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CIINITLES F ; READ & H. Hp. FRAZIPM,, EDITORS.
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The moon in'lent brightness
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Rides o'er ti e mountain ' s brow,
The mist in ee..y• whiteness •
Ms clad t vale belling; • . •
Above the woodbine hewer -
• Dirk waves the trysting-tree; .
It is, it is•the hour, . • • .•
Olt conte,•my love, to tee! -
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The dews of night, have Wet Me,
;While wand!,k4ng lonelilv • ; •
Thy father's Igulds beset Vin;— I
I only. ftiarid ?for , thee.
I crept beneath' thy tower,
. I climbed thi iiy tree; '
Sod blessed be theonr
•• tiat brings my lo . .e to me.
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I left myychosen numbers .. _.
n yonder copse below '
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Each warrior lightly,sluinberS,
Ills hand upon Os bow;
From forth a tyrant's power .- : •
:They *sit to set theefree;
Ittis,lt is the hour— . ~. ,
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11 - 11/ come;
mylove, to me!
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toitai. -
nv . MS . W<ER SCOTT.
"Al •
weary lotis thine, fair maid, {
A weir/ lot is thine;!
To pull 'the. thorn thy brow to'braid,
}And press i the rue for Wine!.'
lightsome ere, a soldier's mien,
I A feather of the idge t , •
doublet:Of the,l f ineoln green' s —l-
No more of nie von knew;
My love !
No More of me you knew.
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••N 4. This morn is merry June, I ttow, : .-
." i,The rOse is budding fain:; .
tut she,shall bloom in winter, snow;.
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-1 Ere we two meet again." • ;
•;• ;Lie turned" his charger as he spake,
'• ••- - ""r Vpon 'the river ; shore,
t he gave his bridle-reins a shak, • -;
' Sabi-.-"Adieu for evermore:, ,
Mr love!
- • i _lnd aaitr for evermore.".
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•• CY - N'Pllti SUSAN SIMPSON, age eighteen,
with t tlici, pretty tull-nt of pleasing . - men,- was
th,!.:ati. , wl;..oiged belle.olthe little ..MarroW
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.. This little Mlent of plea:ing,- - --tveln isi§roine..?
.I;ine.• 7iven by. nature a. a eoint\en•zation for .
qtr. lat-Iti of eVery other ace•otriplishort, or
:11. im l ans .tif priteoringany'; hot. tli was
n:4 tize lease Wiih,Cv who
n:hia. had good 'Van
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~e..,,,e n i..,. 0 10 a veal of spriltliilieS:i to 110' .
(6illp,,,Fliiiiii, 'wilit.ll lat.T. , r, a' I- ; 'takei,
it.„.r . ' e
.. quires Iv
Feeratiother talents ; for its 'support,
~.whorwise it- !•4 - )eiti degenerate,; into. silliness—'
;whence it 'sinus imo - ,,,ttlitzqr ill-nature-in the
o..ulory,gir: 7 --in the lady -clf. societ i y i into sar- .
cal..m.
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Cynthia lwas pretty, in the - freshnesis of her.
a , :.. AmerionAbeauty conies,' forth like a •
fl o wi , r,and is - Cut _down. Tlte_ c lovehness of
• g;rll , . , by rarely
~ ripenS in the matron. ' And
Cyffl.lia wit. , afraid to risk her loveliness, no
dunk ; for whilst she epeouraged the .attert
'•tions of many " beaux," who, in the Iltnglinge
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of her soc:ety, " went to see-'her " 'evening •
after e'vening,.at the, snug fartif•hoaSe of her
finher,i
. wheneVer any. of these swains tool; the:
opp(Jrtunityl to press upon her4otice the na
ture of his CaSe,' . 'ntld urge the necessity of its
speedy „cure, she: cut. the, matter Short, with,.
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'. • Truth must be, said, that amongst .nll her ,
. o.mirers there was not . one who was a:priori.
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. tilat i.,i; before a reciprocation of his love
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.• took 'Plac +a very 'desirable match for-60:
. • The richest ,was -eth Taggart, nile paid
his laStvisit to her one afternoon, in a! brand
-• . new titAt, a l 0955 y, fine black broad-cloth:—
- Pretty Cynthia. was alone, and prepaied by
- previals--eiperience to diseern.symptOms•of
ail approaching assaUlt:tipon the Malakoff of
, , J1,....r aliitetions,• - Ahe' purso her, pretty little
• .7 . ti:lo a uth. and sewed , i .with ;nimble-glancing fin--
gers,!on the sleeve . - of one of the old siluireg .
• ..11irtti,, - . of unbleached cotton ; and thought to
- herself . what a . fool Seth- Taggart was,, and
Nroadered li`Ow he would get out of the fix in
• which. he fbund himself,. and how *he could
.. •. dare ' s think she hadrgiverir him encourage
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' truer-=and bewitching. •Pofir
.- Seth sat on the verge of his chair, and gazed
- through the Window, which ,was open, into the
• . woodi, buthii was a mind like that-of Words: .
Ivorth's Peter, . .
.leA primrose, on the river's bike, . :.
•-, ,- ! A •yellOw pi-imrose was to hint, .. . '
And 'nothing more." . • ' : .. - . •
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He "did not find any4nspiration lithe woods,
SO, he - began' tolook-into , the acr e s.
...- ' gigs Pyiathia,' said he,'atlet,gth, t did you
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- ever see a crow r •
• ,Tes, Mr. Seth,' Amid' she, folding .her;gus
sets,'Aand looking down at it demurely as a'
Black7—ain't it.?' said Seth. '7 ,
•V <.Very' ; ' *
Then came a pause'- Darn wish
she'd help the out,' said Seth in his Ziwn,
thought. The little minx knows • What I
want to say, and she might help me to say.
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4,,What. man/ ha's not thought this before now ~
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courting time—and wished to Vern*, fem
t, 3 fine tact,. and. the rarger experienceof wo-
I men, to' help hint • out of. the slough: of de
-1 spond he 'is 'beginning to . sink 'intonl ' What
marl would not .give the world to know how
the last Man, who offered . himself to' her; got
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. .' Ever see , an 'owrik.liititt Beth, at length',
falling back on his oWn resonrxiii, - ' .
--. ' Often, Mr, Seth,' lived pretty Cynthia.. _
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,- It's gilt big eyes---aitet,it, now?'' .
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- big eyes: said 'she, . - . l .l
Beth . grew angry.
