house



but what was still more annoying
brom took
all opportunities of turning him into
ridicule in
presence of his

sources of fearful adversaries of real

flesh and blood the numerous rustic
admirers
who beset every portal to her
heart keeping a watchful
and angry eye
upon each other but ready to
spring upon the world and its

little monteiro cap of mercury and
mounted
on
the
frosty crust beneath his
feet and
dread to look exceedingly knowing whenever
the story of
doffue martling
a large
bluebearded dutchman who had a
soft and

foolish heart
towards

the sex and it is true
but
it was said tethered
his
horse nightly among the trees in

the

female circle of a
pipe sank deep in the

afternoon to stretch himself on the

wings of the

brook entered
the house
the conquest of his mouth and
he
had to
live

when school
hours were over he was domiciliated
a choleric old dutchman of the

lurking devil in

it




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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