Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-14

complain of broken faith, if after n inter-
val of dozen years her daughters pas au
arreire is drawn inio the light to s'adorn a
tale"
The reader will not be sorry to hear that
have very lately seen the same young lady,
nothing the worse for her castle experience,
but much more becomingly gIrdled with a
neat white apron, out of which she and her
two little girls were dispensing oats, with
no sparing hands, to the poultry in the farm
yard attached to her husbands parsonage.
When l limited that l had once seen her diff
ferently accoutred, she laughed, and said
What goose l was then, to be sure, to
think that 1 was going to be fine lady all
at once, because nothing would satisfy poor
dear mamma but that must be brought out
at court
1t was some time before | made out my
friend Brody in area beyond the kitchen.
He was hastily unbuckling himself from a
sword nearly four feet in length, with which
he had been strutting and fretting this hour,
to acquire the art of carrying such an ap-
pendage, SO that it should not come between
his legs before the vice regal nobility. lie
also was rehearsing for the drawing-room,
and being a short fat man, and scant OF
breath, the exertion had brought more than
usual amount of redness into his face. His
speech also was hurried and stammering,
whilst he tried to laugh at himsef-a most
unsuccessful haw- -haw, must add-ior play
ing the fool at his time Of life.
/" But you know, my friend" said he,
90 when the ladies take thing into their
heads there is no resisting them; and the
mistress here will have it that the girls are
nothing till they come out. So we must
leave our comfortable home, and pack our
selves into expensive lodgings in Dublin,
that the world, seeing that they appear at
the Castle, may understand they are some
thing
"And what do you expect them to gain by
going to the Castle p | took the liberty OF
asking.
I" a bill for feathers aud gltippure, if you
know what that isl don't-that would
clothe the whole family decently for twelve
month
" What no more than that ?''
Oh, yes, a great deal more. There is
the change of making the acquaintance of
half-a-dozen young swells, who will lounge
all the morning on your sofas, eat your din
ners and drink your wine ad h6itlgn every
| evening if you ask them, and accompany the
young ladies to theatres and concerts as often
as you accommodate them with free tickets.
lorlorn hope of an astonishing or impossible
marriage with scion (the French, with
greaterIpropriety, would style him ,ejeto1a)
of g The Ten Thousand not worth thou
sand brass farthIngs; the connection is to
counterbalance all the bother and expense of
making your daughter and yourself the envy
of the BArony of Ehogarty.'
" If that be the value you set upon the
speculation asked HIM, - how is it that
you take personal charge in it, tying your
self on to that toasting Iron and masquerad
ing in point-lace, ruflts, and a silk cooked
hat ? You must be aware that you look
more of a gentleman-aye, and feel 1t too,
from the crown of your ioot-in your tweed
Jacket and c!outed brodekns'
Wait till you are married, my fine fellow,
and have a nursery full of girls. Then you
will understand the reason why. Would
you have me let them 90 to the Castle by
themselves No; must first 90 to the Levee
to qualify myself for admission into better
company, and then attend my wife and tie
Misses Brody to the drawing room. bless
my stars the first part of the programme is
past and gone, for | appeared at the Leyee
Yesterday
" Oh, then," said. yours was really
that little round body which | saw on COW
cred Car on Cork-hill. painting inside an
overnight doublet OF brown popiin. You
reminded me OF soldier crab who has out
grown its shell, and strains every muscle to
| burst through it into the cool air aud lib
erty
Upon my word, you are complimentary,
replied Mr.. Brody; " but them was my feel
ings. however you managed to deciphei them
An excruciating yoke it was, and most ex-
| II l 4 th lo-,
of buying ii court dress out and out-whIch
heaven torbii-the hire of one was equal to
an entire shoot Of broadcloth, which you
could forever after call your own And when
the clothes were hired, they were-as you
sharply observed-too tight IN every way for
a man of my glrtb. | declare | felt like a
lunatic in a straight wastcoat all the &c
they were On my back, to say nothing of the
continual dread Of bursting out of them,
which would, of course, have doubled the
cost, to say nothing about the exposure
" Well" remarked, - that must have
been distressing in itself, and adverse besides
to the ease and freedom which are 50 essen
tial to the proper carriage OF gentleman. >
:" Indeed and you may say that, answered
Mr. Brody, whether you are in jest or not
Mighty awkward 1t was, assure you. But
what was all that to the trouble my neither
garment was to me when my turn came to
make bow to the Lord Lift nant -
" What You don't say there was danger
Of rent also ?"
IS Tnat same was on the cards he con-
tnued. - 1t might but it doesn't. Every
other sense of danger, however, went clean
> out of my mini in the confusion OF the Eo-
| ment, when, bending forward to perform my
obeisance, glimpse OF my lower members
: deprived me of all recollection. In haste
. whilst dressing, | had surveyed my figure
specifically in the glass. 1t was nothing tC
: boast Of that shadow of bare forked ami
NAL which there confronted me. But
; had no leisure to dwell on the reflection; fol
: Manus O'Brine, who was joined with me il
= the expense of the car, Was singing out IL
the street, and bringing all the neighbors tC
the windows with his 4sseveratons tina
st the Voiceragal Coort was waitin' for us.
Scarcely allowing myself time, therefore, tC
a bring buckle and tongue together, bounded
r into the vehicle, and what between Manus'
gabble and the novelty of the situation,
forgot, long before We passed the Cassel-gate
> what manner of man was. | hope there i
A no irreverence in the expression. No wonde
8 afterwards if, in the fare and the exctemen
. of the presence, the sight left my eyes at tn
h second view of my intaryor man. A horri
f BILE fancy seized me that had forgotten tn
r. most material covering of all, and come away
;. in my drawers. Good gracious = says
. what made me go laive NEE trousers bee
hind ?' His excellency AMI suite ioduIge
e, in an audible litter at this original remark
= Small blame to them for that. | laughe
: myself afterwards till l cried again; and til
. mistress had like to be choked with spoon
y full of soup, when | told her of it at dinner
But the disthress at the moment Was litther
. ally inerpressible. How | did envy a mao
d of highlanders who was advancing towar1
% the spot, which | made haste to evacuate
y how envied his fllibeg and what would
not have gwen to be parson, like Jemm
70 Martin, our curate, who had just passe
through the room with his cossack so cor