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THE THUNDER STORM
CHAPTER I
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Please, mother, let us go!"
_ It Ivo a ctoidish voice that spoke; and the lit
• hands clung obstinately to the parent's dress.
.. How you bother me ! Yes, 0, for mercy's
• ' u te and don't I 1 me see yolk back in a hurry."
f she spoke, Mrs. Carr gave the broom she was
• g„ a loss, and flirted per dress away from little
• hold.so irritably that the smile, which hail
• brightened the young chills fac'e, died away
- a sorrowful glance.
;",.quick tempered parent saw the look, and
..e,uketi. She turned away, saying,
rtu:tlhood Soon loigets, even injustice. Mag.
Torts gradually recovered their elasticity and
:twee VCRS heard calling to her sister Lucy, to
L r fseeptog wallm and bring the big ba:•ket, (or
sere gtting to the woods to gather Sowers.—
.tway the two went, happy in the Saturday's al-
Ans'A holiday
Vbal a ple?eant lime they had, those innocent
tnen. in Mose old woods! How they ran hith-
tnd thither, attracted by some new flowers;—
lxs they played hide and seek among the trees;
ar they watAecl the birds that hopped tearlessly
;rat them ; hOw they arranged and re-arranged
:rir spoil= in. the basket ; and how Lacy finally,
'a: down on a batik and began weaving, a chaplet
hlaium which she tritd again and again, say-
r :eaa lima di.: ii was " beamitill, oh! ea beau
just put an o ther dower in to see it
tru,;;On't louk beliersi;ll."
Occupied in ;Ins way, the children hilt not ob
rt..l tiow tat they had wandered into the woods,
pow dalL it was becoming. Suddenly Lucy
ztrd cp
Nlaggy, it is'almnst night," she said in
s-pr.fe most hurl home " And she arose
instant a low, sullen growl was hear)
P> _,a. wnln a•hc tat:a, evept close to her sister's
leirdied , o speak, but asked with het large
.e,l ese: , . what it meant. .
'hander ; " said Lucy, in a whisper. "
•::::e ,n. "
; nought it Mll , l be a lion," whispered Mag,-
:I IA almost alratd to look around.
There are no lions here, you know, Maggie,'
F. r.,' Lucy " they are only found away off in
But there are hears and panthers, I've heard
trr say. - , aid 31a421e, blushing for her mistake,
rAltttg lurr Don't you remember, he said
en heard :hem growl at night!"
. 4 wt. bu: nine years old; so that she could
ioeted to be much braver than Maggie ,
4r. aaa rive ; soil this reminiscence she looked
f over her shoulder li as if half expecting to
wage least leap from some covert near.--
%sr., she had not thought of the bears and
-res Even older persons, pethaps, • would have
r.er,:y, if unarmed; for it was the ori.
. :ores% and of vast extent, stretching miles
• qtme over the mountains. Nevertheless, Lu.
:.sd to keep up her courage,
it only , hander, Maggie," she said. a Let
and, get out of the wood. May be we can't
• ter tre it begins to rain."
h these words, taking her little sister by the
rt,e began to retrace her steps. walking so
lat Maggie could scarcely keep up with
is fast as , she ' •alked, she could not outstrip the
whose rapid pmach was heralded by the
Ping darkness a by the winds rising among
zrei Nefither of the children had ever been
I'rarh a lime before, and the moaning breeze
....is °ten like the sob of a child, or the cry of
duress, or growl of • beast, that they were
rattocaly stattiing in terror. At such moments of
Ilaggi e would cling the closer to hershiter,
Lucy would hates her steps anew, her lit.
tart throbbing almost to bursting.
:rtittally the wind.rose to a gale. The leaves
-Tete" in thousands to the ground ; the trees
tL rotted and groaned as ifein great agony ; the
tne elements' was awful ; and the sky grew
tart ihat Lucy no. longer was able to pick her
41 ' Calt,tii only hurity blindly forward, dragging
l'age with her breathlessly.
