The Baltimore County union., 1886-06-26
When You See Boys.
Burlington Ha,okeye.


When you see boy down the street
with ball of cord in his hand and a
look on his serious face like that worn
by the picture of an early Christian
father Standing in the arena waiting for
the new lion to be called out to dinner,
it is sign that if you just cast your eyes
upward you can see that boys kite dane
Ing nimbly in the air to the pleasing of
a 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 lean
ing his head on one side, pounding the
other side with his hand and practically
kicking his feet in the air, in desperate
efforts to get the water out of his ears;
or when you see him holding a warm
stone to his ears for the same purpose,
it is a true sign that you may think OF
that boy, by and by, standing speech
less when his mother asks him how his
shirt came to be wrong side out. You
must not run down the street in the dl-
rection of his home under the impress
sion that the boy is being murdered.
You can't kill a boy with skate strap.
And in hoe signoes you will know that
boy has been in swimming when he
should have been at school learning that
twenty-six propositions are followed by
the accusative, all the way from ad to
ultra.
When you see boy with the pockets
of his pantaloons bulging out until he
looks like a great bumble-bee laden for
the hive, while he walks along trying
to look as thin as split lath and wear
ing profound expression OF supernat-
ural innocence, you know without refer
ring to this code of signals that that boy
has been lingering in somebody's or
chard and doesn't care to have undue
publicity given to facts that only con-
cern him personally.
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
in some more; awfully bad, or with
many fearful failures and disgraceful
stumbles trying to be good; forgetting
YOUR commandments which thunder up
on 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
failures, his piteous little troubles and
his fearful, honest penitence, in all the
lightness of boys life, your heart must
grow mellow and tender for the little
germ of manhood, so full of wonderful
possibilities, so rich in seeds of strength
that will ripen bye and bye, for good
or for evil, as you walk and live before
the boy; even as you look at him re-
member what you were thirty or forty
years ago, and say, God bless the boy.
B@Husband: There I knew ]
had forgotten something. I meant tc
order load of kindling wood last night
There isn't chip around the house tc
start the fire with
Wife: 'Yes, and you worried abou
it in your sleep all night dear
Husband: Didn't worry about it a
all. If it had been on my mind to tha
extent l shouldn't have forgotten it.
Wife: 'But you did, dear, three o
four times | heard you groan and NUT
ter something about taking another fiv
dollars worth of chips
Husband: 'D-er-that' so; com
! to think, did dream kindling wood.