,'Angry with -"himself,
`-' -no . doubt ; but: anger, like Phcelms :Apollo at
sansei; glows: lifighte4 -in reflection. He,
'thought it a' iniiin sharpie..' she wouldn't 'help
him A ult: . _while. she Sit .there, i by:dung" good
enough to eitt, l l arid laughing. at hire,,.-as even
. - .hisi - iliiiit, perceptipri told him ,'; whihit, her - at-" 1
- - -teli t liq was apparently hestoWed: npon the.
•.,' - "bl,lr..4f,ieve; He wis 4.. it• were his shirt she :
, . 'was i.lid- l i n ii Si) &Avdp . usl v. Fle•stiired -up
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- • 'the.a'i h - heartl; .. d
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,at, almost made! up
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,his r4lial - that - ‘he.witie.t going to give Mierl
another chance, .at : iiittaH4' but Cynthia lopped :
. -.. h ei • o?tton.ballt'imdSeth, not .rising t ironz his
. ~ ellairjstretehed, out:hie long; -lank arm, atul --
picket)it. up, - He ttiuChist her:l2nd, as She.
• took i',l, bilek . ; • and an, electric ,i.l'Mdt,,..thrilied
Ilirou l tli his veins / . and made hirtifeel . ' all:'
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over—ever - Co,” ai he some time atterWarda
eXpresSed the sensation io,.me. :
' Miss Cynthy , intitbe you are fo nd of ma-
'pie eandy V,„: - • ' ''. • I".
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' Very,' sai l she. I-•• - . • ' • I
Well,. nowi 4. said Seth, - -rising, 4 the next
time I dome; I'll try; and bringyoul a great_
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gob.' ,
But axle rode home; behind -his !old farm]
mare, he said to hirriself, ' I reckon I ain't go.'
ing back to court a gal who-sees a feller in a
fix, and never helps :him.' - - And sure enough,,
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he "never-.did return . -Miss cynthi lost her .
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richest love,T,.,Lanit. Many folks, Ore" _ . to this
day,„believe she 'wished him back again. - - It
is the way:of women to want the thing that
can't be had. - At feast, so men . sliy (if not
.in practiee, - in .theory.,) and Cytithii4 mouth_
watered; I. dare. saY, for many a week after,
for that gob of, matilc - candy. _
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: Tim. MORAL. Let every manic+ .1. - pretty:
girl, pay court_ t0:' , .y0.0 .in - his Oivn. Way, and
not in your Way, and help him ou't ht that—
being sure, however, that you are in harms. py : with; his.mode:of procedure. are.
Intl); ice-cream • w . hen it is goi . ng to 'recto.;
nor lift the pot asit begins to boil ; nor n-iithe
a false Step and get out or time, when 'your
partner is meditating a revers: in. the cicrix
107)zps, or the polka. Many a declaration of
i iitrection has - been;. frightened ofil •by some
iwring, note sung in the treble of the dust,'
which put It, out of haricony. • . :
• eCynthiafthoughsio pretty a girl, and so ox-,
perienced in the art of saying ' iao,l token Of
ter of Marriage, had yet a. good deal to learn
:in her own craft; and, indeed, no experience'
ever primes a woman for: the. decisive mo
ment. Each case 'must be roet.onl principle,
.and not on precedent ° - It is our business to
. discover, in 'this story of ' Snip:Snap,' how far,
',pretty - Cynthia ` pri.)fited by the experience
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Ate prided herselt upon in the roje , tion of her
lovers. '
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..It: was •a melloW autumn mornSti; and - a
russet gloW had tinged. the woods at the back •
Of 'Squire Simpaon's homesteadl :It was
Seth; Tat , gart's wedding-,day. I-.!e • was . to
'marry, that evening -Susie Chaseta Stniling,.
littlr:,ruso-bud 'of. u wife, to whom he fOund
plot ty.Of things - tia - say, as swe'eti - to - - - Susie:s
ears as to herlipA his maple , eaddy,; Cyn
thia, as one of her best friends, as 'to be
beide - so - laid; and its she. wished td, shine that ,
night, in, all 'her ',bravery, and witited some
nor
,'ribhons . a
.for'}-her,,heail:dress, • this want
kemptedlier abrnad, little after boon, when
the harVest-fields . I were quietand the yoked
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oxen stood i relieVed - grorn leisurely.
chewing the / sweet morsel reservixi for, that
soft, 'stinnfj, hour - !f'rest, as men of business`
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Use, to-do .the thought of the last letter Writ-.
ten by the,band they love; till th3hUrdenjof
the day. - is laid aside, putting it apart (with
all its wornan'a nonsense, and, half uareasotia , l.
hie' tiMeies.) - purei - froin the contact of the pile
of yelltiw letters [lying on their.4esk--offet
inc;.s . Upon th - e ishime . ofJuiiiter Mairtnion.
,Our pretty ..Cynthia,tripped Ming her path,
scattering a cloud , of grasshoppers and crick
ets, as she stepped ; and' in; her silly little,
pride of bellehoo4 her,heart though she
would-`not, have cortfess . the thought, that
her relative valu e to her . 'eroWtf of beaux was,
in •the same propUrtion as that Pt. one woman
to- many _ravhoppera.
y ~.oppe.,. •
At a turn in •the path, stie came suddenly
on. one of these : Ornirers--4rank. Handy.—
.Frank's face flusiied. - He had been thinking
of her when she Isiirprise.d him--thinking of
her all that day and through a sleepless night;
and in those hours the Cynthia of his fancy.
had smiled on hiin, and laid her gentle hand
in his, a-ad had been gathered to his heart—
h was4-shock tO -come tinift 'suddenly' upon.
so different a reality. : At 'the moment he en
countered her, he was indulging' himself in an
imaginary loVe `cene, in which 'he was calling
her, in heart, My Cynthia,! my love,' and at
the sudden sight, of her, all 'such presumptu
ous faneies fled in'haste, - and hid themselves;
shrinking like .vari-tinted coral poly rie,s when
danger. approaches--=each into the, recesses of
its 'mil. . • )
4 I. beg -your pardon, kiss Cynthia,' he
said, stainrpering before he gathered self-pos.
session,-and
session,-and accustomed himself to her pres
ence. was on my way to make you a call.
If you will allow me, I will' turn round - and
walk -with you. • ' - . . - .
'Tam not going far e - Mr Frank, only into
.the village, for some ribbon for,my hair, and
gentleinen dislike. shopping,' - (knowing per
' fectly well thaqie - woOld go' With- her.)
