Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1852-11-09
THE GREEN MoUNTAIN MAID.

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aTwas a beautiful spot, where the vine-coV-
cred cot of The mOnntaineer stood at the edge OF
the wood. There the forest birds song echoed
| all the day long and the mountain sstream play
ed in the close OF the shade while the graceful
Young fawn cropped the herbage at dawn from the
wide spreading lawn. Twas beautiful spot
twas a beautiful cot; and surely there nee was
maiden more fair than the maid that dwelt there.
Snail | picture This maid of the greenwood and
plade as she was in the day when old ALLEN
held sway, while his iron nerved men were the
pride of the glen She was neither too tall, too
short nor too small nor so light nor airy as the
form OF. the fairy. But the pride of the glade
was this rosy-cheeked maid, with eyes quite as
blue as the summer skys hue, and the tTesses OF
brown floating gracetnily down. ana nesthng De;
low on q bosom of snow. She could wasble and
sing, like the songsters OF spring: sheCo1id spin
and could sweep, could NOW and could reap
could ride the gray sliced at the top OF his speed,
and had sported triae with her fathers rifle,
And this bouncing young maid OF the evergreen
shade was chaste and refined, aud had such
mind as You seldom eau md among the gay
maidsso haughtieg grRdes a.
A lover she had, who would have beenglad to
capture her heart by his scheming and art
/ O'IIandy his name, and dandy by fame, who
though wrinkledan paIched, was whiskered aud
starched, and displayed quite rare and citZtTeds
air.
Well, he knelt at her feet, and began TO en-
treat while his great bosom beat with unmerCi-
full heat; and he told such tale as he deemed
would not fail to make her believe that he could
not deceive.
While thus lie knelt pleading, while thus in
terceding, he thought by her smiling that his
words were beguiling. But he found the con-
cluson hopeless delusion : for the maid was un-
linking his seeming was thinking; and she
thought in a twinkling, shed give INN sPrink-
ling of the well-peppered ointment OF black dis
appointment. Ere ne drew to close, she turn
ed up her nose, as you may suppose, just as high
as she chose; and scOrning his prose through
his peadings she broke, and thus twas she
spoke:
'.Oh! great is your fame; O'Handy your name;
from the city you came, with your heart all
flame; and you thought, in the shade OF noun
tain or glade, TO capture maid by pOmp and pa
rade OH save all your tears, your hopes and
YOUR fears, your ducks" and your "dears" for
some other ears. All men are agreed you are
nice bird indeed but your figures too lean,you're
too gaunt and too green; and that Is all, you're
excessively tall; your nose is too big-yOu'Ve
a voice like pig, and you wear huge wig
while your upper lip seems just the shade otyour
dreams. Now, my answer you knuw-there's
the door, you may 60"
Still he fingered to plead his love and his need
and he 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 a mountain
maids heart 10 bear insult and wrong from an
eye or from 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 lhe blood flow not gracefully
slow He lit en- all four, just out of the door, all
covered with gore. Then he sprang on his feet,
and considered it sweet, and exceedingly meet to
beat a retreat to cover a defeat; and he fled
from the place in shame aud disgrace-disap.
peared DER The green and was never more seen
and ever since then city daudyfied men have
learned to beware of the Green Mountain Fair.