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Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. XXIV, no. 12, February 4, 1869.
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Myers, P. Hamilton (Peter Hamilton), 1812-1878.
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9 January 2014
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Publish Date
1869-02-04
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New York : Street & Smith
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New York Weekly. Iron Fist; or, The Patroon's Daughter. A Story of Colonial Times / by P. Hamilton Myers. Patroon's Daughter.
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New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals Story papers > Specimens.
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THE HUNTER'S WIFE.
BY ALIOR caRy.
* pwas alt through the roses,
sgas-armnen te
fees, 4 ine and ered,
‘Fae indo te prairies a huang to
‘For tho fawn and the pheasant, the dove and tive do0—
roses are dend.
Tiook trom the pereh-side and dream, as L must,
8 apart,
my
f my sie
ha broke a ony aight,
i alle gecen geapestew ry as the dust.
vo anda tee
into wilderness places, ay, into the grave.
‘way of tis riding the roush tas
Sind Gig town ls overt a anty by
‘And ee cgte Tose, epping Ns broud wings ara,
orth gt on hs sbouder bung polstod and brit
Jiu the Roe at hs givale ached o lt,
“dnd the bit at hls briale, it rang. ike a bell
* opwas all through the'roses. a the year stood
-Altneaanon sod shog athe gold saored fears
aves,
1p 8 truce with my heart, as T could.
"Twas ol through th rote, and when they were dead,
Thow alll hast some root tree, 0 lost fove! Tsnid.
Hush, darlin he will come back again
When only a or npight has gone bet
‘asleep to the king fisher's ery,
Fhe starlings wil cater, Snecall ot the quail,
And he beat pon best \eer's fail:
eid, ay all vai
yment of the Loon
AL last, wien the Lonesome
* My lullaby fell toa mournfuller tone.
‘thet varme upon mo, and day water day
Liingered a isons bie campgrounds aboot
ess, the fires all wore out;
jad the black-snake lay under the oppo and hay.
* Lake dry sands my hearth-stones slid under my fost,
ih 0
‘The hungry aed horse eyes of
And so camo the winter in harness of sleet.
And wow, a ihe rind plows the furrows s0 white
Ton
by entile
dog ae tn Een mem ahcep arn in Gola,
But whore les my Landsey, my lover, to-night?
ad again frm omy tus start,
hear
The load al accurate and cold in my heart.
© Yetsomelimes a sweet vision blesses my eyes:
ks,
And white as ihe ivory, are rete for his dear,
{Anxd Teall tomy daritigs, arake, and ariel
1 ail at my perlite dream geomet cl
“Tho qumabe ned wo reves, the white
Raat wobut Ure ot te Lg eat ge
‘And hear bat the whimper and moan of tive
buckted shoes, in ruflied ‘shire aad Waite vre¥al, and
sgt i mat ie betteyed al
too
ry appeatance ke tho. sureet,
or sits emoking bis pige (what isa Datcbman witout
pipet at one end af his oa, covered toon.
Do you see bia meditative now, for Gustar
vosis'a man of fallen fortanes, nod atuougn he pre:
serves the alr of better days, he mourns their departare
tudechemesfallley ana of for thelr ret.
v
to
jor with the r fe
Ne en hae
inated in 1674, efter on'y sixteen
jania for treasure-hunting, once 9 common in
ott anaian, formed one of tue romantic elements
of life ta those primitive days, to which we sometimes
look regretfally back from amidst the turmoll of tals
active and bustling generatiol
When Captain Phipps (averwara Sie ice Phiprs,
13) fished op from a
for more than half a ceatury”, ne gav
e fourtd “some credotous.
jose faith was as ae fs bis own, who fever Io
peop'e
weed money fa bis schemes, being cor
ovoresed some pevella gut at wessure dudlog.
