American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-11-11
from the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
THE PRETTY HAYMAKER;

"'bSb lhc ph1HGH' SAIhFts'
From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.l
THE PRETTY HAYAIAKER;
Or, CHARLIE WmTE's SECOND LOVE.
Here too dwes simple truth; plain innocence;
Unsullled beauty: sound unbruken youth,
Patient of labor with a little pleased;
Health ever bloOming unambiOus toll;
Calm contemplatiOn and poetic ease.
LTHoMsoNs SEASONS.
ECharlie White was prince among men. A
Fset d'ourre fnature-who, doubtlessly, intend
ID him to heir some magnificent and titled es-
ate in merrIe Englan but, in a fit of vexation,
perchance that the old Earl, his ''ci-apres," ia
her, obstinatcly refused to shuttle off his NOR
al coil to ma Ike way for the new comer:) drop
ed him in our homespun republic, y'ceped
las! for romance, Charles White. The wee
charlie, by virtue of good nursing, paregoric,
md anniseed, soon changed TO a sturdy urchin,
no stumped about all unwilling of the honors
(e so narrowly escaped.
As there is nothing worth recording during
he minority of our hero-unless indeed we may
lention his taking three rather sudden and ill.,
oluntary cold baths in the cistern during as
nany successive years-also singular and
rilliant experiment in Pyrotechnics, in memo
y,of which he bore ever after sundry warning
icatrices; yet as these are nothing more than
ccideats, to which flesh, and particularly chill
ren's flesh, is heir, we will pass lightly over
hem, and the succeeding years to his twenty
ixth birthday. AT this time he was as the
iris say "such a love of a man," his eyes so
deeply, darkly blue"-his brow so broad
nd white and the bright locks turned above
! so precisely the right shade of brown. His
nely cut, though somewhat haughtily curved
ps, disclosed the handsomest teeth in the
World, his whskers were faultless, and his "six
eet and upward" the envy of half the beaux.
IN his inner man we will not enlarge, merely
remising that he was called a "pretty good fell
ow," also that he had a most intense and aris-
ocratic horror of all plebeian employment
low far the fact of his possessing at the same
me sufficient quantum of the "fthy lucre,"
md pair of very white hands, (''which zen
Ferite" it would have been a thousand pities to
nave spoiled)-ho far, we say, the fact of
hese possessions might have gone in confirm
pig his intuitive repugnance to 'man's curse
We know not, but certain it is he slid along
trough the world right easily. 1t was passing
TRANCE, and so said all the pretty girls of our
eros acquaintance, that his twenty sixth BIRTH
|ay found him still hugging his single blessed
sss. There were, however, whispers that
cupid had, in times of yore, sadly wounded his
eart, through the violet eyes of merry dam
ii, who, after leading him pretty dance
Trough all the perils of love, in lieu of finally
Nrendering at discretion and falling quietly
INTO his wake to follow on cozily over life's sea
suddenly shot off with flying colors, under
mother pilot, leaving him to rig his shattered
ark, and sink or swim, as best lie might
Since that perilous day, Charlie had gone on
breaking hearts with the utmost industry, gain
n N If tip1o orifa a utotio I,dv
tiller, without being once unpleasantly remind
d that he possessed some fragments of heart.
The girls, who at first had spread their slken
cts most assiduously, and in consideration Of
he value of the prize thrown rather more ho-
ey than usual into then smiles, now saw with
ismay all their cloves labor lost" and after
numerous repulses raised the siege zen masse,"
nd stacking their arms unanimously, declared
he fortress impregnabe.
Our hero, in the meantime, little rocking the
esult of this "council de guerre,n quietly wend
d his way to foreign parts, still engaged in
reasonable practices against the fairer half of
reation. But his cup was nearly filled-the
our of retribution was at hand.
Receiving one day an invitation to "petit
iner," he found himself at the conclusion of
is toilette rather late, and determined to short
4 the distance by cross route to the house of
is friend. Sallying forth, therefore, he bound
d over a low fence with an energy that some
Plat discomposed the nice adjustment of his
yacnthine locks, and, with halfuttered male
(ctions on the heat of the day and his own
rdiness, proceeded with hasty steps over a
meadow, richly dotted with mounds of freshly
lown hay. Diverging little from his path,
e entered grove to obtain a momentary shell
or from the sun. Crushing beneath his feet a
envy cluster of the richly NOTED wood-lily
nd pressing aside the fragrant foliage, he
ound his way along till gaining more open
OF, with the next step he half stumbled over.
aye powers, a woman, and moreover fast
eep'--as lie half uttered And more fit
g nook could not have been selected for a
ontide siesta closely sheltered as it was, save
opening on the shady SIDE, where the breezes
ept in to die signing away mid the odorous
Dliage. dry and messy bank supplied fit
nc couch, and there reclined the sleeper who
ad so nearly destroyed our hero's equilibrium.
er slight though rounded figure was clad in
dress OF some coarse, dark material, certainly
OF the late Paris mode, and from beneath the
canty and somewhat brief skirt peeped forth a
bot and ankle OF the most perfect symmetry,
alas! for the elegant Charlie, guiltless alike
shoe and stocking. One little hand had
INK by her side with the soft, pink palm up
lrned and the taper and relaxed fingeis grasp
be- tiny harebell. Its fellow was hid amid
le mass of curls half crushed beneath her
Ice. On the other side of the finely turned
nd the silky clusters were flung boldly bacl
h tie broad, smooth brow, and swept gu
Yer the green moss, crushing down cluste
wild daizies, whose tiny blossoms peeped out
ere and there, amid the raven shadows trem-
10 in the breeze, that waited their soft per-
Aover the still face of the sleeper. ltmight
pm that sweet thought was stirring at