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From Dlckca Tllipsehola Wonh,
0161. 9 8 srpart
no snd - frostylie.svens,
• . were shining bright ;
. •ps of the gsvatt,' city,
bed their gleilmilig light;
snow was lyink - -.
ter winds were sighing,
loistmas night. - •
• tower and; steeple; -
were sounding_eleat,
, - .1, tones of gladness, -,
ristntas time is near;)
night was merry,
ed through till the year.
Through t
Christen
The glisten
Almost
And the
And the
Long ago
While fro I
Pealing . I
(Never wit
Save wil
3lany a one
Who-had
That night •
Friends I
tha
.Anxious he
• Freed fro
old wrongs forgiven,
I - carted reconcile;
- 4 to laughter, ; •
forgot to smile,
hat .feared the morrow,
1 their cares awhile:• •
Rich and p•
• From the
Joy and pie
Peace au
And the voi
Ringing
elt thc.t same blessing
cions• season fall;
iu the cottage,
.tiny in the hall';
of the childivn
above it all! .
was dim and darkened ;
iekneS•s, and despair
gilded chaMber,
the marble stair,
e voices of Mourning--=
ay dying there.
'Yet one hot
Gloom, - M
Abiding in
Climbing
Stilling eve!
For a chi
Silken curt:
Velvet ea
Many cost! .
,kll ininse
Ant his tan
Vere'on
MI around him,
is hushed the tread, -
)ys were lying
round his bed, •
- 4.1 golden ringlets • •
wy pillow spread.'
Al the .skill f the great city, -• .
-0 'save that little life was vain ;
Thtlittle thread from being broken,
.'llat f al mord from being spoken ;
aS, his ery mother's pain, •
- MAI mighty lore within her;
Coni no oive hini healtlOtgain.
Andslie4: elt there .still beside him,
$1? atoll with streneth:to smile,'
•Aucl'o-pronli~e lie should suffer . -
N% more in a little while,
AndJcith murmured song and story
Th lotto. we: hours b eg uile. .
, • .
Stiadinlv an umieen Presence •
C' eked' these constant mourning cries,
still-a the little, heart's quick fluttering,
H.ised the blue and_mondering 'eyeS,
Fix& on .ome mySterions vision, • '
• Will a startlotl sweet surprise.
For a adiant amzel-llotered . •
Smilng o'er the little bid;
While lis raiment, from his shoulder
Snow) dove-like piLionS spread..
And a stadike lighti was shining
In a aloiv round his head.
While, wits tender love, the angel,
Leanimt the little nest,
In his arms the sick child!fohling,
Laid him gently on his breast,
Sobs and wailinp from his mother,
end her darling was.at,reSt.
Sr; the angel, slowly rising, -
Spread his wings ; and through the air
BOre the pretty.ehild and held him
Chi his heart with loving care,
A red branch of bloorriing roses,
Placing. solltly by him there..
While the child, thus clitiging, floated
Toward the mansions 43,1' the blest, -
Gazing from bit shining" guardian
To the flowers upon his,breast,
Thus the angel spike, Still smiling
On the little beavenly.guest:
'.K.nolv, oh, little one that . heaven
Does no earthly thing disdain,
•Man's poor joys find there an eeho
Just as surely as his Pain.;
Love, on earth so feebly striving,
Lives divine in heaven again.
"Once in yonder town:below us,
In a poor and narroW street,
Dwelt a little sickly orphan,
-Gentle aid, or pity sivett
Never in life's rugged pathway '
Guided his poor tottering feet.
" All the striving anxious forethought •
That should only co* with age, •
eighed,upon his bahy spirit, .
Showed him soon life's sternest page;
Grim Want was his nurse; and sorrow
Was hi only 'heritage! •
" All j,OO weak :for childish pastimes
Drearily the hours sped-,
On his hatyls, so Small , and trembling,
Leaning his poor. aching bend, .
Orobrough dark and painful hours,
Lying sleepless on his bed.
"Dreaming strange and longing fancies.
• Of cool tbrests far away;
Dreams of rosy'happY . children,
Laughing merril y
Corning home thro' green lanes hearing
Trailing branches of white May.: •
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" Scarce a glimpse of the blue heavens
Gleamed above the narrow street,
And the sultry hir of Suniiner
(That you called mit, warm and .sweet,)Fevered, the poor Orphan, dwelling
In the crowded alley's heat.
