The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-11-12
From the Stingaree.
PUCKERINGS.-No

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The best place for a maid, = her motbcr,s edo
At least until she's a confrmcd old maid,
Or, happily become a happy bride.
HOME Is her sphere, and there she should he
l do not mean she should be always tied
To home, to pine and wither in the shade;
I'D have her visit, take a walk, or ride.
Occasionally but she should be made
o know ner PROPER place is home, swcet hom "a
Too MUCH attention to this, CAN'T be paid
Too little is: and hence girls learn TO roam.
And grow up firtabouts, to curse the lives
vi those who curse the hour they made them
wives!
Allow'd to roam at will-whcn, where they please
They learn 20 love to roam and hate to worL
''HABtr is SECOND NATURE" By degrees
They get so g rotten lazy as to shirk
From every thing at variance with ease,
ana thInk, just like his Highness, the Grand
Turk, ~
Their heads should be supported. when they
And as for settin g-to, to. knit, or spin. or row
Or wash, or cook; make butter, bread or cheese 3
They'd Just as soon to MECCA, barefoot go.
Gahding has spoiled the s'othful iades for life,
And wo to him who gets one for a ,o0e!
Again-allow'd nnguarded. free to rove,
Ihey Plck up here or there, a signing swain
And having naught TO do, they-'sEaH in loue %
Inc coolng turtles meet and meet again
iii, grown familiar, they get Z" hand and glove -,
pn they no farther got, none would complain
DI Mn AN ihey getmtoo-in.t q, mate-by Jovc!
Their tender feelings. Thereby hangs a tale -"
the DEVILS Workshop is an lille brain"
And have rarely, if e'er, known it fail.
When CUPlD made of two such work shops ONE.
Ihat' In due time, some dev'lish work was done!
Further particulars, - / beg you'll spare!-
ana furthermore, they learn to tittle-tat'-
Dde0h ana carry scandal here and there
The : horrid things this neighbor said of that
HOW " Mrs ENvIoUs said that some folks were
No oeffer-THAN THEY SHOULD BE-tho' they sat
OF raristocricg n'-and like stale and aat
Dishwatcr %tattle, which they note and bear
From house to house and by which are begat
lhose little silly chickering's which are
80 common in each town and neiehborhood-
our otcn exccpp-of course, THAT'S understood
OF course, am not pUcK'RiNG now. about
any OF our FAR saints-nore ever will =
nut merely scoring some who live :" without
ferona,s wallis who don't grind at our Miu,'i
tnank the Lord, my flock are out-and-out
peffectly Ghristianized, and ne'er do i'll;
oI,lf they do, I've never found IL out!
Since I've been Parson here at Pucketyiue.
LEe me, they've carefully abstained throughout,
FROM gadding to each neighboring domicil.
ii they've a fault at all-which much doubt
tbs not scandal. spreading Pl be sworn =
and as for bustles-none down here are worn!
we bow not, here. to Fashions IS cklc sway;
but wear our old clothes till-wc can get new :;
AND consequently, tailor's bills cschew
ana ~nen we go to church, it is to pray
o. not wickedly .the latest cut to view:
or with a bouncing hustle block the way.
las, ~eisetchere, fashionable christians do:
Who seem to think the sabbath made to play
r o DANDY IN and church the place to show
vi dainty forms, i'll peacock like array;-
rrood worms vain worms vile offspring of the
mat spread themselves ZEN Is THE HOUSE OF
COP
DUB ROSA, 1T was whispered that our belle
III secret favored one among her bcaux;
any, what was strange, one the reverse of we'll
hhuowed by Fortune; all the rest below,
IN that rcspect-albeit he did excel
VIII II those pleasing natural gifts which go,
"'a some young ladies, ESQ romances teli)
AT par" with titles, wealth, high life, and
show $500
ana SOIL Gossip lied not, it befell
mat MYRA did her sweetest smiles bcstow
vi none who lacked all these-PIERR MIaABEL-
That name, twas said, would make her fair
cheeks glow,
And bright eyes sparklc-TnUE " loue signs" all
know
An orphan he, in this Internal hive
mhInis web OF spiders torture net of flies
"nere the weak suffer, aud the powerful thrive;
M there's another HE'LL beneath the skies.
A"S Is the poor mans: that for you, we Diues!