Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1883-07-14
LITTLETON COKE VERSUS CLARA
FITZPOODLE.
BY TIRE BARD OF TOWER HALL.

CHAPTER II.
mot to mention quantity kept from the rest,
Sufficient to fill the largest sized chest
Which did not appear on the ships manifest,
But for which the ladies themselves manifested
Such particular interest that they invested
Th' ir own proper persons In lay els and rows
of musns, embroideries, worded underclothes.
Glove and such rffies as These
Then, wrapped in great shaws, like Circassian beau
ties,
But, if the fair maiden thus cheated poor SAM
Ofone who intent on a large importation,
Thus swindl edher uncle the head of the nation?
But what said the lawyer who courted the maid
He knowing the tact-was the secret betrayed
Did the heart in his bosom Indignantly swell?
Did he bid the fair smugger forever farewell?
All, mol he but smiled on her brazen eff ontery,
In lodging the duties she owed to her country;
Believing. no doubt. that in saving the pelf
She false to her country, but true to herself.
That these his feelings the sequel will prove
TO marry the maid was his very next move,
And asking her hand, having won her consent,
II should mention Just here that out Of Miss Claras
Two hundred and fifty or sixty adoTers;
had Just been selected as he who should throw all
The rest in the shade, by the gracious bestowal
On myself after twenty or thirty reflections lions
And that rather decayed, but welknown work of art
Which Miss Clara persisted IN calling her hear
Not by moonbeams, sunbeam, fountain, or grove,
But in front parlor, most brilliantly lighted,
Beneath the gas fixtures, we whispered our love-"
The adage is old that there's many slip.
In the course oftrue love twixt the cup and the lip
By a work rashly spoken, he dashed to the ground
His bright aspirations his castles in air:
Were shrouded forever in clouds OF despair
1t seems Miss Clara was asked 70 a Dali,
very select and recherche affair."
And sne, in the fashions the leader orall,
In the pride of her beauty, must snsefS be there,
But alack and alas Notwithstanding the cargo
NotWlthsanding the thousands and thousand of dol
Invested in satins, silks, velvet and collars lars
Could not go to the ball for she'd nothing to wear
Her lover suggested a sllken procaues
Pink, purple and lilac, and many shaoe;
satin, a velvet, a rich grenaune
In which, at the ball room, of fashion the queen
Brnr Her oes to her feet and her beanx to her side
OF ladies the envy, flowers the pride .,.,u
H yan ais daad ana wa'h viii
And the will in expression, had made her ihe heir
Of that quartette Of sylla6les Mosning 70
And called him monster base Hottentot
The foot that was cloyen no Longer Soneefs aIg
She had heard full enough and she wishesspo more.
He saw it might not be prudent to linger,
To which she was pointing her gem-lighted finger,
And stopping moment, to breathe on tn ne SQUARE
The maiden was rights she was naked indeed,
With the vesture ofinnocence bartered away
of the mantle of faith on her shoulders to lay,
The faith that in troubles and trials below.
viii point from the depths of our sorrow and woe
TO the home of the blessed in mansions of heaven.
Lifts up the unfortunate, stricken by sorrow;
Dispelling the clouds from the SIS OF g 10y,
fts s SUCH as thiswith hand and heart
The troubles and burdens of others to share
Was Clara FtZpoode no parcel or part, .
And truly she uttered, 1--WE nothing to wear.
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