• " One bright.day, with feeble footsteps,
Slowly, forth he dared to crawl,
Through the crowded city's pathway, .-
- Till he rettched egirrden ;- •
Where 'rnid 'princely halls and mansions
Stood the lordliest ;of all.
"There were trees'orghuit branches;
Velvet glades 'where shadows hide .
There were sparkling.fountaius glancing,
Flowers ;whose rich luxuriant pride .
Wafted a breath of previous perlume
To the child who stood outside. '•
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"Ile against the gate of iron - -
Pressed his wan and wistful. face,
Gazing with an'awe.atruck pleasure
At the glories of
,the tame; .
Never had his fairest day dreath
Shone with half Stieb wondrous grace..'
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houses are relieved against fin angle of thcgl set. ' "Moeda" was the-next order, and 1 napeofthe neck, their hands behind - their i
sky. At the eittemity is .a shed_kbe:ll descended the staircase, supported under I backs, and smoking tranquilly their pipes ; I
heath•it a wood pile, upon ;Wiiiffil(a lad- I each artn,like.a consumptive in his third the noise, the tumult of the crowd; I
der, and scattered arouiflpre seen ropes, ; stage of illness. . ' . . I
the tones of the - voice the expressive' ges; 1
bundles of-straw, a abbitihut, and hen I They put me into a haelmercoach:. I I tures, the unexpected attitudes,:which be ! . l 1
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eoop, - past servi
asked what I had done, but they only ex- : tray at a distance' thup , rogyess of a discl
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How - did t low heterogeneous - details' , changed significant smiles. . -
.pute, or paint the character of an individ- !.
come-irtl6 - my head? I cannot tell. I, had t Soon, a deep shadow enveloped us; the I•ual,all this captivated Me, 'attain spite. of i .
-no'remembratice of any such'place, and I. steps of the horses resounded under a 1 my. sad position, I felt }lapin( to be in'the:
y e t every stroke of the pencil seemed' by ;Vault. We had entered-the prison. The world.t - i
its truthfolness an, exactrcepy. N,othing ; jailer
abut Me up in a-cell. as tranquilly as I 'While I was leoking on, s, ' Man passed ;
,
was wanting. s i
I ifle . had been' putting a pair of stockings': with his back bent, healing - at enormous ;
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But on the right a cornet'ofthe sketch • in a.drawer, thinking an the time ofsome.; -quarter of beef on his sit alders{ His arms
remained bare. I did notiknow What to ' thing else. I looked all 'around tureen. ; were naked, his elbows in` the air, laid his '1
put there; butll was disquieted, agitated, llt had been, newly white washed, and : head inclined on his breast. IBS floating
-aa Islooked orlon it. s Suddenly I ''§aw a - there was. nothing upon the ;wallicbut a 1 hair, like that of Salvator's " Sicambrer
font, bat it - Was in a reversed Position, and rude sketch of a gibbet drawn by My; concealed his face; and yet, at the finit
detached from , the ground. - Spite of its I predecessor. The light came front an aper, ; glance, a thrill ran through inilveins. ;
improbability, I followed the inspiration ; tare . .nine or ten. fei4 from the floor, and' -"It is he!" I exclaimed:l• - 1
and sketched it, without'''S, topping roan' the furnitnre conanitedi-Rf a bed. of strau. , The blood:rushed :t4J..My heart., -I 4-' 1
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count - for my fancy. 'Then 'the leg appear- 1 I sat down upon the straw with my hands scended into my •cell.• 31y, whole *auk
ed and a portion, of the dress• - •i At length around my knees; and gave myself up to., trembled. _'' .• . I
the whole figure—an old whinau, haggard, I despair. lan, killed Rapp: He had de- I " 4 is=bowl stammered, 'With a Indf 1
wall, . diShevelled, thrown, 'down on the I nounced pie before dying. I should be ! choked voice.. - "He is ';here—there—arid 1
edge ota well, struggling against a strong ,'hung as his murderer. I started, up, I I ant about to die to exPiate hissrime.l--
hand which hadgrasped her throat. I c i tughing, as if the hempen cravat already.' What shall i do?" 1 I --, I,
