The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-12-08
assurance that it was bestowed out Of
SITTING WITH TIE Girls.

SIII1NG WITH TIE GIRLS. gst
The next great trial Of that boy is Is
be obliged by cruel master to sit with
the girls at s:hool. This usually comes
before the development of those undenia-
bic atfinities which, in after life, would
tend to make the punishment more endu-
rable. TO be pointed out as gal boy
to be smiled at grimly by the master,
who is SO far delighted with his own in
effabe pleasantly as to give the little boys
license to laugh aloud, and to be placed
by the side of a girl who had no hand
kerchief and no knowledge of the use Of
that article, is, we submit, trial of no
mean magnitude. Yet we have been
there, and have been obliged to "sit up
close" with big Rachel, laughing and
blushing till we came to hate her name.
We wonder where the overgrown crea-
ture is now, and what the condition Of
her head is? .ae s- -
THE FIRST LONG TAILED COAT.
We do not believe that any boy ever
put on his long tailed coat without a
sense of shame, tie first twists his back
half of looking at it in the glass, and
then when he steps out Of door it seems
to him rs if all creation was in a broad
grin. The sun laughs in the sky; the
COWS turn to look at him; there ale faces
at every window his shadow mocks him.
When he walks by The cottage where Jane
lives, he dares not look up for his life.
The very boards creak with conscious
ness Of the strange spectacle, and the old
| pair of pautaloons that stop light in the
garnet window, nod with dcrision. If he
is obliged to pass group Of men and
| bows, the trial assumes its most terrific
stage. His legs get all mixed up with
embarrassment, and the flap of dangling
appendages is felt upon them, moved by
| the wind Of bis agitation; he could not
feel worse wore it disl cloth, worn rs a
badge of disgrace. 1t is a happy time
for him when he gets TO tie church and
sit down with his coat tails under him;
but he Is still apprehensive with thinking
of the Sunday school, and wonders if tho
children will ask him 10 swing his long
tail blue. 8
GONG HOME WITH THE GIRLS.
The entrance into society may be said
to take place after boyhood has passed
away, vet multitude take the initiative.
before their boards are prescntable. 1t.
is great trial either to a tender or Il
tough age. For an oyergrown boy to 60
to q door, knowing that there are a dozen
girls inside, and to knock or ring with
absolute certainty that III TWO minutes al!
their eyes will be upon hin1, is severe
test of courage To go before these girls
and make a satisfactory tour Of the room
without stepping on their toes, anu then
to sit down AMI dispose of ones hands
without putting them into ones pockets
is thing of which few boys can boast.
If boy can get SO far as TO measure off
ten yards of tape with one of these girls,
and cut it short at each end, he may
stand change to pass a pleasant evening
| but let him not flatter himself that all the
trials of the evening arc over. There
comes at last the breaking up. Tho dear
girls don their hoods, and put on their
shawls, and look so sauey and mi$chie,-
Gus. unmprossble as if they did not
wish any one to go home with them.
Then comes the pinch. and the boy wltd
has the most pluck makes UP t., t!'e
prettiest girl, his heart in his threat, and
his tongue clincing to the root Of his
mouth, and crooking his elbow, stannteFs
out the words, 'ShaI | see YOU home!"
She touches her fingers to his arm, AMI
! they walk home about q foot apart, feel
ing as awkard as a couple Of Young Cos
! linos. AS soon as she is safely lusidc of
/ her own doors. he struts home, aud drinks
| he has really been and gone and done it..
Sleep comes to him al last, with dreams