The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-11-19


Twas beautiful spot where The vine
covered cot Of the mountainaer stood at the
edge Of the wood. There the forest birds
song echoed all the day leng, andthe noun
tain stream played in the close Of the shade (;
while the graceful young fawn cropped the
herbaQe at dawn from the wide.spreading
lawn. Twas beautiful spot--'twas a
beautiful cot and surely there neer was q
maiden more fair, nor maiden more rare,
than lhe maid that dweit there. Shall !
picture this maid of the greenwood and
elade. as she was in that day when old
q Allen" held sway, while his iron-nerved
men were the pride Of the glen She was
neither too tall, too short, nor too small; nOri
SO light, nor 50 airy as the the form Of the
fairy. But the pride Of the glade was this
rosy.cheeked maid, with eyes quite as blue
as the summer sky's hue, aud the tresses Of
brown floating gracefully down, and nest
ling below on a bosom Of snow. She could
warble and sing, like the songsters ofspring,
she could spin and could weep, could NOV
and could feap-coHld ride the grey steed
at the Top his speed, and had spoTted
trifle with her fathers rife. And this
bouncing young maid of the evergreen
shade was chaste and refined, and had such
q mind as you seldom can find among the
any maids Of laughter grades,
a lover she had who would have been
glad 70 capture her heart by his scheming
and art o'Handy his name, dandy BY
fame, who, though wrinkled and parched,
was whiskered and starched, and displayed
qaite rare and eifified air.
Well, he knelt at her feet, aud began to
entreat, while his great bosom beat with
unmerciful heat and he told such tale
. he deemed would not fail to make her
believe that he could not deceive.
While thus be knelt pleading, while thus
intereeding, he thought by her smiling that
his words were beguiling. Bat he found
the conclusion hopeless delusion for that
maid was dnlinking his scheming-was
thinking and she thought in a twinkling,
she'd give him 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 pleadiDgs 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 a fame and you thought, in the
shade Of mountain or glade, to capture
maid by pomp and Trade. Oh save all
your tears, your hopes and your fears, your
ducks and your dears,' for some other
ears. Allmen are agreed you're nice bird
indeed but your figures too lean, you're
too gaunt and too green and that is not all,
your excessively tall your nose is too big
you've a voice ike pig, and you wear
huge wig, while your upper lip seems Just
the shade of your dreams. Now my answer
you knOw--lhere's the door, you may go;''
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 mountain maids heart to bear in
suit and wrong from an eye or a tongue.
That maid could not brook such word and
such look, and she caught down broom
that hung in the room, and hit him blow
that made the blood flow not gracefully
slow. He lit on all four, just out of the
door, all covered with gore. Then he
sptang on his feet, and considered it sweet
and exceedingly meet 10 beat retreat to
cover defeat, aud he fed from the place in
shame and disgrace-disappeared over the
green and was never more seen--and ever
since then city.dandified men have learned
to beware of the Green Mountain FAIR.