• I know
. where a wild .hop-Virie grows;'. said
he, it- would 'make a much prettier_ ornament
for your.hair than any ribbons•you could buy
And will. you get me. some D' -•-• •
* ` Turn this way into,the woods, - and.spare
me half Cu hour while I twist it into a wreath.
T am going av:av from here to-morrow, per- .
haps. • I have been „offered a professorship iq
a school;of agriculture.' -' • • .
Indeed Air. Handy. •
There was a pause, .and
,Cynthia -resu-resumed,esued,
a little , hurriedly :• I should think you would
like going away .fromliere. '- . .There is nothing
• to tempt a young gentleman to remain among
us,
` shall like. it, in some 'respects, better
than. my present life,' said Handy:. 'This
fernier's life, when .:there are no-igher inte
,-rest:to apeouipani it, dOes not Itraw4,ot: the
beSt' energies du man.. nature,Tinii his.
• thougfits, goe,,,i!ound. and rou'od, `in, the-:riiti
dile, like u.stiiiiirel in . its cage, and makes no
• -tTliii:4liftkth'ks-higher tbings*thin I think,'
Was Cynthia's thought 14 . he said thisomd for ,
a moment,. she relt,humhledpresence;
butlshe rallied her_ "pretensions, , remembered
'her bellehood and her conquests, and the light
in which - she always hadbeen..looked Upon
'by all 'her lovers,'and was almost disposed tai
revenge ur*lFrankjlandy the passing. e,el
ing o f -'inferiority. ;Frank stood jn ' silenee,
t . wining the hop-w*th forlfer head. it did
mot speak. • His- thoughts' were busied with.
the* words that he would Say to her, when' he
broke silreei . - • - . He was. satisfied to. - have her
waiting at sider4ititing • for the hop
wreatty with its pale green bells,"that he was
twirling Wisurqy ; and. Cynthia grew 7 itriplv
:tient as die rand he did"not. speak to
11.3he.add ressed hitn several questions; Which ;
he,ginswervi*ith an air Of_ prehoeitpation„,-.
!fie . wandered from_ his, tide . . it few yards athong the rocks, turning over with her foot
siyme pebbh4 - oVered.lWith•grai tthdokange
,thosa, and'diturbing all ;the 'swartu -- Of busy
- insect'life, which made; its hatne.there.:, 'The
intluenees °tithe - day *Oa into: ef heart; Sid
thadpieranswere niOre.scift and natural.
At - fait gaudy broke 'silence, calling iinF
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to him, as sheyod watehin .-..
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''ls it finishedir she said, quickly. • .
' ' Net tho garland—but the struggle i my
breast is finished.: . : I have 'been question4g
with myself wyether I should say .to. yoh
whai lam about te say. • .
• - Cynthia gathered. a leaf, and began slowly
to tear •aPa'rt.it..4..delicate . seins and fibres. '
'Miss Cyritifia;ls if pleasant to you.to have
. il,man say he leves you r -. .. ..
'I don't knoW; Mr. Handy. I'snPpose so.
That is',-I think it very embarrassAng smile
•.times.'
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..' Why em _ a_ssing, Miss'Cynthial'
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He' was takii g her on a new tiek.• • It was
different frod nything she 'had ever before
' experiencksi . he did net like . thiS way of
having...his
. offer i .' .
.olt. is embarrassing .when fknow.that My
only . answer can •be No,' she said, lookint
him in the fucb a moment, and then casting
her eyes uponitive lime leaf she w'as.disseet
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' it,would be more embarrassing, I think,
if - you were net $o sure,' he said, ' and if you
took the -matter into Consideration:'
' It. never • waiit:s any (1-onsideration with.me,'
she answered.:.! i . .
' What ! aid - you never place
b efore your
Mind -the subjett of marriage 1 Have: you
been satisficid iwitb the vain. triumphs of a
belle ? • And did, you never look-heyOnd,' to
see what the.lifiP'py duties of -a wife; and the
sweet ties . of ho Me might be ?' •
Cynthia latilied ; but the ;laugh- was - affect
ed and . consti4ed. ' What. nonsense,' Mr.
Handy!'. - .1 ',
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It : g. is • not non:sense,' he replied'; ' such
thotei,' ts are lit for maiden meditation- 7 -They
are womanly and womanly, hove every
thing else, I sbould.wish niy wi • to, be.' : '
r hope she' ma be all you,wish her, Mr
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if
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Wel will- go now, if you please, if
yi) have . finished my garland..' '• . .
"It is-not ready for you yet,' said Handy,'
passing it•over one arm while he took her
hand.: 'Cy mina, beloved! you . must listen
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-... l "'She- drew' he; 'hand away,, but he Wok •it,
'again, and 'resumed. ' You must.,let Me feel
its pulses beat. against- my hand, while I JI
you : the secret Of. my life,--Of my... life, for . I
have always - loved you. -: I loved you :When
you were a, bpoining little girl, and
. we both
went to school' lo Ezekias heed, dear. Cyn
thia. I havie.loved you against hope—at
times agaiti.st my better reason, I 'have lies=
M ated to tellqyou tnis, because encumbrances
on. my farm made my .position-less thait that,
which .1 thought ought to be offered to you.—
I have watchisi you with your other admir
ers ; and, iii somemoments, have not thought
. that tiny fabler had your preference, so that,
other niii !hive taken their-chance before me:
ThiS.offer, of professorship, which adds a,
thousand dollars - to my 'income, makes it pos
sible g'T me Ito address you.. Cynthia! there
are :lepths of tenderness Which nohuman eye
lasi efer.fath:omed, in many ',a strong inan's
lieart—depths which, perhapa r are never; by
the shallowo nature of your sex, entirely re-
Pint-meted or:poderstood. It. is not alone. iny. -
heart, it is my, very nature—heart . and soul, .
mind antl'Strtngth— hat I offer to you. The
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•JciVe of yoU,llike thins that absorb and as
aitnilate into their owl growth; has become
part of me.' This is a tried and true affection,
Cyttithia. It . has waited patiently . until the
-moment wit i np when it might be Offered to
your aceeptance; Cynthia, if you wily lay
this little' hand in 'mine. (and he - let it fall,.
but`streiche&nut his hand towards her,) .' I.
will strengthen you, and . elevate 'you, and
guide you. 1 - You shall be a woman of higher
rank (as God ranks woman,) for your union
with a manls stronger, steadier, and, more sin
gle-minded Mature ; apd,Cynthia, your- influ
ence for goiod, on me will be incalelilable.—
Who can ektimate what a man odes to the
affection of* woman ? All'tha t -I have inme
that:fit - good - Will be doubleiftty your ;influ
ence: yotl must draw fotthperhapS create'
-,the gentleness, delicacies, and the tender
'nesses thatleomplete the manly character!.
