Boyhood

Boys, vfhen they are boys, are quuer enough. JJow many Tidiculous notions they havo, and wLut singular desires, which in after lifo chunge and shupe themselves intooharacteristics. YV ho reinembers when he would have sold his bi.-th-rtght ibr a rockiug hors?, and bis new suit of ■ oiothes for muney? Who forgets tho sweet faced girl, older than himself, against whoho golden hair he leaned and wept his griefs away ? Who reoollects when the thought of being a circus rider appeared greater than to be a President; and bow jealouslv he vvatchcd the litile fellows that wore spangled jaokets aDd turued somersots, and desired U) becorae like thera T If memory preserves not these caprices, or sometbing similar, the boy is lost in tho man. Happy visión J They come but once, and go. quickly, leaving us evor to sigh {or % veturn of what can nayeybe again.