Nett! in hour pa;i.ed in this manner—an hour
" 13 '4 an age to the children. Long since
ihey neiht to have been out of the
But the iceerfgrew wilder at each step ;--
imitior appearance had vanished ; and at
poor girt could not conceal from hersell
v were Inst.
was also at hand—a nght of rain and tem
Lacy asked hetselt, could they survive the
cold! Could they escape the wild , beasts
.11 they had heard? 0, what would they
home on - finding that they did not return!
ich reflevinns succeeded each other in her
the would havetaeppeit hopelessly. but that
of her younger sister nerved her, and for
wake she courageously kept on, trying to
itv ist path.
torther prtgresa became impossible, en
tw the darkness. They had reached a lit
space, where a huge tree abutted on a
?arik, and ro her dismay, Lucy reeemoiz el i
spot which they bad paled long ego 'e
rre cracking in aaircle, she saw. At this
4er firmness kfalry gave way.
taused, therefore, end looked in agony
Yet still mindful of her younger sister, she
ilaggre, with motherly care, under her
ittl, in order to shelter her front the wind,
In - through the glade dimmer than elec. She
treety done this, when a clap of thunder,
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breaking almost immediately over head, went rat
ding down the sky, eintb and heaven shaking un
der the concussion, as it Nature was dissolving. It
was accompanied by a flash of liglitaing so vivid
every thing for an instant seemed to swim in light.
Lucy was blinded by the glare and stunned by the
thunder. The horror of the moment was increased
by the gloom which fell on the scene, accompan
ied by a sudden cessation of the vandohat wail in
div.ribably awful.
Maggie thought the world was coming to 6
end, and whispered as much, clingly wildly to her
sister. Then bursting into loud sobs, she exclaim.
ed, (' If mother was only here !" and hid her face
in Lucy's bosom.
Lucy was came less terrified than her 4iiler
The very ground seemed still reeling beneath her.
The rain i „too, now began to fall in torrents, as if the
foun ta ins ot hes, en itself were opened. Wasn't it
just like what she had read of the day ofiudgment I
Her limbs refused to support her, end she sank to
her knees, dragging Maggie with her. Yet she
made a last effort to cheer her sister.
" Don't, , don't cry so," was all sha could say,
-clasping Maggie and sobbing as she spoke. Then
her tittle remaining fortitude gave way, and they
both wept together, clasping each other convulsive
ly.
Meantime Mrs. Can, atter bustling through het
work, like a thrifty housewife as she was, had
seated herself in her low, creaking rocking, chair,
with her basket of mending before her. Occupied
thus, she had not observed the gathering storm, till
a roll of distant thunder startled her.
" Dear, me," she said, starling to her feet, " them
children will get wet through "
She hurried to the door, as she spoke, and began
to look down the village street, in the direction Lu•
cy and Maggie had taken. But she could see noth
ing of them. Over the neighboring mountain, hove•
ever, hung thick, black clouds, the ante precursors ,
of a violent swim.
Directly she saw a couple of neighbors coming
in from the fields that lay between the village and
the foot of the mountain Throwing her apron over
her head she ran out to ask it they had seen her
children.
The answer was in the negative. As yet, how.
ever, her anxiety was only sufficiently to excite
irritability.
" Lucy ought to know better," she said sharply,
" it's time she was home long ago I'll make her
remember another time, I reckon."
One of the men looked uneasily at the sky a mo•
ment, and then passed on, shaking his head. When
out of hearing he sal* to his companion, "I've
heard tell of children being lost in that forest
Twenty years ago, when the settlement wits new,
they say a boy starved to death there. r wonder
if Mrs Carr would scold her little gal in this way,
if she knew it might happen to-night lo her own
children.
It was only'. passing reflection, and had escap•
ed hie mind altogether, when two hours later, as
he was preparing to go to bed, fatigued with a hard
day's labor, there came, knock at the door. The
visitor was his fellow workman.
"It's tree what you said about them children,"
were the words of the intruder. "They haven' t
come home yet, and the mother is taking on lake
one mad She &aye they will die before morning
even if the panthers don't catch them. And it's
likely enough no such a night."
