New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-21
THE SHELLEY CLASS.
A PHASE OF TIE BOSTON INTELLECT.
I'M Thu Doston saturday Evening Gazette.


From The Boston saturday Evening Gazette.
Young lady In deml train and lorgnete. swlrling
about mpatcnty; Has this class got TO be failure
have been Miss Marlborough did you see anything
Of the Newbury girls rs You came along, or Miss
Miss MI didn't see anything coming along but
my own feet. was so afraid I'd fall down didn't
take my eve, Off the sidewalk
We'll: IT Wa perfectly dreadful when l came IN
too do wish that people would M on some settled
one sidewalk all ice and sawdust: next one. all snow
ana ana n msn o Sne sare zee anu With nohns on IT,
have % change my gait for each combination ana by
knees knock together on, where are those g,.ls
Just think Of their Keeping Percy bysshee waiting
so long when Trey pretend to adore him There,
Enter Mis- Excier and Tho. Misses Ncwbury.
Miss y, No. I've Just crawlcd here
Miss y, No =" Crawled You mean rollcd,'
Miss p Well | SAT down 50 hard saw the new
Miss Nj" Did il look any better that wayl'
TASTY. , DO any Of SS% wear snow Shoes
We'll. tod pa I'd never take to snow shoes TIL
took TO the platform. and IT, said
Young lady with lorsncttc, rapplng. on mantel
"Grls you must come To order. Haven't any OF You
brought your shell shelley ,r with IN, yonl ,. am -
yours
Yes. just as we'll"
" Have some baby's curlsl l stopped into Piercc's
" Do cali them something else. feel nhe one Of
those what-dyou-call-'cms that swallow their Off
Shelley was noriS a. man ;S TaSnt he''
II you'd all brought your books you'd that he
wasn't. u says: His life was spent in the conten-
platoon Of Mature In arduous study or in acts Of kind
"IIunlphl Who says 500
Goodness II his wife says so, II goes but who
was the poet who was 50 badi / told were
| going to study bad poets"
| Chorus" What did she sayi-
N2 Tn% eSSept G9, mustn't forget to order
Well have any Of yon selected poem to read -
was something about love-
Can't YOU think Of it,
book but yonr Sst e SsHGS 70 IND IN my
We'll hn eaa one On 'erst Least hd ns
iyphoo H in it. Wcud that be in iSer TS "O'"'
take is, MsS shelley sailing and that the
P@noT oso nss ToUam be npTSns
.'oh, did yon ever sail in a catamaran''
| ayes: isn't IL cNhaInting and wildi
| "Not half so wild as toboggan OFF Its chue.'
| "Oh, did you ever 60 OF one,'
| "Grls. Will You please stick to shelley"
| al right What do You want us to say
Why If you cant any Of yon remember yonr
poems You selected, you might take my book and
read something"
All right. on, what dear little booki Where
| did You got II See 1t just matches my frock
Now, If I'd had this Kind Of binding, never should
| Penelope Newbury. Will you select something TO
read I've got 10 90 to the dressmalSers In twenty
AN right. Let me see. Revolt OF Islam Too
long Of course. OH here Is the 'Cenci ~ do think
| that Is the most dreadf, tragedy Letter TO Maria
| Gishomc.' How funny! They all 50 long
Bertha Boylston, | can't read II you going In
| twenty minutes l wish poets wouldn't write things
10 ordinary people. Here's one to Edward Williams
| the Idea. There now, here Is a real nice, sweet
| little short thing:
| IIarkl the owlet flaps his wings.
| In the painless dell beneath
| liark tits the night sings
| Tidngs OF approaching death! y
| Chorus" Penelope Newbury, how could you select
| such creeping thingl Ugh!
| Well he was a creepy thing, anyway
| Ellen Exeter" Can you tell something about
| the poets llfe,'
| Well he n very queer child lie used to 90
| round sticking umbrellas and things through walls
10 find secret passages and when he up he used
TO like to lie round In fields and look at the sky. OF
course he wns very beautiful and full OF genius md
all that; but II I'd been his wife II would have made
| me so mad to have had him go on tho way he did,"
| "Cant any one else think OF anything else TO say 7,
! al don't sec why thought ne bad,
| I" Didn't you mix him up with Byron I"
"oh yes; he knew Byron. That was OF tho
things ! was going to say: forgot ID. And his boat
was called the Don JUAN
We'll, I'm sorry, girls. that my twenty minutes
| Is up, and must co. II don't that woman will put
three extra riiches into the tail Of skirt and Won
know there Is length that Is perfectly disgusting,
| Well are we going To meet again next week,
wish you'd make II every two weeks. for I'm studying
up Spcnscr with another class OF girls It's no
| use for me To have too much on my mind; for
| coudnt do justice to either. you know. Aunt
Louise thinks study too much now Makes wrinkles
| before my time she says. Well. good bye. au see