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FROM AN ARTIST'S DIARY. 15
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No. I. Sojourn I3st The Farm-House By Th...
Caspar—what ' s lie to do "without me now he ' s somewhat blind , tJioug " Caspar h I am ! a " cross remarked un at times tina ? " '" that is not an _English name .
How is it ? You are an Englishwoman , are you not ? " " Yes , sure , Miss , that am I , born and Ibred on this here coast .
But you must know , young lady , that I married a German . He was a pedlar , was my Caspar . He used to come over here years and years ago , a-trudging * through the villages with a box of
earrings and pins and smart watch-chains and things to tempt the sore cha youn p heart g lads ever behind and a young lasses him lass in with farm clapped . - He houses her was eyes , and I can on cottages ; tell and ; he and , left as now pretty many and a a
then he'd leave a pretty pin or a seal behind him just because he had such a pretty way of speaking his queer English ; and because
there was a look about him which our chaps hadn't . Ah , " pursued t he lon poor g pas woman t love , p forgetting assages , and her speaking gnawing in pain quit e n the differen remembra t tone nce of
dus voice " ting , ! it she does sa gin t ger quie bod -beer t y ly good do bottles wn to reeal fore with her old the oran days corner ge as baske is of gon t her and e ' shawl specia began ; l
when the man as made them days so bright has been one , ' s husco band me , and ghty a often good one to my too master , these ' s twenty house . years I lived past servant ! He used at the to
coast-guard station , down yonder there , Miss ;—that black tarred , step sparrow big s house leading -grass the growing down re und to er in the the the beach c garden l iff , . with Do , and you them that see green fli , g Miss ht of , bushes that big stone there like
little cut in gate half as and is turned a-standing stern open ' ards , and ? that "Well harbor man , made and m of a ' s boat the time I ' ve watched for the pedlar up -chap coming , up y to that gate any ! I
loved him the first moment ever I set eyes on him j and young fellar come , ' up says again I , ' this I don day 't wan year t , nothin I shall g may of you be this want time something Miss ; but ! you of t
you I should then want . ' I knowed from him well that enoug day h year , Lor — ' it bless were you his , heart I wha And _Tbless you ! Caspar knew that too ; and he came sure enough to the
very miht hour when as the I had master told was him . on And his watch some , whiles and all after the , chaps one dark off : a-prawling g > and a-dardling after the smugglersI told my Caspar
a-standing with him in that there upturned , boat , as I'd be his , wife that day two months . And so I was ! and he and I was as
proud of each other as porpoises ! _" into ascend dale Sep " Hartstongue tember sort the pasture of 18 business _tf / L Dell up — lands To . and reach It , pass is so altogether my much throug sy the lvan h the a more very painting oak difficult - " grove up -room hill , as and , and I descend have I down must to , sized
tas carry , the along only with possible me , backwards means for the and conveyance forwards , a of which odly- is , so far
From An Artist's Diary. 15
FROM AN ARTIST ' S DIARY . 15
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/15/
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