Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-30
EVENINGsSTAR.
OUR COUSIN.

Oar coGsnuSus a dlshiag5 young lsysaoe -sr.
teen, who bad come into Ahe, ,cc;.atIy .o.sacsi-
fee week or two s-iOng the rural Population.
Ii was a gay mornf.Ig in june when we Isat
! together ander a niapletree, We in our homie
spun, and she in e full dress, giving a thrill
/, ,Ihg account OF an unfortunate breach which
I some country girls had made the night before
on the rules of etfquetSec AT length, the story
being ended, l's ,.ne, cousin, ,, said we, .sup-
pose We go into. the garden, and nhale the odO-
riferous breeaes arising from the cucumber
vines.'' "Ah, Moiisieuf, with pleasure sahi
she, at the ssIneJ tim e, throwing herself on oyr
arm with all, the freedOm jim the world ,Aftei
sweeping up and down the alleys for while,
- Cousin, I" Said we gfAyely, - what 10 you call
! the distant verduse twining about, yon poles,
and hanging from the tops in graceful fes-
tOons ~ " That" said she, must be a spe-
cies Of evergreen. / think il is the .polyan-
thus.''' " Pole beans, yOu mean. rather. said
we ismposedlyi " the bears grow in those fat
things, called pods, and which in their greer.
state may be eaten, beans and all; in that
case they srhacnlled string beans -f .--..--p
. And what ale. those green, round things,
stuck up on sticks &, asked she innOcently
: Those are called cabbages, we replied "a
term not upfrequently associated with pork.
and which, when cooked together constitute u
most excellent dish And those round bulbous
Goots, with green tubular. stslks !; how would
! you eharsctsrize those continued we. q
| think, they as, called turl.ips," she replied;
- are they not % /" They bear resemblance
to thein,'' we answered, 'sthey are usually
called onions, We believe. They somc times
| emit an unpleasant Odor, and should never be
| eaten before going il 10 young ladies society,"
! - They are never in New York. said she
indeed. they are never eaten, there at al"
''Ah ~ we replied. Having gone through the
vegetable and floral kingdom in the latter of
I tNrhin oh 81 Lon--l
| nounced respectively snow-drOp and prim-
rose, We strolled up to an enormous bunch of
| fennel, standing in the corner of the garden.
" Here, began we, -emphatically, lis one of
the most beautiful plahts in the herbiyerous
! kingdom, Observe the stalks, how round and
| how regular, and the leaves, how exqusitely
delicate and all terminating in these deli
cious little seeds SO prevalent in tea cakes. -
AT this she caught hold of y hunch, AMI ia
her effort to pull ii off, shook down huge feI.-
mel worn on her broca1e . Why, cousin
said we. admiringly, /" what a beautiful little
| creature is crawling on your dress. y {. What
IS IT said she, looking about. "a charm
| ing little fennel worm "A what a worm
murder! where Is it get it off," She began
carrot beds, and finally trippel in a row of
bush besns, and fell into huge gooseberry
bush l. Sir, said she. energetically. Il
shall never forgive you for this-never- ="
8 Becaim yourself, cousin" said We, quietly;
= suffer not passi9n t. preside over reason.
Let not the innocent suffer for the sins Of TIL
guilty. fOr then the rule Of justice is made
null, Let us seek rather TO rescue you from
this periious position without doing your
fOunccs violence. Ia that ease, EOwevcr,
they saai! be converted mt k:te tai,s, Were
you Inust acknowledge they will serve Eo
equally useful and !ornAml nta. purpose. s"
" Oh, you mean thin5," "xciamad She impa-
| t'ently, 'do he still At last, with some
difficulty, me dress was diseRtangled without
harm, except rent of about a yard in the
fifth tier Of this superfuous foliage. %LL.iich W.
uggeSted could easily Be repaired by cutting
And now, dear cousin said We, LET Il.
30 into the kitchen and gegale ourselves with
a dish of cold ham, and when you feel Dis
posed to rldlcnle country girls again, call to
mind the young lady who mistook pole beans
for polyanthUses, and who, through fear of a
feeble worm, tranpled down the. carrot beds.
and fell into 4 gooseberry bush - ~