The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-12-07

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land caution he put the soft-pedal on
succeeding events" and had II not
been for the pictures used in illustrai-
ing the story the suspicion would
hardly have been raised that Maud and
the Judge were about the same age.
The poets account of the iryst OF
Maud and the Judge is confined prinoi
paily 10 the meeting at spring. where
Maud gave the man OF law a drink
out OF a tin cup. Il was 4 most
decent thing to do. But when he rode
away:
Maud Muller looked and sighed.
All mel
That the Judges bride nigh,
be"
The Judge looked back as he
climbed the hill.
And saw Maud Muller standing
still"
According TO the story Maud
glanced TO the far-off town, in which |
the Judge lived The circumstaniia'
evidence points towards further &C
quainiznce between the two Other
wise why did the Judge .alk Ike an
old beau TO Maud when they were
caught by Whittier a, the spring. They
sighed like regretiul furnaces when
they parted.
just why some dusty shelf IN my
memory should toppie Maud and the
Judge into my attention while ! was
vending my way up Fifth avenue, IS
beyond ne Surely II was the farth-
est place IN the world from where
Maud Muller. on a summers day.
rzked the meadow sweet with hay"
Nevertheless from out OF the ETHEREAL
rysterie they came. as troublesome
as the recen; banana shortage Since {
they insisted on bothering me I tried $
TO make the old insists feel comfort 7
able in the crowd Ny wicked mind r
suggested that tete-a-tetes between the a
two would not have excited atten- v
ton along the avenue la
OF course as matters had stood be- 4
tween the two. Maud couldn't send n
picture postal cards to the Judge. be-
cause these mail-swampers weren'; \
made in their days. And the Judge
couldn't write 20 Maud because the
postmistress would have blzbbed /; 1
over the whole country II Maud had '
lived later beside concrete highway I,
and in the days OF automobiles. the a
Judge might have picked her up oc- :
czssionzlly. Blu. alas and alack. the \
Judges horse left a tell-tale track:
and x was not good form TO let the
rag paw dirt around the spring. where
II had been said: Is,
Maud forgot her brier-torn gown. le
And her graceful ankles bare and v
brown OF
dissertation" was a iactor in So IN
rial life long before Bud Fisher in tic
vented Mutt and jeff The Judge and =
Maud were certainly nice peoplel
He welded wife OF richest y
dover.
Who lived for fashion. as he for
power.
Yet Oft. in his marble hear,h's
brigh, glow.
He watched picture come and
go" II
Poor Maad played in less luck.
Or OF her It's told:
She welded a man unlearned
and poor.
And many children played around
door"
She had visions. TOO. bu, in the end
ie poet wrote: FL
For OF all sad words Of tongue
or pen.
The saddles; OF these: II nigh,
have been"
The thought that gripped me Was
a; 4, might have been" Even as n
used to think what nigh, have RI
en. thre was shriil cry Of
in near me. Was Maud hur.s I,
gh; have been. But no. it was jus,
woman OF the city jammed between
o automobiles in the traffic. In
'men; she was dragged 10 the curb
and the crowd kept on moving.
A little farther up the avenue the
hts came on from tens Of thousands
windows, and as far as could see
re stretched the endless lines OF II
.omobiles II the poet had only IA
tied few years the Judge nigh, "a
e rode slowly down the lane" on ~
great New York stree, in 1925 IA
haps other Mauds and Judges were
ns that same thing. even now "a
Alas for maiden. alas for Judge ~