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It was-a Murder That I .vas sketching! ' esseo my throat, -. A sudden thonght from Heaven inspir-
The crayoti fell from my hands. The old 1 Again the jailor appeared, and ordered led rue. I put my hand into. my pocke;
woman—her face contrmited . by terror, ;me to follow him. He conducted me ;my crayons were there.? Then, springing 1
her form bent over the ftinigh , of the well, !through long galleries to a sombre hall : to the walt, I began to trace theeene Of I,
both hands Oasping the liand of her mar- 1 with -benches in a semi-circle ; opposite 1 the murder with. almceit,supetinatural eh- 1
derer—terrified me, I dared not look at which, on an elevated seat, were two 1 orgy. No more unceirtainty l ,—no morh.l
her. ' But. the :man- , ---tlni murderer—to ! persons whith their backs to the light, i. hesitating experiments:, 1 knewtheindn. I
whom the,' anti belonged. • I . could not ; and - their faces in
• the shadow; but as 1 I had seen him: . 1 reproduced him befOre
see it. -It was impossible to finish my 1 one-of them turned * to his companion, I I toe. , 1 -.--,--
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I recognized the aquiline. profile of Van At ten o'clock the jailor aptearist inlay I
sketch. -
The sweat-drops stood iupon my brow. 1 Spreckdal. Beneath them at alew table, t cell. His owlish stupidity gave pi-tee 'to
"I Mu fatigued," I said. But -little re- I was seated a clerk, tickling the tip of his ! admiration. - .•I '• -
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v . to le.done. I wills complete it to- I cur with the feather of his quill. .1 "IS it poosible?" he cried,lfr;tandini*-4i
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in rrow ;" and 'terrified by the vision, I " Christian Venius," said .Spreckdal, I the iteshold.
lay down upon the -bed, bud in five Min- " where did you get this sketch ?" show- I 'Go seek Int' judgei,l," I sdid, - PirsUi i ng I
utes slept profoundly. 1 ing. tile my nocturnal work, of which they my ii-erk with increascd,exidtation ! -I
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The next day, as I was about to resume l had taken possession' at the time of my ar 1 '." They are.waiting-for you; in the cruil.
Mal hall," he replied:, 1.
my work, a knock resounded at the door. 1 rest. , .' i
"Come in,"" I called tint, and a Man , "I inn the author of it."• - "I wish-to ntidie some revelatioa,7 I
somewhat avanced in ;years, tall, thin, 1 ' There was a long silence. The clerk I continued, patting the last, 'toil& to the ,
and dressed. in black, appeared . upon the 1 took down my answer; and as I Este' ned mysteribus pei§:o - 1
persona ge .) • '
threshold. 'The whole physiognomy of i to. the scratching of his pen, I • wondered' ' 1 I
In a feW minutes the two fudges cattle,
the man,iiis closely approximating eyes, I w:hat,that had to do with the kick., I had They looked . on : stupefied.;With One
his .large aquiline nose,4 his lofty, broad I g iven to riapp. - -- hand extended to thelpicture, andlrernb-1
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and bony brow—had something severe 1 "You are the author of it," said Vat' light;: in every limb, I called out:
and imposing. Hi saluted me gravelv: ' Spreckdal, "where did von get the SA- ,-"There is the assasin 17'. I '' 1 1
"Mr. Christian Venus,lthe artist?" he jeer:"' Van Spreckdal, after a inoment's l si- . I
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said., 1
: ',. i•"It is a lancY_sketch." - hence, 'asked his name 1 '• 1 t
"That is my name, sir.? - . '1 "You have not copied the details any- "I do not know," II ansmaired, " but he 1
"The Baron Frederic Van Spreckdal." 'where?" is there noir in the market." i , . .1
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The
,appearance„ in niN'l poor garret, of I "No, sir; I have imaginedthem all." ;blue "of the officers wend to seek the ;
this judge of the criminailtaiurt, impressed I "And this woman," pursued the Jude.e, man. The judges kemainbd standing,
me strongly,. . I threw a glahee upon my 1 "who is Murdered on the edge of the well ; looking at the picturet. I sank down !ex- !
