is to ride in this nice carriage, and to get away from that dirty place;
we shall be so happy now, mother; and Edith and the baby too: see, he is
laughing: he likes to ride. You will love sister Edith and baby, and me,
_now_, won’t you, dear mother? and you won’t frighten us with the
hatchet any more, or hurt dear grandmother, will you?”
Arriving at Mr. Pease’s house, the delight of the little creatures was
unbounded. They caught hold of their mother’s faded dress, saying,
“Didn’t we _tell_ you, mother, that you would have a pleasant home here?
Only see that nice garden! You didn’t have a garden in Willet Street,
mother!”
Reader, would you know that mother’s after history?
Another “Mary” hath “bathed the Saviour’s feet” with her tears, and
wiped them with the hairs of her head. Her name is no longer written
Mary _Magdalena_. In the virtuous home of her aged mother, she sits
clothed in her right mind, “and her children rise up and call her
_blessed_.”
APOLLO HYACINTH.
“There is no better test of moral excellence than the keenness of
one’s sense, and the depth of one’s love, of all that is
beautiful.”—_Donohue._
I don’t endorse that sentiment. I am acquainted with Apollo Hyacinth. I
have read his prose, and I have read his poetry; and I have cried over
both, till my heart was as soft as my head, and my eyes were as red as a
rabbit’s. I have listened to him in public, when he was, by turns,
witty, sparkling, satirical, pathetic, till I could have added a codicil
to my will, and left him all my worldly possessions; and possibly you
have done the same. He has, perhaps, grasped you cordially by the hand,
and, with a beaming smile, urged you, in his musical voice, to “call on
him and Mrs. Hyacinth;” and you have called: but, did you ever find him
“in?” You have invited him to visit you, and have received a “gratified
acceptance,” in his elegant chirography; but, _did he ever come_? He has
borrowed money of you, in the most elegant manner possible; and, as he
deposited it in his beautiful purse, he has assured you, in the choicest
and most happily chosen language, that he “should never forget your
kindness;” but, _did he ever pay_?
Should you die to-morrow, Apollo would write a poetical obituary notice
of you, which would raise the price of pocket-handkerchiefs; but should
your widow call on him in the course of a month, to solicit his
patronage to open a school, she would be told “he was out of town,” and
that it was “quite uncertain when he would return.”
Apollo has a large circle of relatives; but his “keenness of perception,
and deep love of the beautiful,” are so great, that none of them
_exactly_ meet his views. His “moral excellence,” however, does not
prevent his making the most of them. He has a way of dodging them
adroitly, when they call for a reciprocation, either in a business or a
social way; or if, at any time, there is a necessity for inviting them
to his house, he does it when he is at his _country_ residence, where
their _greenness_ will not be out of place.
Apollo never says an uncivil thing—never; he prides himself on that, as
well as on his perfect knowledge of human nature; therefore, his sins
are all sins of omission. His tastes are very exquisite, and his nature
peculiarly sensitive; consequently, he cannot bear trouble. He will tell
you, in his elegant way, that trouble “annoys” him, that it “bores” him;
in short, that it unfits him for life—for business; so, should you hear
that a friend or relative of his, even a brother or a sister, was in
distress, or persecuted in any manner, you could not do Apollo a greater
injury (in his estimation) than to inform him of the fact. It would so
grate upon his sensitive spirit—it would so “annoy” him; whereas, did he
not hear of it until the friend, or brother, or sister, were relieved or
buried, he could manage the matter with his usual urbanity, and without
the slightest draught upon his exquisitely sensitive nature, by simply
writing a pathetic and elegant note, expressing the keenest regret at
not having known “all about it” in time to have “flown to the assistance
of his dear” —— &c.
Apollo prefers friends who can stand grief and annoyance, as a
rhinoceros can stand flies—friends who can bear their own troubles and
all his—friends who will stand between him and everything disagreeable
in life, and never ask anything in return. To such friends he clings
with the most touching tenacity—as long as he can use them; but let
their good name be assailed, let misfortune once overtake them, and his
“moral excellence” compels him, at once, to ignore their existence,
until they have been extricated from all their troubles, and it has
become perfectly safe and _advantageous_ for him to renew the
acquaintance.
Apollo is keenly alive to the advantages of social position (not having
always enjoyed them); and so, his Litany reads after this wise: From all
questionable, unfashionable, unpresentable, and vulgar persons, Good
Lord deliver us!
SPOILED LITTLE BOY.
