Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-12-02
[WHoLR No. 600.

well, you shall 60 with me, dear;
now hasten and get the Strawberries. -
You will want about eight quarts old
Timmy'Il help you pick them, II you call
him up
With light heart Fanny hastened
from the bedroom to rouse up old Tim,
Simon's hired man, and then taking n
basket bounded into The garden, brushing
from tho bushes and tendris showers of
dewy chrysials AS she directed her course
towards the strawberry bed, which lay
blushing with It's delicious fruit. Every
bending sism was SO loaded with clus-
ters that the whole surluce seemed tes-
selated with green and scarlet for ST.
mon, at Fanny's request, had indulgent-
ly let the bed remaln untouched ill her
birth day. Old Tilnmy soon made hi,
appearance to assist her, and less time
than she had named, the generous bas-
kets were filled with the fragrant berry,
aud Fanny aud Tin bore them towards
the house. Here they found Simon
ready 10 start to town with his milk cart,
and Sarah having put up nice lanch Of
fred cakes, cold chicken and home
made bread, saw them off up the Ians
leading TO the ferry road, and alter di-
recting Fanny what kind Of straw to buy,
and what ribbon to get for IL, and giving
her two or three ln,ls messages for tape,
thread, aud such little aecessaries for
herself, she bade her a lingering good
bye not without calling after Fanny to
be careful and not get lost, and to ST.
mon TO come back as soon as he could.
Fanny was in high spirits frs, be-
cause she WIS naturally Of a happy isn-
permanent; secondly because she was
sixteen, that day on which important
event all young girls feel very proud and
very much delighted thirdly, because
She was going TO the city; and iouithly,
bee ause she was going TO buy hsrselfa
new hat All these are very good rea-
Sons for making any ll,tle rustic maiden
feel quite happy, and therefore there Is
no occasion for explaining further causes
for her being in such high spirits. Ev-
cry thing she beheld took the bright hue
OF her heart. The trees were greeDer,
the binds sang sweeier, the sun sbone
brighter, the wafer looked prettier, the
skies bluer, and even the old horse 10
the caii looked sleekcr and went br'sker,
seen in the silver mirror ,ha, reflected her
own bosoh,'s Joy. AT length they enter
ed the ferry boat aud crossed the noble
breast of the Hudson, toward the city,
which sat like n sea queen crowned with
"A hundred spired tiara, thousand na-
vies doing homage to her power Fanny
got oUt Oi the wagon md stood leaning
over the railing OF the boat, gazing in
silence upon the scene around her, and
through which she was moving. Her
eyes rested with unwearied delight OIL
The palisades, looking like the walls ef a
gigantic rampant, built up by ancient
4 Tltans; upon the nearer pleasant green
shores with their handsome villas; upon
the heights OF her own dear Weebnwken,
and the picturesque vlstas Of Hobo
ken; upon The countless towers Of the
lar-strecbing city, with ITS emerald and
embatIed islands, snG, between, a far
Off glimpse of the ocean! At length the
boat daried in between crowds OF ship
ping, and those scenes were shut from
her sight. Simon now assisted her with
her ba sket of strawberries into the milk
wagon, and took a seat beside her, and
[, drove toward the market 10 leave his
vegetables, be fore furnishing his custom-
ers with milk. The market was the
,"FultoD," and having arrived at II aud
disburdened his wagon, he drove off To
supply his customers. 1t was quite early
, in the morning, and though comparative.
I'ly few vehicles were moving IN tho
streets, yet Fanny was bewildered by
{ the noise aud sight oi so many people
! walking. She had not been in the city
! since the berry season the preceding year,
| and though she then became familiarIzcd
! to its dslracting scenes, she had been so
long in the quiet Of her cottage in Wee
hawken that she felt strange at the sud
! den transition. Simon kept her beside
him unit, he had furnished his customers
, in the vicinity Of Beekinan street, which
| he did not by announcing his presence
! by iendish yell that no human being
with one grain Of moral proprioty or cor
rect feeling would give uttorance 10, hut
by ringing q handlc-bell which hes kept
in his seat by him for the purpose. A
man who would send forth such yell as
some we have heard startling the sleeper,
the nervous aud the sick, like a savage
ar-uhoop, would commit murder!
|! After Simon had served his customers,
he drove Fanny up TO the corner OF
Bleeker and Broadway, and telling her
to sell her strawberries in that, Bono, ,
and other respectable streets in the vicln-
''ly, he left her on the sidewalk, promising
10 take her up at the same spot al ten
o'clock, aud then drove of, though not
without carefully caulioning her no, to
: enter any house whatever, but to cell her
strawberries al the door.
Fanny in her long ride about the city
, in the milk calt had got iami'arized I"
its sights and sounds aud easily rcoR-
, nised the streets she had formerly known
4 She stood ON the sidewalk with her large
. basket OF strawberries swung on her
arm. and looked after the milk wagon
2 ill il Disappeared round the corner OF
, Uous,oo street. She then felt a sensa
v ,ion of loneliness and de-eriion that tor
: a moment brought tears into her eyes. -
=, But her natural buoysncy Of temper@-
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