Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-12-01
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THE STRAW HAT.
raE FRUIT OF EESE|OLESCE.

me thousand dollars. Any gentleman who would
a,;n, TO advance this sum without security, will
e. N. advertiser by addressing L. l.. III through
s.., Office Circumstances Of extraordinary and
o;or nature have compelled the advertiser to resort
10 this step"
Til. advertisement created little sensation among
..n;.d bachelors with generous temperanents. Many
,6,med Coelebs began think Of bright eyes and
..o,x That the advertiser young and pretty
,h. could be no doubt thought they all For what PLAN
sv would presume ask such prePosterous favor Of
man as $1,000 ,cuLou security Pretty ladies', hand
anne widow for instance, might do i. but no one else
No one more profoundly moved by tls advertise
n, than Neal Neville, Esq. though not exactly IN the
.,ms way and from tho same motives. This gentleman
, bachelor Of i0 well preserved, and without grey
hair for every morning he carefully extracted such IN
,nev ntruders from his dark brown locks and silky
,iskers with pair twoczers. lie might have been
sl,n for no more than and thirty His person vas
we'll made and compact, something tall and inclined tle
lens, in tho world corpulency. H was handsome that
the ladies' called him SO, with clear, hord complex
ou fine teeth and agreeable smile and voice. lie
lawyer by profession but having inherited from
aunt good fortune no gave himself little trouble about
briefs and foes, being constitutonay lover Of ease
and great pattern Of incidence, lounges and cigars
His "sgn nevertheless kept It's place among the host Of
sens Of living and dead that crowd the facade OF the
black granite building ia Court Street.
Neal Neville though endowed with every quality Of
mind and person the female heart, had 'lnacconn-
.,bv to his friends and to fair arants for has
hand remained until he had now got full lasre past
s half way of his threoscore and ter years lie
WAS, neye rheless, what is called Gladys man. lie
had leisure and this devoted TO the Al opera
he w, seen ushcring into the boxes the brightest beau
fies Of the Ii there was concert Neal Neville
was present with smiling belle either Ia wash
ingon street walked alone, and at every tAr
step he raised his hat to beautiful girl or dashng
widow. Yet he had never proposed. Nobody mover
heard Of his having been loves and the ladies' at length
depaired. But long neither of them caught the
butterfly there envy cold looks and his pres
ence always brought smiles to the lips Of those who no
longer thought Of him except friend aud gallant for
the street, concert or drive.
Thus this happy, handsome, rich young old bachelor
fully realized the desire contained the we'll known
song
ard be a butterfly born in 4 bower,
LAYING where roses and volets meet
Rowing forever from flower to flower,
And kissing all buds that pretty and sweet
The apartments occupied by butterfly Of 10 years
experience the fremont. 1t is not therefore
needfn TO say that he lodged very luxurously and
that his rooms in every respect well arpont5I--
Mirrors and sofas divan, and voluptuous easy
chairs rockers, but part of the means assem-
bod TO make him comfortable and at home. But the
bachelor by no comfortable and he felt
science told him wife lie would lay late Of
mornings, read newspapers hour his coffee lin
ger long his dinner and plunge into every variety OF
amusement in the afternoon and evening TO Keep
from feeling the loneliness of his bachelor cham
bors. He liked DO in them unless he had a
friend and when that friend got up go. he would take
hat and go with him. lie felt the need IF VIDE, ana
he sought and only happy ladies' society
Why then, possessing all marrying advantages did he
take to himself daughter of Eve and end his mise
ry7 That's question a great many beautiful girls ana
handsome widows Of his acquaintance put themselves,
but which they able satisfactorily to answer
Fortunately is in power TO reply to it.
Up to M Nevillos 9th year. he had got along with
much solcituae about marrying He fthimsolf still
young and that enough; yertheless he
kept his eyes about him and the look out for
one with whom he might unite his detny. But being
fasdou and requiring higher order of Projections he
not easily satisfied. Ono little short,
other little too TALL another talked too fast another too
slow; too lively another too sober, had
nose with high bridge in il, and another with nose
withou, any bridge at ALL and third had saucy up
Mt the end One laced too tight. and he feared she would
die on his hands OF consumPton and another fat
and he apprehendcd appop!exy, We might 20 on with
the enumeration without end Neal Neville Esq seemed
destined never to marry. But when he had as we have
sad,-reached his 3ih year, chance threw in his way
piece of perfection of woman kind She seemed fault
less to his eye and that he kissed her as the but
terhy in the song did the flowers. He was at Nahant
iazy lying rock fishing for gudgeon or any other
hind Of fish that might be foolish enough to bite when
he was startled by seeing hat and ribbons flying
directly before his eyes and after gyration or two
through the air light gently upon the ana there
noat Up he sprung and looked around him. for the
place was somewhat ,etired) and young ladies'
one Of them bonnetless and both Of them running to-
ward the spot where the hat Graded upon
waves The one who had lost the hat like faw1.
bounding lightly from rock rock. laughing she flew
her golden brown dancing the wind ana her
countenance flushed with health and excitement.
Our bachelor stood cn,ranced. Such beautiful
ture had never before his eyes.
my hat, sir. my hat" she cried a voice OF music,
like silver trumpet sounding down the winds Her
recalled him himself With characteristics gallanry
he bounded down the steep ROCK and with his long fish