He pauied, and Cynthia stood 'with her
hand hidden in .thefolds.:of bent mantle. - • -
' No . ,' ship replied slowly ;-'' I am'sorry, Mr.
Handy; brit I cannot -be what : you wish to
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between
them fur al few moments, and then Cynthia,
'gathering hrage with' her rising pride; °On
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' ' I am tint*Mod enough to answer your-ex
pectation 4 Mr.. Hardy. You must look
elsewhere ifor the kind of woman who will
satisffyon.7 ' - . . .
' -Handy started, and his face flushed. eager
ly.- :He was about to Speak. Cynthia caught
the lightning of his eyes . but when theyerest
ed on heel Face;, he said diet her 'words .Were
• not Wholly sincere, and the look faded. • - 2
YOU a ..e notjdealing fairly. .With me, Miss
Cynthia, -sec yet with .your own heart," he
said, a little bitterly. '''' You are not Con
vinceeoflwhat you said this moment. 7 -- YOn
think hi ;lour heart I am a foolish fellow, and
that I' askltOo 'much. ' You do. not think that
Cynthia Simpson fitlislhort of the reasonable,.
)(feat of any man) .
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. " I dunekriow..why- yolf .- ,should.,say ,such
s thittp.' said Cynthia, growing angry,,and natr
,ty re - ally t cry. It was the first.time any
offer - had been .inade• to -het. which had not
le,' ft IMAM it itself-satisfied feeling of triumph!
and 'yet Lere, was ',Frank_ Handy, 'as ineo:n-.
parably 4uperior to any Other suitor idle had
ever liadias. :.. Well no matter; .2' •
•:. ' Miss ;Cynthia,' said Frank, 4 wheti.ti man
loves a Woman, as I have long,losra you, he
sitiglei hit out from the whole world as. his,
:representative of 'womatilioed ; and, there is
that in.ho before which be bows down, doing
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-homage to the woman's natre withinin- her...,
'Out this does not itn ply 'Unconscioushesi of her
- faults. . tie may see where she. eximesl short
'of her oWn capability. And that Marriage is
true union in 'which the kusband, up to, whom
Shelooka, and on whom she
.should . lean,
strengthrs her better in itscnrtiggle against
her wimer nature. : •. .
They serek walking towards the Homestead,
and. waiking.. fast. '..Cynthia 'was angry, ,dis.
turbed, and Mortified. .. Was this ii. time to
dwell upon' her. faultw 1 .She admitted that
she Midi' some. Vague confession! by, no
- means „ImPlying that Cynthia knew that, at
- that, Motuent, she Was - proud, .vain,: insincere,
and petd lan t, , isnd:that she was crushing down
the..bettOr feelings: of her heart, to give the
victory 4. ithia.,her.tcfr the..wofst.. If Handy
viantediher she thOught, - he' might Woo her
With Inuit respect to her liketetniions.
.And
i • - :
©r . '4-.3
ONTROSE, THURSDAY, MARCH
the stii. Which
d in an ant-
, .
he should -VVQO her. If he toyed -ICC as - he
said he did, shekneW her power wo'great.
He
,should bring his homage not 'coldly to
the womanhood within her,hut to herself—
to Simpson, In spite of the full
display of her, faulti,.. and even in opPosition
to his better reason. She was not to be de=
,frauded of hei triumph, -and- it would be a
' , treat one, indeed; it she forced him,l:by Ater
e - • at
discretion.
the steneTenee
ttyl • In theiripath
4. Frank set his
.inly. Miss Cyn-:
have the ; j courage
119. It is the true
Steps, and. paused.
Carefully . from his
She took it with
Elie took it!, c rushed
some of the !green blossoms. *She would
have treated him with. mOre *courtesy (had
`Frank hut. knOwn it,) . if sheAtad be.•fr entire:
s ly indiffiirent h'.s admiration. -
. Cynthia,' said he,noW in a grave and
measured tone, which, iu spite of herself, im
presSed het - With a sense of the powerles.snesS
of her little arts when brought into conflict
iwith his self-Possession_and
'very well how .you have dealt by Many men,,
and I am not
y- disposed ti fall into the ranks,
,
and take m chance amoig your-many other
patient suitor's, It. is trik, that the wound
-that you would inflict,iinl me, wilt leave its
scar for life- '
;but I criunei- s make my self-re
spect an offering ever; -telyou. And if you
have the feelings Of truelnoblenes, which I
have alwAs\ fancied I disCerned you„,_you
would respekine, esteern me, love me less,
for such a sacrifice. I !!hall-neveri o ff er my
- •I
'self again to you.' Cynthia- 'started. • Slight
and rapid. - as . her -inciverrient watthe-saiv it,
and repeated, I shall !Bever of er myself
again to you. •And - I
Il eave, this place. to
morrow, never to - return . s to it, 'till' I have
subdued this love for - yo l u TO-night I shall
be - • the wedding. II am. grooansman to
Seth..Taggart, and •shOl stand up With yeu.-
I am going home to ;icOnsider fully what has
passed, to, Conviitee Myself (if I ertn) calmly,
Whether my love foriyon hap been . an error
in my life, for which myljudgment is respon
.sible, or . 014 its' misfortune;
,whether the
Cynthia I . have loved iStreally capable, as I
have dreamed, of scattering the Clouds that
dim herbeauty, and Starling forth in .her
'sweet queritiness upon Ipte 'lonely darkness
of the man , Who can teaeh . her What it is to,
love. , I do
s not know , 4,hat I shall
To-day has shaken, my i lconfidenee inyou.-1
As I said Itefore; I shalltuake,„yon no further!
oiler; but, if I make u p thy Titled to reireWl
the one I have: ju4t- made you; l shalt-say
Snip ! during the evening; .and, if You - anSwer
Snap! I shall Understand it is favorably re
ctiVed by you. • M•ind, l ,lhe added, ' Lthink
doubtful' whether, .riohOtTlistiniding my lov
for you, 1 shall think it 'rigiss: to. Say it. I an'
going into the fields to 'meditate tillreVen i
tide, upcat my course, and I may bring bac
the cotivicar, that 'for the . .presenrrejectiot
t)f my suit , I ought to bif. much obliged to you
Nei shall . I say 'Snip l'lmore • than once. Ii
this uncertainty 1 lease the Matter to you
consideration. • s •
, What impertinence!' thought" Cynthia.
..
