Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-03-12
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN MAID.

The following play upon words was written
by Benjamin F. Gaze, for Meals Saturday Ca
zet'e, and is good thing in its way:
Twas beautiful spot where the yine.covered
cot Of the mountaneer STOOD in the edge Of the
wood. There the forest birds song echoed oil
the day long. and the mountain stream played In
the edge Of the shade; while the graceful young
iawn cropt the herbage al dawn from the wide.
spreading lawn. Twas beautiful spot--'twas
beautiful cot; and surely there ne 'er was mai.
den more fair, nor maiden more rare than the
maid that dwelt there. Shall picture this maid
Of the greenwood and glade as she was in the daV
when old "Allen" held sway, while his iron.ner.
we'd men were the pride Of the glenl She was
neither too tall. too short nor too small, nor SO
light nor so airy as the form of a fairy. But ths
pride Of the glade was this rosy-cheeked maid,
with eyes quite as blue as the summer sky's hue,
and irsss Of brown floating gracefully down and
nesting below on bosom Of snow. She could
warbIe and sing like the songsters Of spring; she
couldspin and could sweep, could NOV and could
reap-coud ride the gray sized at the top Of his
speed, and had sported a ,nfe with her fathers
old rife. And this bouncing young maid Of the
evergreen shade was chsse and refined, and had
such mind as you seldom will find among the
gay maids Of laughter grades.
lover she had, who would have been plad 10
capture her heart by his scheming and art. o..
Handy his name, and adandy BY fame, who though
wrlnklcd and parched, was whiskered and starch.
cd and displayed quite rare and eity:fed air.
( Well, he knelt at her feet and began 10 enrrca;,
while his great bosom beat with unmerciful heat;
and he told such a tale as he deem would not fail
. IN ,,,a Ia har hrli ho, he, !
While thus he knel pleading, while thus inter.
ceding, he thought by her smiling that his words
were beguiling. But he found the conclusion
hopeless deusion; for that maid was unlinking
his scheming-was thinking; and she thought in
twnking. she'd give him a sprinkling Of the
well peppered ointment of black DISAPPOINTMENT.
Ere he drew TO close she turned up her nose,
as you may suppose just as high as she chose;
and, scorning his prose, through his pleading she
broke, and thus twas she spoke:
ooh! great is your fame; O'Handy your name
from the city you came with your heart all a
fame; and you thought, in the shade of mountain
or glade. to capture maid by pomp and parade.
Oh! save all your tears, your hopes and your
fears, your ducks and your 'dears' for some
other ears. All men are agreed you're a nice
bird indeed, but your figures too lean, you're too
gaunt and too green; and that is not all, you're.
excessively tall; your nose is TOO bg--you've
voice like pig, and you wear a huge wig, while
your upper lip seems just the shade of your
dreams. Now my answer you know-thcre's
the door, you may go!"
Sill he fingered to plead in his love and his
need-and boasted and told of his titles and gold
of her station in life whom he chose for his
wife. But he found twas no part of mountain
maids heart to bear insult and wrong from an
eye or a tongue. That maid could not brook
such word and such look, and she caught down a
broom that hung in the room, and hit him blow
that made the blood flow not gracefully SLOW
He lii on all four just out Of the door all covered
with gore. Then he sprang to his feet; and con.
sidered it sweet and exceedingly meet to beat
retreat and recover defeSt, and he fled from the
place in shame and disgrace; disappeared DER
the green and was never more seen-and ever
since then city-dandyfed men have learned to
beware Of the Green Mountain Fair.