His host had been too much stunned by the in
telligence to speak. But his wife now pushed for
ward, her eyes wide open with horror
" What's that you say !'' she cried," whose chil
dren are lost?"
" lure Carr's
" Not in the forest?"
. The visitor nodded .
The wile gave a quick screom, and glanced in
voluntarily at her own little ones, whom she had
been preparing for bed
" Poor Mrs, Carr'. Poor sweet little dears!" she
cried, running to a cupboard for shawl and bonnet.
rr Here, Peggy," she continued, turning to her el
der child, a girl of twelve, '‘ you must pit you r
brothers and sisters to bed the best way you can.—
" John," she added, addressing her husband,
" you're going of course." Only to think, little
Maggie, born on the same day of our Jane, on the
mountains in a night like this."
Her woman's heart was alive with sympathy.—
Nor was her husband backward in responding to
it. It is indeed a beantiful trail of human nature,
that any incident like this appeals right to the heart
even with the most unlettered ; tot every parent
imagines what his or her leetings would be, it the
lost one were their own.
1 Twu forjihn I corns," said their visitor, as
they left the hoose "The whole placethas turn
ed out, that it the men, and are going to semen the
((nest. Bot they'll want all the women that can be
spared op at Mrs. Cart's, for she btu , cot the 'star
ticks powerful ba•l ; she says she was out of humor
because Maggie plagued her to go, and told 'em
she never wanted to see 'em again, and 'now she
says it's a lodgment on het."
When they reached the house, they found moat
hi the neighbors alriady collected, the men talking
about the door-way and planning their mode of
searph, while the women crowded the sitting,room
inside, from which came the. shrieks of the con
scious stricken mother.
Mn Brown paused lodg enough to learn that,
almost an hour before, in the hetghth of the storm
Carr had come home. Up to that time the mother
had &need herself that the children had stopped
at his shop, for he was a wheelwright, and worked
at the end of the village. get Iron) that moment
she had been almost frantic. The 'neighbors, on
hearing the chikfrec were lost, bad volunteeiltd to
go oat in search of them, but it took some time: to
collect them, and the Browns had been the last sum.
mooed, for they lived In the opposite end of lb.
town.
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temaja acquaantaneas trylaglo hold Mrs. Carr.wbo
was eitugglii4 in Utiearms, her hair ilidlieieled
about her. " '
" Let me go," ihe'cried, "l will go: walk
on my hands and knees allover the mountain, it the
Lord will only give me back my children. Bat he
never will, he nurser said, rocking her
self, and speaking in a tone of belpleas agony, " I
told 'em I did't want to see 'em again in a hurry,
and he has took me at my word. -
The neighbors gazed at the poor, frantic creature
with, tears in their eyes , saying what they could, in
voices choked by emotion, to soothe her. Oita sag
geste3 that the children had found shelter in a log
hot standing at the foot of the mountain. Another
said they might have been waiting under some ca
pacious tree, till the rain ceased, in whicli case they
were now on their way home, as there waa only .a
slight drizzle at present. Rut the mother would not
be comforted.
" Doti% say they' she cried, sharply, "
.for you
know it ain't so. It's been drizzling for an hour ;
and they wouldlave been here if it was so" The
,neighbors felt the truth of this. " Oh ! will nobody go
,ft 74 them," she shrieked ; and with a wild sudden
effort she freed herself from the two women
who held her and rushed towards the door,and gain
ed the porch, when the sturdy arm of John Brown
caught and restrained her.
g , Let me go, let me go," she Cried, passionately
writhing to rein* herself. " The're my children,
and no one goes for them." Then finding she was
powerless in the grasp of her Herculean neighbor,
she added, ,4 oh, let me go," in beseeching tones,
to different from her usual manner, limit brought
tears to many a manly eye.
" We're all going," said John Brown, soothingly.
" You could do no good. It's not a night for a wo
man to be out!' -
Not a night to be out," she shrieked," yet my
children are out in it. Let me go. Let me go, I
say." And in her insanity she bit the band that
held her s till the blood came.