“Boo-hoo!—I’ve eaten so—m-much bee-eef and t-turkey, that I can’t eat
any p-p-plum p-p-pudding!”
Miserable little Pitcher! Take your fists out of your eyes, and know
that thousands of grown-up pinafore graduates are in the same Slough of
Despond with your epicurean Lilliputian-ship. Having washed the platter
clean of every crumb of “common fixins,” they are left with cloyed, but
tantalizing desires, for the spectacle of some mocking “plum pudding.”
“_Can’t eat your pudding!_”
Why, you precious, graceless young glutton! you have the start of me, by
many an _ache_-r. I expect to furnish an appetite for every “plum
pudding” the fates are kind enough to cook for me, from this time till
Teba Napoleon writes my epitaph.
Infatuated little Pitcher! come sit on my knee, and take a little
advice. Don’t you know you should only take a nibble out of each dish,
and be parsimonious at that; always leaving off, be the morsel ever so
dainty, before your little jacket buttons begin to tighten; while from
some of the dishes you should not even lift the cover; taking aunt
Fanny’s word for it, that their spicy and stimulating contents will only
give you a pain under your apron. Bless your little soul, life’s “bill
of fare” can be spun out as ingeniously as a cobweb, if you only
understand it; and then you can sit in the corner, in good digestive
order, and catch your flies! But if you once get a surfeit of a dainty,
it takes the form of a pill to you ever after, unless the knowing
_cuisinier_ disguise it under some novel process of sugaring; and sadder
still, if you exhaust yourself in the gratification of gross appetites,
you will be bereft of your faculties for enjoying the pure and heavenly
delights which “Our Father” has provided as a _dessert_ for his
children.
BARNUM’S MUSEUM.
It is possible that every stranger may suppose, as I did, on first
approaching Barnum’s Museum, that the greater part of its curiosities
are on the outside, and have some fears that its internal will not equal
its external appearance. But, after crossing the threshold, he will soon
discover his mistake. The first idea suggested will perhaps be that the
view, from the windows, of the motley, moving throng in Broadway—the
rattling, thundering carts, carriages and omnibuses—the confluence of
the vehicular and human tides which, from so many quarters, come pouring
past the museum—is (to adopt the language of advertisements), “worth
double the price of admission.”
The visitor’s attention will unquestionably be next arrested by the
“Bearded Lady of Switzerland”—one of the most curious curiosities ever
presented. A card, in pleasant juxta-position to the “lady,” conveys the
gratifying intelligence that, “Visitors are allowed to touch the beard.”
Not a man in the throng lifts an investigating finger! Your penetration,
Madame Clofullia, does you infinite credit. You knew well enough that
your permission would be as good as a handcuff to every pair of
masculine wrists in the company. For my own part, I should no more
meddle with your beard, than with Mons. Clofullia’s. I see no feminity
in it. Its shoe-brush aspect puts me on my decorum. I am glad you raised
it, however, just to show Barnum that there is something “new under the
sun,” and to convince men in general that a woman can accomplish about
anything she undertakes.
I have not come to New York to stifle my inquisitiveness. How did you
raise that beard? Who shaves first in the morning—you, or your husband?
Do you use a Woman’s Rights razor? Which of you does the _strap_-ping?
How does your baby know you from its father? What do you think of us,
smooth-faced sisters? Do you (between you and me) prefer to patronize
dress-makers, or tailors? Do you sing tenor, or alto? Are you master or
mistress of your husband’s affections?—Well, at all events, it has been
something in your neutral pocket to have “tarried at Jericho till your
beard was grown.”
—What have we here? Canova’s Venus. She is exquisitely beautiful,
standing there, in her sculptured graces; but where’s the Apollo? Ah,
here’s a sleeping Cupid, which is better. Mischievous little imp! I’m
off, before you wake!—Come we now to a petrifaction of a horse and his
rider, crushed in the prehensile embrace of a monstrous serpent, found
in a cave where it must have lain for ages, and upon which one’s
imagination might pleasantly dwell for hours.—Then, here are deputations
from China-dom, in the shape of Mandarins, ladies of quality, servants,
priests, &c., with their chalky complexions, huckleberry eyes and shaven
polls. Here, also, is a Chinese criminal, packed into a barrel, with a
hole in the lid, from which his head protrudes, and two at the sides,
from whence his helpless paws depend. Poor Min Yung, you ought to
reflect on the error of your ways, though, I confess, you’ve not much
chance to _room_-inate.