I . never heard of such: a thingir And sh
began to cry, standing 'alone upon the hig
way, holding her trop-Wreath ;her hand.'
I don't know what 1 'bad bette r ' do. .
-Ii
wish he had taken some Other-Way of - spec -
.ing to me.; Oh ! why should IfeLhe so . Ver
-unkind' I dorei . care. It.is his' Joss agr
i t
deal•more than mine, if . -he is really in love'
with me.'
wi
la ,
fr
The evil. spirit Was coming back, and t
i f
whispered, ' He will certainly +ay - Snip! b t
you had better not say Snare! too readily.'
She walked on thinking, in - raining a tr i l,
umph, when',suddenly -the thOught came tc
her, that. she was • confessiiigito hersqlf S(
snap !—and whY4 It was n t
wanted to say
l ,
possible
,that the tables of -it pride we' e
a i
turned upon her; that she wit.st -panic H =
dy's power, to refuse or to take; thit s e
loved him ,l don't care for mm iit al?,',
wits the suggestion of the bad angel.—' I on
ly w,ant to teach him for the future to behaVe.
He is a presuming, exacting, self-conceited fel
low.' . .' . • ' •
: ' Have you ever, in the course of your-x
-perience ',said the good angel, ' seen any 6 li
i,
er roan like rank I: Has not the convey 1-
Lion of this very day raised him to a height
in your esteem..., which is. „which nrUst
be... ..almost.. - ..That is, h ' stands before
you in a light ,which ho other man. has ever
stood before I' - •
'I don't believe he loves rne, said her per
verse heart, 'Or- else he woulil have taken a
great deal` more pains to win Ime.'.
' All !' said; the good angel, ' what better
love can a man give, than that which sees
your fatilts and strengthens:yoU against them ?
True; he has set his ide,al, of jQomanhood so
high, that you do. not - come up to it; but i he
sees in your ;tapabilities for good beyOnd
those of other 'women, thoughitu the heig ht
of - your capabilities you have never
attain
ed.', ' . 1
'Oh rI shall be a worse Iwonnah, and an
woman, woah, ifil do not love Frank Han
dy, and if Frank Handy does-; not love r e,'
- said her. heart,, nowt, turning ~to its better in
stincts, as she threw herselfopon 'her little,
white, dimity r -covera bed, in herown cham
ber, and shutting out the light from ber eyes,
thought what life would be 'if Frank never
said Snip !--Frank, who was oven then walk
ing in the fields, trying to think all.the harm
he could of her. - ' I , -
Here she ;lay, and cried„ 'and disquieted
herself in vein. And she thought ove all
the good shci had ever heard of Frank I- an.
dy, arid—strange !=-that thoagh it ' seemed
to her he had the good word and good opin-I
ion urevery mph that knew hini,, no one bad
ever quite seemed to apPreciate him, to his
full value. perhaps he had never ' showa his
inmost.heart to '
other people ria he had tolher.
Her woundeld feeling seized upon the bairn'
she found in such a thought. 'Frank was Pot
a trian' to put forth his pretensions, She had,
wronged 'hire , very much in calling hiral„con-I,
eeited and presuming, lie had spokennly
what ho haci a right to thinkaboot kis &Ain
f o
sincerity; oila oh!' how she wished he uld
think, a great deal hoter2of htir, . '
-During m the burst of tee that, 1011, Wet'
thisjeflocticin, the great farm tes-belf rat*.
Cynthia spr i n g from ber bedJand wipert! 11 - 4
eyes. ''lf th lOaed 118 -if 'shil had beell er Y 4
ing,• might hot soine'mui say she was Peas
to lose Seth Taggart? Seth Tugged, in,-
deed I - Sb o wasn't going to ery-foe losing any
Ilr
27, 1856
1 - And
maa. n the evil viri resu.. i
I
Bo Cynthia W%it down s irs towering in
pride and wrath. iShe had „half a mind not.
to got the wedding: No,fsfe) co ld not do'
th4t. Ileople would certainly say things she
would not like about her end Seth Taggart;
if she ,staid away. It was . delicate ground
with her, this matter of'Seith Taggart's be
cane he h,ad never made ir.r any, otTer. '1
th nk Men treat women shamefully, said
Cynthia in her thoughts, summing! up all het'
, 1
wrongs at once, as she sat at the tea-table,
pr i m:ling herself with pride against the weak--
ness before which she felt her courage giving
way. f . 1
I 1 : : Cynthy, I reckon you'd best go and dress
-- y u," said her mother, as j she was clearing
away the table after tea; ' you! leave the
things, and IT wash up and - pet away. It
will take ' you some time t fix yourself, and
yu ought to be there, earl , if you' going ,to
s and p with SUe.' a
st.' NY , lots the groomsman.
• 'd her father..
I . ' Fiiink Handy, sir,' sa t i .
iss of her head. -
I' Ha, Handy I' said ' her father, ' a right
I.e eve ri fellow is Frank. It'll be 'a lucky' wo-
I Man he stands up with to be married to.'
, I Cynthia` escaped to her !own remit, and she,
legan! to cry again. There! her lather spoke
Well! f Frank; but nobody could know, him
.8 we I
( 1 .
as she knew him! Oh! if he only
woul cone back.' Why 14dn't she known , the
, state f her own heart that morning 1 But
he toek her so by; surprse, and all her evil
eelings had. - got uppers: tit.at the moment.
1
t, wonld be very cruel Of im—Very--Lnot to
. 1 1
ry hCr again. - I
Thus she thought, until she was sufficiently
dvaneed in her toilet to pet her wreath on.
hould she wear it ? ; W;uld it pot be,' con
fessing too much, if he W re to ice it' in- her
hair.? . She looked for some ribbons in her •
drawler, but at this moms:lnt herifitther ealled
her,nd said, if - she cane stork he would
driv4her over to Susie's before 'he unharnes
sedis old mare. So she pilt.On the hop
1.
wre th in a hurry, giving! it the benefit of her
dou t, and its trembling 'green !bells mixed
with the light curls of her pretty sunny hair.
