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TITTLETON COKE VERSUS CLARA
FITZPOODLE.
BY THE BARD OF TOWER HALL
CHAPTER /.

CHAPTER II.
Not TO mention quantity kept from the rest,
Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest
Which did not appear on the ships manlies
But for which the ladies themselves manifested
Such particular interest that they invested
Tn if own proper persons in ayers and rows
ofmuslins. embroideries, worded nnderclothes, 1850.
Glove handkerchief ScarfS and such tries as these;
Then, wrapped in great shawls, like Circassan beau
Gave good by to the ships and go-by the duties,
Now this may be true, and it may be sham; ;,
What value the beauty the wealth. or the station
Ofone who intent on q large importation at
But what said the lawyer who courted the maid?
He knowing the facwas the secret Gsrsysd
Did he bid the fair smuggler forever farewelly
In lodging the duties she owed to her country;
Believing. no doubt that in saving the peli,
That these we're re his Feelings the sequel viii prove
To marry the maid was his very next move
Ae thus to his Tsp PRIDE and his feelings save
II should mention Just here that out of Miss Clara's
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adorers,
The rest in the shade by the gracious bestowai
OF those fossil remains which she called her aztec
nd that rahr n Sr
So we were engaged. Our troth has been plighted;
But IN IN 'front.' parlor most brilliantly lighted
Beneath the gas fixtures we whispered our love-"
In the Course oftrue love twixt the cup and the lip
And the chalice of bliss that our lover had found,
His bright Aspirations his castles in air.
Were shrouded forever in clouds of despair.
1t seems Miss Clara was asked 70 Dali,
very select and recherche affair,
And sne in the fashions the leader OF all,
I'm the pride of her beauty, must surely pc tnere,
But alack and alas notwithstanding the cargo,
From Paris imported per good steamer ONO e,,
Invested in satins, Silks velvet and collars; iars
The maiden in tears and almost in despair.
Could not go to the ball. for she mourning 10 wear
Her lover suggested a silken brocade,
Pink, purple and lilac, and many shaoe;
A satin, velvet, a rich grenadine
In which at the ball room. Of fashion the queen
She might with her ane To her side
In vain were his pleadings, with logic ana S,Klii
Her reason was dead, and had LETT 1er . VIII ,a,
OF that quartette OF syllables, Nothing to wear"
The lover insisted; her vows she forget n,o.
The foot that cloven no longer conceallng,
He was fairly exposed as man without feeling;
He saw it might not be prudent TO inger
And selling his beaver, he made for the dOor
Heard siUp cry 81 distress have nothing
With the vestnre Of Innocence bartered away;
Mid the pomp of the world she was feeling the need
Of the mantle of faith on her shoulders 70 lay
When hopes we cherished are sundersd and rlven,
TO the home Of the blessed. in mansions of heaven
The faith, that in aoorhs with will and way
Dispelifng the clouds from the sky ofto-day,
For the sunrise Of hope on the coming so,aoroTW
The troubles and burdens Of others to share
Was Clara Fitzpoodle no parcel or part, To-,
And truly she uttered, rive nothing TO wear.
ITO be continued.)
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