Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-12-28
MISCELLANY.
From Friendships Offering, for 1910.
THE FORESTER.

There was once-we never trouble ourselves
with dates for we hate chronology, Especially our
own)--a very fair castle which stood on the banks
20 Rhine, looking frownhgy down
'I9,sauI ati plps 'tIpJ,g forests And there
AN baron, with an I'M
,..o.--..oO...te name, with wife who never
talked any thing but German sense, and daught-
who was beautiful as her own portrait
and that would be rare thing in more modern
days.
Now this formidable baron with the unpro-
DAYS aG lie or ~ KS KS HSe very cry nSers
> with the aid of eating, and drinking, and
Gag and hunting and smoking, and the bar
J, his wife, travelled on with time much at
.Same pace, diversifying the amusement OF
hhing one, when she was tired of scolding an
ler and congratulating herself OH the useful.
IS of life which was spent in the philanthropy
labor of warning against every body's faults,
)st dsinterestedly forgetting her own. This IN
ecual amusement, with the more useful en-
yments of knitting, III which all German ladies
a.opts, aud the superintendent OF saur kraul
sweetmeats, helped the German baroness oil
zingy well from morning till noon, and from
till night.
az happened that, while the Baron Rheinhards
! spent his mornings with his gamekeepers
is gun, shooting ia the old oak woods, and
ernoons with his meerschaum filling the old
With smoke, and the baroness, his wife, was
y ,,nina, not having inherited any of The
of her ancestors, found she had good dea
possible time upon her hands that she die
- " we'll know how TO put out to Interest,"
III ,ud not always be bending over her en-
10y frame, neither could she always be war
sed sd rilling; while as for books either o
~ e. nonsense, people did not write by steam
oil, by steam in those days and books wer,
sd ., especially in the castle of Rheinhards
RoF
lol me fraulein Wihelmina spent her time il
go ing and feeling the two most unproftab
unsatisfactory things that woman can do
.s'yhen sunset was turning the waters of tn
a'o into molten gold, she was found in the vas
~. &c the 5lden oak, listening to the music O
Hres's ,.onrng leaves the signing of the wind;
md lie whisperings OF her own littlts heart.
This something or another in that saiae heal
made her exceedingly nervous IN her walks az.
wanderings for ladies had nerves in those days
y though they did not know it, and she consequent
fancied that the rusIing Of leaf must needs
a a the rushing of garment the track of thu
Ger along the dewy grass the imprint of hui
nan football the chirping of bird, some distan
| carol the moaping of the wind, signs from a sal
heart. These,(no doubt, were optical and aura
ISi4Rins that the daughter of the baron die
sometimes really and truly behold, on evdenc
that might have been admitted in any court o
law. certain fine, tall, handsome young forester
in green hunting SUIT and belt with al enor
nous bucSie. and boots that would have frighten
ed Hohy, and zap placed rather beauishy OF
one side md gun sung across his shoulder
Sill formidable us sues an accoutred hero mich
have been 10 the Dukes ieer. N ilhel,nina nIs
have been very nervous ino>od IN h,vr lel, ,caiJ
as every holy said that be WIS ORR - ,b
head tIres'rrr, and the Baon Iibein!ardsnrfiii
himself Wa MOI nj AN arid of hin, teher wa'
his lsdSiliaa h hHir2p5;- -r,
rab'eness, sone through Nil lie eb.iges of her va
sinh, of S.uce mine eyes we giadIened by The
ONE , W 20 y, 9nd now ihqt look updn ,our Gn,;
Your voice 7" ' "'' h'@'c OF
You have spent your absence We'll" soid -,
a1,'en' studying fair words aud smooth speech.
Nay" replied the forester, e Won o,igbt no inc,
as9"N yGu, lHor for rejecting laT image rs
snd 5o "I.' IHtery one who is so rude of tonr1e
"uS hohost ~ speech" 's" o
90 haVGsuid all the gentlemen ,o all tho ,oa;o.
~, NC foundation OF the world. WV '''''''
kouT'less you have passed the ,i,oe vos,l, -
eausiactIon," continued the (raulein yor,,
u u had not been at all TO hers q oIso
hld neither have gone nor hava s'a,, use
so, replied the other. 81 have been ah
IN YOU" '' 'eeh ao-
but voluntarjlyp
young forester smiled smile of na,,ic,,..
'oh' Nothing shows the value of onr