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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3754, 8 January 1881, Page 4

'.- You can always tell a boy whose mother cuts his hair. -N"ot because the edges of it look as if it had been.chawed off by an absent'minded horse butyou tell it by the way he stops in the streets and wriggles his shoulders. When a fond mother has lo cut her boy's hair, she is careful to guard against any annoyance and mesa by laying a sheet on the carpet. It has never 'y t occurred to her to set him over a bare fl >or and put the sheet around his neck. .'] lien, she draws the front hair over, his face, and leaves it there while, she cuts thai which is at the back. That, which lies over his eyes app ars to liesurcharged ,-wuh .electric needles, and that which.is silently dropping down under his shirt , bands appears to be on fire. She has unconsciously continued lo push forward his head until his nose-presses his breast and is too busily engaged to notice the snuffling sound that is becoming alarmingly frequent. In the meantime lie is seized - with an irresistible desire" to blow his nose, and does it so unexpectedly that he involuntarily dodges, and catches, the points of the sheam n his left ear. At this he commences to cry and wisti he was a man. But his mother doesn't notice him. She merely hits him oa theother ear to inspire him with confidence, and goes on with the wosk. When she is through, she holds his jacket collar back from the neck, and with her mouth blows the short bits of hair from the top of his head down his back. He calls her attention to this feet, but she looks for a new place on his head and hits him there,, and asks him why he didn't iase an 'andkerohief. Then he takes his awfully disfigured head to the mirror and .looks at it, and young as he is, shudders as he thinks of what the boys in the street will say.