Here are snakes, insects, and reptiles of every description, corked down
and pinned up, as all such gentry should be—most of them, I perceive,
labelled in the masculine gender! Then there’s a “bear,” the thought of
whose hug makes me utter an involuntary _pater noster_, and cling closer
to the arm of my guide. I tell you what, old Bruin, as I hope to travel,
I trust you’ve left none of your cubs behind.
—Here is a group of Suliote chiefs, and in their midst Lord Byron, with
his shirt upside down; and here is the veritable carriage that little
Victoria used to ride in before the crown of royalty fretted her fair,
girlish temples. Poor little embryo queen! How many times since, do you
suppose, she has longed to step out of those bejewelled robes, drop the
burdens state imposes, and throw her weary limbs, with a child’s
careless _abandon_, on those silken cushions, free to laugh or cry, to
sing or sigh.
—Then here’s a collection of stuffed birds, whose rainbow plumage has
darted through clustering foliage, fostered in other latitudes than
ours. Nearly every species of beings that crawl, or fly, or walk, or
swim, is here represented. And what hideous monsters some of them are! A
“pretty kettle of fish” some of the representatives of the finny tribe
would make! I once thought I would like to be buried in the ocean, but I
discarded that idea before I had been in the museum an hour. I shouldn’t
want such a “scaly set” of creatures swimming in the same pond with me.
—I had nearly forgotten to mention the “Happy Family.” Here are animals
and birds which are the natural prey of each other, living together in
such pleasant harmony, as would make a quarrelsome person blush to look
upon. A sleek rat, probably overcome by the oppressive weather, was
gently dozing—a cat’s neck supporting his sleepy head in a most
pillow-ly manner. Mutual vows of friendship had evidently been exchanged
and rat-ified by these natural enemies. I have not time to mention in
detail the many striking instances of fraternization among creatures
which have been considered each other’s irreconcileable foes. Suffice it
to say that Barnum and Noah are the only men on record who have brought
about such a state of harmonic antagonisms, and that Barnum is the only
man who has ever made money by the operation.
—Heigho! time fails us to explore all the natural wonders gathered here,
from all climes, and lands, and seas, by the enterprise of, perhaps, the
only man who could have compassed it. We turn away, leaving the greater
portion unexamined, with an indistinct remembrance of what we have seen,
but with a most distinct impression that the “getting up” of Creation
was no ordinary affair, and wondering how it could ever have been done
in six days.
NANCY PRY’S SOLILOQUY.
I wonder if that is the bride over at that window? Poor thing, how I
pity her! Every thing in her house so bran new and fresh and
uncomfortable. Furniture smelling like a mahogany coffin; every thing
set up spick and span in its place; not a picture awry; not a chair out
of its orbit; not a finger mark on the window panes; not a thread on the
carpet; not a curtain fold disarranged; china and porcelain set up in
alphabetical order in the pantry; bureau drawers fit for a Quaker; no
stockings to mend; no strings or buttons missing; no old rag-bags to
hunt over; no dresses to re-flounce, or re-tuck, or re-fashionize; not
even a hook or eye absent. Saucepans, pots, and kettles, fresh from the
“furnishing house;” servants fresh; house as still as a cat-cornered
mouse. Nothing stirring, nothing to do. Land of Canaan! I should think
it would be a relief to her to hear the braying and roaring in
Driesbach’s Menagerie.
Well, there’s one consolation; in all human probability, it is a state
of things that won’t last long.
FOR LITTLE CHILDREN.
