Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-12-06
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From the Symbol and Odd Fellows Magazine
THE STRAW HAT;
THE FRUIT OF BENEVOLENCE.

In one Of the morning papers, not long since,
there appeared the following singular advertise
ment.
CA lady is DESTROYS of obtaining for a short time
the sum of one thousand dollars Any gentleman
who would he willing to advance this sum without
security, will oblige the advertiser by addressing
L. L. NJ, through the post office. Circumstances
of an extraordinary md peculiar nature have com
PEELED the advertiser to resort to this step"
This advertisement created no little sensation a.
mong the monled bachelors with generous temper
aments Many confirmed Celehes began to think
of bright eyes and matrmony. That the adyert-
Per was young and pretty, there could be no doubt,
thought they all. For what plain lady would pre-
sumo to ask such preposterous favor of a man as
one thousand dollars without security! Pretty la
dies-a handsome widow, for instance-might do
it, but Ito one else
No one was more prooun lily moved by this adj
vertsement than Neal Melville, Esq, though not
exactly in the same way and from the same mo-
tiVes. This gentleman was bachelor of forty;
we'll preserved, and without grey hair; for eve
nv morning he carefully extracted such untimely
intrucers from his dark brown locks and silky
whiskers with pair Of tWeeZels. He was q man
of cheerful temper, and his face, therefore, had
few Wrinkles. He might have been taken for no
more than two and thirty. His person was we'll
madeSand compact, somewhat tall, and inclined,
the least in the world, to c0rpulency. He was
handsome-that is, the ladies called him so--with
clear, forid complexion, fine teeth, and an agree
able smile and voice He was lawyer by pro-
fession, but having inherited from an aunt good
fortune, 'he gave himself little trouble about briefs
aud fees, constltutionay a lover of ease, and a
great pattern of Incidence, loungers, and cigars
His sign nevertheless, kept its place among the
host of signs of the living aud dead that crowd the
facade of the black granite law buildings in Court
street.
Neal Melville, though endowed with every quail
ity of mind and person to win the female heart
unaccountably to his friends and to numerous fan
aspirants for his hand remained single until he
had got full Iustre past the half way stone Of hi:
three score and ten years. He was, nevertheless
what is called Hlady's man. He had leisure, ant
this he devoted to the sex. Al an opera he was
seen ushering into the boxes the brightest beauties
of the town. If there was concert, Neal Mel
Vile was present with a smiling belle on eithe
arm. In Washington street he never walked a
lone, and at every third step he raised his hat tt
some beautiful girl or dashng widow Yet he hat
never proposed. Nobody had ever heard of hi
ever having been in love; and the ladies' at engt
despaired! But SO long as neither Of them caugh
the butterfly, there was no envy or cold looks AM
his presence always brought smiles to the lips o
those who 10 longer thought of him except as
friend and gallant for the street, concert or drive
Thus the happy, handsome, rich, young oil
bachelor, fully realized the desire contained in til
well known song
I'll be a butterfly, born in bower,
Living where roses and Yiolets meet
Rowing forever from flower to flower,
And kissing all buds that are pretty & swee
Tie apartments occupied by our butterfly
forty years experience, were at the Fremont.
is Dot, therefore, needfuI to say tina l'was lodge