The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-13
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TRIBULATIoN OF A BAsHFUL MAN.
MY FIRST APPEARANCE INSoCIETY.
By yALcosBRIper.

4 m1nlScenceS OF yOuIHIul udJS HanS W
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 alta much
later date are almost obsolete in our
memories. =. .-e a.ss
" l remember-faith an hundred years
would not dim the recollection, said
4 Frank Fox,-Iny first grand dash y
into society 1 was old enough to be
better educated in the ways of the world,
but it was my weakness to be rather
bashful. 1 was big enough to take care
of myself, but was so timid and un-
sophisticated and hence my difficulties.
We lived in small neighborhood, but
abundantly supplied with live people,
and any quantity of good looking girls.
While 1 was in jack and trowsers, We
gals and boys got along to gether slick
as whistle, as our yankee friends say.
But by and by left home to return a
double -fsted bullet-headed individual,
in coat land pantaloons, and about four
to eight sprouts of a sickly sort of
moustache ornamenting my upper lip.
The Little girls left behind me, had
not been neglected by nature or art ; L
returned to find that time-even the
brief period of five years-had worked
wonders. Susan, Jane, Ann, Mary, Pol
II ly, Betsey, &c., had become Miss
Jones, Miss Smith, Miss this and Miss
that, ergo, they were young women and
setting their caps for beaux. 1t was
soon known that / had got home. Some
new accessions to the population had
been made, in way of two aristocratically
/ fo ha oit Of
and these families, had some four or five
highly finished daughters each" Well,
we saw them, they saw us; for the first
four or five days, we kept shady, ogling
the girls-beg pardon-youpg ladies, at
a distance; lodging them if they were
likely to get too close, and making our
self mighty scarce if any of them made
their appearance about our domieil.
Frank, said my sister-in-law for
never was blessed with sister, or per-
haps shonld not have been so backward
in coming forward, you see Well, my
brothers. wife says to me, Frank, why
don't you huck up to the girls, they come
lover=to see you, really believe, and
whenever they appear, away you shoot,
as if mad dogs was after you! you are
not afraid of them are you 2
N-n-no,n I hesitatingly replied
"They wont bite you +"
"'Don't suppose they will, " said 1.
sThen don't be stupid, when Miss
Smith and Miss J ones, and the two Miss
Degrands come over again, let me-ah
here comes Miss Jones now Frank"
"A Lofty DON'T" neryously
implored her.
I'll introduce you, don't be stupid,
stand still"
"I'm hanged if a-' but it was too
late
: Good morning, Lizzie, glad to see
you, whispering to me, who stood tremb-
ling like leaf, q stand still you goose. !"
Miss Jones, to me soto voice, "open
your mouth !" Allow me to introduce
you to my brother, Mr.. Fox, Mr.. Fox,
Miss Jones. to me, hold up your head
and speak "
..Ah-a-a good morning sir-beg
pardon how dye dol" This perfectly
herculean feat quite exhausted me, l new
er come so near choking in my life
Thanks to my sister-in-law, if she got
me into the ice, she got me out again for
her tongue ran a pit pat Glitter clatter,
as a married woman's tongue will run
you know. So getting breath and with
my breath confidence L burst out all of
a sudden How do you do Miss Jones?''
As my sister-in-law and Miss Jones had
been talking right straight along with
out any reference TO me at all who had
sat silent as Maudarian, this sudden
spasm quite startled them; my sister-in-
law ha ha ! ha hal had right out
1 l.
scarlet delilah, in a fine silvery voice
said
"Quite we'll Mr. Fox, thank you. :"
'Tha-thank you," l involuntarily
echoed.
Hal hal hal roared my sister-in-
law.
+" "Charlotte =" says 1, in voice of
such absolute frmness that it quite
checked her Cachintory CALCULATIONS. I
had arose from my seat to make this de-
termined effort of eloeution. l raised
my hand to give it force and fruitlessly
waved it once or twice more, to give the
grand flourish to the rest of my remarks
butt was done, could not get off
another word, and so with hurried mo-
tion, 1 snatched up my hat and bolted
out of the room
God knows how my sister-in-law
Strengthened things with Miss Jones,
but felt SO ashamed of my stupidity, the
next day in revenge upon myself, l not
only went smack bang over to Miss
Jones' to make an apology for my rude
ness, but during my stay there-the
alarming space of two minutes; accept
ed an invitation to attend whist party
at the residence of the Miss Degrands,
the next evening. I felt bold as sheep !
as marched over home, after such a
display of cool courage and self posses
sion, and upon my sister-in-law meeting
me in the vestibule, and saying,
Why, Frank, thought I saw you
going into Squire Jones' !"
Well, of course you did," say / as
bold as two sheep
You are nightly tickled, Frank,
what is the matter ?"
"Lotty," says, L, twitching up my
shirt collar and viewing my frizzled head
in the parlor glass, Lofty I'm going to
a party"
You arep said she.
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