Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-22
Kitty Coleman.
by FANNY FORESTER.

Coleman, with her deep, bewildering eyes, that
said all sorts of strange things to your heart,
and yet looked 50 innocent all the time, as
though conducting themselves with the utmost
propriety, and her warm ripe lips, making you
think at once of 6 the roses bed that u bee
would choose to dream in" And so wild and
unmanageable was she-oh, it was shocking to
proper people to look at her And then to
hear her, too! why, she actually laughed
aloud, Kitty Coleman did | say Kitty, be-
cause everybody called her Kitty but her Aunt
Martha she was an orderly gentlewoman, who
disappoved of loud laughing, romping and
nick-naming, as she did of other crimes, so she
always said Miss Catherine. She thought, too,
that Miss GATHERINGS hair-those long, golden
locks, like rays of floating sunshine, wandering
about her shoulders should be gathered up into
Il comb, and the little lady was once really so
obliging as to make trial of the scheme, but at
the first bound she made after Rover the burnish-
cd cloud broke from its ignoble bondage, de-
scending in a glittering shower, and the little
silver comb nestled down in the deep grass, re-
signing its Office of jailer forever. Oh, Kitty
acas romp 1t is a hard thing to say of one
we all loved SO well but Aunt Martha said it,
and shook her head the while and sighed and
the squire, Aunt Martha's brother said it, and
held out his arms for his pet to spring into and
old ladies said it, and said, too, what a pity it
was that young people nowadays had no more
regard for propriety. Even Enoch Snow, the
great phrenologist, buried his fingers in those
dainty locks that none but phrenologist had a
right to touch, and waiting only fora success
ion of peals Of vocal music, which interrupted
his scientific researches, to subside, said that
her organ of mirthfulness was very, very stri
kingly developed. This, then, placed the mat
ter beyond all controversy and it was hence
forth expected that Kitty would do what nobody
else could do, and say what nobody else had 6
right to say and the sin of all, luckily for hel
was to be laid on a strange idiosyncracy, pc
culiar mental, or rather cerebral conformation
over which she had no control and SO Kit,
was forgiven, forgiven by all but -. W.
had little story to tell.
have heard that Cupid is blind but O
that do not believe a word-indeed, | hay;
g confirmation strong" that the malicious lttI
knave has the gift clairvoyancc aiming at hearts
wrapped in the triple foldings of salfshness
fcoa,eit aad gold vSpdidn't he pes,l hIlnself
now in the eye, ana flDw on the lip OF Kitty
Coleman, and with marvellous steady aim, imi
tating parsonage trle more dreaded, $ Gu
down all both great and small % Blind no
no-he saw to hirt too well when he counted
, out his arrows ; and the laughing rogue wal
ready to burst with merriment as he peeped in
to his empty quver, and then looked abroad up
on the havoc he had made. But people SAT-
there was one who had escaped him, winsom
gallant, for whom all but Kitty Coleman had
bright glance and gentle word. As for Kit,
she cared not rush for Harry;Gay, and sough
to annoy him all in her power, and the gentle
man in his turn stalked past her with all tn
dignity of a great mans ghost. Bitter, bite
enemies were Harry Gay and Kitty Coleman
One evening, just because the pretty belle wa
present, Harry took it into his head to be a.
stupid as block or u scholar, for notwithstand
ing his promising name, our young Lucife
could be stupid. Kitty Coleman was very an
CRY, as was proper-what right had any one t.
be stupid in her presence? he'like never wa
heard of before. Kitty in her indignation
said he did not know how to be civil and the
she sighed doubtless at the boorishness Of scho
ars in general and this ono in particular an
then she laughed so long and muscally, tina
the lawyer, the schcolmaster, the four clerkl
the merchant, and Lithper Lthpet, the dandy
all joined in the chorus, though, for the life o
; them, they could not have told what the lad
laughed at Harry Gay drew up his head wit
as much dignity as though he had known tf
mirth was at his expense, cast contemptuou
glances towards the group of nod walters, an
then, to show his own superior taste attaehc
himself te the ugliest woman in the room.
was. very strange that Kitty Coleman shoul
have disregarded entirely the opinion Of such
distingue gentleman, but she only laughed IL
it indeed, his serious face seemed to infuse Il
very spirit, ay, thoeoncentrated double-distillt
essence of mirth into her; and "a more froli
> some creature never existed than she was, ii
: the irrtated scholar, unable to endure it long
' disappeared in the quietest manner possible
Then all of a sudden the selfwiled belle decla
:, ed she hated parties, she never would go to al
other; and making her adeus in the most az
, proved don 't-care stylc insisted on being take
home at once.
Harry Gay was not q native of our village
he came from one of the eastern cities to spen
: a summer there; and Aunt Martha said he wa
too well-bred to have any patience with the no.
denish manners of her romping niass But XII
: ty insisted that her manners were not hoydel
ish and If her heart overaowed, it was nj
her fault, she could not shut up all the gla
feelings within her, they would leap back
the call of their kindred, gushing from 9TH
!, bosoms, and to all the beautiful, bcautif
things of creation, as joyous in their mute ell
quence as she was. Besides, the wicked litt
= Kitty Coleman was always angry that Aul
. Martha should attempt to govern her likings
Q Harry Gay; she would not be dictated to /
him, even though his opinions received the san,
ton of her infallable aunt, But the lady mad
o trdng mistake on the subject-matter of b
n interference. He did not slander her, and a
q wavs waived the theme of her follies when he
r. Aunt Martha introduced it indeed, he neve
A was heard to speak of the belle, but oncc--one