The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-03-13
ne he'd laid business on the shell
! he called an archilec, in counsel:

Ou hiC u OuHutIY hUOU,l
A thing complete from chimney.pot
Down TO the very grounee;
Here's half-acre of good land;
Jus, have it nicely mapped and planned
And make your workmen drive on;
Meadow there is, and unpland too,
And shonld like water.view,
D. you think you could contrive one I?
(Perhaps the pump and trough would 60,
If painted II jndicious blue y
The woodland l've attended to :"
HE meant three pines stuck up askew,
Two dead ones and live one.)
"a pocket-full of rocks I would take
To build a house of free stone,
But then il is not hard TO make
What now. a-dsys is the stone;
The cunning painter in trice
fonr house outside petrfies,
And people think it very gneiss
Without inquirins deeper;
My money heyer shall be thrown
Away on such a deal of stone,
When slone Of deal is cheaper"
And so the greenest Of antiques
Was reared for Knot dwell in;
The architect worked hard Tor weeks
In venting all his private peaks .-. rr,
Upon the roof whose crop of leaks
Had satisfied Fluellen
Whatever any body had
Out OF the common, good or bat,
Knott had 1t all worked we'll in
A donjon keep, where-clolhes might dry,
a por,er's hdge tha, was d sty,
A campanile slim and high,
Too small 10 hang bell in;
All up and down aud here and there,
With Lord knows. whats of round and SO aare
Stuck on at random every where,
II was a house 10 make one stare.
Allcnners aud all gables;
Like dogs let loose upon bear,
Ten emulons styles, sfaboyd with care,
The whole among them seemed 10 tear,
And all the oddities to spare
Were set upon the stables.
Knot. vac delighted with a pile
Approved by fashions lealcrs;'
'tCnIy he made the builder smile, ra-
By asking, every little while, t
Why thai was called the Twodoor style,
Which certainly had three doors?)
Ye; better foi this luckless man
II he had put downright ban n.
Upon tho thing in lmine;
For, though 10 quit affairs his plan,
Ere ms.,;y ms"y DAYS. poor Knott began -
Z. -..~i's that ran
fefloEce acCepthS ufuuSs.~y
All ways-except up chimney;
The house, though Painted stone 10 mock,
With nice white lines round every block,
Some irepidation stood in,
When tempesis, (wiik petrific shock,
So to.speak made il really rock, s
Though hot whit less wooden (;
And painted stone, howe'er well done,
viii not take in the prodigal sun
Whose beams are never quite al one
With oui terrestrial lumber;
30 the wood shrank around the knots,
Aud gaped in disconcerting spots,
And there were lots of dots and rots
And crannies without number,
Wherclhrough, as you may well presume,
phe wind, like water through a ilume, u
Came rushing in ecstalic, ~. p
Leaving, in all three floors, no room
~ That was not a rheumatIc; tss
And, what with points and squares and rounds
Grown shaky on their poises,
! The house al nights was full OF pounds,
Thumps, bumps, creaks, scratchings, raps--
lsl -, ill-"Zounds "
Cried Knott, ssthis goes beyond all bounds,
do not deal in tongues and sounds, e
Nor have let my house and grounds
. To family of Noyeses!'
buf though Knott house was fuil oil airs,
He had but one--a daughter;
And, as he,owned much stocks and shares,
u Many who wished to render theirs ~ "a
Such vain, unsaiisfying cares, .5
i And needed wives 10 sew their tears,
srg In matrinony sought her;
They vowed her gold they wanted not,
"a Their faith would never falter, sa'
They longed TO tie this single Knott
1hsIn the Hymen@a halter;
cSodaily at The door they rang,
Il Cards for The belle delivering, t,A.
q Or In the choir at her they sang, ~,
I Achieving suehsa rapturous twang
asa A. set hernervos ashivefing. aaig p
Just az this stims tho Publicis eyes
Were keenly ct,the watch, q stir
Besinuing slowlyst TO arise asa s4
Aboutthose questions aud replies,
rhoss raps iha, nrwrapped mysteries