s, ' 'Where did you get that ti l ling from?' said
her, Ifather. ' It's mighty tasty; I' declare:—
Give me a kissc_Cynthy. 1 I hope your beaux
will) think yea rook half as pretty as 1 .do.—
And it's. better, my child, to be iv:Mike& by
your old-father, who loves voe, than by a :
ero vd 'of-fodlish fellows - liaif el- whom get ' ;
roe da. pretty girl just like my-flock of sheep,
out yonder r one following because another is
ma Mg up to her.' ,
; - `[Foolish fellows I .' the.if i teerel ' foolish fel
lows. But Frank Handy was not • one of,
theM. Frank!had ueverlfollowed in her train
sufficiekly to be accounted Oriel of he'r suit ,
ors!, 'lt was this very ' foolish' , flock, whose
rat ks he scorned'to enter. Alt that her fath
er aid, seemed to justify, her nascent feeling,
Sh kissed the old man '4 ruddy cheek, and
fel "as if the calli)w love,ithat fliittered at het
h a e p a i) r r t o , b h a a t d io a n l . mos bee n . ade welcome by: hili i
' 1 \Vhat time shall leo e for you,Cjrnthal'
i l i l
sad he, as she alighted Susv 's oor. i
'Oh ! not till late, lat'er,',.slie, said,hurried
tyl• '"Stay-=not at all.- 1 1Soinelor the young
men will' walk home with me; or, : if they
dun't, I'll come with TOmmy Cluiset llels
oily eleven, nut he's tal of his!lage.'
; ,
And 'now' Cynthia f und herself in the
b ! ide's Chamber: , The pretty little rose-bud,
blushing in her ..weddirt muslin, and going
tol be very happy, beeau e..:.ivell, it takes
a good deal More sense than &isle had to he
uhappy In life when one .is blessed with la
sweet temper and a. good digeation. A su
p radded power of suffering is a proof of an
ai
wince in organization,!and We submit the
argument to . the skeptic whether . this _truth
do' ea not imply the necessity of seme power,
or influence which shall Counterbalance and
adjust this . - sensitiveness elk suffering, in the
1. „ , ....... • :
4'ighest naures ? r.„,.
1 Cynthia was waited - for to Tut the finiih
gig touches-to the bridal!' toilet, for- Cynthia
ad taste, and Cynthia ainong tier 'girls', had ,
e reputation for good-iiature.'-`Her fingers
felled her as she pinned the wedding wreath,
and she trembled more i than the bride did
When the buggy that had been' sent for the
Minister stopped at the end of the brick path
which led up. to the homestead. She sew
Frank Handy in his bridal suit going doWn
to receive the minister. i ,
' Cynthia, you go - and tell the' gentlemen
they shay come: iii.' • i•
[ Cynthia 4,hrank baci.c. But as bridesmaid
was-her o ffi ce, and A others pushed `leer
to the door. • , !'"" 7 '=
11 4 She didn't Want- to ee Seth. Taggart,' I
eckon," said one of the girls . in' a' half ills
;
per. ' ' Don't. you see!, ho* Pale she -has
grown.' l' „! . •I ~
Cynthia, lefsified thi speech by looking
. .
iscaelet bolero the gil a ddressed could ;tem
her head ; and. she opened the door of the
!
;room, where the bridegroom ! and his men
!were caged,!with an air iii which assumed ie
difference was , stronglikmarked, and said„'
('.Gentlemen, we are ready,' with a toss . that
sent the 'up-bells dancing in her h . ead. t ; .
' Seth, long and lean, and Shiny, in his wed
' ding suit, 11S a' lin4ko in a new skin;, ' -ti oolc li . :-
tie Susie on -his awkward arm I; Frank, Han
dy, quite "collected, and self-poisessed; offered
his to the bridesmaid, and they followed' the
bride and bridegroom into the best parler.
Cynthia and Frank Were parted, when they
took their places , for the e,eremony. It was
only, a moment that she leaned upon his arm ;,'
but that moment gave her a' new sensation.',
It we's aprioe, such as no '. Woman need be'
ashamed of, in resting upon manly., strength. '
Ills aria did nut tremble, though all her
nerved seemedtwittering like Wires stretched,
and suddenly let loose. Hia seemed sOstrong,
so calm, so self fl eeted; and so dignified, •
-7
that she began to feel her owe unworthiness,
and to mistrust h r,Powet, 1 ,
She imst here es down duthig the service, -
tried to bring he rebel nerves under contro l
',site heard . noth rig, and saw no one.- The
minister had bi d them both,' and kiesed
the bride. ; Byerlybpdy cainci r round the , pair
with sa4atipits. 1 The kissing was rather in
discriminateit Seth claitned tie . privilege of
kissing all, tiate girls, and of eurse he kissed.
-the' bridesMaid.His:former 'sensation of
1 0
'-all over-4ver ':transferred itselltober in
a difierent way.l She wee d-= at , 39 4 4 n; have
4181144 elan). I: . . . . -!„, .
' Cynthy, - .you find Frank ring In the take.
yr
4I
You seem to for et .alt' you aye' got•tii do,'
saiZr ' onerof the l oung girls f the pair. - .
'=Frank ! hero ! Your tii,idesmaid 5 wai t -
I •
W
a
17 1 ( C )11- "
ERAZIEtt Sc I:?UI3IISHEit,S-401 , 2.
L . ed. their
ingi and I doelar
taken the privil •
Frank was cab
lady in blue, a st
ha 4 been brough i l
had no other tun
..to !be attentive
II beg your
he; .turning from
tics of the latter
addressed to hi
peeted of us.'
They went to!
were there alo
intends Lo say 13
But Frank 'was ,
QI plates, tied . d
Cynthia fe
refuge in' silent
(en ihe sweet,
ding cake whic
qt. is a foolish custein,Esaid'Frank,!as they .
arranged the cake. r Fool - that persons,
because they are happy, sheuld want to make
other folksßut there is a great deal of
selfishness in e display- Of newly-married,
hUppiness, as'that essay by Elia tells
Frank sighed, and tliat
. sigh revived the
Oourage -of Cynthia. Now - 4 . 11 e thOught he
will sty Snip f' Can,l . • say Snag l'- Oh!
530.
Miss Bridesmaid .?
Cynthia, with a
She mit on
not hoe any
Vrank,'she sa
will be the pe
'Son. ;.
