The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1854-08-30
A1aj; A1aj;..a9,m, .a9,m,'pl1sing Il STORY,
T'ribuIatiOA Ofa Bashlul Man;
- OR,
MY FIRST SOCIETY.
BY FAbc0NBRlDGE.

How "early Impressions" and reminis.
cences ofiyouthful days hang to us. How
easy, clear and distinctly we can see our
first dickey, first boots we wore, or books
we read, while thousands of sublunary
things coming in at much later date are
almost obsolete in our memories.
81 remember--faith an hundred years
would not dim the recollection," said Frank
Fox,-my first "grand dash" into "society."
] was old enough to be better educated lin
the ways ofthe world, but it was my weak
ness to- be rather bashul, L was big enough to
take care ofmyselfb was so timd and un-
sophisticated and hence my difficulties. We
lived in small neighborhood, but abundant
lysuppiied with live people, and any guam
tity of good looking girls. While Twas in
jack and trowsers, we gals and boys got
along to gether slick as a whistle, as our
yankee friends say. But by and by | left
home to return double-fsted bullet headed
individual, in coat and pantaloons, and about
four to eight sprouts Of sickly sort of a
monstache ornamenting my upper lip.
The little girls / left behind me, had not
been neglected by nature or art; returned
to, find that ,,time-even the brief period of
five, years-had worked wonders. Susan,
Jane, Ann, Mary, Polly. Betsey, &C., had
hecome Miss jones. Miss Smith, Miss this
and Miss that, ergo, they were young wo-
men and setting their caps for beaux. 1t was
soon known that | had got home. Some
new accessons to the population had been
made, in way of two aristocratically inclined
families from the city Of; and these
families, had some four or five highly finish
ed daughters EACH. Well, we saw them,
they saw us; for the first four or FIVE days,
wekePt shady, ogling the girs-beg par
doGnpTT--young ladies, at Q distance; dodging
them ifthey were likely to get too close,
and making ourself mighty scarce if any of
them made their appearance about our DOM
icil.. Z 4 KIM N'.e 1 ".5'
g"Frank, said my sister-in-law for new
er was blessed with 'asister, or perhaps /
should not have been so backward in com
ing forward. you see. Well, my brothers.
wife says to- me, "FraDk, why don't you
bnckup TO the girls, they come over to see
YOU, Treaily believe, and whenever they ap-
pear, away ypushoots as il mad dogs was af-.
teg,you!, you are not afraid ofthem are your"
-''N'nenO.n Il hesitatingly replied. ,a5i.aal
"They wont bite you!'' ss s37tv % d ?
"",Donf suppose they WHIP saidI.
TaThen don't be- stupid Wh?n Miss Smith
andMiss Jones,, and the two Miss Degrands
come over agaiu, let me--ah! here comes
MISS Jones now Ffank-1i'' Rn3 h'lh gag siG7S
ga Lofty, Lofty don't" nervovsly
imriored her, 9yAs. 3I.t aA fkkaaa34a
ss'I'lIIinttoduce you, don't be stupid, stand
stiii7-'5 dl1eN iaail 9iauat. p II 5aI 9. as
ssI,m'hahgedifI al ,,but it was too late. d
aGood morning, Lizzie, glad to see y IL,
whispering to me, VINO stood trembling like,
leaf, "stand still you goose Miss Jones,
to me soto voice, "open your mouth,!" AL
low me to introduce you to my brother, Mr..
Fox, Mr. Fox, Miss Jones, to me, 9"hold up
year head and speakv'd ,lS j aiaiiss5 a4si
ssAii4a-a4 la good morning sir---beg pardon
how dye dos" This perfectly herculean
feat quite exhausted me, | never come 10 20