li' . ortn clam furniture, mitered draperies, , have you imagined, her;.also ?" .' . I batiste(' with.exeitement. ! . : I
and dirty floor, and felt humilitated; but ; ." If ndoubtedly" .. - • . The noise Of steps beneath. the resound-
Van Spreckdal appeared to pay no atten- I "*You have never seen her?" - . I tug arches of the corridor' aroused mi. 1
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ilea ;to, these detail. r . 1 " Niver." - The man enter ilan.Spreck al' pOint- -
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‘3l:ister Venins," he restinted, " Ihave 1 \ - an„spreekdal r o s e as.if indignant, then ,ed in silence to the picture. I He looked at
collie=” 1 ; seating himself he appeared to consult his 1 it a - moment, turned pale, then with a rear,
' But at the moment his eyes were ar- 1 colleague in a low voice • Suddenly he , that chilled us with terror, he struck lout
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ryas a te - iiiiii
stopped'. • i-" . I "Take .. fie prisoner to the' I carri:Lge;l : waS onto, the door. I•The - ii
"Arc you the author] of this sketch?" 'We are going to the'Metzerstrasse." ,--.1 t•ritest in the ,corridor. •' 'e heap' 1,t,. 1
he asked' after a momentls pause. . , ,
1 'I was . plavl in a carriage with two pc>. I panting respiration' Of the :butcher, ;low ;
"Yes, sir." - 1 }icemen. One of them on the way offered' imprecations, brief Words apd the sound!
"What is the price °Mt ?" 1 a Pinch of snuff to Ids comrade'. I - extend-; ‘ll e,
strugglinn• feet. llt was over. The I
•"I donut sell my sketches. It is a tie- led my fingers mechanically to the box.; nian reEntered. - 4'Hislhead Was bowedvhis'i
sign for a picture." n - 'I He drew it quickly back. The blood moan- ! eyes yo?d-sliot ; his hands bound behind 1
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. " Ali!" said he 'illi lifting the paper 1 ted to my time, and I turned iii is'my 1 his :ieli. ll fixed his gaze once more up-
midi . his long, yellow finger, lie took an I,bead to conceal thy emotion. . lon the picture, appeared to iefleet - , then, 1
AT the'corner f the Rue des Halms, - ;
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pPosite the dial el of St' Sebald, in Nu
t eye glass from his waiscoat pocket, and 1 "If von look out of the WindOWS,."- Said ; hi- a Voice, as , if speaking to himself, lie 1
I began to study attentively.• The silence I - the . man of:the snuff box, "we shall be ' said:
, was so g rea!, that Lluiard distinctly the 1 obliged to put manacles on von." •
i laintive buzzim* of afh +canelit in a s - 1 When the - carriage stopped, one of them ii •
- the picture, Venius 9 " he said at ' me, he pushed me out rudely.
; length,. lookingi at me. broken; •
err paint -I
• entered a narrow :diet*, with ir- . l'°rtYaits of i 1
11 . 1..,2: " 11 \ t \ . :-be coeldhaye! Seen 'ple?—at aut
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burginnasters.l By 1
reniberg, there s antis a little inn,. tall and .' i, -
I. der s vet:. alighted While the other held Me bv the 1! -, was s.:ived: I : , ,
harrow, • with n itched gables, and dim' . •
' .:l N utl . what P NVill be the '' flimensions of k collar • then seeing his comrade ready , to ; i Many years have passed since this 1 ter
wir low panes, ai d its roof surmounted bv ''
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a p aster Virgin. In this I passed the sad- :
without Master - ,••,, . 1 receive t. W e !, r l ib .l le aaventure. Ino longer cut frelics,
I de.iit days of my ife I had gone .to Nu
r. " Three by four. " .
remberg to studikthp - old.berman tha.sters, 1 '- . *.-. •I" reo•ular pavement. .A Yellowish moisture 1 dint ot' labor and perseverence, with; the
i hut, the want oftrioney had compelled me . • "And the price :' . '. . I stood - on the Walls, - exhaling a fetid odor. 1 blessing of tiod, I gain an honorable isub-
" Fifty difeats "
to liave - repoUrse to paintino - . portraits— i 6 ' i
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~. , j „,_ , . '' i I walked in darkness, Witlf fAro. men be- ;.sistanceby such lab Ors as can alone satisfy
am zpreeicoat laid the ssetcn (town on t hind me. 1 nailer ou appeared the light 1 the aspirations of a true artist, But the
1 . an, such pbrtrait ' Fai *ressi •withtheir l
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the
, ring. .