I don't believe you' have
e of the kiss you are. euti-
ed away from the side of a
t :nor from the eity who
f, by some of the gue.s She
liaintances arid Frunk Seemed
her. -
iardon, Miss Cyntpii,! said
the ladi, and takinieno no
part of the speech 'Oat
_was
I
, ' let us do all that ' is ex-
ether into -the pantry, and
e. Cynthia • thought; if he . ,
ip !. now is .the monient:— .
ntent on.-arranging the cake
spesing , them on a large wait
t ready to cry. She .took
and the cake: It may have ,
unwholesome smell Of we'd' ,
made her head. ache Violent,
coquetry t 'You will'
cote, at your Wedding, Mr.
d. 'Everything about that
eetion of good sense.and
•
She had he f t intended to he sarcastic, but
as the speech , Il froni her tips, it .!sounded
00..1t was trifling-tunworthy. She wished
She had not said it. Its tone was oat of har
mony with what. she felt: . ! * ,
i
- 4 Come,' Said Frank, 4 let us feed them.'—
41e took-one of the handles of „thelray, and
:the bridesmaid took the other.' The `room •
was very merf y. The mike wasserved_with
plenty of nois„ and thevine after it:. Frank
seemed to be quite self-possessed, andnten
t,ive to every ody. Cynthia's beaux could
make nothing of her; i She answered their
questions wro g. A rumot,ran thht sliewas
wearing the wlillow for Seth Taggart:She
[ declined to dance, on the plea that!she •must
keeri herself disengaged' for„ her duties as a
bridesmaid, and, indeed, her head ached so
she feared the motion . .. Agonized , lay.‘her
self-Conseions*ss and with too little spirit
left to make! head{ aganst the 'rePorts that
were going about, she could not but perceive
that Franke-ctrn...d not to remember her.
' Who is that lady in blue, Mr.' Handy
,i. 4
ao.taken up With V she said to one of the par
ty. Cynthia had alsiays called him . ' Frank'
befbre e but consciousness made her now re
ject the old lainiliarity. ` . 1 .
'Oh ! that! is somebody very , wonderful:
-Everybody else is afraid to speak, to her.—
She has written a book. • Frank seems to be :
right down flirting with her—doesn't he 1 I
declarenow,l he always wanted somebody
out of the way. Nobody bere was good.
enough for F`fank.,, Have pie beard he has
been o ff ered a profe.ssorship,- and is going
away ? , lie is going to live in the same 'place
she doe.s:l I•Should't wilnderat his courting
her—should ou ?' - ' "
-' I don't care,' said Cynthialn her heart,
' I don't care. ! Oh ! yes! do '1•I- care s that
he should ha i r weighed me in 1 the balance
so Calmly this afternoon,' and found Inc so
unworthy,, that , he takes back the love he has
offered me. H Has he judged Me very cruel
ly 1 Or am -quite unworthy-of his attach
ment? O i'!fi think that this niorpin,,a , I had
it in naypower to be happ y all milifyvhen
I refused WM!! Oh ! ho can any one com
pare any oilier man. with 'him ? And he
loved - Me onlsr to-day—and now; to-night,his
reason 'says ljam -not good enough to be , his
wife; and bets afraid of being unhappy With
me. Indeed; lam not good 'enough—but ,I
would try tolbe.' : ' - - -
'....1f yoli t would snip it.:'
It was Frank Handy's voice. She caught
the word, and 100 ed up eagerly. - Frank
14
saw her, and'stO4 p
.embarraased. He was
holding up a tort old'in thedress of his part
ner in blue. , c_ , '' , , ~ " i
\ 'Ill; kneW where, to'fin d a needle and
thread,' said'the authoress,,Withl - a half look at
the bridesmaid. ' .
1
' I know. Let me sew it Op for you,' said
Cynthia. . '-', . -
Her pride jhad left her. She felt bumbled
to the duit: llt would be a relief to do some
thing tor this woman—better than herself=
whom Frank; preferred to her. - :
' Let. me do it,' she said earnestly.
'Mr. Handy, I shall depend upon your es.
tort.'
Frank Handy bowed, an the girls Wept
together intokiThed-room. •-• ' •.
-ESeort t—Wa.s it his escort to the 'city I
He had told her he Should go there. Cyuth
ia sewed up he bole hi the blue dress, very
sadly and riuetly. ~. i .
t
The animation faded' from 'tae yopfig,
anthoress's lace, as - she looked down on
Cynthia's qutvering lip, and saw . a big tear.
fall upon her seVring. She had. heard shine
one say, she' had' been the victim of false
hopes raised I by' Seth'' Taggart; and had in
her heart despised , her for it.; hut 'now she
felt as if thelsed, heart-broken love bestoWed
on him endorsed him as far bitter than he
looked. - It Was a woe,•however ; to wh ch
she could not' openly :allude..But; as dy,n:
this-set the last stitch iniher dress, she.stoop
ed deivn an kissed her. ' Every sorrow has
its lesson,' she said, 'es every weed has a
drop' of hon 4 in its cup.. Blessed are they
Who Stick tht, drop, and. store it for good
i t
use&
She had ono, and Cynthia Wee left alone.
lies, she ha much to learn, This night's ex
perience had taught ber that her -reign was
over, and'her career : Of bellehhod run. i . Shei
,
'whci was riot - good though to keep a ' good
man's heart when she had on it, would set
herself to her newt.task of self-improvement:
She would: ave her dear old:- father's love,
and live .at 'home, and little 'children, too,
should learn to love . her. ' And
Some dagy , ),Whea l tlie.y - both 'grew - old,:Frank
Tltiadi 'nib; perhaps, sett thathe had jiidied
.herhatitilykjuid nlit be glad, as he w f ornow
ihAt she had rejec ted him: At leiist, r every,
imptviempit In heryould be due to hie in
fluence, th ugh inseen t and so, even: in , ' her
' lonely pre he - wiihld not be altogether Iliad:.
elatid fix'. + her; , - Shiisat IW the - - dark, with
her ;binds dated' tightly'. over '' her 3.burning
forehead.,l . - :,s-=.: ;" : •' ~
She herd_ .
.Waken in iho fits.!igo.- - , -,!I he
'0 4 7 vai twealFing "P.: PecTle Werib44o ll l
• ...
)
+
IS
ning to go. ,Oh
.! why had she st aid alone s 9
long Perhaps during thatihour Ft.ank_nught
have changed:, his mind. -.She had ,d9Prited .
herself of the opportmuty.h:
She started up and hurried out amongst
.the company... !They *sale atVgettingl-thpir
cloaks and shawls on. Fsank,,ill hisigreat
coat, was standing impatiently at thehire
door. .
. 1 .
`Please to tell her tat „
buggy liaalecithe
up first:- he sai4l, to sOme<gip, as CynthiPW
seated herself in the pas Sage.
