The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-01-09


en-garden, wherein men, like cab
bages, stand sulky and apart. AL
belt one SO unprepossessing as my
self keepeth aloof from thy delights
yet l, even |, have felt thy pangs
and | have wished myself, for Thy
dear sake, lady-killer of the frs
magnitude. Alas the wish was il
vain. In the calm twilight l nigh
fancy myself an Adoni,, and nigh
retire and slumber under the delu.
sion; but daylight would show mt
to myself as | am hideous in face
and deformed in person.-No mat
ter! | am debarred from the delight.
of Hymen, but can yet sympathiz'
in the success of others.
But the ladies', dear souls are
expiring all this while from curiosity
Before crafty it allow me to de.
scribe my hero. About five feet five
in height, with neat form, slight
and elegantly proportioned, face
whose features were the essence OF
regularity, boiled down to the small
est possible space, hair whose ring
let's fell in fiery masses upon his
neck, and voice rivelling in shrill
ness the noise of the steam wistle,
he was a nice, sweet, dapper little
man. u.
And now to please the ladies let
us introduce the girl of his heart,
the too enchanting Arabella Isabel
la Dolabella Duggs.-She looms on
my sight even after this lapse of time,
like a steamboat through fog.
Oh she acas a woman six feet two
and half inches in her stocking feet,
and her growth not checked at that,
she lowered above the pigmies
around herlike the daughters of An
ak among the Hebrew women. With
complexion as clear as concentrat-
cd Qualification, an eye Of the most
piercing grey, nose whose end
sored upwards in contemplation, a
mouth the capacity of which no one
could question, and hair whose long,
stiff, yellow, rebellious masses were
confined by means of numerous
combs, was she not an elegant COM
panion for the more elegant Jona-
than?
''Surc such pair was never seen,
Each formed to meet by nature
Yet, alas they would not meet.
The lady frowned and literally look
ed down upon her adorer. She
wanted to be matched as we'll as
paired, and determined to have no
husband whom she might stumble
over in dark night. The lady was
memorable, and our hero wrapped to
his very eyes in great coat Of sor-
row.
AS we before said, nature awoke
early in the morning, and so did
Genuine Jonathan Mugs. After
awaking he leisurely cast his eyes
towards the chimncy-picce and OBJ
served the time. Then leaping like
a small pattern of giant as he was,
from his couch, he arrayed himself
in his dress, washed his face and
fingers, and deliberately took his
hair from the curl papers. ooh!
Arabella Isabella Dorabella Duggs"
sighed Genuine, "cruel, obdurate
fair one. You have nipped the bud
of my growing hopes, and grated a
poison plant upon fair stalk. |
pine for you, bat pine in vain. Yet
| will win you-lor have you not
fifty thousand dollars in your own
right? For a less sum than this l
would undertake to capture Cali
fornia, and are you more difficult to
conquer than province? No! man
ly courage to thy post! Resolution !!
| invoke thy stalwart add" and
Genuine went down stairs to get his
breakfast.
CHAPTER II.
1t was breakfast time in the house
of Arabella sabellaDorabel laDuggs.
The lovely object of Genuine Jona-
than Muggs' affection was engaged
in stripping the flesh off the bones OF
salt herring, smoked and dried,
preparatory to conveying the same
to her capacious mouth. Now and
then she would cease her employ
ment, and listen anxiously for q mo-
ment. What did she listen for
Hush! await the sequel in anxious
expectation.
The lady finished slowing away
provisions and retired to her cham
Der. She dismissed her maid and
gave vent to her thoughts.
ooh! Genuine Jonathan. cruel
Genuine Jonathan Mugs! ] find
love you after all. Yes-althougl
have treated you so sadly, with
gladness would l lure you back, you
dear little duck, to these arms" and
seating herself in her rocking chair,
she commenced rocking herself tc