The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-03-31
From Meals Saturday Gazette.
The Green Mountain Girl.

Twas beautiful spot where the vine COW
cred cot of the moIntaineer stood int the edge
OF the wood. There the forest birds song
echoed all the day long, and the mountain
stream played in the edge Of the shade /:
where the graceful young lawn cropped the
heritage at dawn from the wide spreading
lawn Twas beautiful spot-'twaS a
beautiful cot and surely there ne'er was a
maiden more fair, nor a maiden more rare
than the maid who dwclt there. Shall |
picture this maid ofthe greenwood and glade.
as she was in the day Allen held sway, with
his iron nerved men were the pride of the
glen? she was neither too tall. too short or
TOO small. nor so siight and so airy a. the
form of fairy. But the pride Of the GLADE.
was the rosy checked maid. with eyes quite
as blue as the summers sky hue. and the
trcsses Of brown. floating gracefully down
and nesting below, on bosom of snow.
She could MARBLE and sing, like the song
s,crS of spring; she could spin and could
reap-could ride the gay stced at the top of
his speed. and had sported trine with her
fathers rife. And this bouncing Young
maid, of the ever green shade was chaStc
and refined, and she had such a mind as
you seldom will find, among the gay maids
Of laughter grades.
a lover she had who would have been
glad to capture her heart by his schc,niuc
and art. O'liandy his name, dandy by
fame who tho wrinkled and parched, was
wrnkled and starched, ana displayed quite
a rare and citilied air.
Well he knelt at her feet. and began to
entreat, while her bosom beat, with unmer-
cful heat; and lie told such n tale as he
dreamed would not fail to make her believe,
that he could not deceive.
While he thus knelt pleading, while thus
interccding. he thought 10y her smiling that
his words were beguiling. But he found
the conclusion hopeless dclusiun; for tina,
maid was unlinking his scheming-wa
thinking, and she thought in twinklng
she gave him sprinkling Of the well pre-.
pared ointment Of black disappointment
Ere he drew to close she turned up hei
nose. as you may suppose, just as high a,
she chose; and scorning his prose, through
his plcadingS she broke and twas thus She
spoke.
Oh! great is your fame: O'IIandy youl
namc-lrom the city you came with YOU
heart all in flame and you thought in the
shade, of the mountain Or glade, to capture
a maid by pomp and parade. Oh save al
your tears, your hopes and your fears, YOU
'ducks" and your ''dears" for some othc,
ears. All men are agreed you're a mic,
bird indeed; but your figures too lean
you're too gaunt and too green; and that il
not all, you're excessively tall; your nose i
too big-yonv'e voice like pig, and 70,
wear huge wig, while your upperlip seem
just the shape Of your dreams. Now my an
swer you know-there's the door, you ma,
gor'
Still he fingered to plead in his love an,
his need-and he boasted and told of his ii
/ ties and gold--of her station in life whom h,
chose for wife. Blu, he found twas II,
| part of mountain maids heart, to bear in
suit or wrong, from an eye or a tongue
I That maid could not brook such word an,
such look, and she caught down broom
that hung in the room, and hit him blow
that made the blood flow not GRACEFUL
slow. lie on all four, just out the door
all covered with gore. Then he sprang {
his feet and considered it sweet to beat re
treatto cover defeat, and fed from the place
in shame and diSgrace-disappearcd DER tn
green and was never more scen-and eve
since then, city dandicd men have lcarne
10 beware Of the Green Mountain Fair.