New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-27
a Boys Trlals.


this subject Here are some extracts:
HIS REGuL ATOMS WITH THE OLD MAN"
We suppose that the first severe trial boy has tc
undergo is to submit his will to the old man, whom
he is taught to consider his father To be restrained
in doors at night to be forbidden to 60 in swimming
five times day, or to be Kindred from pinChing the
rest of the children Just for fun is an interference
with natural nalienabe rights, every way injurious
to the feelings And then, when upon some over
wheming temptation, the boy asserts his independ-
ence of parental control, and receives tanning
with switch from ounce bush either upon his
back or his bare feet it becomes really very serious
thing We never could see that the smart Of an OPP
Grafton like this was at all assuaSed by the Affection
ate assurance that it was bestowed out Of pure love
SITTING WITH THE GIRLS.
The next great trial of that boy is to be obliged by
cruel master to sit with the girls at school, This
usually comes before the development of those unde-
niable atlinities which, in after life, would tend to
make the punishment more ,endurable To be pointed
out as a gal boy" to be smiled at grimly by the
master, who is far delighted with his inefable
pleasantly to give the little boys license to laugh
aloud, and to be placed by the side of girl who had
handkerchief, and knowledge of the use of that
article is we submit, a trial of no mean magnitude
Yet we have been there, and have been Obliged to
"sit up close" with big Rachel, laughing and blush
ing, till we came to hate her name. We wonder
where the Overgrown, frowzy creature is now, and
what the condition Of her head is?
THE FIRST LoNGTAILED COAT.
We do not believe that any boy ever put on his
lOng-tafled coat without a sense of shame He first
twists his back half Off looking at it in the glass and
then when he steps ont Of doors, it seems to him as
if all creation was in a broad grin. The sun laughs
in the sky the cows turn to look at him there are
faces at every window his very shadow mpcks him
When he walks by the cottage where Jane lives, he
dares not look up for his life. The very boards
Greak with consciousness of the strange spectacle
and the old pair of pants that stop light in the gar
ret window nod with derlson. II he is obliged to
pass group of men and boys, the trial assumes its
most terrific stage. His legs get all mixed up with
embarrassment, and the flap of the dangling append
age is felt upon them moved by the wind OF his own
agitation; he could not feel worse were it dish
cloth, worn as q badge Of disgrace. It is happy
time for him when he gets to the church, and sits
down with his coat tail under him; bat he is still ap
prehensiye with thinking Of the Sunday school, and
wonders if any of the children will ask him tC
'swng his long.tail blue
GOING HOME WITH THE GIRLS
The entrance into society may be said TO take place
after boyho0d has passed away, yet multitude take
the initiative before their heards are presentabe. Il
is great trial, either to tender or a tough age
For an nvergrown boy to go to door, or to knock OF
ring with absolute certainty that in two minutes al
their eyes will be upon him. is severe test of COur
age. TO go before these girls, and make satisfac
tory tour OF the room without stepping on their toes
and then to sit down and dispose of ones hands
without putting them into ones pockets, is an
achievement which few boys can boast. If boy
can get tar as to measure OIL ten yards OF tape
with one of these girls and cut it short at each end
he may stand chance to spend pleasant evening,
but let him not tlatter himself that all the trials of
the evening are over. Then at last the break
ing up. The dear girls don their hoods and put on
their shawls and look so saucy and mischieVOns, and
unmpressble, as if they did not wish any one to 60
home with them Then comes the pinch, and the
boy that has the most pluck makes up to the pretest
girl his heart in his throat, and his tongue ciinging
to the roof Of his mouth, and crOOkng his elbows,
stammers out the words, "shall | see you home p
She touches her fingers to his arm, and they walk
home about a foot apart feeling as awkward as
couple of gosngs As soon as she is safe inside her
doors he struts home, and thinks he has really
beenand gone and duneit Sleep comes to him at last,
with dreams of Caroline aud calico, and he aWakes in
the morning and finds the door OF life open to him,
and the pigs squealng for breakfast
CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.
We have passed over Churning and learning the
catechism, because we are fearful of making this
article too long, although we might have talked of
butter that would not be persuaded to come, and
perplextes of literary turn of mind, and head
that measured seven and quarter when asked what
the chief end of man was. Boyhood is a green pas
sage in mans experience, in more senses than
one 1t is pleasant thing to think over and laugh
about now, though it serious enough then. Many
Of our present trials ridiculous those which
now touch the rsibles in the recollection; and when
we get to the other world and look upon this, and
upon the infancy of the soul through which we pass
here, we have no doubt that shall grin over the
trials which we experienced when we lost our for
tunes, when our mills were swept away or burned
and when we didn't get elected to the Legislature
Men are but boys OF a larger growth.