The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-05-08
The First Pair of Pants.

Have you seen the boy with his first
pair of pants2
Then you have seen King! an EN-
peror! a Royal autocrat, who has reached
the pinnacle of earthly felicity and beati-
tude, and who has. it would seem, moth
ing more to ask for.
He has been looking forward to this
era in his existence for long time.
Mamma has promised him, if he will
only be q good boy, and not stick pins in
the sofas, and twist the cats tail, he shall
be put in long pants, just like papa's, in
the spring.
How much anxious thought the little
fellow has had upon the subject How
he has wakened an hour earlier mornings,
and figured upon the number of pockets
the wonderful garment would contain,
and arranged in his mind how he would
make Ton my Jones stand round, for
Tommy's ma will not put him in pants
for whole year!
When the eventful time arrives in
which the pants are finished, the earth is
hardly large enough to contain our EN-
bryo young man.
How his eyes shine, and how his
cheeks glow! and he struts like a pea
cock with all sails set, and thrusts his
arms to the elbows into the capacious
pockets, which will, in short time, be
tiled with miscellaneous collection of
Irvine, fsh-hooks, old butt Is, nails, lack.
knives, whistles angle worms, spruce
gum, bullets, hard shelled bugs, fragments
OF stolen cookies, and other articles usu-
ally found in boys pockets. ....s.
All the aunts in the house must ad-
mire him in his new toggery. All of
them must kiss him, and shake him and
tell him he looks like man. ..--=
He will tuck the legs of the rev pants
into his stockings by the time he has had
them on al hour, to make believe the
stockings are boots, and the streets are
muddy. He will sit cross-legged, like
papa, and tip over backward in the vain
attemp! to put his heels on the table, like
Uncle Jack does when he is reading and
smoking.
If you want to make him your mortal
enemy for life, insinuate that he is too
small for pants, and call him the baby !!
How his blood will boil! and how all
the revengeful element in his boyish
heart will come to the front, and he will
tell Tommy Jones that you are a nasty
old thing! and he wishes you'd fall in the
well, as Tower did.
Among his young companions, the boy
with his first pair Of pants is general-in-
chief. He issues orders, which are
obeyed. The -pie.making business
goes agreeably to his commands. ae
''bosses' the playing horse and "tag" pro-
ceedings, and puts down the other bows
numerically, with the cry:
Don't mind them! They're only girls
In petticoats and gowns!''
10 all the callers at his house, he saws.
at once:
"See my new pants p and then he shows
the pockets, and stretches out his dummy
little legs. and feels proud and happy in
manner which will never come TO him
again.
He wants to climbtrees, and ride horses,
and stand on his head, like the big
boys, and if the knew pants continue in.
tact for week, under the strain inflicted
upon them, then the cloth was genuine,
and the tailor was loyal to his prefes-
| sion.
Never laugh at or ridicule the bow
with his first pair of pants!
If there is any such thing in this world
as nnalloyed enjoyment, do not meddlc
with it. Let no scornful smile come
over your face when you see the exulta-
ton tor of the boy in his first pair OF pants
The man who would willingly mar such
state of felicity, would steal the cents
OFT the eyes of his dead mother in. law
kate Thorn, in Neao York. Weekzv.