" Molly, Molly," said a strong , voice ~a 1 this in.
slant, and her husband rushed through the group of
men. "Go in for their sake, and have blankets
and hot water ready, tor, when we bring them back
they'll die mayhap for want of proper care taking.
He spoke in a cheerful voice. She listened and
grew calm, as when a maniac hears the voice of
his keeper.
Taking her up, as he ceased, in his strong arms
he carried her back into the house, where first of
fectionately smoothing the rain drops hom her hair,
he kissed her with rough kindness, telling to keep
up i * good heart, and have everything ready when
the returned, hurried away lest she should see the
tears that began to gather, and roll down. on his
cheek big and slow.
"Now, neighbors," he said speaking huskily,
and drawing the back of his hand across his eyes
as he stood once more in the doorway, " we will
be off, if you say so, for all is ready. I thank you,"
he added, with the natural dignity of deep sutler
in as a dozen fazes mutually expressed their sym.
pathy, " I know you will do as it it was your own
cbldren ; and if it don't succeed," here his voice !al
tered for a moment, but struggling manfully he
went on, " will be done !"
CEIPTI a UL
The plan for search was soon arranged. It was
known that the children hail entered the wood by
the highway that ran through it. In order, there
fore, to have a fair prospect of success, it was ne•
cessary to extend the line of men as far as possible
on each side of this road, and so advance up the
mountain. It this faded there was no hope.
The rain had changed, as we have said, from a
succession of heavy showers, to a light but continu
er:l driule. torches of pine knots were provided,
in addition to lanterns. At the head of onedetach
ment, Mr. Carr placed himself. To the other John
Brown was assigned.
Had there been any trace by which to follow the
children, the search would have appeared lead&
ficult But the darkness would have precluded
the exercise of the ordinary wood craft, even it the
torrents of water which To not obliterated the
usual signs. It was with: est faint expectations
of success, consequently; That the expedition set
forth.
For more than two hours the search went
ona—
S'eadily ads arcing up the mountain side, they ecru
tiniAed every foot 01 the. ground they passed; bat
without success. The waving of their torches thro'
the woods startling the birds continually, and now
and then a' frightened owl blindly stumbling by,
more than once, by the noise thus occasioned leis
ed false hopes in those portions of the expedition
furthest from the scene of commotion. But slim*
delusive expectations soon faded.
Lring sine. , the parts of the wood more familiar.
known had been passed, and now it was the origi
nal forest that had been traversed. The way grew
wilder, and hone, which had been but faint at the
best, abandoned almost all. It was felt the search
might be protracted for weeks in this vast and near
ly unexplored region, without discovering thechil
dren ; for on such broken ground, it was impossi
ble thoroughly to examine every nook, and the lost
ones might be passed a little to the right or left, yet
no one perceive them.
" Keep a stout heart neighbors,'said John Brown,
and have sharp eyes. The children may be
worn out with cold, and be unable to make them
selves heard, though seeing and bearing as. Hark I
what was shall""
• He stopped suddenly, for • low peculiar cry mire
on the night air, seemi9g to come from the depths
of the forest ahead.
All listened in silence for a moment, when the
cry was repeated. •
" les a panther," said one of*. men. 4 ' I thought
I knew what it was, the first time."
A common shudder went through the helium..
All bad simultaneously recognised the sound,and
all had stmulumericaly thought, what if. the lost
chikilso bad fallen its wayt" . Este tither
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soon as possible the .poi froth which the terrible
cry Came.
More than limp thit cryr , wai heard again. But
it seemed retreating farther into rho depths of the
forest. Several times it sounded so Much like the
voice of a child, that the listenent started, thinking
they heard at last the lost ones in the distance. But
the repetition of the sound convinced them 01 their
mistake. Perhaps nothing could be conceived,
moter'oaleulated to sharpen the pangs of the father'.
heart, than the alternations of hope and despaiv.—
He was i'strong minded man, and• sustained also
Uy religious principle, yet be could not helpgiving
way to emotion.