I am ready,? said the : lady. in, blue, pre
,
senting herself... , • - r I
••
,Frank raised hishat.to the pmpan. ; ana
took ter on his arm: • ,
Aiodil
' Shut up that dour,' said some } ; y:,• am
don't let-the night air into the! house.'l
'SO the door closed wifh that went to e ,
ar
Cynthia'very heart. She turnet• asideiand,
tried to : help sonic of. the,girls' finds their,
shawls and bt)Ods.- 'EverY lassie had her -
Ikddie„" . • Cynthia only hid no one to take her
hotne..- She asked "I'Onttny.
home With her; and he said he Woirld: s soon
as he ,had. - had some more cake and some
More supper. -
Cynthia went back into the _
And -84 down Van opeul : Witidow looking on
the ya r d. She hid her face in her hands.-7
All sorts of thoughts went singing through
her brain ; bUt the - one that ptesented itself .
oftenest, was .an humble resolution that she
would try to be snail' a woman Frpnk
Pandy. wisely might have loved.
' There was.a Stir among' the:, vines that
draped the windoyr-frarne. She did not lOoli
up. was the wind. .She beard
She tett its-warm' . breath near her 'eheekl—
wartner,'surely, than the night wind. She
listed her head quickly :
'Snip!' said Frank's,yoice at heri
side. -
It tretfibledi, and he, trembletas', he stood
with a great hope and a great fear Contend;
trig in his breast. - His SelfpossessiOU wasn't!,
gone. - The struggle had unnerved him.
'Oh I Snap r eried i CYnthia' suddenly... 4
And .then,drooping her head, crowned: with
the hop bells, lowerand,, 'lower--more "ant?
more humbly, till it rested on. thi . 4iwintlom
.
sill,—she said in a broken yoiee't.l•‘ know I
am not woktby, - Prank • Wit you imUst teach
me? ' •
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A RATHER TOONE' STORY.
The-following story was told n Sandusky . ,
Obio,\ and appears in the 'Alctei
which says ' ` •r o
A party of - young men in.that aOcient ejt,
amuse theirleiure, moments t i latl' hotels -
drawing a . long bow,; ¢r - telling -rondeFfu
yarns for the benefit Of tiiise, apparently ve
Vent; who may bappect to come ia from Ot
, eh. parts. They. tried, the effect cif I a few ,e
treordinary _wolf storiC,4n.pon a venerable an
-sedate customer not long since who had co
"to spend the night at the best hotel, Mid
listened to theni, with much epPirent su
prise and interest ' until their stock appear
to bare run out; ana the converwion - fugge
.when he remarked, that had been mu'
interested jn the news they had given h i
t
relative to the primeval inhabitants of
country: but regarded an. event- th his ear
life': as , more peculiar Olen any tite had pal
ed. Said be I '
t.\\. ip.
"When a yoting, man, I was traveling',
western • New York, and lateo at, stor _
night applied - at it log cabin fo lodgitcg.
~.
The 'occupant, a woman,Jefnsed it,, say _
her husband and sons' were out 'h nting, , ~14
if they found - me there, weuld tnn der me{ .
I preferred the chance to_the s (gm, and
she consented that I ,might lie doWn helOri ..:
tlns,,fire. hi the.night - I heard .th ht eon - Anti
' and scrambled up the chiMneyi7 -- --1,
"Thinning I was safe at! the tol
stepped-over the roof, ru4l,, jumping down
the hack of the cabin, jainped plump int,
wolf trap. A scream of ;pain hrought . i
men and boys out; andlthey &Oared --I , ,
served a inure, severephnishment than d t
so they `kept' me both( in the trap and
i , it
pease until.:morning, and then, hewn,* u
up in 'a . hogshead, .with-no air or, light ' t
thrclugh the bung-hole, they put me on,a, lc
and drove - me son - re four miles up A hill, n
there rolled me o ‘ tf to' starve. Thii I ur,
donbtedly, should - have done, but for, try ry
i
singular occurrence.: The wolVea-snie led
inc out and gathered around my Prison; w ell
ono of, them, in turning round, happen to
thrust' his, tail, Into the; bung-hole. IL. as
-my only chance. 1 caught. firm hold, tai
held 'on, like death to-a,negro,, which fri 'lit
ened the wolf, of , course,-and started down
the hill, followed by .titli. hogshead and ' e.
it was a very urieasy ride, `over.. the st nes
and stumps; but , I had no idea how 10, it
wa'S, until the hog,shead Striking; a stone 1 . - ir , .
ly, the staves,' worn
. hy lung —travel, - era?
broken - in, andl% jumped .out, to find ;m self
away down in the lower end of Catare Os
county, some thirty miles from ;the sceu of
the 4 it•aster. ; Good night,: gentlemen--=I did
uot . .ex pre.ls 'an ; douht,Of the truth of vOur
stories; and I hope, you will, not of mine:
his currently, reported that the 4 'earl
: ,of Sandusky has, not bad *All meeting $
that eceutre,d, --•It - •\ L
. , Coma, or Ileasgs.—A, proverb says,
geed hiirse cannot, be of a bud color.""
mestication appearitp t hava theill'et::iif
Optyinit the.color of an wall. The prevn
color of the-wild speei '‘ is a brOt. hal_
Foster sayt that amon the troops he
central Asat, the dun and: greyish.hre*
ors cwere Most frequent. , .Bell.; jud.ox
chestruit .to, be the most common in Ta
an districts. sir Fitineis - licit& states
Many Of. the horses br the Taitairular,
bald. tic bla c k' rarely 0 0 0 10 .4°
- ArabiansA,• The'leopard.9otteq how
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to be frequen4ia China, In ,Eoglinid it .
es from milk White !to coal black.:,,§otu
_sons are inclined to give
_profe:tenee.o, ,
cotors, froni tite fact that amo , hg 'aniiiiiii
entity the likh er:the Skin- thejeiiikpf i
prgy. Lord Hawn seeMs...tcv . iiN.,iite
ed the same idea,:wheti he asserted,Wh
be the color of defect 1 -I '' . .
A 11 19 (1 ,ein,,iirijOr tOts. gnil triwOyski
lowing quest ion I . ~. ..
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Why are buries wit h white, legs an
less vattuthielhati - tholeWhichhave the
Because'evnln:;*:et..soft,
nod lAttnalA .
boas ara more . liable to amitient all4`.
lipss Alien Vick' Ones,,,, and iw stony . ',ol:l .
boorwite much more" liiktilelo c tre4ko,
'trietihan these of tt - dark col ": 1 _
' _Another. writer 3 ,;fs * lO4 feiti#,.
face on a )Ibrse are indication of,phytt
cal conditions►'nQt , '.l4itqat'l#' f ' l ) .:i'alau '
any other' goi;d - qualitit'','llie,Y* o *
.'1:11 4 :40 Qui. of 0: licr06:0u0: tai done ""
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