THis soccess had of conrse been exaggerated, and ra-
ar ‘rosie have it tuat not once, Kee only,
chet large stores of coin. but that bis gsins
wero east, and were yearly leeresing
THe kept bis own counsel, Te wasn’t for him to boast,
iy as It Was easy to give
re ener
bathe rather thought. the Uwe waa
mleneat
lent that, he
to Solomon Jimple.
patroons ia the colony would fakeo their bats
a
en iphe ey centny pmcesreracces
( sNever mma the: moner, farhor” he would
ren
Fiosson
omer for “For an
puget cite thes servan‘n ta tofaacy,
0 pane nope
iis dejected parent, “We
At least we are in no danger of with a good
farm and plenty of bunds 10 wer ons
“Donner |, But, there are foo ma \as and too
wdny mouths, Dolph, T must sell hal the ‘sever; 20a
mks been here tala moralng to make a0
avd. ‘cand exclaimed Dot. who naa fan
8, they wou't even rele mere tl woke 10 swear
ss :
cave youang fatth io them 7
“1 don tke toma 1 atone the major sald, look
you cannot hear Solomon
hot ar ‘in And we know be has
{vund several tn
“By noelaent:
“Yes, by ‘tcnldent Iron pease. But the money wi
‘here; and where Gouliieed more somnembere. Kid's,
money never Was f fui la beloved
Maillow er mora, Where iit
‘ay, were? Be may bave buried K—goite ikely’
he dig; for otber have dove the same,
case cf Marrick, who whispered bis secret om the gul-,
tows at te last moment to the lawyer who defended
him, and made a rich tas
“Yes, Lawyer Bartley. ve beard you teil the story
when Twas aboy. Bat the question is, what do Solo,
‘aud Ocoback kmow about these tings
“30 cap you have—twenty of them, if you choose,
It wonly a forked hazel twig.”
“Bat he kuows how to cutthem and how to
and wfoly | marveloas
He dopes himeetf, ad Slome dupes bi you
think If BtomMe knew whe ee there was money 0a Jour
ithout ‘imp Simple Keeps the—the >
spirits—’
man; “you surely
5
g
3
s
g
2
:
i
é
i
Adoipbos, Who had beea educated Ih chliahood
faith, conld not ay that be entirely disbelleved im thera
bimsslt,
“If they are there, and hive any power given thew, |
he sald,
nid say to
‘hat oo at enongh yet, | conto
sity oom bot he sara Slomte works tn |
‘al the w
“a sharp cuepmakes him believe alt this { guess,
I doo% know. There have been sranger things
‘than Fifty dotiars isu’ muen to ris
get a good price for Nenio aad Pompey Lento 114 tr
wn
Dolph wished to dissuade bis father from this act,
to pay Interest on the moripaze—and
enarree jootng? AN4.B | an news abd he ought tbe msjr wight tera
How Mos Van Schoonboren became rich, and how ‘Mlotignas? ‘and to bacco? And fifty otler things? Now| {UN Hons Ane We Metriued to-have bis own way, and
he Uecame peor, doce no necemarty pertain to thie " pobebly nothing bat experience well fa a
soca ie ropard to the atter change of eae f ‘orny, fatter—t dla not know you were ao strait.) Povey nolnine Si iy satiety
De att that curing the sito ee 8 Quioen | ee “They'll work turee nights for Uist sama {f necessary,”
anes wan, ft by'a. "cauny” | “Nowyou don't Kuow, and your wetter and Anny | he hiner eominves, “and considering ty Rave to
thtok just the Jota apie to get theca Dear
prospect of daring profs, and foal as In mont | ame as befote—but I Aen 1 lak, abd provide tae ane ( ‘of thetr feeedom when
ared Wl:te peopl: undertake a bl i fm they | What 1am todo Ke with when there's noLLiDg coming | rye money Iesecure, st remy in Big pic.”
know botileg. ho faled Fagor ia reantten.* ‘On, oo, for each magui
‘There were sone polltical changes 62 the other on
tinent, prices fell, with a large stock of merchandise
‘om baud, and the losses were ToIoUs, at least 60 Sif.
MacFloson sak, who managed everything, and ‘who
‘“Uere’s wy watch, and I have some money left.”
“No, no, Dotph. \ don't wont poor wa‘ch ner sour
money.’ But we must begin a new system. Toe boys
ust be sola, ooogt they were ora ia the jones, tod
“Tory have ove negro to i ag sean erbeate:
time comes), aud one to Keep w:
‘apy one approaches, whicn oes oat ten bappets as
they ag oy at midelgat."