table,and dr. wino. from his pocket a
j cads on their knees, aldermen and. perukes,. : - t. of an interior court: . ••' • , 1 remembrance -of the nocturnal sketch has
s: , O. i long
ton pe of green silk, began to slip the 1 As .I advanced, a feeling of terror took. ' • '•t le midst of '
litever left me. ornetimes l
' buigomasters w i t h ree-cornered hats,
t i
•-•all brilliant ocher and vermillion. my finest effort thought ofit returns
sag "Fifty dilyats," he said, and 1 1 5 >ossession of ine,like the:natural horrors . ?the, :,,
, :e ••1,, r e 71 ' aletteland . dream for ;
of a night mare. Treeoiled instinctively. .• and I lay dow n my p
1 .FrOm portraits I deseendetitosket ches ' counting them out, '"'here hire t ht. ar .
then to profiles ' at last even these faileti ''
'He rose, .sillnied me, and departed ; 1 . , " Ge'oh!" cried one of the policemen hours., • : 1'
ine. - ' 1 ' , -
- • ; while I sat stupefied;, listening to the !
clink of his heavy headed cane upon the , der, " march !". • • I ' • '
behind me, analog his hand on my shoul- . How could a crone, committed by a
IThere iS nothing more pitiable than . to • . 1
hind triati I did - not ktioni, in a place. I
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I have constantly at. your heels a landlord 1 stairase• I My terror was no longer instinctive.; never seen, be reproduced under my
' with thin lips; al screa . minee'voice.an• inn; - When I had recovered . from my stupe- 'when I saw before me the court which I ! pencil, even to its - smallest details? ON as
Cant air, wbo pose
lobs es a chance 'tuo 1 faction; I' sat down to finish -my sketch. I had sketched the night before ; its walls lit a chance? ,Not 1 - -And, i beSides, 'what
Call out: "Are yo u to pay me soon, i A few strokes of the -pencil and it Would garnished with hooks, the wood-pile, the ;Is chance, after all; but the 1 effect ;of a.
1 monsieur? .Do You know 'how much' your Ibe finished.' But tliestb f ew
. stroke . s were ladder, the rabbit hut, the hen coop; tic. 1 cause of which . we are igntri? , I
bill amounts to: ' Oh, no. of' tourse this , out of my power. the inspiration was
dfies not trouble You. Monsieur eats I Not a sky-light, greator small„ high ; or 1 Schiller was nigh when . e said :—"The -
; over; • The mysterionS murderer would I lOW, not a cracked Window-pane, not a i immortal soul does aot-share the imperfec:
. -' not ilisengitge himself ifrout the convolu- 1 single detail had been omitted. I was i tions of matter; whenthe
body thehody sleeps "it
I drinks and sleeps qiiietly. The-good Lord ,'1
takes care of the little sparrows: Monsienr'l fiOIIS o f my brain. I tried again and again. 1 thunderstruck at this' strange revelatiou. 1 unfolds its radiant,JWings, l , - anti wanders,
1 ' • i ` " Nature is golder
God knows whither. : .
I only owes two hundred florins and ten , I tweed myself to draw ; but the results, Near the:well Were the two‘judges. At I ,
kreutzers.. A mere trifle, not worth the 1 ' the imagination
were as discordant as a figure of Raphael I their feet was the old woman, lying on lin her realities that! , of
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1 trouble of mentioning." • . lin a Dutch inn of Teeters. 1 her back, her long. iirav hair straggling 1'
man in its wildest fancies. l'
1 I Those who have never - heard this ganut.l At this moment,Rapp, ''
; henform,her face livid, her eYes un- ; •
. , pp, according to o% er From Whhehmtd:4 `tWild Sports of the South."
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1 sounding in their ears, can form no idea 1 his praiseworthy custom, opened thedoor I naturally wide, her tengue' between her i,
1 a Night Amen the Wolves.
1 Of the horror of it
. 4The loge of art, im. I without knocking. His eyes fell upon 'the , teeth. It was a horrid spectacle! , . 1 : •
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agination, the lofty enthusiasm for the 1 pile of dueits. and he Irhrieked : . I . "Nell," said Van Spreckdal, in it sol- .
beautiful—wither at the' very breath of.; . "A11,..ahl I bare canght you, Monsieur 1 eon tone, " what have you to say ?" ~
4 . nch a rascal. You become ,weak and 1 painter !, You pretended you had no 1 I was silent. .. ..
