The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-10-25
The Young American In Various
Situati0ns.

When YOU see boy coming down the
street with ball OF cord IN his hand anu
4 look ON his serious face like that worn
by the picture OF an early Christian father
standing on the arena waiting for the new
lion to be called to dinner, ISL sign that
il you just cast your eyes upward you can
see that boys kite dancing nimbly IN the
air TO tho lascivious pleasing OF the whole
colony Of telegraph wires.
When you see boy going along in the
merry, merry sunshine with his hat in his
hand, shaking his hair with pine stick to
get it dry, now and then leaning his head
on one side, pounding the other side with
his hand and practically kicking his feet
in the air, in desperate effort to get the
water out OF his ears; or when yon see him
holding warm stone to his ear Tor the
same purpose, it is true sign that you
may think OF that boy by aud by, standing
speechless when his mother asks him how
his shirt came to be wrong side out You
mnst not run down the street IN the d.
recticn OF his home under the impression
that the boy is being murdered. You
can't kill boy with skate strap. And in
hoe siguoes you will know that boy has
been swimming when he should have been
at school learning that twenty'slx preposi-
tions are followed by the accusative, all
the way from add to ultra.
When you see boy about 5ao r. NJ
with ink on his nose and the CRIME OIL
chalk on bis hands, his hair disheveled
and two upper buttons OF his jacket gone'
his collar rumpled. and his necktie twist
ed awry, and suspicious looking flush and
two or three scratches adorning his face,
Won may know that he was "kep in after
school and was tainted for the same by
| another boy whan he came out; and II you
| want to know the rest OF it, IT will not be
! necessary to 90 into particulars, but Just
ask him which "whippedg lfa Joyous
look Of triumph dances in the exultant
ewes YOU will know that just around the
corner you can find boy with q bleeding
nose aud . generally demoralized facade.
But il the lad you question looksdowncast
multis lachrymis begias his oration, like
Diyitiacus, by saying; well, he was .
great deal bigger'n me- you may know
that your boy got clicked"
When you see boy wish the pockets OF
his pantaloons bulging out until he looks
like great bumblebee, laden for the hive,
while he walks along, trying to look as
thin a. a split lath and wearing profound
expression Of supernatural innocence. you
know without referring to this code OF sig
nails that boy has been lingering in some
bodys orchard and doest care to have un-
due publicity given to facts that only con-
cern him personally.
/ When you see hoy on the distant hui
side suddenly leap into the soft summer
air. holding one bare foot tenderly but
firmly iu the welded fingers OF both
hands while he hops around in Irregular
but excited orbits at the same time voic
ina his grief with wailing shrieks, mel
lowed by sunny distance. then, without
poiog to the telephone. you may know
that bare footed boy has trod upon the
busy bee that nestled 10 the periumed
clover.
Whenever or wherever you see BIN II
mischief or out OF it--that is. just coming
out OF il or just ready to got iato sons
more, awiuly bad or with many tearfu
failures and disgraceful stumbles tryinl
: to be good; forgetting your commandment
! which thunder upon HIM by the hundred
we'll nigh as readily aud repeatedly as yo
fo-eet the ten that infuite wisdom has lai'
. upon you; in all bis noise. his poor iittl
struggles, temptations, ,rinmphs and fail
ures, his piteous little troubles and teal
. full, honest penitence, in oil the lightne'
OF boys life your bea,t must grow meiio'
o AID tender for the little germ OF manhood
so full Of watchful possibilities. so ric
with seeds Of strength that will ripeu b
q and by. for good or Tor evil. as you val
aoi live before the boy; even as You loo
y At him. remember what you were thirt
d or forty years ago. and say. God bless u
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