‘moaued heasll
sees, and
Er es 0 Ques for fot ar btdaen treusarg | 8H a beaaly wow the borin Ds
y ara ates cer, | to ano ond prodrable bslnem wit & capt te
capt B80, ws omer snd, execie fry, and hi 700007
ja Yong ani
too many of them, now the mall aod the
ork fo ght, aod they eat cn ores log. ‘With flonr
beef elgit pence a
can’ stand it,
west,
ange of Bkn,
the winter winds rave,
890 low
© wore holt ie
supposed reported,
7 hot
of meney-baatera went forth with spade toa pick and
1
5 8
mca were believed to Keep watch and ward over
barted coi
i is dificalt to.convine & man who has once been
not some easy
des a
‘ais bral
roblem tow tie ate bariuees cola nave rated nim |
and enriched bis partner, pat nothing ceme of his
stat snd he absvdone| tana gave hs thongits fe
retrieval o} losses.
xo wang came of them, He grew poorer with every
strugale to gela tow: ground ent De once rch ya
eer was reduced to which only bis fine house
e8 (heavily
and nls homestead ferm of a bandted acre
not Nando apd Pompt
vatvnoeae tient ary are the en es that wet
por Sae,
for ws,
“Js thst what MacFiosson wen's them
“Yessyea He = ettng Op bis atriege jostas T
“Roy tas othe way they Keep everything a profoubd
secret
at it Joo advance thom mopes you wil be pera
to be present atthe performance I suppose’ :
* On, yea, a Ofty altar Ucket will let me Lo,
the father langhing. “Sot says there ts po are
obj-cttoa to my kuowing the groas, ef contd o
got a doltar of the money alone.’ .
“1 believe him.
“Bot L am to swear Det to reveal the place, as there
i another adept in the city best
powerfol one, whom Stomlle cometaes calls on when
“Suall pluck off the roses and strow the Heh mat thee Hot some eT prance morigoge, aud 8 bal sore of marly usiens ates] Pare ant oine dow: fe ts baffled.
0 beds where your dearly-beto Pagar eran atta matned ‘And your money, my dest father, TH be] “ape Joa mituot Top ‘Think of the exons
‘The while in your desolate darkness you pluc, og bul to utter an yuoked “maos schemea, and had Tet tava fotoues af tbe age of seventy would | bowed.” oie a _ruetaly Dat De ld Bot gY¥0| as nigh, and—and oiber dangers. Reem
ber your sorrow is lighter than mine have been of cornparatively smatt teperanen tney | aternce to words id have nselestly eaura-| yon are seventy sagen now, fathers
uo Kuo Bat, nor ean know, the place of mydead- | os no professed to be able, under certain fanorbie hat concerned himself alone. He haa depen: | vated his parent's a ~sevoniyt Task wt much. Tanny Bo7der te eghty
~ Influences, not only to find the spot where money was | Hent on him, not a large one it wetens, tone at lost. " pine,
1 RON N FIST darted (that he could atways do, tools ome annie he MJor, monsingly —"“prosper Timnst goto watch them, ounces tmaut to kaow
a very solemn word fort’), Dut, what W he moat dim. | ut as his femlly circle had contract led, ts jove for {hat tsi ve done “ "porty ‘thoueand guild. hows much they
, To ‘onlt part of the work, to bring it to the surtace. toase who reine ha deepened and Intevsited. ate ow itis too mach. Too wraeh Wo ngndot that, a are oompeitsd to trost to thede
PATRON'S re DAUG LITER, | - ste oren struck a cntat ana beered tne spade ring | Ns Fovogest son,named after tim, but ually cated | “ald pot Know thet you pat #0 large & som 10 the) ponesiy any way, orit they oan get any moncy, they
aginst it,” Solomon Jimple would siy, “but it sunk Adolphas, oo ot had been ejucsted at tue uptver- } business.’ cap doit as well In your absence as in your presence. ,
‘4 Stary of Colon Colonial Tomes. down deeper, or was whisked awa; *potore Leonid git oe ee rere re yeaa ot ‘ater va ane ne ' nd eee ene “Yes, bat I think I go”
. eyrre cla ind come botne at enty- | am reible, and al Let me go and
By P. aatTLTON MYERS. 2 rience aoa ae aries poe, | toree to (Ind bis father in the grest clstrean which his] tHe bad nothing, though he at et wow? ABIART | stay out “ie ites wien tote ecewenn teres
oven, you know that, nt pon hia. “Never mind, Cathet, 16 wil! ell come right.” not to. that, aod they find apy tressure I will
