The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-04-29
LoVE AND LEXIC0Es

AN INCIDENT OF THE sPELLINo CRUSADE
CANTO I-sHE
She lived Of! Calumet Avenue.
Her hair was golden, her eyes were tIler
And fun a. sweet a. her sunny smile,
Was the iJel that her father had made his Pile
This maiden had learned al NassaT store
Of fashionable linguistic lore,
French, German, Italian, all she knew,
And still she posted in English too,
which Is not the fashion nowadays
With girl. from NIssaT CbeEaray's-
They don't quite learn foreign tongue. be- YET
Their 0wn they naIsaSe 10 forget
CAETO HE
He-fOr q story must have He
Was the social antiPOdes Of ''She.'
Merrily did he the counter leap
And he wrestlei his hash II clearinghouse
cheap.
He was self-r,iaie. As Z cash-boy he
Used 10 spell out the Hosiery,
Cheaper than Ever-Diaper, Crash,
At Panic Prioes''-searce needing the -t2,h. .
the angry salesman. Himself clerk,
He improved his mind from dawn till dark
Till his Iensive Tyre he used 10 tune
And strike his chords in the Sunday ToibUns
IN lll--l-ts + i IlAs1i I'm A-'''-
They met that i, she went TO the store,
Aud made him turn his department DER.
Till be vanished behind the goods, and then
She pleasantly said she would call ssain
Little she thought tina, behind that pile
OF drcss goods be had treasured her smile.
And thai be saw in each patterns hue
The gold o! her hair or her eyes deep blue
Les that the prem that had a nook
In the slcTs-isst part Of her own ~cTap-hc0k,
Was the work 81 the clerk who used To aitune
His sei-nade harp for the SUI dag Tribune.
Thes went to church From the gallery
tie looking down, in a pew could
golden tres in the light that shonc,
Which be fOndly imagined Wa her own.
CANTo Iy.-THE TOURNAMENT.
The Church in O1hosraphy it went mad,
Folks took the spelliuStiuenza Tad,
And the clerk and the maiden one night they
went
To take a share in a Tournament.
On one side glittered the golden head
of the wealthy maiden At Nassar bred;
On the other was seen, like the rail Of a stair,
The self-inade clerks self-brushed raven hair.
CANTo y.-sPEH.ING'S MAGNIFICENTLY
STERN ARRAY
The first words fired the fray's begun,
Here and there drops a weaker one
The pulling poIysyIlabl heard,
And whole swaihs are moved down by every
word.
The parson stands down, but his troops are Lead
by fair young girl with golden head;
The deaeOn's iOsred, but i speller Of might,
dry goods clerk, UphOldsrhe fight.
The combat deeI.ens on, We brave
Who spell for Wel,ster's Unabridged. save
The maiden and clerk all are spelled down,
And the Tournament has Duel grown.
CANTO yL-THE CONFLICT OF TITAES.
Each eve il bent on the dauntless pair,
The maid OF blue eyes and golden hair
Spells swiftly, surely-nO more she lags
1haD~s channels, skipping mid Alpine CTags.
The clerk for quarter scorns to beg:
He collars and throws" like Silas We.
The hardest words that the referee
Can find in the SPeller from TO Il.
CANTO yIL-LOvE'S YOUNG DREAM.
She thinks in wonder: did he spell 'hym?'
How my heart keeps luttering all the time
He-'Were she mine I'd Use in a trioe
Her lips for another sort Of 'EneiSs.'
CANTO VIII-DOyES SACRIFICE.
The referee gives him an easy word;
He pause>. VIII he miss IL Absurd.
\ murnur runs through the tranced thronE-
The clerk has spelled agreeable" wrong.
They cheer the maiden and At her feet
Lay the prize Unabridged Webster, complete.
But she whispers the clerk, with bluShing smile
u knew you could spell il all the while"
CANTO IN.-LOYE'S REWARD
And be replies: Your eyes OF blue
Have won my prize, and my heart won, too
And she: The people are staring aw-
Fully hard AZ Us. gu must ask INV pa
Home from the church walk the champion, two
To the house uu Calumet Avenue
When they part n the porch, the sound that's
heard
l. not made by spelling a difficult word,
-Chieug5 Tr.LuHs