Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1859 — Frightening the Girls! [ARTICLE]

Frightening the Girls!

•Away up in the northern part of Vermont, sales the Khic ! er/mcJce?\ is a primitive s >ft. of, little village, Called “Tiie Center.” Here, tiojc long since, the rustic youth of the vtcinit\| co igregutod for a “dance,” an i “ounce, they did.” said' our inform: nt. bv. itli an oticticln unknown to .j»ur city bo ll'ei, and b-virx.” Lao interesting young mairhaving imbiljed” rather too refely, became “ ■P'giteii” In {he course ct t . - evehmo', ami•wisejy'c.mcliAleci to “retire” lot a short rest. A. door ajar near': the. dunce-hall revealetT invitingly,a glitnpMe of a cun' irtaak* he.l. oi which ite took possession with a pros >ect ol ail jundisturbed “snooze.” It so happened, {lowbeit., that tliis was the ladies’ withdraw and no sooner had he closed his eyes, than a pair of blooming uanjseU came in Irjom the hall, and began adjtistinjg their disordered ringlets, the dim ligiijt otitlie tallow candle not disclosing the tenant of the bed. The girls had tongues, (like most of their sex.) which ran on in this wisq: “What a nice dance we’er having! Have youtheard anybody say anything about me, Janq?” “ “Layes, Sally! Jim Brown said lie never see you look so handjsoine as yon do to-nigiit. Have youdieard anybody say anything about me?’? j , you.' why, sartin; I heard Joe Flint* tell Sam Jones that yuu was the prettiest dressed girl in tie room.” Whereupon the dear tilings chuckled, “fixed up” a little msre, and made off toward j the ball-room. They had hardly reached the door when our half-conscious friemlj raised himself upon his elbow, and q..ite {intelligibly, tho ugh slowly inquired: ■‘Hi’ you heard any borry fay any thing about {Me, girls?' ’ “Pljansy their pheeljnks,”- at this juncture. They Jled with an explosive scream. oC?t“Come here, Master Tommy, do you knowiyour A, B,C’el‘* “Yiz, zur, I know a bee sees.”