Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-04-23
IGot a Goiug and Couldn't stop.

A little boy, named Frank, was standing ir
the yard, when his father called him:
"Frank!"
"Sir 9n said Frank, and started full speed and
ran into the street.
| His father called him back, and asked him i
he did not hear his first call
"Yes, sir" said Frank.
swell, then" said his father, "what made you
run into the street?" :,
So" said Faank, II got agoing and couldn't
stop" j5
This is the way that great many boys in
to difficulty: they get agoing and can't stop
The boy that tells les began first to stretch the
truth little-to tell large story, or relate an
anecdote with very little variation, till he got
agoing 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 stealing,
began by taking little things from his mother
by stealing sweetneats 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.
These two boys that you see lighting on che
green, began by bantering each other in fun
At length they began to get angry and dispute
and call each other names, till they got agoing
and couldn't STOP They will separate with
black eyes and bloody noses.
There is young man sitting late with his
companions at the gaming table. He has flushed
cheeks,an anxious look, adespairing countenance.
lie has lost his last dollar. lie began by playing
marbles in the street, but he got agoing and
couldn't stop
See that young man, with dark lantern, steal.
ing from his masters drawer He is O mer
chants clerk. He came from the country q
promising boy. But the rest of the clerks went
to the theatre, and he thought he must 60 too.-
He began thinking he would only go once, just
to- say that he had been to theatre. But he got
agoing and couldn't stop. He has used up his
wages, and wants more money. He cannot re-
sist the temptation, when be knows there is mon
ey in the drawer. He has got agoing-he will
stop in the State Prison.
Hark! do you hear that horrid oath2 1t comes
from the foul mouth ofa little boy in the street.
He began by saying by-words, but he has got a.
going and can't stop. ~
Fifty young men were some years ago in the
habit of meeting together in room at O 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, be-
gan to think there might be danger in the way.
He stopped and considered moment, and then
said to himself, Right about facet" He turned
on his heel and went back to his room, and was
never seen at the public house again. He has
become rich, and the first block of buildings
which he erected was built directly in front OF
the place where he stood when he made that ex
clamation. Six of the young men followed his
example. The remaining forty-three got agoing
and couldn't stop till they landed in the ditch
and most of them in the drunkard's grave.
Beware, then, boys, how you get agoing. Be
sure before you start that you are in the right
way, for when you are sliding down hill it is
hard to stop.