Oh !. if they have already fallen a prey to this
terrible wild beast," heeded. 1, God almighty have
mercy ! My poor Maggie ! My dear, motherly
little Lucy !"
Occasionally they would reach a huge tree,
which, in falling, bad crushed a dozen smaller
ones, or saplings, in its descentc The frequency.of
these wrecks suggested new - fears. What it the lost
children, having sought shelter under it, bad been
involved in the rain of such a one ! Once, indeed,
the miserable father fancied he saw, , peeping out
Isom beneath a gtgat.tio fallen trunk, the fragment
of a chitin* dress. He sprang forward, u he be
held it, with a sharp cry of agony. But when he
Bashed his torch directly upon it, certain that it
would reveal the distorted limbs of one of his little
ones, he, found that a piece of white bark, assisted
by the deep shadows, had deceived him.
Midnight arrived at last, and even the stoutest
began to be fatigued. The air at that hoar on the
exposed mountain, was keen and penetrated to the
morrow.
" Poor thing !" said John Brown, as be called a
halt to his detachment, in order to consult whether
to carry the search further in that direction, or to
spread more to the left and retrace their steps par
tially. "In their thin garments, and wet through
as they are, they've died, most likely, long ago
Yet," he added, after a moment; as his eye fell on
Mr. Carr approaching with haggard, dejected mein,
"how can we tell this to the father? Let us work
on, neighbors, while he clings to hope. To mor
row his lot may be oats."
The result of the consultation was a determine.
tion to extend their line atm farther to the right and
left, and return part of the way down the mountain,
for in this manner they would sweep ground hither
to unexplored.
" it's moat unlikely," said John Brown, wbo had
particularly urged this change. " that they could
have strayed even as far as this, in a direct course,
when night set in ; and, after that they'd be apt to
sit down somewhere, afraid to go on, or too tired
to do so. Besides, even if they do keep afoot, it's.
most likely they went around and around, as peo
ple lost in the woods mostly do. It's my opinion
that we'll find them (unbar down the mountain,on
somewhere to the right or left."
Those views met general approval. But the ut
most hope which they inspired was that the dead
bodies of the innocent sufferers might be recovered.
Even the father appeared now to look for nothing
more favorable than this.
" You've done all that can be done," be said in
reply to a question whether he was satisfied that
the search had been carried sufficiently high up the
mountain ; " God bless you for it," he added in •
trembling voice, " I shall never be able to repay
you for your kindness. Bat if ever you lose two
darlings, you'll know how a father's heart longs to
find teen their bodies, it it's only"—and here hie
voice broke into sobs, " it it's only to be sure that
the wild beasts hasn't devoured them."
Be covered his face, for a moment, with one of
his brawny hands, as he spoke. Then without
looking back, strode away in the direction which
had been agreed upon. The rest mutely tollow
ed him.
The rein had now ceased entirely. Bat the woods
were as wet as ever, the darkness was almost as
great, the cold was keen and penetrating. Each
man, as be moved along io a line, kept a watch on
his neighbor's torch to see that he did not wander
from the tine direction ' ail the while scrutinizing
every bit of bash, each shadow under the trees, and
any inequality in the ground that might escape a
hastier &aestivation. Now and then one or another
halted a while where the forest was patticulatly
thick, io order to be sure of not overlooking some
hidden caved. Occasionally also there would be
a shout raised, and waiting afterwards in silence to
bear it there was any reply.
But every effort continued abortive. Many hours
had now passed in the search. Even the hopes of
discovering the bodies, at least till daylight should
enable the search to be conducted anew, bad dis
appeared. Besides, the moat vigorous were now
becoming exhausted. All were wet through. The
majority had passed the preceedirg day in labor.
The farther prosecution ol the search was becom
ing, therefore, physically impoemble. Even the fa
ther was impressed with theatconviciions. Calling
a bah, he proposed, with sad resignation, that the
party should return home, as least until morning.—
But bow meet the mother, and break to her the sad
certainty!
I will help you. Gal will help us both," was
the reply.
