Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-04-26

SS's eiuWS oIlBhtcst III reuectlOn. lie thought
IL "mean shame" She wouldn't help him
out," while she sat there, looking good
enough to cat" and laughing at him, as even
his blunt perception told him, whilst her aiien.
tinn was apparently bestowed upon the shirt
sleeve. He wished it were his shirt she was
stitching so assiduously. lie stirred up the
ashes on the hearth, and almost made Up his
mind that he warn't going to give her another
chance at him. but Cyn,hia dropped her cot
ton-ball, and Seth, not rising from his chair,
stretched out his long, lank arm, and picked ii
up. He touched her hand, as she iook il back
and an electric shock thrilled through his
veins, and made him feel all over-eyer so,
as he some time Afterwards expressed the sen
sation to me-
Miss Cyn,hy, may be you are fond Of ma
pie candy ,f
Very said she.
well, now, said Seth. rising, the next
time | come, Ill Try and bring you great
gob.'
But as he rode hume, behind his old farm
mare, he said to himself, 4 reckon amt go
ing back TO court gal who sees a feller 10 a
fix, and never helps him. And sure enough,
he never did return. Miss Cynthia lost her
riches, lover, and many folks, even TO this day
believe she wished him back again. Ii is the
way Of women to want the thing that can't be
had. Al least so men say (if not in practice,
in theory,) and Cynthia's mouth wsierrd, ]
dare say, for many week aller, for that goh
Of maple candy.
THE MORAL. Let every man, oh pretty
girl, pay court to you 10 his own way, and
not in your way, and help him ou, al that, be-
ing sure, however, that you are in harmony
with his mode of procedure. Never disturb
ice-eEeam when ii is going 10 freeze nor lin
the po, as it begins 10 boil nor make false
step and get out Of time, when your partner
is meditating reverse in the deur temps, or the
polka. Many declaration Of affection has
been frightened on by some wrong note sung
in the treble Of the duet, which put il out Of
harmony.
Cynthia, though so pretty girl, and so ex-
perienccd in the art Of saying no. TO an offer
of marriage, had yet guod deal to learn 10
her own craft; and. indeed, no experience ev-
er primes woman for the derisive moment.
Each case must be met on principle, and not on
precedent Il is our business to discover, in
this story Of Snip-Snsp,' how fat pretty Gym
ihia profiied by the experience she prided her
self upon in the rejection Of her lovers.
1t was mellow autumn morning. and
russet glow had iinged the woods at the back
Of Squire Simpsons homestead. II was Seth
TaRgar's wedding day, lie was to marry,
that evening. Susie Chase-a smiling lille
rose bud Of a wife, 10 whom he found plenty Of
things TO say as sweet to Susie's ears as TO her
lips his maple candy. Cynthia, as one Of her
best friends, was TO he bridesmaid and as she
wished 10 shine that night, in all her Bravery,
and wanted some new ribbons for her head
dress, this want tempted her abroad, a litile
aiier noon, when the harVest-felds were quiet
and The yoked oxen stood relieved from labor.
leisurely chewing the sweet morsel reserved for
that soa sunny hour of rest, as men OF business
used 10 do the thought Of the last letter writ
ten by the hand they love, ill the burden Of
the day is laid aside, putting it apart with all
its woman's nonsense, and half unreasonable
fances,) pure from the contact of the pile of
yellow letters lying on their desk Offerings
upon the shrine of Jupiter Mammou.
Our pretty Cyniha itipped along her path,
scattering cloud of grasshoppers and crickets.
as she stepped; and in her silly liule pride Of
bsllehood her heart held, though she would
not have confessed the thought, that her rela-
tive value to the crowd Of beaux was in the
same proportion as that Of one woman TO many
grasshoppers.
At turn in the path she bame suddenly on
one OF these admirers-Frank Handy. Franks
face flushed. He had been thinking Of her all
that day and through sleepless night; and 10
those hours the Cynthia Of his fancy had smiled
on him, and laid her gentle hand in his, and
had been gathered To his heart--it was a shock
to come thus SO suddenly upon SO different a
reality, Al the moment he encountered her,
he was indulging himself in an imaginary love
scene, in which he was calling her, in heart.
My Cynthia, my love- and at the sudden sight
Of her, all such presumptuous fancies fed in
haste, and hid themselves, shrinking like vari-
tinted coral polypes when danger approachcs--
each into the recesses Of its cell
4 beg your pardon Miss Cynthia he said,
siammering before he gathered selfpossession,
and accustomed himself to her presence. 4
was on my way 10 make you a call. II you
will allow me, will turn round and walk with
you.
4 am not going far, Mr.. Frank, only into
the village, for some ribbon for my hair, and
gentlemen dislike shopping, (knowing perfect
ly well that he wonld go with her)
Il know where wild hop-vine grows, said
he, lit would make much preitier ornament
for your hair than any ribbons you could buy
in the village
And will you get me some 4
Turn this way into the woods, and spare
me half an hour while twist |, inlo wreath
| am going away from here Tomorrow, per-
haps, ! have been offered a prolessorship in a
school Of agriculinre,'
Indeed, Mr.. Handy
There was pause, and Cynthia resumed, a
little hurriedly i should think you would
like going away from here. There is nothing
to tempt young gentleman TO remain among
us.