. this
tired ;.you leose even the sentiment of rmoney! and lie extended his crocked ; "Do you confess that you threw n 1
1 Your personal dignity, and salute, at al fingers With that eeri-Mis frigid:ling which ' woman, Theresa Becker, into this well of-' '
I liStance, andtespectfully, the most Clown- the • sight • of gold alivays produces in a ; ter having striumled her, that . you might
ish of burgoinaSters. •• . • • t Miser. . . - : '' 1 steal her money ?" - •
, I One. night, harings••,not a sou in my i - :The remembrance lof all-the insults I 1 • "No ," I cried, "no, Ido eft know this
')ocket,tna being threatened with a prison I had suffered frtim- hi'in exasperated me. I wonian. I base never seen her. May
by the worthy master Rapp, I sat down 1 With 3 single bound, I seized hini, and ' God help me !"
on my trackle bed'and gave myself.up to I thrusting him . over the threshold; flatten- 1 -"That is enough," he replied, in a dry
•reflection. , The thought of suicide cuter- I ed his nose with the door. The old usurer ; voice, and departed with his.conipannins.
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I I - Hrried back to the prison in a state
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"You la-ere playingni that atrden;_
• ThrnWing blossoms in the air, - -
And hingting Witoilthe petaia.fieated
DO:, ward otiynnr golden hair; ,
Aiiii . t e fond eyes 'l7*o - it* o'er you, -•
Ari theaplendOrapreadhefOre . yen, -
In
trol . n'llbusealt,op& was there. .
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4.ltlon . yonr servita,s tired of seeing • .
• slmle Ace of: 'ant and - woe,
ttiridng , to the raggedMhan, • ,
Gave him coin', and baffle'- . go, \ ,
Downhis cheeks SOI thin and Wasted .
-Bitter tears hcegal to. tiOnt.
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" But that 104lt
of ildish abrrow, ,
Oh iyonr . tender itning heapqell,,
And yeti-pleek!dtlie reddest roges;
From the trekyOnloved so well,
Pining then thro4h the stern grating,
With the gentle, ,vord, 'Farewell!"
.:
"DaZzled by the fragrant . treasure
.And . the gentle voice he heard, •
In the poor forlorn :boy's spirit,
do j• the sleeping Seraph „stirred ;
In MS hands he claSped the flowers,
In is heart the loving worth.
•
"So be crept to hiS poor garfet, . I •
FOOr no more, lint rich and bright;; .
For ihe holy dreams of childhood—: .1
- LoVe,..and - Rest, 1 land Hope, and Light ;
Floated round the Orphan's pillow
Through the starry sunirner night.
"Dayi ..
dawned; yet the vision lasted;
- AO too weak to 'rise he lay ;
Did fr dreanithat none spoke harshly='
• Al were strangely kind that day !
Yes - he thought his treasured roses
, I
Mpst have charmed all ills away.
" An i di he smiled; though they were fading,
. One by one their leas li ere shed;
'Such bright things could never-perish, -
They would bloOm again,' he said, ,
WhO' the next day's sun hadAsen .
Child• and floweits both were dead. -
"if,now dear littlel one! our Father
Does - no gentle deed disdain ; ,- '
And in hearts - that; beat in heaven, ..
Stll all tender thoughts remain; 8
Lov.. on the eOldearth remaining •
LiVes divine and pure again !"
Th 4 the angel ceased.and gently
I VCy hiS little barthen leant; . .
i Wh le the .. ehild gazed from the shining
L. yin eyes,that o'er him bent,
!To. he blooming rosesby him,
I Wondering whit that mystery meant.
Then the radiant lingel answered, ''
i „kind with holy Leaningsmiled
" Ere you'll tende , loving spirit, •
' Sip and the hard world defiled, -
3lericy gave me - hkive io seek you ; •
I rwoo rtaCC:OlO. 11. e.. ., .414.01-1 1 . - ~
'.4lTistillantnus.
From the German
ATI.TRSt SKETCH.
