The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-04-23
Her Blue-Eyed Boy.


For thee | sigh, for thee l weep,
When others tread the may dance,
Or smile in happy dreams and sleep
Torn from these loving arms away,
BY those who rocked not tear or prayer,
Ere thou couldst speak thy mothers name,
My tiny bud. my babelet fair.
'My boy, my boy, my bue-eyed boy,
Could within thy bright eyes Spze,
Or have an hour to kiss thee in,
'rwould light up many weary days
But thou art far away from me;
Between oceans pillows beat,
And can but thy picture kiss,
My fairy rose, my babelet sweet
sMiss Isabella Spooner finished read
ing&ehese verses and proceeded to cut
them out of the paper they had gracad,
with II pair of scissors that in company
with bunch ofkeys hung from Ler gen
erous girdle, a murmur Of admiration and
sympathy arose from her audience. This
audience consisted of Mrs. Spooner, Isa-
bella's mother, tall, thin, pale woman
with gressL deal OF forehead7uRhat is, in
regard TO height-and very white we'll
shaped hands, which looked as though
they had been nodded out of lard; Mrs.
Dusenberry, a lady who looked about
fve-and-forty, but who, according to her
own calculations, grew young so fast that
few years she would be girl again, with
lips so thin that they came near being no
lips at all, bumpy brow, small, black,
uneven eyes, a nondescript nose and n
f gure remarkable for its unobtrusive-
n 3ss; Captain Hottop, Miss SpOOner's
uncle, hale, hearty, rather handso'r.
man, who had spent most of his life in q
sailing vessel Mr.. Wellington Octoper,
young pork merchant, called Devil
fish y by those of his companions who
had been to the Aquarium, because it
. came so near being Octopus, you know"
with reddish hair, reddish complexion
and no forehead to speak of; Miss Eugenia
Ann Octoper, sister of the pork merchant,
a pretty, pert young girl, who came down
to breakfast in diamond earrings, and
talked great deal about "style;" and
two or three elderly men and three or
four young men,, who, being mere no
bodies, can, of course, only expect mere
mention.
1t. was lovely day in the last week
of July, and these people were gathered
together on the broad veranda of the
Spooner homestead (Mrs. Spooner took
few summer boarders for company,
and, truth to tell, they could not have
been in a pleasanter place. The house,
substantially built of gray stone and
draped with beautifully wistarias that
climbed to the very roof, faced the Della
ware river, and the gleam of the water
through the branches of the catalpa-
trees that stood Just outside the garden
gate laden with snowy flowers, among
which the bees were having rare riot,
was pleasant sight to see..
Miss Isabella SpOoner, the real mistress
of the hOmestead-her mothers extreme
Aassitude rendering her only the nominal
one-Was a comfortable, sentimental old
maid, with an obtrusive figure lin which
respect she formed a great contrast to hen
friend Mrs. DusenberTy), light, very light
blue eyes, and a snub-nose. She wore
her hair brushed back from her forehead
"a forehead much like her mammals
and falling in curly crop in the back o.
her neck. In evening dress these curh
were always tied with bit of bright rib.
bon, which impaired to them quite {
juvenile appearance and charm.
Miss Isabella dotted on poetry, anC
looked upon all rhymers as heaven
born" In fact, she had an intense re
spect for and admiration of all persons
cOnAected with literature, and was won
TO say, could I have been pen-gifted
would have asked no other boom"
"How very sweetm said Mrs. Du
senberry, in a soft, too soft voice, a
Miss Spooner, after reading the verse
quoted above, took her scissors in he
hand. "They remind me of SOM
lines l introduced in my first letter t.
Professor GAM at the time l became 81
interested in the habits of the birds o
North America. He said afterward
by-the-bye, that the brightness of tina
letter absolutely dazzled him. Mrs
Dusenberry prided herself on her let
ter-Uritinp and auNiOua that her IA I
emit should not be hid under bushel,
wrote on the subject which she though
would be most interesting to him
with a hint as to the impression h
had made on her susceptible heart, T.
every man with whom she came il
contact, as soon as possible after form
ing his acquaintance.
"AndSwhen do you expect her, lisa