The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-12-25
THE PROUD MISS MAC BRIDE.
ALEGEND OF GOTHAM.
BY JOHN C. SAKE

me very perSUnlnCallO4 OF pT4Nt,
Is she mimic'd along in FASHIONS tide,
liown Broadway-on the proper side
When the golden sun was setting;
Tzere was pride in the head she carried so high,
Pride in her lip, and pride in her eye,
and world of pride in the very sigh
That her stately bosom was fretting;-
A sigh that pair of elegant feet,
S.niard in satin, should kiss the street.
The very same that the vulgar greet
Il common leather not over neat
For such is the common booting;
and Christian tears may well be shed,
That even among the gentlemen bred
The glorious Day Of Morocco is dead,
And Day i Martin are reigning instead,
On a much inferior footing
O. terribly proud was Miss Mae Bride,
Proud Of her beauty, and proud of her pride,
Ali proud Of fifty matters beside
That wouldn't have borne description;
Proud Of her Wit, proud Of her walk,
Proud of her teeth and proud of her talk,
Proud Of knowing cheese from chalk
Un a very slight inspection
Proud abroad, and proud at home,
'E0ud wherever she chanced to come
when she was glad and when she was glum,
Proud as the head Of G Saracen
y7er the door Of tippling shop
iIoud as duchess, proud Us q fop,
Proud as q boy with bran-neW top"
Proud beyond comparison.
L seems singular thing to say,
Bu; her very senses led her astraY
Respecting all humility;
laso0th, her dull auricular drum, 3
Gould find in Humble only o ..huln''
And heard M rorrp1 oF
II talking about gentility.
What Lo,rLy meant, she did not know,
isf she always avoided everything low
with care the most punctilious;
And still queerer, the audible
super-slIIy' she never had found
In the adjective supercilious!
-ae meaning Of HsaE she never knew.
Tll, Tlt imagined the phrase had something to do
p-A ., Moses "a peddling German Jew,
MO ike all hawkers the country,
Was "a person of no position
a all II seemed 10 her exceedingly plain,
! Ae word was really known to pertain,
"a vulgar German it wasn't germaine,
10 lady Of high condition!
wen her graces,-not her grace
~ that was in the vocative CASE
I'M with the touch of her icy face,
Sat very stifiy upon her .
We never confessed a favor aloud,
4; one Of the simple, common crowd
oli eOldly smiled and family bowed
L who would say "you do me proud.
And do yourself an honorl''
la9 ,I.7 yet the pride Of Miss Mac Bride,
AlAoqgh it has fifty hobbies to ride.
:, ma mad really no foundation;
=. ~ lAe the fabrics that gossips devise
t-Jse single stories that often arise
@1' grow TIL they reach four story size.
was merely fancy creation!
T.. curious fact as ever was known
GHian man nature but often shown
=, hllke IN castle and cottage,
Mn p' PRIDE like pigs of certain breed,
manage TO live and thrive on feed
poor as pauper's pottage.
Vas ril IeF wit should never have made her vain,
ADJ HJ ner lace, sufficiently plain;
u,boIni anu as to her musical powers,
And sa So sne sang until she was hoarse,
Tasv - ~. notes with bankers force,
just such notes as we never endorse,
any acquaintance of ours.
p, Ti1 Vi5th indeed was uncommonlv high;
T5ro1 ss Mac Bride first opened her eve
Rn, =! A lght dim on the light of the sky;
and IL n 4. .9e Is curious passion: -
Sic sIwsr- OF her wealth and worth,
To n.o,I. iIorgot to mention her birth,
people Of rank and fashion.
The opsa.l sas notable things on earth,
loesest one is pride of birth.
bridge ridaoag ag,o our fierce Democracy!
Eitbogsts across hundred years,
n 'Oul o prOn - =! ~ 20
4 hins !. d couple of rotten peers
h IOf laughter, fieers and ieers, 80
american AristOcracy.
Gssnann ana 1.l,!sh Irish, French and Spanish,
CrOss;n, Italian, Dutch and Danish. a--
In su 'neir Veins until they vanish ~ s
8 .1E.S - one conglomeration.
NJ bsrsI,a b tangie OF blood indeed,
In Say harvey will ever succeed
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