Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1883-12-20


In the city of Chicago,
Where her father made his money
Selling wheat of which he had not
To the men of Cincinnati,
Lived soft;eyed. pale faced maiden
with the accent on the penult)
Who WA young, and fair. and slender,
And who wore her hair In frizzes.
Very beautiful was Minnie,
free from cares of all description,
Aud as William 3. McNulty
Paid her bills for fancy dry goods
Bills for seven dollar 8 ock,ngs,
Corsets. crimping pins, and So forth
He would often let his memory
Wonder back q score of summers
To the time When he was counting
Agnes Genevieve Mccarthy
(Now the mother of his daughter)
How they used to sit at even
On the front step of her fathers
Mansion on the sue de Tom Cat
swapping lovely lies about their
Wild affections for each other.
And as William j. refit cited
On the past and the present
1t occurred to him that Minnie
Had a quite de ided bulg on
Her mar.ma in point OF wardrobe.
In the summer when the ball club
OF Chicago lost. the Pepant,
Lost he enant that their hired
Men had held since 1880,
Minnehsha went out riding
In n noby de-bar wagon,
And her parent drove an equine
That was thought to be quite speedy.
Down the boulevard they travelled,
Every now and then proceeding
To pull out and knock tho sOcss OIL
Some more unpretentious flyer,
I'm IL Mime and her father
rad about reached the conclusion
There was nothing in Chicago
That could make the old mare hustle.
80 they Chatred on the topics
OF thu day-Maud SIS record,
Mr. Beecher's inuigestio
And his lows fot Henry Irving.
But anon the ear of Minnie
(Pietty ear with pink of sea shelly
Caught the soft and murmurous breathing
OF another hor o behind them,
OF another horse that seemed to
lie In something of a hurry,
From the wav in which he made the
La dscape vanish in prospective.
So she pinched he father gently
rwixt the sixth and seventh ribets
And suggested that unless he
Had wild desire to witnt 81
The surroundi 4 c0untry throughR
Cloud of aust. he'd better hi the
o hay mare about amidships
With the whip, and hoiler at her.
You have seen the tempest raging
On wild and rocky sea coast,
You have read about the battles
In which many bravely perished-
They were nothing to the struggle
That took place between McNuity's
Old bay II are and the gray geding
That tine stranger deftly handled.
He was handsome, WAS the stranger
With form like an Apollo
And he Ste.red he big gray gelding
With the skill that won the heart of
MInnehaha as she sat thee
And beheld her parent d stanced.
"Hold brave youthr cried out McNulty
Pull your horse up ana come hither,
! would speak with you concerning
That good ste Cd which you are driving.
VIII you sell him What's his record
Does he eve have blind staggereP
Is his owner a poor widow
Who II forced TO want to sell him,
Or who argues that the climate
Where her husband h W has gone to
IL TOO sultry for fast driving9
Seek not to deceive me, sonny,
With tale extremely gauzy,
But get Gown 10 bed rock figures
On your horse and. let me have them"
Then up spoke the youth whose driving
Had enamored Minnehaha.
~ will never sell my horse, sir,
For value him too highly.
With the swiftness of a whirl~ind
He can draw two in IA buggy,
And the famed steeds ct the desert
Fall ~ far in speed below him
That II one should try to pass me
OPP ms his driver quickly
Would conclude that he was going
In the opposite direction,
He Is bred just like st. Julien
HanhletOnian stock, and you tan
Bet your ever asting doll ,r
He IL kind, and sound, and gentle.
money cannot buy this horse, sir.
But to you IN gladly give him
Ii you only will allow me
70 pay court unto your daughter
She who stteth now beside you,
In the flush o. maiden beauty
Sitleth there like any lilly,
Tall, and iair and pure, and stately,
/ h We loved your daughter madly
Ever since first heheld her
AS came up on the near side
OF your buggy and went past you.
Without her my life ia aimless,
All my hopes are wrecked forever
And unless my love returned is
will Jump into the river"
You may have her." cried McNulty;
Have her with parents bis, sing,
| Ald before the winter Gometh, ....
When the leaves are turning golden,
You shall marry Minnehaha
In style to make your head swim.
For love my only daughter, a....
| And would make her whole life happy
| Take her. Hiawatha Johnson
| you viii notice that know you'll
| Take her with this horse and buggy,
And let me get in behind that
| Gel ling with Abdallah action
] will give my Minnehaha
To the man who pineth for her,
And console myself hereafter .5.s
With horse that beats AU3."
Chicago Tribune