The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-01
THE BUVIS-sKIS. BREECHEs,
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Grandpapas all were once little boys
Is not 'I peta ssS%a StoS p0's'-r9fRSO
Nonsense and noise
Addicted 20 jacl-stones and similar joys,
Crazy for races with Rover and Tozer
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And the boys of all time, experience teaches.
Have their first new balls and their first new
breeches.
Seventeen Hundred ana setenty-six! 1t Nf
That is the date-lke a burr it sticks;
For grandpapa told IL, many 3 the while,
AS he spoke OF the past with sigh and a smile
The wondrous year, rfTInrrH
To memory dear a-At
Which of AL his youth rose up most clear,
When has homespun suit was kicked TO the rear
when his father took him DER dale and down.
Three hundred miles 20 the Quaker town,
And in biiss that humanity rarely reaches,
He do7ned his first bun buck-skn breeches.
Grandpapa had most notable sire
Brave, the old General and stout and true;
Prompted 10y honor and duteous ire,
He pledged himself with the noble few
Look in the list, HnI
IL cannot be missed,
He wrote IL himself with his resoute INST; 81
Among the old signers his name you will see,
Beginning with "willism and ending with ''d Z"
Stroog 10 bear stress is Church aud State,
He wanted his boy to be Just as great.
"Td like hinf filed with patriots FIRE :"
SO, 10 foster the feeling, what did he do
But buy him the suit OF patriot true;
Waistcoat of buff,
Surcoat of blue, rim .sI.E
Queer-cornered hat of a sOmber hue,
Buckles of silver shining and new,
Stockings of silk to the knee each reaches,
And sumptuLus pair of bGck-skin breeches.
There was the happiest boy in creation
What cared he for the great Declaration,
The thrOes OF d kingdom. the birth of nation?
Matters of state, @
Little or great, an
Hearts OF oak that compelled their fate,
Sscredest vows and death drawn speeches-F
But alas, for the 5liss of the bounding heart
slip, and tina cup and the lip must part;
breath. aud the sweet becomes a smart
fash, and the smile has grown tear ...
space, and the boy il crying, "Oh dear!
The hour Is near
The breaches are here.
But can't get into them, that's quite clear!
/ can get in, nor anywhere near!"
" Can't ~ said the General, and frowning heard,
Wh6e tue soldiers pride in his breast was stirred
Never, AGAR, sir, Utter that word!
You're a free-born aaan,
That always san, Ns
Aud must aud shall perfect his plan
See that your aim be just and right,
Then cieave your way with dauntless mi ght!
Leave can'ts 70 towards that fear the fight
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/" Come, Pomp and o:essr!D he quickly cried
- Catch hold here, both of you, one on a side
The suit is right, but the boy is too wide;
Now firmly take it,
And thoroughly shake it,
Aud if it won tlbend, why then we'll break it;
Many pillow too plump for the
Has TO be shaken Down into its place!"
so the fat little boy was put in a. the top,
While the breeches were shaken, htppety-fop;
They tossed nip UP with jump and hop,
They settled him down with a sudden pop,
And with every jerk the deeper he'd drop,
Till, finally, word was given to stop.
The boy was in. tft CO
AS snug as PIN
Pomp ana Cesar were all of grin,
And the brooches fitted tight as his skin.
Ali, that was the spiri. of Seventy-Six!
II wouldn't confess itself caught in fix;
n there way 'twoulGn't find and take IL;
1t there wasn't way, 'twould speedily make it
when laws were vexnR, or breeches straight,
IL rarely tarried TO ruminate,
But couched its lance, and conquered fate
Yethapphy, stil
Its place we can fill
Can span the deep the river, or breast the hill,
Or leap tue abyss with a heros thrill;
For golden heart and an iron will
Are the lords of every earthly ill.
ST. Nicholas for September.