A Girl's Composition

At a recent boarding school examination for girls one of the tasks was an essay on boys, and this was one of the compositions, just as it was handed in by a girl of twelve: "The boy is not an animal, yet they can be heard to a considerable distance. W'hen a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs, but girls hold their tongue till they are spoke to, and then they answer respectarle and teil just how it was. A boy thinks himself clever because he can wade where it is deep, but God made the dry land for every living thing, and rest.ed on the seventh day. When the boy grows up he is called a husband, and then stops wading and stays out nights, but the grew-up girl is a widow and keeps house."