Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-16
After your Vacation,

earth.
After your Vacation,
Now that we are in September, when
the summer is growing tired, and the
foliage has a fatigued look, like the
green coat thai was fair and fresh in the
month of June--now that we are in the
tirst of the fall months, now is the time
when q young man ought to put him
self quietly together and carry himself
off to retired place, and take account
of stock. The summer is at an End,
young friend f; you have had your vaca-
tion-an idle school-boy vacation sea-
son long, perhaps, or POOR little picay'
une two weeks, perhapser or, at least,
you have had your odd days off, and
got the skin of your nose sunburnt in
brief impromptu doings. Now, then,
it is mortal duty, most clearly incum-
bent upon you, to ask yourself if those
days of leisure have been we'll spent.
\
Let us see. Perhaps you thought it
was very nice thing, that breezy day
last June, when you got Maud up the
cherry tree. and took away the ladder,
and threatened to call her maiden aunt
to look at her, unless your victim prom
ise to go rowing with you that evening,
Yuu did. didn't you? Aud maybe il
wasn't Maud who got her little brothe,
to whittle the forward pin of the star
board rowlock half in two, SO that il
gave way right in the middle of the
lake, and you captured large and
acrobatic crab, and went over two
ways-half in the bottom OF the boa
and half in the water ? You knew, o
course, that 1t was Maud who was laugh
ing so much, and eating all the opo
ponsx off her handkerchief, and scream
ing till she brought every boat On th
, lake up to look at you. But you didn'
} know how smart you had been unit
now, did your
Il
, And you. You are another deer
dark, shrewd, willy young citizen, aren
you? Maybe you think the widow le
you put your arm around her and 81
, till the dews fell on the piazza lik
J shelled peas, just because she was gon
J on you2 And maybe you thought n
} one could see you in the honeysuckl
corner ? And maybe the exhibitio
you made, viewed from behind, WASH
&. taken in by every girl in the house
And maybe the widow didn't begi
D flirting with the rich Congressman frol
b the West, the very next day, and mayt
j, you weren't left loneliev in that hote
i full of beauty, than Boss Kelly in
civil service reform convention?
!. 4
How about you9 Aren't you the ms
= that had the big Irritation with Il
9 freckled girl down at Ocean Beach
Aren't you the man that was 80 prot
> of getting her to come out on Sund'
10 morning, with her gore colored cal
wheel hat and her Turkey-red skirt o
:, and promenade with you up and dov
~ the beach, just as the people were
ing to church, Aren't you the M
y who wrote her proposal Of maria
I" on the Hy-leaf of the hotel bibleP Isl
u she the girl who has it nowP Al
70 aren't you the young man who is livi
: at TayIor's Hotel, Jersey City, und
:. the name of William J. Ferguson, wi
I'll no trunk and gripsack with one sh
10 and free pass to Canada in it?
n
~ You! You too. You are anotl
ha literary character, aren't you? A
you wrote in Ethel's album, didn't "
:. And, not being able to invent your o
=, verses on the spur of the moment,
~ copied some that you saw in di
book, didn't you? And you afterw'
: found out that it was an acrostic spell
~ ~ USE S-O-ZO-D.O-N-T, didn't
And Ethel's Big Brother found it G
too, didn't he? And he is hunting .
- now with weaver's beam, isn't
~ Oh. yes, young man, it would be "
' for you to look back and see if some
all the freshness and newness ofspri
ais hasn't slopped over into your sum-
~ campaign.
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