"Thank you, Totem right," he said. And he
added, as I own; neighbor*, I am weak as a child ;
but I can't help it ;"and making a convulsive effort '
to master himself during which they cOold see
him, by the 'red torch •light, chocking down the
grief hitl.every much) in his throatswelled to burst-,
log, he continued,. " this blow hatfuoutaatied me
I shall want some one to give me courage when I
get back, or I shall not dare to meet the mother's
lace. I told her isacsr-aioky we would bring them
back." ' -
His toseashing expansion was. bean tending t 9
see; and it sialtha tam touching, because Robert
Can was Ignomsualgiannf anasuallystroog mind.
and ow trims all looked up to fot Nippon and
censciatien in unable.
tie had just lifted his head again, do thus.
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words, and iris preparing, w dried resignitien, to
lead the way toward the wadi when stithlenly from
the ootakica Of the qkpliiiini "Dank; One a quick
glad shoat.
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• Insrantaneonsly every fr ' was . tomed eagerly
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in the direction of the sound.l It had been support.'
ed that all the of ihU,party had been pre
sent at the exploration, but n w, on more narrow
ly scrutinising. the usitup,an was bound missing.
" Ho ! here! ho!" t
The voice was clear and Sous, and was . recog
dived immediaiely. ' ' '
"it is Jun Strong," cried oim Brown. I' What
can if meant Does any on see his torch? '
All ran eagerly in the direUtinn of rife voice, and
soon a light was seen glimoUtring, like a faint halo
through the wet woods. •
" Ho! Ho? Ho!" I ' . .
Exultar.t, and still exultan ;:that voice rase on
the night air. Every pulse bo. nded high with hope.
" My children," cried the rather thrillingli,lead
ing the excited' race.
It seemed but a minute 411 they reached their
i n
Companion. Standing on at old fallen trunk, he
waved Ws torch to guide the , crying as they sp.
.•
proached,
" They're here, alive and 'well, hntrahr
As he spoke, the father had parted the under
growth, and leaping the talle:.n tree, found himself
in a small glade. Boors hi l m were his children,
lovingly entwined in each dther's aims, and just
aroused from sleep.
Their heads only Were raised. Their little eyes
were distended wish wonder, mixed with affright.
"Thank God," cried the father, falling on his
knees, and duping them in his antis, then burst
ing into convulsive weeping.
The little ones recognizing their father, had sim
ultaneously sprung to his heart, 'where they lay
sobbing for joy,snd clasping ltim tighter and tighter.
The neighbors stood at a respectful distance
awed by the scene ; and tbere was :not a dry eye
in the whole company.
At last the passion of the dather's joy moderated.
He remembered the Almighty hand which had re
stored his children. Hushing the sobs of hie Lute
ones, and looking up, he sad reverently—
" Let us pray !"
All uncovered, and there, in the dim forest, the
fattier, holding each little one by the band, poured
forth his soul in a thanksgitting which none present
forgot to their dying day. 'lt was eloquent with a
gratitude such as only those who have been deliv
ered from deep itibulatiem can realize.
When the prayer tarter - corer, strong arms pressed
the wet little ones to weary sheltering bosoms.—
Maggie would not leave het father, nor would be
consent to part with her ; indeed he looked regret.
fully on Lucy. as John Brciwn lifted her away, evi
denity longing to carry bet also. At first Lucy in
sisted on walking, bat she found, almost the first
step, that it was impossible, so stiff wee she with
cold So she consented IQ be earned, laying her
head on John's broad elibulder with a thankful
smile, and-potting her little arm around his neck
lovingly as if she had been his own child.
Before they set out, hante.ver, Lucy had to tell
how they became lost. She described bow they
bad knelt down in the affright during the height of
the storm ; and bow they !fell asleep in each oat
other's arms, alter they bird said their prayers to
each other. " Maggie," he said, touchingly, "of
ten asked for mmher. f natched for along time
after she was asleep, and tried to keep awake, but
I couldu't,l don't suppose, or the first I knew I was
being awakened by the n , ise and light, and seeing
lather."
Jim Strong had to tell 6 story.
