Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-05-06
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that forlorn ditty so much for; and there !
grand pa says with asigl, "my dear boy yol
II never be as happy again as you are now,
! and grandma looks dolefIll and chimes in Will
" the golden hours of childhood!' | wonde
where the gold is If | got penny some
times when was a little youngster, | though
| was well of, and always felt very sorry af
ter had spent it--that is, after the cake:
were all gone, and then somebody was always
ready with-"why, my dear boy, you cans
eat your cent and keep it too" Well, know
that now there is something 1 don't know
and that is, where all this great pleasure is in
being boy.
When l was five years old, and had Just
began to enjoy something, | must be bundled
off to school, and sit on high bench and nc
cricket: and had to sly A till every thing
looked upon, even my mothers face, seemed
one big A; and to crown the whole, was q
Ounce, for it took me three weeks to get on
to B, and good deal longer learning to c
through the alphabet.
And when was older | had the satisfac-
ton of being called "a great awkward boy"
even by my mother, and when | would try to
do my best | was invariably laughed at. II
in coming into the room | happened to upset
half dozen of chairs, a utter was raised, and
"Oh! he's boy" considered sufficient apol-
ogy. If played with the baby was sure
to make it cry, and the nurse would look all
round to see if had pinched it; boys she
said were always full of such tricks.
Wo be to the boy where there are a house
hold of girls; why have known my sisters
to play all sorts of tricks, and John-that's |
invariably got the blame. And then ii
was John you are younger than Mary, put up
this clothes line; John, you are great boy,
and must learn to work; just 60 down to the
cellar and split the wood; John, run up to
the garnet and bring down a squash or two;
John run out to the wood house and get some
kindlings; and on damp days the girls inva-
riably held a jubilee, aud poor John was q
slave.
The fact is, I don't believe but what it wo'd
do the girls good, if they learned to go out in
wet weather as well as the boys. But they
are always crying out "thin shoes" and "wet
feet" and if L ask them why they don't wear
thick shoes as I do, they only laugh at me
and answer, that such clumsy things are well
enough for boys.
| often tell them that no wonder that they
get cold with nothing bat bit of lace over
their shoulders and piece Of gauze on their
arms.-It seems so funny too to call boys
harder than girls. Why! if [ thought so
thin sacks, thin slippers, bare arms, and bare
/ 81, ut lix-a
they're the hardest mortals alive, for they do
stand such treatment in some way, though
they're mighty delicate and seem to be proud
of it; in fact, think good many of them
had rather have a fashionable consumption,
than vulgar, good constitution.
[ wonder how long a boy is a b0y-there's
my sister Louisa come home from board
ing school "finished,' as they call it. at six
teen, while I've to study three years longer,
to know as much as she does-that is, provi-
ded she s got her education and am past
eighteen. Louisa is going to be married next
week-who pretends to call her girl No
body; ats Miss Louisa Sands that young Ia
dy,' of her, and its "my dear boy" by mo-
Their; and, "we must overlook the freaks of
boy" by father-and that's the way they talk
to me- and Of meme, John Sands, that's
next to the head Of the family.
Sisters can do any thing they please, even
to wearing false hair and every other false fix
ing, and nobody says word; but the first
time put on dickey, twas almost as much
as my life was worth to meet with the fami-
ly. | thought could bear it like hero, but
the "oh's" and "ah's!" the pulling the points
up over my cheeks, the derisiye laughter, was
more than | was prepared for, and actually
ran from the house, while all the girls shout
ed after me, goodbye, Mr.. Sands, take care
of that new dickey."
[ brought home a nice razor box the day
was Is, and for safe-keeping hid it in tho
garnet between the rafters. Vain precaution!
When | got home box, brushes strops, pow
der and razor were all paraded upon the table
and little scrap of paper pinned to the wall
on which was written, "Johnnv dear, be care
full; little boys should not play with edge
tools and all my sisters could sing that day,
was, "A frog he would wooing 90"
Never was | ANGRY in my life, but | bore
it like philosopher, only it did try me, when
OF mornings L tondly thought myself unob-
served to hear gigging outside the door,
and my little six-year old sister lisp, instiga-
ted by older and more wicked spirits, John
ny, here's pussy wants to be shaved"
And soft is in every thing; it seems strange
that men who profess to SO much dignity af-
ter they are twenty-one, should have to sub
to so much indignity up to the very Dor
ders. It's curious, and it puzzles me; its a
fact in metaphysics that l can't account for,
and don't suppose ever shall. It's mar
tyrdom, and you won't catch me, after am
twenty-one, singing" would l were boy
again"
Capture ola MamoH V-hale-A whale
so feet long and weighing nearly 40 tons
Was caught off Montauk Point, below New
York few days ago. -Four boats were lost