A Boy's View of Girls.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 192, 15 July 1873, Page 7

A Boy's View of Girls.

Girls are the most unaccountable things in the world, except women. Like the wicked Ilea, when you have them they ain't there. I can cipllet clean over to improper fractions, and the teacher 3ays I.can do first-rate ; but I can't cipher out a girl, proper or improper, and you can't cither. The only rule in arithmetic that hits their case is the double rule of two. They are as full of Old Nick as their skin can hold, and they would die if they couldn't torment somebody. When they try to be mean, they are as mean as pnlsey, though they ain't as mean as they let on, except sometimes, and then they are a great deal meaner. The only way to get along with a girl when she comes at you with her nonsense is to give her tit for tat, and that will flummux her, and when you get a girl flummuxed she is as nice as a new pin. A girl can sow more wild oats in a day than a boy can sow in a year ; but then girls get their oats sowed after a while, which boys never do : und they settle down as calm and placid as a mud puddle. But I like girls first-rate, aud I guess the boys all do. I don't care how many tricks they play on me —and they don't care either. The hoitytoitiest girls n the world can't boil over like a glass of soch. By and by they will get into traces with somebody they like, and pull as quiet as an oldstage horse. That is the beauty of them. So .et them wave, I say; they will pay for it Borro day, sewing on buttons and trying to make a decent man of the feller they have spliced on to, and the chances are ten to one if tiny don't get the worst of it.