“I love God and every little child.”—_Richter._
I wonder if I have any little pinafore friends among the readers of
_Fern Leaves_? any little Nellys, or Katys, or Billys, or Johnnys, who
ever think of Fanny? Do you know that I like children much better than
grown-up people? I should so like to have a whole lapful of your bright
eyes, and rosy cheeks, and dimpled shoulders, to kiss. I should like to
have a good romp with you, this very minute. I don’t always keep this
old pen of mine scratching. If a bright cloud comes sailing past my
window, I throw down my pen, toss up the casement, and drink in the air,
like a gipsy. I feel just as you do, when you are pent up in school,
some bright summer day, when the winds are at play, and the flowers lie
languidly drooping under the blue, arching sky;—when the little
butterfly poises his bright wings on the rose, too full of joy even to
sip its sweets;—when the birds sing, because they can’t help it, and the
merry little swallow skims the ground, dips his bright wing in the lake,
circles over head, and then flies, twittering, back to his cunning
little brown nest, under the eaves. On such a day, _I_ should like to be
your school-mistress. I’d thrown open the old school-room door, and let
you all out under the trees. You should count the blades of grass for a
sum in addition; you should take an apple from a tree, to learn
subtraction; you should give me kisses, to learn multiplication. You
shouldn’t go home to dinner. No; we’d all take our dinner-baskets and go
into the woods; we’d hunt for violets; we’d lie on the moss under the
trees, and look up at the bits of blue sky, through the leafy branches;
we’d hush our breath when the little chipmunk peeped out of his hole,
and watch him slily snatch the ripe nut for his winter’s store. And we’d
look for the shy rabbit; and the little spotted toad, with its blinking
eyes; and the gliding snake, which creeps out to sun itself on the old
gray rock. We’d play hide-and-seek, in the hollow trunks of old trees;
we’d turn away from the gaudy flowers, flaunting their showy beauty in
our faces, and search, under the glossy leaves at our feet, for the
pale-eyed blossoms which nestle there as lovingly as a timid little
fledgling under the mother-bird’s wing; we’d go to the lake, and see the
sober, staid old cows stand cooling their legs in the water, and
admiring themselves in the broad, sheeted mirror beneath; we’d toss
little pebbles in the lake, and see the circles they made, widen and
widen toward the distant shore—like careless words, dropped and
forgotten, but reaching to the far-off shore of eternity.
And then you should nestle ‘round me, telling all your little griefs;
for well I know that childhood has its griefs, which are all the keener
because great, wise, grown-up people have often neither time nor
patience, amid the bustling whirl of life, to stop and listen to them. I
know what it is for a timid little child, who has never been away from
its mother’s apron string, to be walked, some morning, into a great big
school-room, full of strange faces;—to see a little urchin laugh, and
feel a choking lump come in your little throat, for fear he was laughing
at you;—to stand up, with trembling legs, in the middle of the floor,
and be told to “find big A,” when your eyes were so full of tears that
you couldn’t see anything;—to keep looking at the ferule on the desk,
and wondering if it would ever come down on your hand;—to have some
mischievous little scholar break your nice long slate-pencil in two, to
plague you, or steal your bit of gingerbread out of your satchel, and
eat it up, or trip you down on purpose, and feel how little the
hard-hearted young sinners cared when you sobbed out, “I’ll tell my
mother.”
I know what it is, when you have lain every night since you were born,
with your hand clasped in your mother’s, and your cheek cuddled up to
hers, to see a new baby come and take your place, without even asking
your leave;—to see papa, and grandpa, and grandma, and uncle, and aunt,
and cousins, and all the neighbours, so glad to see it, when _your_
heart was almost broken about it. I know what it is to have a great fat
nurse (whom even mamma herself had to mind) lead you, struggling, out of
the room, and tell Sally to see that you didn’t come into your own
mamma’s room again all that day. I know what it is to have that fat old
nurse sit in mamma’s place at table, and cut up your potato and meat all
wrong;—to have her put squash on your plate, when you _hate_ squash;—to
have her forget (?) to give you a piece of pie, and eat two
_herself_;—to have Sally cross, and Betty cross, and everybody telling
you to “get out of the way;”—to have your doll’s leg get loose, and
nobody there to hitch it on for you;—and then, when it came night, to be
put away in a chamber, all alone by yourself to sleep, and have Sally
tell you that “if you wasn’t good an old black man would come and carry
you off;”—and then to cuddle down under the sheet, till you were half
stifled, and tremble every time the wind blew, as if you had an ague
fit. Yes, and when, at last, mamma came down stairs, I know how _long_
it took for you to like that new baby;—how every time you wanted to sit
in mamma’s lap, he’d be sure to have the stomach-ache, or to want his
breakfast; how he was _always_ wanting something, so that mamma couldn’t
tell you pretty stories, or build little blocks of houses for you, or
make you reins to play horses with; or do any of those nice little
things that she used to be always doing for you.
To be sure, my little darlings, I know all about it. I have cried tears
enough to float a steamship, about all these provoking things; and now
whenever I see a little child cry, I never feel like laughing at him;
for I know that often his little heart is just ready to break for
somebody to pet him. So I always say a kind word, or give him a pat on
the head, or a kiss; for I know that though the little insect has but
one grain to carry, he often staggers under it; and I have seen the time
when a kind word, or a beaming smile, would have been worth more to me
than all the broad lands of merrie England.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. 5, changed “put in a bureau, or of drawers” to “put in a
bureau, or chest of drawers”.
2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in
spelling.
3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.