Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-06-19

These are the words of a real song that
have heard many times, and rapturou-ly ap-
plauded too Such song. such poem,-
such n songster
No. madam, if want To- hear a song sung
I Will pay eight and eixpence and listen to
Tamburini and Per-iani. | Will not pay,
gloves three-and-Six cab there and back.
four shillings silk stockings every now and
then. say u shilling time I will not pay
~ hear Miss Rudgc screech such disgusting
twaddle a. the above. Ii want To sec dane
ing, there Il Taglioni for my money: or
across the water. Mr-. >erle and her forty
pupils or at Covent Garden. Madame Nedy
beautiful hpuri. dark-evci and agile az
n gazelle. | can sec all these in comfort and
they dance great deal better than Miss
Blogg and Captain IIaggcrty. the great red
whiskered monster. who ALWAYS wears nan
keens because he thinks his legs are fine II
! want conversations what has Miss Flock t.
say to me. torsoOth. between the figures of
cursedI IuadrIle that all graveiy dane
ing? BY heavens, what an agony it is
Look at the he-dancers. they seem oppressed
with dreadful care Look at the cavalier
-eul If the operation lasted long the man
hair would turn white.-he would 90 mad
And is it for this that men and women as
-emble in multitudes for this sorry pastime
No. dance a. YOU Will. Miss Smith. and
futter through the galop like a svl phide
and have the most elegant fresh toilettes. the
most brilliantly polished white shoulders. the
blandest ewes. the reddcst. emperlngest
mouth. the whltest neck. the-in fact say
be a. charming You Will. that l. not the
place To which. If You are worth anything.
YOU most charming You are beautiful :;
YOU very much decOHefee: YOUR eyes are
always glancing down 1t a pretty pearl neck
4 II
grant bouquet, stuck-hddlestick What IL
il that the men admire in you?-the animal
Miss.-the white. plump. external Smith,
which men with their eyeglasses. standing
at various parts Of the room, scanning
pertlv and eurIouslv and Of which they are
speaking brutallv- y pretty admiration. tru-
lv, But Is it possible that these men can
admire anything else III You who have So
much that i really admirable? Cracknell
in the course Of the waltz. has just time to
pant into your ear. :. Were YOU at Ascot
Races - kidwintcr h" dances two sets
of quadrilles with YOU. whispers to you,
=. Do vou pwefer thtwawbewv 1.-THE cw wath-
bewv 1.-THE - aud asks the name of - that
gweat euawmutii fat woman in wed thatir
and bird of I.awadithe? to which you re-
ply - Law, sir. 1t : mamma Inc rest o
the evening passes away in conversation SIM
ilarlv edfving What can any of the mel
the animal? There is your mother. now. IL
red and bird of paradse, as Kidwinter says
She has large fan, which she flaps t. anC
fro across broad chest and has one eve di
rected to her Amelia. dancing with Kidwinte
before mentioned another watching Jane
who Is dancing rIs-d-rfs with Major Cults
and third complacentlv cast upon Edward
who is figuring with Miss Binx in the othe
uuadrilIe How the dear fellow has grown
10 be sure and how like his papa at his ag
-heigho There is mamma. the best wo
man breathing: but fat. and even enormous
as has been said of her. Does anybody gaz
on her? And vet she once as slim an
as fair as you. o simple Amelia
Does ANYBODY care for her? Yes, one
Your father cares for her: Smith cares TO
her and in his eyes she is still the fines
woman of the room and he remembers whe
he danced down seven-and-forty couples OF
count.v-dance with her, two years before yo
we're horn or thought Of. But 1t was a
chance that Miss Hopkins turned out to b
the excellent creature she was Smith dl
not know more than that she was gay, plump
good-looking. and had five thousand pounds
Hit or miss, he took her, and has had assured
Iy no cause to complain; but she might hav