Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-12-02

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three Of the largest from Fanny's basket
and aie them | will give 1t 10 you.--
Here is sixty-two and half cents, and
as suppose you don't happen To h. We a
cent, Fll just take a HANDFUL to make II
II up and the good lady took a sixpence
worth OF straw berries Tor her ali-penny !!
Fanny stared aud though! she had very
| funny customer, .bu, she did not know
40 much ofhuman nature as she would
# she lived twenty years longer She
replaced the mulberry leaves lest tine
lady, might remember she jest wanted
a few more for her baby, aud hastened
down the steps and took her way along
the sidewalk singing her sweet straw
strawberry song,
II "straw-ber-res hn~ ripo straw berries !"
\ As she was passing stately man
sion lovely blue-eyed girl threw open
the blinds, and in a pleasant voice said.
Come IN, strawberry eirl, l want Ia
buy some of your nice strawberries y
Fanny looked up, smiled aud ceased
her song, und the next moment the doo'
was oPened by the young lady:
H 'Oh, what pretty creature you are T!
Isn't she Julieite = she exclaimed, ms
Fanny came up the steps, running round
and speaking To another young girl who
| looked like her sister,
i "A perfect brunette = answered Ju.
Iieue, in rapture come in, l want 10
see you.
/ 'Wll you buy my strawberries = ask
ed Fanny archIy.
/ Yes. If you will come in,' cried the
first. why what eyes aud lips y and
they almost pulled Fanny into the hall,
MS if they had been children, and she
great doll. Fanny recollected her ia
lher's wise injunction not 10 enter any
house, though without suspec,ing the
motive from which his experience had
led him to give such n command but ~
the door was instantly closed, and she
was dragged into the paIlor 10y her love-
ly cuptors. she coulC not have retreated
Il 1t she would. She was bewildercd and
amazed by The richness ofthe apartment
| Pictures in massive gold frames, were
suspended by crimson sllken cords, from
The delcately tinted walls /; curtains of
red and yellow silk, draped the lofty
windows difiusing IA soft roseate glow
ihroug houi the apartment the marble
mantcl-piece was supported by statues,
sofas, oi,omans and divers luxurious ar
licles, Of none of which did she know the
names, we've placed about 4; an open
piano, at which the young ladies were
practising duet, when they heard the
n,r'a soil, in il
street the rich dyes OF the thick carpet,
and the thousand beautiful ornaments
strewn around, filled her mind with a
maZement and new sensations Of pleas
ure.
\ Without awaiting for her to complete
her survey Of the parlour, they began to-
question her and inspect her.
~ hat beautiful hair See what
shining tresses 'exclained the biue-eyed
Pamela, taking off her bonnet do you
put ii every night in paper =
NO. answered Fanny, laughing and
trying to tie OF the sun-hat.
what dark eyes, Pamelan exclaimed
JuIicuc. 'Whal cye.Iashes for a straw
berry girl y
And what coral lips = cried Pamela.
'And what teeth = echoed Julietie.
'And what a rich brown complexion
she added.
And what n bright color man,les
through it in her cheek y repeated Pam.
ella, seeing poor Fanny's blushing con-
fusion, at this singular inventory, which
she could not resist, as one pulled her
this way and the other turned her that
way, was being taken of her charms.
L DO you see her foot, Juliette y
Isn't it little Cinderella, Pamela =
'And a strawberry girl, Juliette y
"A strawberry girl 50 handsome y
Il wish, young ladies, you would let
me 90 and sell my strawberries said
Fanny, laughing, aud trying to get away
from Juliet,e to be taken hold Of by
Pamela.
What smile for strawberry girl {"
cried Pamela.
"What voice for strawberry girl !!
cried Julielte.
Can you sing ? asked one.
'Can you play ? asked the other.
'Come to the piano. pulled this.
DO play y hauled that.
Il And between the two wild, enthusas.
tic, hair bralned girls, who like all pref.
| ty girls, went crazy at the sight of beau
Ity in another Of their sex, our sweet
strawberry girl was nearly pulled in
pieces. Woman, though with more
moderation than our two young ladies
have shown, if herself lovely, always
loves to see pretty woman. "A beautI-
ful woman is always quicker to detect
| aud point out another beautiful female
than men are II is wrong opinior
which attributes to her envy,as the feel
lng that fills her bosom at such times
on the contrary, it is admiration. -
/ Love for female beauty is ds deeply
implanted ~ woman as IN man, witt
! this dillerence III the one it is mixed
with degree Of inferior emotion il
the other, 1t is pure and unalloyed taste
or love for the beautiful for itself, which
woman possesses Intrinsic ally in high he
degree than man. But this is digres
sion
II Fanny soon convinced them that she
knew 6othing about playing, and they al
length induced her to sing, for they as
Il su,ad ha, ihav kue,v she cnulI f,r IN a. ,