Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-03-07
THE WIDOWS STORY.

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| should probably have closed my days of all af.
tiictlng slghs and sounds, but for my good old Be.
gulne On her fret visit at dawn, she lectured pro.
diglously on the folly of exposing myself to the
hazards of the night air, of which she evidently
thought much more than Of the Austrian cannon
DalIs' hey might shower upon the building as
they pleased, but" said the Begune, it they kill,
their business is done. 1t is your cold, your damp,
your night air, that carries off without letting any
one Know how" the perpIeXity of science on this
subject forming the chief evil in poor Juliet's mind
See my own condition." said She striving to
brng her Recollection ii aid of her advice. DAT
hiieen WAS 5ar-maid at the Swarz Adler: there
ran in and out, danced at all the family (etes and
was as gay as Il bird on a tree. But that life was
too good 10 last At twenty corporal of Pruss-
ian dragons fell in love with, or with him it is
all the same. His regiment was ordered to Silesa.
nad away VIC all marched. But if ever there was
country OF togs, that was one. There are now
ana ihen, few, even in our delightful France: but
III Sles1 they have patent for them mar Dycriicoc.
if men could eat them there would never be
chance Of starving in Silcsia. So we all rot sore
throats. Cannon and the musketry were nothing TO
then. Our Dragons dropped off like flies at The
end Of summer; and unless we had been ordered
away to keep the Turks from marching TO Berlin,
or the saints know where, the regiment would have
had It's last quarters in this world within league
OF the marshes Of Breslau. SO say-takc care of
damp"
Having thus relieved her good.naturod spirit of
Its burdep, she proceeded to give me sketches of
her history. The corporal had fallen victim
though whether Mt Slleslnn fog, brandy. or bullet
she felt doubtfnl-and she had married his success
sor Ill rank Love and matrlmony in the army are
of different character from either in civil fe for
the love is perpetual, the matrimony precarious.-I
Juliet acknowledge that she never eft above
months interval between her affections as n widow
and her consultations as wife. A handsome Ans
TRAN servant her heart and hand. and she fol.
lowed him to Hungary. There. between marsh fe.
yer and Turkish skirmishng, various casualties
occurred IN The matrimonial list and Inlet. who
evidently had teen handsome brunette. and her
French viyacity distunced all the heavy charms of
Austrian peasan ry, was never without husband.
AT length like other veterans having served her
country to the full extent of her patriotism. She
was discharged with her tenth husband. and off
course induced the honest Austrian to come TO The
only country on which, in French woman's creed.
The sun shines. There he died.
:" loved him." said the Beguinc, wiping her ewes
8 He was an excellent fellow, though dull: and
believe next to smoking schnaps, he loved me bet
ter than any thing else in the world But ON his
Emperors birth day, which he always kept with
bottle OF brandy additional he rambled out into the
log and came back with "A cold Peste knew it
was all over with hin' but nursed him like ba-
oy' ana ne died IKE true Austrian, with his necr
;haun IN ms mouth leaving me his snuff box, the
'erllhcate OF his pension, aud his blessing. bur
ed him, got pensioned, and was brokenhearted.-