Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-01

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done then would have been to tell him
frankly just how it was. But we were
so fustered, scared, and withal so asham-
ed, that we stood mute as monkeys, our
lips helping the simile.
sCome out here p said he. We fol-
lowed him into the floor Take off
your jackets!' p We peeled.
''Now pin your handkerchiefs about
each others necks, towel fashion
We performed this office for each 9th
er, in dreadfully clumsy way, eliciting
fresh outbursts from the whole school,
which now sat agape with merriment- =
By this time Johnny had got back with
Mr.. Needham's razor and lather-box
| The master went along to the pail and
poured some water into the box, which
he set on the table. Next he seated me
IN his chair, barber fashion, and had me
put my heels up on the stove. This
done, he retired to the back seat and
bade Harry shave me after the most APP
proved style, with the remark that he
would teach US barbering. if nothing else.
''Lather him and shave him we'll,
was the order, as he went up the aisle,
leaving us alone in the floor
1t took second command to drive
Harry into it. And then. O, how lin
geringly awkward and slow he went
about it How silly he looked, as he
smeared the lather over my face And
how his hands trembled and shook about
as he diddered the razor along my lip
And the little chap in the chair must
have been picture You can imagine
him. In short, leave the whole scene
to your imagination. You can't overdo
it. The master laughed till the tears
ran down into his sandy mustache And
such outlaws. both bass and treble, as
rose in the back seat What the three
little fellows who furnished the fun un-
derwent Heaven only can know. | nev-
er had anything so knock the bottom
out of my self-respect before nor since.
To this day it makes me squirm and
calculate, whenever | happen to think of
it suddenly
And when, after scraping off the lath-
er. my lip still showed black as jet, how
they laughed again The master made
Harry 50 over he second time. Then
[ shaved him, and lastly he shaved Tom.
That wound up the shaving part.
''Now,' said the master, coming to
the table. '.go and wash off that ink"
at isn't ink, SIT, Harry yentured to
say.
What is it, then q
il don't know what it is, sir
You don't know what it is? Where
did you get it? Where did it come
from ?'
New York, sir.
New York Have you got any more
of it,"
"Yes, sir
'.Let me see it.
Harry went to his jacket. and, draw
ing from his breast pocket the yellow en-
velope, took out the package of Com
pound before the wondering school.
The master took it. 80, no % he ex-
claimed "A whisker preparation :
Blacked your lips, did it? Served you
right. Take friends advice; let Ma
ture work. Now go wash it off"
ut won't come off, sir, said Harry.
Wont come off?'
mo, sir. We've tried it, hard
''Let me try. Come here
Thereupon he caught up the lather-
box and soaped us again; then, getting
out his handkerchief, gave our poor lips
another most unmerciful securing. going
at it again and again, all the harder,
when he saw he hadn't started it. He
didn't like to give in on it, but finally
had to.
"Take your seats you young scamps y
he cried out, at last, nearly exhausted
, with his useless toll. Never saw such
, stuff: You're marked, l guess, for one
while.
We were marked in more senses thar
one. You know how, when red ribbon
is tied to young ROSTERS neck, all the
other roosters in the flock will run hin
down and give him no rest as long a,
it's on him. That was our case a
school for the next three or four weeks
, till the stain wore off; and we Otter
heard of it afterwards.
It's almost needless to say that M
:. mustache came out The thing speak
= for itself. "Professr Boufet,' rathe
o played it on us. But it will be lon;
. day before any of those New York leech
+ es get us to bite again.-Om Youn.
Folks.