Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-01-16
From the Northern Lights Magazine
The Lost Maiden.
A LEGEND w MOO YORK AND CHICAGO.
REV. PETROLEUM ". NAsBY, P. NJ, &c.

Twuz midnite In Noo York 4 wild storm
ragged viien1iy over that city, wien frekently
occurs IN The iall Nv the year. In q neat but
uDpretendln boarGlr-aouse, in sekooded
street, sat, IN her room In tue second floor, in
the rear Nv the house, maiden. oe'r who's
head he'd flowed thirty-three summers. Time
he'd no. touched her litely. Her caeeks wuz
sunksB, ~Iiukles yawned hiaiasly .oross her
.orehsad and lursed mahc;ousy list =. tie
corners OF her mouth; her hair VIZ scanty
and thin; The pale red contrast n ontAvoratly
with TIE white skin Nv the sksip, which showed
through pre.ty generally her reok wuz ike
the swans mol much /; and her arms were skin
ry, aua her shoulders .craggv. The only
handsome pint about her WIZ her teeth, ana
them wuz good. She he'd good taste in teeth,
aud bought the best she could find. They COS,
her iorty-two dollars and half; ou;o which
SIZE he'd, at different times, expenoid twe.ve
dollars IN repairs so they wuz good ez
new.
Mabel Montressor wuz a higi-minded seam
stress and whoever sed she wuz handsome
lied his throat like base, faise-hearted
trai,or ez he wuz, and in his mouth likewise.
ghat bein where men generally lie. She all4z
wuz homey, 10 her infancy she wuz said to
hev bin the homeaiest chjil in the village in
Noo Gsrsey into wich she wuz born, and wat
country prodoosis houiier ? Exc answers.
In her g!rlhood, her vital energies wuz all ex-
pendid in her hands and feet, and il woman
mood, she he'd crowd thinner aud thinner snen
she hsd ought tn hev crowd thicker and thick
er and rice rersd, winch is Latin for toiher-
wise. lie addIshen 10 these charms, she ned
acquired habi. Wv squintin, and wuz stfl cted
win q perpstooal cold.
| Mabel wuz a SEWN, wich she continy ooaliy
did for a Twin and sz she piled the needle,
bitter tear. wien ia to say spoze it wuz bit
| ter, ccz all The writer's speak EN- SIGH
fell onto the fabric wich she wuz maxim.
SutLin wuz wrong with her. Some great
grief WIZ preyin onto her-sone untold woe
some desire o0atanab,c-suthin aied her.
The faster she piled her needle, the faster the
tears flew, ez though sEe wuz thin pump, and
| her right arm tie handle thereof.
A. this criticize pint, while her tears wuz a
/ ilowln faster than ever, ther wuz terrible peal
| CIV thunder, and ez she started in terror tTom
Der seat, she observed sittin in front Nv her, cn
the Iother side the tabie-a man Shs
would hev shrieked, but ter, or tied her tongue
How did he get there ? No door he'd opened
aud wv his presence she wuz unaware until he
dawned onto her eyesite. Wat wuz be there
| for No human bein wearin pantsioons heC
evsr sought her presence afore and onaole tC
| solve sncn staggerer, sbe sunk back into heI
seat and sobbed vllenter than ever.
The mysterious introoder wuz a pleasant
lookin, middle-lged gentleman, dressed scrupu
lousiy in black, with paten;-leather boots and
White vest, and white hat with Grape onto 1t
and gold chain hung over his vest, and cant
wlcn he carried rather j .untily than otherwise
His countenance, to youse mercanteel phrase
wuz fair TO middlin. 1t wuz ondeniabl, hand
sum, tho his eye gIittered crooelly, suthin ik
a frozen mill pond IN winter. Sich eyes by tn
way aliuz indicate dissagreeabs death unde
em, and HE lips TOO thin for senooine good hu
NOR, kept wresthin themselves into smil
wich hedn't noihiD in 1t ; sich ez a rat,lesnak
might smile ex he charms bird, or ,ige
indulge ia when he's satisfied he hez sur