Abundred and sing. ve eo, New Yes, Solomon's fare or by ne a slmays been his father’s favorite, and | © “I wish. T ald see wore may throasD. SHED-) yee that yon sre Lot wrorget”
present mame, and was an Engilsh colony, nitboogh ita | means atadows., He hed found a Jor twenty | Wab every way worthy of te partly Wh wien Be ple er . t Jou Gow’ teiewe ta 1s; Dotpby? eald the old
imbabtania were eblety low Date, for liad, as) seas vefore, when be wes ot Tooktog for It bat rar] "38 “Siople i” me, eos ey aa over the top of bia p00
every tody knows was the peogenllo of the taf quetiy desing, poe sole on his 6 bomes-ead, | ° Ms attachment tobi parats men abounded, va || Fen ne a joney buried on toy farms—
sate va three aimerent ents poseesed 04 bowers of Ma- eat alster ane nafs enough co weke me tbe oaest aa on the| "Not aly. at tat wil mae bo dierenca, itt
eign Fz Vansenoonore no Dad grown ont of childhood du vlog la Toe " believe it whoa I see It, and T shail at leest
To Nor hel bigeye aa {ne States ever That sick wid, ond ba determined the | senco, and asin the firat flasa of maldenty east, aoe doesn't be fled It, then asked Dolpb, laugh- tneredanty, ‘Let me go, father, snd you © iy
fei ogee wed ther Tule ote forte tat ie an 4 bs Srotatatare fe, He had oeed ty property| when ho rotorned sleep as usual. _I¢ will be berter for you." :
y wil ith Engi wed the allegiance soos In the purohese land 1d, and in eblarg- wos ren in feaith and site soa toon cue says It belopgs to me—being on my Tand, and “a ca sleep, Duipn, whea K is going on, Not
ote oa subleets to ttat ig nation. alt Detse, ware, with, Tooterate labor, he \y born 's too honest 10 take it for hirovelt, bot he thinks 1] wink.’
I rate days it Decomene morta ae: |wiedt have Ted a qulet, ey life to the end o a qoarter of K, tf he gets it for me.” eset ysit up before the Are theo, and emoke your
‘scWeit, that’s falr enough, Ta that all be asks ?”
oaty ie exp, even ta some intelligent
‘that the ‘Low D&S NO cisgraceful sigoi featon
when apslied to the Bowieh Prep, aod ‘that it only
desig ea them inhabitants of
Low (01 er
Gamtavua avolphus Van Schooobove
a5.
Bak ere ofthe yellow coinas it frst broke
his en ¥islon, hanated bie by day
M4 sale fn hw native lea cetorm
tenia a eochantal iad, dettala wit
reas
on
which lay ready t
‘ooin and jewels Ww!
09 learntog how many rebu‘Ts the workd has tn stot
the poor men, who has been edacated with the tastes
od ane ofa rien
8 tall and sender, m0 art face, dark brown
fant!
quite, He wants a llttie advance—on'y
yy, He wouldn't wind: bat
‘J aNd B couple of negroes, at
ere well, a fandom. T think i te best, Ys
sa ay 0 Dat yon mus be very emrfaly
my ao Stofe oR Must not
we sot the a ta stele Present} hey?
a bigh
style of a Low Dutchman, in 'he year of Grace ri ten rea ihe sea deliver. cre a less teeth; but bis featores: oo ond vnopmkeca hardly be Kept at x they're ond ecpocleny “sont wogh—that ‘Would be mow
We tutroauce him to the 6 ts. | He becat tent of plodding toll; and be took | were mot ‘chi a bis profile deticate. We ‘the | dangerons to ail.”
‘Tail, and bat eligntly bent, with asnow crowned head, | to ae ereetieg ‘and digging for money, while his fn thou ‘call bim bendeome, bat bis beauty w ited they hear? “all Dignt, futher, I may langh before v wo, 1 ane
r ot deeply weinkle?, al aquline nose | ran to waste, and “thistles grow instead of barley.” | ly not ofthe fowtuine cast; yet all that he lacked of} , “Why doo't they work in the dastime F”
ond te-te stil strong and sound. fat Sojoacn wes noawinoler, thovgh He hed eco-|taish aud ekegance, might be fovod (a Ds aisfar's face) | And Bare hal New York around them Wotiog on| “Oh yea, and after you come back.” yr
« "We introduce vim tn knee breeches, long hose and! agjutor and partner tn hist mystic trade, of waom it | who \A digging toot That would be a preity business! hope there will be occasion.” ’
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