Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-03-27
Dartetn.
From the Independent
SIT is such a Funny Boy"
BY "MAUD CLYDE. "

1t is such funny boy when it gets on its
first Shanghai coat, and hides its round bout
so its ma won't make it wear it, and declares it
was much too tight under the arms, and too
narrow across the shoulders indeed it was no
wonder it had grown so amazingly! why il
didn't lack foot of being tall as its father
'Oh, what funny boy when he fourishes
his cane for the first time, and lays back his
coats sleeves to show the broad linen, and sleeve
buttons, and his sister introduces him for the first
time 10 her company, and he, regardless of hints,
takes the easiest chair in the room.
Oh, what a funny boy when it cries, because
its sister calls it a boy, and says, it has shaved
this two months, and Susan ought Mt to call ii so,
and that she didn't call Mort. Tallman so and he
is only three years older than it,
1t is such funny boy when its ma visits
it at the University, with pinched bonnet, and
CATERS without heels, and it smuggles her up to
its room, by the back stairs, for fear that
deuced fine fellow Euene Bolton, might see her,
and laugh, for he has a mother who is a perfect
queen, and mighty bewitchng sister, who
visits him in great state not that it's ashamed
of its MOTHER oh, no, but she might wear
decent bonnet, and heels TO her shoes, it is sure
and its ma mustn't mind the disorder of its room,
for it has had very severe headache, and it
hasn't picked up much yet
1t is such funny boy when its ma asks it
if those unbound books are Arthmetics or Gram
mers, and it says they are Treaties on Astron-
omy, branch of Mathematics!
'Oh, what funny boy when it drinks its
first glass of brandy sling, at the Youths Fes-
tival, and says it will take it very strong and
sweet, and ii makes it a point, at'eays, to have a
good sling or none; that it was better with bit
of lemon peel, or at least al,oays thought so
And isn'tit funny, when it is goint TO its room
to meet the Prof, slap him on the shoulder, and
tells him he's a dem'd foine old coon, and it
would iketo see him at its room, and they'd
have game of backgammon, or whist; and
which of the games did his dear friend prefer !!
IL liked whist best, for it always lost at back
CANNON"
1T was such funny boy, when it went to
its first ball with grown folks, after three even
ings to dancing school, where it learned the for
ward and back and 'baIance' steps, which it
took on all occasions, though they nearly proved
fatal to its partners feet, when it took one to
dance the Schottische, on the strength of those
three same steps and isn't it funny when it
meets the Prof s wife, pulls her around in a
waltz, and declared fore CAD, she is a splan-
ded partner
1T is such funny boy,' when it is expelled
fom school, and swears it won't 60 there another
day. (for the sane reason the fancled Jack
wouldn't eat his supper,) where fellow had
no liberty; that it would 60 to keeping books
for Higgs g. Co., with the bargain that it should
have its earnings from nine o'clock to ITSELF
And isn't it a funny boy,' when it comes
, home, and declares it has no appe.ite-tha'
wine was too much fol it, last night, not that il
made it any blue bah it had drank too mucl
in its day. to be tipped by so little =
Isn't it funny when it is chosen chairman
of the Highfalutin Club and didn't it throw
its slippered feet gracefully on its sisters work
stand, and declare that is the best cigar it hal
smoked to-day and why didn't its sister make i
pleasant at home, it was 50 dull for a man tt
stay at home a whole evening, and it would b.
glad when the Theater was every night, it wa
such fine place to kill an evening Egad
was
Oh, take it all in all, Young America is
4 funny boy