News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-05
LUKE-C0LoRADO PARK, 1873,

L. ChE-C OLth1DO P1Rh, 1873.
Wots that you're readin' "a novel? A novel,
well, darn my skin
You nan grown and bearded. and bistir,
such stuff ez that in
STUFF about gals and their sweethearts. No
wonder you're thin ez a knife.
Look at me-clar two hundred-and never read
one in my life
That's my opinion O. novels. And a. 70 tIoi,
YIN round here,
ihey belonged to the Jedge's daughter-tbe
Jedge who came up last year
On account OF his lungs and the mountains
and the balsam O pine and fir;
ms uauShter-well, she read novels. and
that's what's the matter with her.
Yet she was sweet on tine Jedge, and stuck by
him day and night,
Alone IN the cabin up yer-tiu she grew like a
ghost, all white;
She was only slip of thing. ez light and o.
up and away
Ez rlhe-smoke blows through the woods, but
she wasn't my kind-no way.
Speakin' o gals,-d'ye mind that house ez Won
rise the hill,
A mile and a half from Whites. and list above
Matlingby's mill?
You DO! Wen, now, thar's a gal! What, you
saw her? Oh, come now, thar quit
She was only bedev'lin you boys. for to me she
don't cotton one bit.
But what was talkin' of? Oh! the ledge and
his daughter she read
Novels the whole day loug, and r exon she
read them abed,
And sometimes she read them ont loud to the
JedSe on the porch where he sat
And twas how Lord Augustus said this, and
how Lady Blanche" she said that.
But the sickest of all that heerd. was a warm
that they read bout chap.
Misunderstanding by name, and a hunter
chock full O. the Greenest O sap;
And they asked me to hear; but I says: ''0Iiss
Mabel, not any for me;
When likes kin sling my lies, and tibet
chap and I shouldn't agree"
Yet somehow or other she always was sayin' I
brought her to mind
OF folk about whom she had read, or suthin'
belize of tibet kind,
And thar warn't no end O. the names tibet she
gave me tibet summer up here.
''Robn Hood" Misunderstanding. Rob
Roy'-Oh, I tell you, the critter was
queer.
And yet eff she hadn't been spilled, she was
harmless enough in her way;
She could jabber in French to her dad, and
they said tibet she knew how to play,
And she worked me that shot-pouch up thar
which the man doesn't live ez kin use.
And slippers-you see EN- down yer-ez would
cradle an minis papoose.
Yet along O them novels, you see she was
wastin' and mopin' away,
And then she got shy with her tongue, and at
last had nothing to say;
And whenever happened around, her face it
was hid bya book
And it warnt until she left that she gave me ez
much ez a look.
And this was the way 1t was; it was night when
KEN up here
TO say to EN- all good-by for Ireckoned to go
for deer
At sun-uP the day they left, so I shook EN- all
by the hand,
'Cept Mabel, and she was sick ez they gave me
to understand.
But just ez passed the house next morning at
dawn, some one,
Like little waver o mist, got up on the hill
with the sun;
Miss Mabel it was. alone-au wrapped in
mantle O lace
And she stood there straight in the road, with
touch O the sun in her face.
And she looked at me right in the eye-Tdseen
suthin like it before
When 1 hunted a wounded doe to the edge O
the Clear Lake shore,
And had my knee on its neck, and list was
raisin my knife
When it gave me look like that-well. it got
off with its life.
'We are going to-day" she said, 'and thought
1 would say good-by
To you In your own house, Luke-these woods
and the bright blue sky
You've always been kind to US, Luke, and papa
has found you still
As good as the air he breathes, and wholesome
as Laurel Tree hill
'And Wen always think of you. Luke, as the
thing we could not take away
The balsam that dwells in the woods the rain
bow that lives in the spray.
And you'll sometimes think of me- Luke. as |
you know you once used to say,
As ritie-smoke blown through the woods, mo- |
ment, but never to stay"
And then we shook hands. She turned, but
student she tottered and fell,
And caught her sharp by the waist, and held |
her minit-welIs
1t was only mint you know, that ez cold and |
ez white she lay