" I bad a sort of feeling "he said, " that I'd just
go a th i tle further thisay—l s'pose it was the
tiv .n
Lord that sent me —tor ev the roughest acknowl.
edged the hand of Provid nee in that hour and bless
me, as I got into this ere pening the first thing I
saw was children lying aseep in each other's arms,
just like the Babies in th Wood."'
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Fatigue was now forgoten. The road ;back to
the village was soon traversed, for each man seem
ed to tread upon the air. Long before the joyful
procession had reached ttte door of the Carr's, a
crowd of women around it was discerned, for one
had been on the watch tok two hours at the sight of
the torches she had sumnfoned the rest The cheer
ing shouts of the men announcing, while they were
yet distant, that they returned with the children,
the mother now frantic with joy oiling rushing down
the street to meet them, aid catching first one child
and then another from the arms that bore them, al
most srnoothered them with kisses and embraces.
But what woula can pa nt all that followed !
The deleterrou4 ity of he mother, the crowding
of the females around the recovered dear ones, the
tears of all, the almost by twice' congratulations..—
It required the interpositi n of some of the more
thoughtful, to have the i.noceutaufteters relieved
of their wet garments,pl 'ed iniorarm beds, and al
lowed to seek the slee so necessary' for their
health, and demanded . imperatively by their fa
tigue.
From that day Mrs. C
changed. Nor has she
most itratableemoments
children. She Woke on
stored, after they had be
judgment.
But la it cot wriueo, ee l
" your heavenly Father
better than they ;;a
A Nosci.rr soli sat I
ideas just, brought out at
peuicom" It is filled Is
ing all the age. Accor
senisemeni, one of these
occupy the room of half
fashioned principle. It
desires to get into a care
ly to stick. mtha door.
mike moment of est*
den in enure tIN of het.
Ili
C ' .
!Ws ebarietet has greatly
heard, even in her
vent her feel** on her
'hem u Providentially re.
ti taken bons btu as a
of the; bells of the air,
• aid thum—are ye not
tarn.—Among the new
' is is ► "seltamfindiug
1M) and jUSt bltoo4l
- 10 dr ia!eplopit ad.
taxespt-wil%gand out &
daunt gpt tartan to old
•aaki tlittt. ark= • lady
.8, du trap `willbe like
ottiraaie this, Abe taut
.
g mars Istibticasat bid
.sadlgt.aut-aire •The
swollen 'told" at once' collapse and, shriuk iota, se
extremely small comps's. As she alightatronitilni
vehicle she applies her lips to the monthpierii,lii
&teethe tribe, and distends hei skirts. This con
tinual letting in bud out of air one would Wink
would become monotonous i not to say tedious, in
time Its possible that a flageolet might in some
way be adapted to the tube, so that the wind in
escaping might produce a melody - like that of a
barrel organ or an 21;olian harp. No lady could
allege, is an objection, her :inability to play
upon the flute—Hamlet having settled that (peg
lion long ago,
Dad's Experience with inns.
Less than a hundred miles from Syracuse lives
an old farmer, whose given name is jury, a hard
working, honest old Euglishman, owning a, good
farm of over a hundred Berea, and two good boys,
who had been Incught up ta'wicld the agricuheral
implements. From one of these I have my story.
Old Zury had an old goat on the farm, who is no
one of the most peaceful disposed creatures in : the
world; on this account the boys tae delight ist
putting his lordship on his taps onceN a white.
For a long time the old man had twined .hal wheir
Billy came home at night he was completely, cot.
ered with mud and water, and Zury could net. let
agine how he should find out the cause of poor'Bll
ly'e daily misfortune.
One day he left the boys to pick up the rakes, Ike.,
after a hard day's work of haying, and Walir t eil
around to the ridge where Billy generally keptlaim
self. It was about time for the goat to go to the
house, but there he lay quiet & dry ; so old Ztlry seat
ed himself behind a stump determined to vratch hts
movements for that night at any rate- He had net
been there more than fifteen minutes, when who
should he see coming along the ridge but two bort,
his first impulse was to tell them to keep back, bat
upon the second thought he said nothing.
