Litchfield enquirer., 1858-12-30
A BOYS TRIALS.

A BOYS TRIALS.
 The Springfield Republican has capita article on this subject. Here are some ex | tracts:
 l HIS REGULATIONS WITH THE GOLD MAN" We suppose that the first severe trial bo, has to undergo is to submit his will to the ol( man, whom he is taught to consider his father To be restrained in doors at night. to be for bldd'n to go in swimming five times day, o ! to be hndered from pinching the Test of tn, children just for fun, is an int If Fence wttl natural iualelahe rights, every way itjurou to the feelings. And then, when upou soint overw helnng temptation, the boy asserts h.. independence of par, nta! control, and receive, " tanning" With d switch from d quince busl, either ui,on his Lack or hs bare feet, it be comes really serious thing. We never coui, sre that the smart of an operation Ike thu Was at all assuag,d hy the afftctiol,ate assnr ance that it was bestowed out of pure love.
 SITTING WITH THE GIRLS.
 The next great trial of that boy is to bt obliged by d cruel master to sit with the girls at school. This usually comes before the ,e veIopment of those undenable affilitles winch Ill after life, would tend to make the punish. ment more endurable. To be pointed out as a "gal boy," to be smiled at grimly by the master, who is so far delighted with his own intffable pleasantly as to allow the little boys to laugh aloud, aud to be placed by the side of a girl who had no handkerchief, aud no knowledge of the use of that article, is, we submit, trial of no mean magnitude Yet WA, h,y hpa tbap. |" sit up close" with big Rachel laughing and blushing till we came to hate her name. We wonder where the overyrown frowzy creature is Iiow, aud what the condition of her head is?
 THE FIRST LONG TAILED COAT.
 We do not believe that any boy ever put on his loug-taled coat without sense >ot shame. He first twists his back half off look ing at it iu the glass, and then steps out ot doors it seems to hun as if all creation was in broad grin. The sun laughs ill the sky tie COWS turn to look at hm, there are fac : at every Window his shadow mock> him. N hen he walks up by the cottage where ne lives, he dares not look up for his life. The very boards crcak with consciousness of t. C strange spectacle, aud the old pair of punta- looms that stop light ill the garret window nod with d, r>ion. II he is obliged to pass d arounot a,rril aud boyss tils tri..l its up with embarrassment, ana the n.ff' os.s daagllng appendage is felt upon them, movec by the wind of his own agitation he could uot feel worse were it dlslcloth, worn us Il badge of disgrace. It is happy time for han when he gets to the church and sits down with his coat tails under him but he is still appre- he,sive with the thinking of the Sunday school, and wonders if any of the children will ask hIm to swing his long tail blue."
 GOING HOME WITH THE GIRLs
 The entrance into society may be said to take place after boyhood has passed away, yet a multitude take the initiative before thelr boards are presentu bIe It is great trial ei- ther to tender age or tough age For all overgrown boy to go to door, knowing that there are dozen girls inside, aud to Knock or riug with absolute certainty that in two min utes all their eyes will be upon him, is a se. were test of courage. To go before these girls and make 8 satisfactory tour of the room without stepping on their toes, and then to sit down and dispose of one's hands without put. ting them into ones pockets, is all achieve.
 
 can get 50 far as to measure of ten yards o tape with one of these girls. and cut 1t short at each end he may stand chance to bass q pleasant evening, but let him not hatter him self that all the trials of the evening are over Tn It comes at last the breaking up. Tlt dear girls don ter hoods aud put on the shawlS, and oo so saucy and m sclicvou, d unInlr $ bic, IS if they did not wish an, one to go home with them Then comes ti, I1i!ch and the boy who has tine most pluck makes up to the prtttiest girl, his heart in hh throat, and his tongue clinglns to the roof O his mouth, and crouklng his elbow, stammer' out the ords Shall see you home 7" She touches her fingers to his arm, and they walk home about foot apart, feeling as awkward as a couple of young goslings As soon as she is safely inside her own door, he struts home, and thinks he has really been and gone and done it. Sleep comes to him at last, witl dreams of crnone and calico, and he awake' it, the morning and finds the doors of life epeI to hiln-and the pigs squealipg for break fast.
 CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.
 We have passed over churning and learning the cateehisin, because we are fearful Of ma king this article too long, although we might have talked of butter that would not be per suaded to come, and ptrplexities of literary turn of mind and head that measured sevel and quarter when asked what the chief enc of man was. Boyhood is green passage il mans experience ill more seIlses than one. | is pleasant thing to think over and laugl about now, though it was serious enough then Many of our present trials are as ridiculou as those which HOW touch the risibles in tli recollection, when We get to the other wor, and look upon this, and upon the infancy ( the soul through which We passed here, W have no doubt that we shall grin over the tr als which we experienced when we lost ou fortunes, when our mills were swept away c hur,,ud ..u,, 1.at .,L...t1.d tl