !"
"Sir, said Frank, and started full speed and
ran into the street. His father called him
back, and asked him if he did not hear his first
call.
" Yes, sir" answered Frank.
"Well, then," said his father, what made
you run into the street,"
"Oh," said Frank, 81 got a-going, and
couldn't STOP"
. This is the way that a great many boys get
into difficulty; they get a-going and can't stop.
The boy that tells lies, began first to stretch
the truth n little-to tell large story, or to
relate an anecdote with very little variation,
till he got a-going and couldn't stop-till he
came out full-grown liar.
The boy that was brought before the police,
and sent to the House of Correction for steal
ing, began by taking little things from his
mother, by stealing sweetmeats and other nice
things that were put away. Next he began to
take things from his companions at school
He got agoing and couldn't stop till he got
into Jail. 4 e. alaG ..s...0
Those boys that you see fighting on the green,
began by bantering each other in fun. At length
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each other hard names, till they got a-going and
couldn't stop. They will separate with bloody
noses and black eyes.
There is young man sitting late with his
companions at the gaming table. Hehas flushed
cheeks, an anxious look, despairing counte-
nance. He has lost his last dollar He began
playing marbles in the street; but he got going
and couldn't stop.
See that young man, with dark lantern,
stealing from his masters drawer. He is q
merchants clerk. He came from the country
promising boy but the rest of the clerks
went to the theatre, and he thought he must go
too. He began thinking he would go only
once, just to have it to say that he had been to
the theatre. But he got a-going and couldn't
stop. He has used up all his wages and wants
more money. He cannot resist the temptation
when he knows there is money in the drawer.
He has got a-going; he will stop in the State
Prison.
comes from the foul mouth of little boy in the
street. He began by saying by-words; but he
got a-going and couldn't stop.
Fifty young men were, some years ago, in
the habit of meeting together III room at a
public-house, to enjoy themselves in social
hilarity, where the wine-cup passed freely
around. One Of them, as he was going there
one evening, began to think there might be dan
ger in the way. He stopped and considered a
moment, and then said to himself, "Right
about face!' He turned upon his heel, and
went back to. his room, and was never seen al
the public-house again. He became rich, anC
the first block of buildings which he erected
was built directly in front of the place where ht
stood when he made that exclamation.
Six of the young men followed his example
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couldn't stop, till they landed in the ditch, and
most of them in a drunkard's grave.
Beware, then, boys, how you get a-going.
BE sure, before you start that you are in the
right way for when you are sliding down-hill
it is hard to stop.