Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-09-28
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the street with ball of cord in bis hand,
and q serious look on his face, like that
worn by the picture Of an early Chris
tian father standing in the arena wait
ing for the lion to 20 called in to dinner,
it is a sign that if you just cast your
eyes upward, you can see that boys
kite dancing nimbly in the mir to the
lasciyious pleasing Of whole colony Of
telephone wires.
When you see boy going along in
the merry, merry sunshine, with his hat
in his hand, shaking his hair with a
pine stick to get it dry, now and then
leaning his head on one side, pounding
the other side with his hand, and franti.
cally kicking his feet in the mir, in des-
perate efforts to get the water out of his
ears; or when you sec him holding a
warm stone to his ear for the same pur-
pose, it is a true sign that you may
think Of that boy, by-and-by. standing
speechless when his mother asks him
how his shirt came to be wrong side out.
You must not run down the street ia
the direction of his home. under the i'm.
precision that the boy is being basely
murdered. You can't kill boy with
skate strap. And in hoe signoes you
will know that boy has been in swim
ming, when he should have been at
school. learning that Twenty six prep
ositions are followed by tho accusative,"
all tho way from nd to ultra.
When you see boy about 5.45 p.
M. with ink on his nose, and the CRIME
of chalk on his hands, his hair disheveed
and the two upper buttons of his jacket
gone, bis collar rumplod, and his nocktie
twisted awry, and a suspicious looking
flush, and two or three scratches adorn-
ing his face, you will know that he was
"kep' in" after school, and was tainted
for tho same by another boy when he
came out; and If yoH want to know
the rest of it, it will not be necessary to
go into the particulars. but just ask him
(Which whipped p If u joyous look
of triumph dances in the exultant eyes,
you will know that just around the
corner you can find a boy, with bleed
ing nose, and generally demoralized
facade But it tho lad you question
looks down-cast, multis cum lachrymis
begins his grafton, like Divatiacus, by
saying: "Well he was great deal
bigger'n INC" you may know that your
boy got licked"
When you see a boy, with the pockets
of his pantaloons bullying out until he
looks like u great humble bee, laden
for the hive, while he walks along try.
ing to look as thin as a split lath, and
wearing profound expression Of SUPER
natural innocence, you may know, with
out referring to this code of signals.
that boy has been lingering in some
bodys orchard, and doson't care to have
undue publicity given to facts that only
concern him personlly.
When you see boy on the distant
hillside. suddenly leap up into the soft,
summer air, holding one bare foot
tenderly but firmly in the welded f.
gers OF both hands, while he hops around
in regular but excited orbits, at the
same time voicings his grief with wall
ing shrieks, mellowed by the sunny dis
lance, then, without going to the tele-
phone, you may know that barefoot
boy has trod upon the busy bee that
nestled in the perfumed clover.
And wherever and whenever you see
him, in mischief or out Of it-that is,
just coming out of it or just ready to
get into SOME more-awfdlly bad, or
with many fearful failures and disgrace
full Stumbles in trying to be good, for
getting your commandments which thnn-
der upon him by the hundred. we'll nigh
as readily and repeatedly as you forget
the ten that Infinite Wisdom has laid
upon you, in all his noise, his poor little
struggles, temptations, triumphs and fail
ures, his piteous little troubles. and his
fearful, honest pcnitence, in all tho light
ness Of boys life. your heart must
grow mellow and tender for the little
germ Of manhood, SO rich with seeds of
strength that will ripcn by and by, for
good or for evil, as you walk and live
before the boy; ever as you look at him,
what you we're thi ty or forty
years ago, and say "God bless the
boy p