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Identifier: goldenhairedgert00tilt (find matches)
Title: Golden-haired Gertrude : a story for children
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Tilton, Theodore
Subjects: Courtship Orphans Love Kings and rulers.
Publisher: New York : Tibbals & Whiting
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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am the hap-piest man in the kingdom. And going once moreto the window, after Gertrudes name he wrote smna which means the Queen. Gertrude, you shall be crowned the queen,he said proudly. Never was a maiden more bewildeied andhappy than golden-haired Gertrude at that mo-ment! But why? she asked, after a little while, half 38 GOLDEN-HAIRED GERTRUDE. smiling, half weeping, why did you call yourselfa poor man ? Every man is poor, lie replied, till he getsa sweet wife; then he is rich. But why did you come like a beggar and notlike a king? Because, said he, a maiden might marry aking for his crown, but would marry a beggaronly for his love: and I, though a king, wished tobe married only for love. The bride blushed and softly replied, And that is all I will marry you for.Now who can guess where the wedding washeld ? Neither in Gertrudes house, nor in Fer-dinands palace, nor in a great church, but in theroyal garden. It was the first day of summer.Roses bloomed and birds sang. The happy spot
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GOLDEN-HAIRED GERTRUDE. 39 was a bank of moss, shaded by orange-trees.Ferdinand was dressed in black velvet, and Ger-trude in white satin. A great company camefrom near and far. Of course Dame Stockel andthe two Pigeons were there. But no beggar inrags was seen. The ceremony was solemn andbeautiful. Ferdinand kissed Gertrudes foreheadon the same spot where the angel left the star.The festivities lasted three clays. On the fourth,which was Sunday, Nance and the real glazierwere quietly married in a chapel, and after-ward received many house-keeping gifts fromthe king and queen. But nobody in the king-dom would marry Dame Stockel, for nobody waswilling to be cut to pieces by her tortguc. Ger-trudes bird Jenny no longer was kept in a smallcage, but in a green-house of plants and ilowers, 40 GOLDEN-HAIRED GERTRUDE. where the happy creature hopped from bough tobough, caroling from morning till night. Never,said Gertrude, will Jenny and I forget the arrowand the broken pane ! But the childr

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  • bookid:goldenhairedgert00tilt
  • bookyear:1865
  • bookdecade:1860
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Tilton__Theodore
  • booksubject:Courtship
  • booksubject:Orphans
  • booksubject:Love
  • booksubject:Kings_and_rulers_
  • bookpublisher:New_York___Tibbals___Whiting
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Florida__George_A__Smathers_Libraries
  • booksponsor:University_of_Florida__George_A__Smathers_Libraries_with_support_from_LYRASIS_and_the_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:54
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  • bookcollection:univ_florida_smathers
  • bookcollection:americana
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