The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-07-27
From the Columbian and Great West.
The Tribulations of Bashful Man
yOr MY First Appearance in Society.
~p By FALcoNBRID DGE.

H.
-q.up8 BE FALooNBR1DGE
How 'early impressions and reminis-
cehses of youthful 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 such
subunary things coming in at much later
date, are almost absolete in our memories.
II emember-faith an hundred years
wouldnot dim the recollection, said Frank
Fox--.my first grand dash into society,
Iiwas old enough to be better educated in
the ways of the world, but it was my
weakness to be rather bashful | was big
enough to take care of myself, but / was
too timid and unsophisticated and hence
my difficulties. We lived in small neigh
borhoodJ but. abundantly. supplied with
livepeople and any quantity of good-look-
ing girls. While was in jacket and
trousers, we girls and boys got along to-
gether slick as a whistle, as our Yankee
friends say. But by and by I left home
to return doublefsted bullet-headed
individual, in coat and pantaloons, and
with about four to eight sprouts of sick
ly sort of mustache ornamenting my up
per lip 81 bDys loa .s5s
The little girls left behind me, had
not been neglected by nature or art; I re-
turned to find that time---even the brief
period of five years-had worked won
ders.s Susan, Jane, Ann, Mary, Polly,
Betsy, and SO forth, had become Miss
Jones, Miss Smith, Miss this, and Miss
that, therefore they were young ladies and
setting their caps for beaus. 1t was soon
known that I had got home. Some new
accessions to the population had been
made in the way of two aristocratically
inclined families from the city of -,
and these families had some four or FIVE
highly finished daughters each. Well,
we saw them, and they saw us; for the
four or FIVE days we kept shady, ogling
the girls-beg pardon, young ladies, at a
distance dodging them if they were like
ly to get too close, and making ourselves
mighty scarce if any of them made their
appearance about my domicil.
Frank said my sisterinlaw (for I
never was blessed with sister, or, per-
haps, / should not have been SO backward
in coming forward, you see.) Well, my
brothers wife. says to me, Frank, why
don't you buck up to the girls ; I really
believe they come over to see you, and
whenever they appear, away you shoot as
if mad dogs were after you You are
not afraid Of them, are you?'
'N-n-no, l hesil atingly replied
They won't bite you.'
Don't suppose they will, said I.
Then don't be so stupid when Miss
Smith, and Miss Jones, and the two Miss
Degrands come over again,--let me-ah !
here comes Miss Jones, now Frank
.A-a-Lotty, Lofty, don't, I nervous
ly implored her. :.
III 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 trembling
like leaf, stand still you goose, Miss
Jones, Ito me, soto voice, open your
mouth u Allow me to introduce you 10
my brother, Mr.. Fox; Mr.. Fox Miss
Jones' Ito me, hold up your head and
speak, ~
|sAh!-a-good morning, sir-beg
pardon, how dye do?' This perfectly
herculean feat quite exhausted me; ;
never came SO near choking in my life
Thanks to my sister-in-law, if she got me
intcThe ice, she got me out again, for hel
tongue ran pit-a-pat. Glitter clatter, as 8
married woman's tongue will run. you
know. So, getting breath, and with my
breath, confidence, / burst out all of {
sudden-'How do you do, Miss Jones /!
as my sister.in-law and Miss Jones had
been talking right along without refer
ence to me at all, who had sat silent as /: