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While others enjoy the bone.
THE ESCAPE OX THE ICE.
One morning earlj in February, 1839,
two brothers, bj the name of Walter and
James Farnswortb, set out for a day's
bunt in the forest. The stock of meat in
their several families was running low,
and hunting was the onlj resource they
had ia those days for replenishing it.
They were accounted the best buntere, as
well as Indian fighters, that there were in
all the Miami country, into which tLey bad
penetrated and built their cabins some
three years before Ihe incident which we
are about to relate transpired.
Many were the important services tbe
brothers bad rendered the settlers about
them, until at last they came to be re
garded as leaders in that district, and no
enterprise was set on fot that they were
not consulted about, and I heir views were
in most cases accepted by their neighbor.
Over and over nain had the Indians been
thwarted in their well-planned attacks
upon some lone settler's cabin, through the
interposition of the brothers ; and many
times, when the pupply ef food ran low in
the winter time, it was their hands which
bad provided it, and brought joy where
despair had taken up its abode.
But to come at once to the incidents of
our story :
On this particular morning, as it had
been arranged the night before, Walter
cam to the cabin of his brother, whom
be found standing at the door ready for a
start.
44 You're a little late, Walt," he said,
after he had bid bis brother good mora
ing. 4I had begun to think that jou had
been frightened by those clouds lying
away there in the south, and had given up
going te day."
'I hardly knew what to do about it, I
confess, James. It looked much to me
like rain at daybreak, and to my mind the
air feels like it now, although the sky
does not. What do you say ? Better
risk it and go, don't you think t"
'Yes. The snow is frozen now, and,
at any rate, it will be good snow-shoeing
through the fore part of the day. We have
little meat in tha house, and Burns s folks,
OTer ,...a.r, K.rrllr a mouthful of
anything. I sent Willie over there tnis
merning with half the meat we bad by
us, and he paid he never saw people more
thankful. Burns's lameness is no better,
and it ain't at all probable that be will
be able to step out of doors again this
winter."
4WelI, if such is the case, we musn't
let 'em suffer, if we have to work the hard
er. But let us be off. The sky is bright
ening off there in the south, and, after
all, it may not rain or thaw much until
we get back."
I am ready, Susan," he said, ad
dressing his wife, who at that moment
came to tbe door, "don't be alarmed for
ua if we are not back until to-morrow.
We shan't come in until we have got
something to repay us for our trouble."
A few more words of trifling impor
tance passed between them ; and then the
brothers, turning their backs upon the
cabin, in a short time had plunged into
the depths of the forest, crossing the river
which lay about a mile distant on the
solid ice, which the recent cold weather
had rendered so firm that it would have
borne up any weight to which it might
have been subjected.
The morning hours wore away, and
noon came ; still they kept on their coarse,
and as yet they had seen nothing which
would repay a shot. The weather had
very much moderated since mornirg. and
the crust which covered tbe snow was
beginning to give way, and allow the
snow-shoe to sink through in many places.
Tbo sky, which through the morning had
been very bright, now grew to a dead
leaden color, giving unmistakable signs
that rain was coming ; and if anything
more was wanting to substantiate this,
there was the hollow echo made by tbe
sound of their voices, while the wind,
which all through the forenoon bad been
in the southwest, changed to the east and
blew strouglj. All signs About them, in
both earth and sky, gave assurance that
a thaw was imminent.
Waller, as tho eigne of a storm began to
multiply so thickly, was for turning back;
but his brother objected to? this move.
They had come a long distance, and it
would not be much longer .kofore they
would be rewarded by a sigb of came, in
the common run of luck, andlfood was so
much needed at homo ; when, as if to
give them encouragement, at this moment
they espied a deer just out of rifle shot.
This gave them new courage, and raised
their hopes of soon being able to set their
faces homeward laden with as much ven
ison as they could carry : and they started
off in pursuit at the top of their speed,
which was not vsry swift, for the snow
had thawed so much that tbey broke
through the crust at almost every step.
The forest through which they were
passing was very open : and, as a conse
quence, in spite of all their caution in ap
proaching within rifle shot, the deer got
wind of their approach, and throwing
back its head, dashed off at full speed.
Though the hunters were disappointed in
securing their game as easily as they had
hoped, they had no idea of giving up the
chase ; and bo tbey set off at full speed in ,
pursuit, hoping soon to come within ran;e.
This they at last succeeded in doing, but
not until two good hours more had been
spent and at least three miles more put be
tween themselves and hoaie.
James at last succeedtd in bringing his
rifle to bear upon the panting animal,
which had paused for a moment to recover
its breath. Though usually a sure shot,
be did not this time kill, 'and the deer
merely wounded turned again to fly. Its
strength lasted long enough to lead them
onward for half a mile further, when it
sank down, and the hunters soon put an
end to its misery.
To flay the animal, and to cut it up into
quarters was but a slight task for them ;
and by the time it was concluded the rain
began to fall. By this time they began to
feel the want of food ; and so the snow was
scraped away, a fire hastily kindled, and
in a little time a nice steak was broiled.
By the time their repast whs concluded
the rain was pouring down in torrents.
There was no time to be lost ; and so they
at once set their faces homeward. Be
sides tho rain which was f illing, they
had another cause tor uneasiness. By
the signs, which tbey had seen for an
hour past, they knew that there were
enemies near at hand. Onci or twice, in
their pursuit of the deer, they had crossed
the recently-made trail of the savages :
and they knew well that if they once pot
upon their track that to escape would be
next to impossible. Tbe redskins, thirst
ing for their blood, would follow tbem
like bloodhounds.
Owing to the warmth of the weather
and the fast-falling rain, couplod with the
additional weight of venison tbey bore,
the crust of snow would no longer sustain
them, and they sank through it at every
step. This made their progress slow and
painful ; and, almost before tbey were
aware of it, the night came down, and a
darkness, so dense that they could hatdly
see a yard before their faces, encompassed
them about.
For a while they toiled on ; but at last
they saw, what had been evident from the
first, that they would not be able to reach
home that nignt. So tbey came to a halt
beneath the wide-spreading branches of a
large hemlock, where tbey decided to en
camp for the night.
At first they thought they would try
and do without a fire, fearing that the
savages might be attracted to tbem there-
uy i m ; i-ol..) on aiarnal. and became
so uncomfortable, that they at last deci
ded to run tbe risk. After considerable
trouble one was kindled, and they seated
themselves about it, enjoying tbe cheerful
warmth which it imparted to them.
An hour or so was passed in this way,
and then they made preparations to get a
little sleep. .Some boughs were cut from
the hemlock, and the water shaken from
them and then dried by the fire ; and of
these a couch was made, upon which
Walter threw himself, while his brother
kept the watch until midnight, when he
was to arouse himself and take his turn
at standing guard.
Slowly the hours passed away, and at
length midnight came. James bad not
closed his eyes ; but no signs or sounds of
danger had reached him.
It was now his turn to rest, and, arous
ing his brother, he threw himself in his
place, and was soon sleeping heavily.
He could have remained in this state but
a short time to him it Beemfd but a few
minutes when he was awakened by his
brother, bending over him and shaking
him by the shoulder.
"What is it?', be asked, starting up
and springing to his feet.
"llarkl There are savages near us ;
they have seen our light acd are about to
give us a call. There I did you not hear
them breaking through the snow?"
4 'I beard something, bat it maybe a
wild beast . instead of a redskin. But
what snakes it so light ? It can't be
morning yet ?'
"No. The moon is up. There !
are those beasts or savages ? I can swear
that the redskins are upon 03, and more
than a score in number V
4You are right, Walt, and we must
remain hero no longer if we wish to keep
our scalps upon our beads. Good hea
vens 1 look yonder I They are nearer
upon as than I thought."
ARB 1LATKS BKSIDB.
His brother slanced in the Hir.n.;..
from whence the sound came, and beheld,
but a short distance away, a number of
shadowy forms gliding amid the trees
towards them. There was not a moment
to lose, for to attempt to oppose them
would be worse than useless ; so, hastily
binding on their snow-shoes, they fled
away, leaving their hard-earned venison
behind them.
The rain was still pouring down in tor
rents, and tbe walking was much worse
than it had been when they had laid
down j but they were somewhat refreshed
by the rest they had had ; and urged on
by the danger which threatened them,
tbey had put a considerable distance be
tween them and their camp when the
savages reached it. They knew when
they reached tbe snot by tbe howl of dis
appointment which came to their ears
when the redskins found that their prey
had scented their approach and fled. A
backward glance and a second shout told
them that tbe savages were not lineerins
about the fire, but were coming on in
fierce pursuit.
Tho brothers knew that the race before
them was one for life or death. So thev
strained every nerve in tbe fearful ordeal
before them, and with such success that
they were enabled to maintain the distance
oetween tbem and their pursuers, and at
one time to increase it. And so the race
went on, until, at length, the night was
past, and the gray light of dawn began to
light up the east, and lessen the shadows
about them.
4,We must be near the river, James,
and I don't think the savages will care to
follow us beyond," exclaimed Walter,
wbo was slightly in advance, as be paused
for a moment for his brother to come up.
"Heaven knows. I hone not : I cannot
9 a
keep up this pace for a great while longer."
"Courage, Walter, courage ! We have
done too much to fail now, and fall be
neath tbe red bands of those howling sav
ages. Just beyond the hill yonder is the
river, and once on the other side, I think
we shall be safe."
"But what is that, James? I mean
that roaring sound which fills the air ?"
"Only the wind and rain. I think.
Quick ! quick ! The red skins are gaining
upon us."
With every nerve strained to the ut
most tension, tbe two men sprang up the
hill. The rearing sound increased in vio
lence until it wae almost deafening. The
summit of the bill was gained at last ; and
the fugitives paused spell-bound with hor
ror and dismay.
James was the first to spsak.
4-Great heaven, Walter! tbe river is
breaking up !"
He was right With a mighty and re
sistless force, the great mass of water and
ice came plunging along, with a sound al
most as deafening as that of thunder.
Tbe warm rain bad caused the river sud
denly to rise and break the armor of ice
with which it was bound.
Blankly the brothers gazed in each
other's faces. Death, before and behind,
threatened them. Thev were between
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the upper and nether millstone, either of
which would grind tbem to powder.
"Water is more merciful than the sav
ages. We had better trust ourselves to
it than to them." said Walter
. Tbey sprang down the hill to tbe bank
of the river. Just as thev reached it n
shout of triumph came from tbe throats
of the savages. They bad reached the
summit of the hill, and beheld the wild
rushing of the river, and felt assured that
their pray must now fall into their hands
"There is but one chance for us, Wal.
ter." said James, eazips into his brother',
face ; "and that is to trust onraelres to
one of those floating cakes of ice, hoping
that it may carry us to. the other shore.
There is a good one for our purpose pass
ing now. Follow me. It is our only
chance."
It was a fearful leap, but his feet struck
the spot he intended tbem to, and in a mo
meat his brother was by bis side. The
motion they gave the cake sent it far out
into the stream, where it joinod others ;
and they were whirled along with resist
less force by the current, which, to their
great joy, they found set towards the op
posite shore. Several times they were in
great danger of slipping into the boiling
flood, but at last tbey reached in safety
the point desired, despite their insecure
footing, and the numerous shots which
were fired at them by the disappointed
and enraged savages.
Thankful for their almost miraculous
escape,, the brothers sent back an answer
ing shout of defiance, and then hastened
en to their settlement, which they reached
without further adventure.
Tnc people of Nashville are amazed at
the performance of a boy wbo plays one
tune on the piano with hi? left hand,
another tune with his right, whistles a
third, and beats the bass drum with his
toes. We are glad that this deplorable
fiend lives as far away as Nashville. If
be resided ia our neighborhood, a profound
sense of duty would impel us to cram him
full of percussion caps and then drop him
off a French roof upon the pavement, so
as to snap that prodigy off, as it were. .
A child ia Buffalo, the other day, tied
a crape on the door knob to see if the
carriage would come to take tbem out
riding, as it did. the family acrces the
street, '
From the New York Weekly.
THE JOSH D1LLIXGS 1'iPERS-
ANiniLEOLOOT.
THE P135MIRE.
The pissmire iz about 19 sizas bigger
than the ant, aktual meazurement, and iz
a kind ov bizzy loafer among bugs.
They are like sum men, alwus very
bizzy about euua thing, but what it iz, the
Lord only knows.
I never see a pissmire yet that wasn't
on the travel, but i hav watched them all
day long, and never see them git tew the
place they started for.
Just before a bard shower they are in
the biggest hurry, they seem tew postpone
every tbing for that ockashun.
Thar iz a grate difference between
hurry, and dispatch, but pissmires dont
seem to understand the difference.
If pissroires would go slower I should
like them better, for i don't know ov enny
thing more unpleasant to view, than an
aktive loafer.
A pissmire iz like a boys wind mill, on
tbe gable end ov a smoke house, in a gule,
the taster it goao around, the less common
sense thare seems tew be in it.
If pissmires haint got a destiny ov sum
kind tew fill tbey wear out more shu
leather than thare iz enny religion in.
THE POLE KAT.
My friend, did yu over examin the fra
grant pole kat clussly ?
J guess not, ibey are a kritter who
won't bear examining with a microskope.
Tbey are butiful beings, but oh ! how
deceptive.
Their habits are phew, but unique.
They build their houses out ov earth
and the houses hav but one door tew them,
and that iz a front door.
When they enter their housts they don't
shut the door after them.
They are called pole kats bekause it iz
net convenient tew kill tbem with a klub,
but. with a pole, and tho longer the pole
the more convenient.
Writers en natral history, dissagree
about tbe right length ov the pole taw be
used, but I would suggest, that the pole
be about 365 feet, eppeshily if the wind iz
in favor ov the pole kat.
When a pole kat iz suddenly walloped
with a long pole, the first thing that he,
she, or it, duz, iz tew embalm the air, for
menny miles in diameter, with an akri
monious ollfaktory refreshment, which
permeates tho ethereal fluid, with an en
tirely original smell.
This smell iz less popular, in the fash
ionable world, than lubins exirakt, but
the day may cum, when it will be buttled
up, like musk, and sold for 87 1-2 cents
per bottle ; bottles small at that.
A pole kat will remove the filling from
a hens egj, without braking a hole in the
shell, bigger than a marrow fat pea.
How this iz did, historians hav left us
to doubt.
This iz vulgarily called "surking eggs."
This iz an accomplishment known
amung humans, which it iz sed, they hav
learnt from tbe pole kats.
Pole kats also deal in chickens, yung
turkeys, and yung goslins.
They won't tutch an old goose, they
are sound on that question.
Man iz the only phellow who will at
tempt tew bight into an old goose, and
his teeth fly oph a grate menny times be
fore he loosens enny ov the meat.
A pole kat travels undsr an alias, which
is called skunk. Thare iz a grate menny
aliases that thare iz no accounting for, and
this iz one ov them.
I bav kaught skunks in a trap. Tbey
are eazier tew git into a trap than tew git
out ov it.
In taking tnem out ov a trap grate
judgement must be bad not tew shake
them up ; the more yu shake them op the
more ambrosial they am.
One pole kat in a township is enuff,
espeshily if the wind changes once in a
while.
A pole kats sk in iz wuth 2 dollars, in
market, after it iz skinned, but it iz wuth
3 dollars and fifty cents tew skin him.
This iz one way tew make 12 shillings,
in a wet day.
THE WEAZIL.
The weazel haz an eyo like a hawk,
and a tooth like a pickerel.
They kan see on all three sides of a
right angle tri angle board fence, at once,
and kan bite thru a side ov sole leather.
" They alwus sleep with one eye open,
and the other on the wink, and are quicker
than spirits ov turpentine, and a lighted
match.
It iz no disgrace for a sireak ov litening
tew strike at a weazel and miss him.
If I owned a weazle, litening mite strike
at him all day for 50 cents a clap.
I hav tried tew kill them in a stun wall
with a rifle, but they would dodge the
ball, when it got within six inches ov
them, and stick their heads out ov anoth
er krack, three feet further oph.
They are the hardest kritter amung the
small game tew ketch or tew kill, yu kant
coax one into a trap, and keep him thare,
enny more than yu could ketch a ray ov
light, with a a knot hole.
Weazles are sk arse, but the supply
alwus equals the demand, tbey aint useful
only for one thing, and that iz, too kill
chickens. '
They will kill 14 chickens in one night,
and lake off the blood with tbem, leaving
the corpse behind.
1 hunted S weeks for a weaz'e once (it
iz now six years ago,) and knu jast where
be waz all tbe time, and haint got him yet.
Termn, $3 per year ! advance
NUMBER 9.
I offered 10 dollars reward for him, and
hold the stakes yet.
Every boy in that aaborhood waz after
that weazle nite and day, and I had tew
withdraw the reward to keep from break
ing up the district skool.
The skoolmaster threatened tew su me
if i didn't, and i did it, for i hate a law
suit rather wuss than i do a weazle.
A weazle's skin, wore on the neck, it
iz sed, will kore the quinsy ssre thrut, but
the phellew who sed this had a sure thing ;
he knu nobody could ketch tbe weazle.
I waz told, when i waz a boy, by a
cunning cuss, that tbe way tew kstch a
crow waz tew put sum salt on bis tail.
I prakticed all one summer on this, but
never got sum crow.
I hav did things az fooIUh az this fince
i hav qui: being a boy, but prefer tew keep
mum what they are.
Weazles hav got no wisdum. but Way
got what iz sumtimea mistaken for it, they
hav got cunning.
Cunning stands in the same relashun
tew wisdum that a tadpole duz tew a frog,
he may git tew be a frog if be keeps on
growing, but he aiat one now.
Wisdum knows how tew jump, but
about the best thing that cunning can do
iz tew wiggle.
I hav saw cunning men wbo thought
they waz wize, hut i never saw a wise
man who thought he waz cunning.
SI 17 EE-IS II A' ESS.
Experiments in the use ot projectiles
are continually being reported, but the
following, we think, will be found new :
Out in a certain western fort some time
ago, tbe Major conceived the idea that
artilliery might be nstd effectively in fight
ing with the Indians by dispensing with
gun-carriages and fastening the cannon
upon backs of mules. So be explained
bis views to the commandant, and it was
determined to try the experiment. A
howitzer was selected and strapped upon
an ambulance mule, with the muzzle
pointing toward the tail. When tbey bad
secured tbe gun, and leaded it with ball
cartridge, they led that calm and stead
fast mule out on the bluff and set up a
target in tbe middle of tbe river to prac
tice at. The rear of the mule was turned
toward tbe target, and he was backed
gently up to the edge of the bluff.
Tbe officers stood around in n semicir
cle, while tbe Major went up and inserted
a time fuze in the touch-hole of tbe how
itzer. When the fuze was ready the
Major lit it and retired. In a moment or
two the hitherto unruffled mule heard the
fizzing back there on his neck, and it
made him uneasy. He reached his bead
around to ascertain what was going on,
and, as he did so, his body turned and
tbe howitzer began to sweep around the
horizon. The mule at last became exci
ted, and his curiosity grew more and mors
intense, and in a seeond or two he was
standing with bis four legs in a bunch,
making six revolutions a minute, and tbe
howitzer, understand, threatening sudden
death to every man within half a mile.
The commandant was observed te climb
suddenly op a tree ; the lieutenants were
seen sliding over the bluff into the river,
as if they didn't care at all about the high
price of uniforms ; the sergeant began to
throw up breastworks with his bayonet,
and tbe major rolled over the ground and
groaned. In two or three minutes there
was a puff of smoke, a dull thud, and (he
mule oh ! where was he ? A solitary
jackass might have been seen turning suc
cessive back somersaults over the bloff,
only to rest anchor, finally, with his how
itzer at the bottom of tbe river, while the
ball went off toward the f'rt, bit the
chimney in the major's quarters, rattled
the adobe bricks down into the parlor, and
frightened the major's wife into convul
sions. They do not allude to it now. and
no report of the results of the experiment
has ever been sent to the War Depart-
ment.
Grexley on the Castor Bean.-
Horace Greeley says that castor beans
may be cast or not, whichever you like.
The foundry at which he gets his seed is .
the best. If the nest-egg has been cracked
by frost, tho beans are apt to sprout and
shrink, which is not tbe case with oats or
hay when properly ground. Sawdust
manure has been found to contain too
much heat for tbe ordinary castor, dried
glass from-fractured lanterns being the
proper restorative where the bean is to be
hastened. Pull off your boots while cul
tivating. No rain water 6hould be al
lowed to settle en the vines duting wet
weather. v:
A PROMINENT CITIZEN of NotTlSlOWn,
approaching his sleeping apartment a few
nights since, at a late hour, gently tapped
at the door. "Who is it? inquired his
better half, to which very proper interroga
tory the heartless man replied hy asking :
"Whom do you expect to see at this
hour ?"
An exchange, says tbe Louisville Ledg
er, describing a fashionable party, speaks
of a gallant wbo whispered to a lady 44nnd
took her apart." It is not a very difflcu It
feat to 4 'take a lady apart" these times,
but there is very little left of her after
ward. What is the difference between tbe
Emperor of Russia and a beggar ? Tho
one issues manifestoes, and the other Bane
ifests toes without his shoes, - -
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