'•Take my load, Hank,' said Dick ; Ws my turn
to take the feller to-night.r
Hank took Dick's load from his back, and Dick
going down the hill a little ways, soon showed him
self within a few yards of where the goat was ty
ing.
Billy had already caught a glimpse of; the boys,
and was soon on his feet. Hank laid fiat on die
ground, and Dick on the on edge of the ridge, now
presenting a full front, which did not seem exactly
to please his goaiship, for he pointed for hint, and
down went Dick to aggravate Billy to a still more
desperate lunge again the signal rose ; and Billy
'Gulped, but just as he got within a few feet Dick
lowered himself about two pegs, and bir. Billy had
lowered himself about fifteen-teet into a ditch of
marsh and mud and water.
Hank had caught a sight of a corner of the old
man's hat above the stumt, and sloped for theilars,
while Dick was not a little surprised at the sodden
transformation of the old stomp into a human being,
and that too the old man a: fifteen paces, who by
the way was not one of the most forbearing person"
in the world, and as he looked mound upon the
gronud, Dick thinking that a stone or club might - roe •
sibly be the object of his search, started on a 4eh
jump for the barn. The old man made up his mind
that the mystery was solved. That night Dick and
Hank did'f come borne to gripper.
I thought I should not be able to hold myself - to_
gather as Hank related the surpri-ie of old Zury and
his son, as they stood lace - to face. • '
" But hold on," said he, I haven't told you:the
best of it yet. About two weeks from that time,
one day .rne,and flick had been working alt day,
and we made up our minds that we should seeohl
dad bucked, for he haden't been in the afteinnop,
and he always kept a good barrel of ale iu the.cel
lar ; but when we started who should we. see bat
the old man, edging around . the a ridge; so DiCrtia
me went over that way.
There was cild - Zrad and there was ihe goat.
laid flat on the ground anxious to know what 4lie
old man was agoing to do, when what was otir
aurprise to sett, him take the same position Di**
taken a couple of weeks before.
.'r
We said nothing, lor-we hadn't seen any of that
kind of sport for a long time. The old man Pies
anted rather a formidable appearance. Bat Billy,
nothing dauntel, pointed for the mark, and qie - Atl
man lowered, but a little to late, lot the goat. l o4
him plump. We heard something strike in the
mud, bat it wasn't Billy, icr he stood lookintrenstli
over the ridge. Me and Drek pulled fur the bird,
atitt in few minutes we saw the old man pad l 4
for the house, covered with mire from head toloot.
That night the old man was itre6ed op in °bit,
beat elnthea. I ventured to att. him ii Up . vhit
going over to see the Deacon. , ,
"See the Deacon ?.Na. -Can't a man pm ongood
clothe? without fining to fee the De3entyr *.ct
`• Yea," said Dick, pmeaking ou: of the door .
tgeant a man go sod see the pat, without tointAing
,
in the mud
Dick was gone, and old dad looking :ita.,,A4
then very significantly at a heavy bootjack murp
ped out 01 the back kor.
Pecrrecrtou or RA ext. —By the reported - pmixtetl;.
mgi of our Legislature, observe that a 'bill la
been iptroduced providing for the proteciou
in Lancaster county. i would suggest to our.fetertt
ers, whether the present would not besniurblie
to call the attention of-that honorable body Wilk - 6
jest of almost as mach importance, and nearly as
much entitled to their consieerarion as thafrildegs.
Isallude to the necessiii there is lot a laty:fdr;iliss:
protection of sheep. - If, when we are almostpleis
run with the canine tribe, so that it is imposaibbain
many parts of oar country to keep sheep *Moat
the constant liability of bariug, them torn tO.
by the prowling wonbless curs, that inlest alto*
every neighborhood, they are to r becornothesubjeci
of special legislation, it does seem to quite time
that some protection should be guaranteedley4iw
in favor of sheep, or Of secoring-coMpensaliortei
the raiser or feeler of that raloatto ilorGett4:-
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