Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-12-03
oil around. shone softly down upon fair

al around. shone softly down upon fair |
ltaly's shores, and brightly upon England's
cities. | saw the Queen as she prayed for
her country, and the maiden, as she prayed
for her lover. Then passed on over the
waters, beholding the great ships speeding
along, and the sea-gulls hanging quietly
on the water. came to America, and bathei
her shores with liquid beauty. l shone
sharply into one Of her large cities, and traced
the robber in his fiendish work when he
thought himself unseen. Only once did he
turn his lace toward me, and it wore such a
look of evil, that shuddered. and once more
drew my cloudy veil, and wept that earth
had come to this. My tears fell upon the
earth, and men called them rain. Would
that they had washed away every sign of Sin !,
L passed on, and peeped into barn window
The old cat sat watching for the mouse that
never came. | glanced into the kitchen
window, and beheld the maid waiting for
her gallant love, whom she SO fondly expect
ed. | looked into the paror window and
saw the mistress waiting for her princely
love. | also saw the mouse as it ran ioyfully
from the jaws CT the cat, and the true love of
the maid, as he lay dying far from her, and
heard his last words, tell her I'll wait for
her at heavens gate saw the false love
of the mistress. as with his honeyed words
he hung devotedly over the chair of the blue
eyed beauty, while the black-eyed love wait
ed in vain for his coming / saw a golden
haired child,w with clasped hands and upturned
face, repeating the words Our Father and
| heard the mothers murmured prayer,
Lead him not into temptation beheld
both the good and evil on the earth. In that
one night witnessed more than any mortal
ever did in lifetime. Can you now ask if
L need more than to gaze and shine"
could not, but returned TO earth more fully
than ever convinced that this our world is a
varied scene, with checkered light and shade
BoTHERs.-Men arc bothers. Women
are born to be anxious about them. Life,
without any men in it, would be so calm,
that possibly nobody would want to 20 to
heaven.
To be sure, without men. nothing would
ever have been invented, except dres
There would be no steam engines, nor any
buildings or bridges We should still
hammer our corn out between two cold
stones, and bake it between two hot ones
but, on the other hand, we should very sci
dom have fdgets we should know abou
what was going to turn up next, and not
feel anxious.
Men stay out late at night without any
good reason. Many woman has begun
sitting up 10 let her father in, gone on with
her brothers, contin ed with her husband,
proceeded with her son. and wound up with
grandson, until sitting up became chronic;
and II ever her ghost appears, it will be
with its nightcap on, in the attitude of
listening for somebody.
Men 60 out in boats upon the water,
and IN ships upon the sea; wome stay at
home and read the awful acci dents. And
when Tom and his friends, out in Yacht,
are becalmed and have to stay out " all
night Tom wonders that Susan is almost
dead with worry. If anybody ever names
boat after me, | hope he Will call it the
" Anxious Polly" for O! how | have
peeped out of upper window in the moon
light, watching folks who were enjoying
themselves nightly upon the river, and
making sure they We're all drowned
Who takes pains to get himself into
danger, and wonders why women will fd
get so? Man
Who worries about him? Woman.
1t is well-known that boy baby cuts
his teeth harder, is Id danger of death of
tener, and is far more trouble to raise. .
than girl That what with strong will
and tondnesS for climbing to high places
born in the child, the woman wac keeps
her little boy from breaking his bones is
a marvel. And, on the whole | don't
know but | should side with the Woman's
Rights folks If they would only change
their form of words, and say Instead of
" Man is a tyrant," ." Man is a bother.
lie certainly Is if you care anything about
him, and, on the whole, it is rather thank
less task to love him much, as a general
thing; and at the close of life Granny
Grey may lie down with the remark:
" I've worried about a good many men
folks in my life, I've cooked for good
many too, and don't know as I've had any
thanks for it.
As for the other world, | believe angels |
are neither men or women, aud I'm very
glad to believe it too; else would there be
some gentleman angel for whom | should
be predestined to sit up late al,cays