E SUPER:
LICABLE srarn
AN rcE.
ed my head.; and the mere 1,.
reflected; the
snore -desirable - such . an exit from my 1
ttoubles;appeared to my thind. Si; nu-
imerous- and convincing were the 'argil-
!meats . in its
- faior that thronged upon me, 1
that I dared not-look at-my razor, lest
~
the irresistabie force of logic should coin-J ,
,
Ipel me to coi*nit suicide by cutting my 1
throat. At length I blew out nrs caiulle
and threw, myself on the bed, with a de-.1
termination to come to a decision on the
I next day. '-
, . •
3.lv.dreami were usually of the abomm-
able Rapp; thy 'one desire to get money. 1
that I might rid myself of his odious prey- ;
ence. But this night a singular zeroth- 1
.tion took place in my mind. In about, an
hour I rose, then Wraffpini , myself in an 1
old grey coat, i b;gan trace on paper a I
rapid sketch in the Dutch style—some
'thing
.1
strange, fantastic, quite apart from
my fiabitualonceptions.
Imagine t yourself a ithrriber• court, in
closed by high dilapidited walls, garnish
ed With liqki; seven or eight feet froth
the ground, stiggest at ones slaughter
house.. On the left, through a trellis
td
yciu discern . a 'quartereL
'd by strong. pulleys from
.drops,- of blood trickling
t in s. gutter obstructed by
shambles. The light in the,
rem above, where chimneys,
cocks, and storied roofs of
work of latl
ox, sw ee cnde
the •
from it colle
the refuse of
.court comes
and weather
shrieked: -. .
• i
- "My moriey,thief! robber! my money !"
till-every lodger in the lipase ran out, ask
ing " What is the
with
?"-I opened the
door quickly, and a single stroke of
the foot sent Mastefi Itapp rolling down
the ' stair case: ; .
"That iS the matt r," I said; and clos
ing mY \ door, I double locked it,neighb while the
shouts Rf laughter ;from the ors
saluted the old miserlin his progress down
stairs,
. ;
This adventure .Imd inspired me and I
resumed :my w rk with some Prospect of
success ; but an naecustomed noise soon
interrupted my 1.131i5. It was the clink
of arms and the trawp of men ascending
the Staircase. • A cold chill ran over rue. I
Can I-fiave broken tfiat rascal's neck ? amid
are they coming to Seize e? There was
. a - knock at my donr and a rough voice
said: • • - •
" In, the-name of Ole law, o en!"
I thought of escaping by t - window 1
over the roofs; but a :vertigo sei me at
a mere glance at tl+ dizzy hight, ...Again 1
the , summons came :; .. •
'" Or -• we will
. break clown lie
1
- 11
Ipen, or
door!"
turned the key and saw the chief ci;
' 4 l arrest yon," lie said, and • made a
sign to two men *ho seized me by the
collar, while the others'
. rummaged my
was ca.. moecasin, and diliiv riff the other: .• '------
- _ ,
of profound stupidity. I 'knew 'not what I
; .:S'pose," replied Mike 4: -.:.
to think,. My. conscience even. began to "Do you think iwe can" kill 'anything'?"
trouble me. I asked myself if I had not . I
"Come, Charlie; let nmtiy it for a little
really a.ssassimited the old woman. I pass.;
ed a night. of doubt, bewilderment and i while."
despair. This was all a rice on the part of Poke,
in order to unake 'Mike think our., great
With the . dawn, some Of my black- I
thoughts disappeared. - - I felt more .Con.; hunt was, *n unprenieditate . d affair, and
thereby increase the. globr . of . killing so
desire
in myself, and et the some tinneon4
on. i i i the' much game. It.. ad been arranged lie,
desire. to see what was going
tweet' us during t day that we would try
tire hunting that in ht. It promised. to
world without. - Other prisoners before
hick was of great ad
mightme had climbed to the narrow. aperture.; I
vantage, as it -preyented the game- from
They had dug holes in the wall, that I
be. a cloudy, nightl N hie
mount more easily. I climbed there 1
seeing anything.cff the hunters, and atthe
in nay turn, and, with Any neck forward, I : ,
fleetly° when extiosed to the' torchlight.
saw the - eroivd, .tlielife, the inovement,,l same tune rendered - their eyes, more re
tears flowed abundantly doWn my cheeks. '
I thought no more of Suicide. -I experi:. We had even gone so Ifni as to make our ,
,enCed the' strongest. desire to live.. They pitch-pine torches, and the whole prepara
might
condemn me to the hardest labor;' tnon `hocp It I
Was
'i.. party :of
would- be 'rather more interest In getting
might attach -nt cannon ball to ;fly leg, if two DoctOr and !myself. Thee
they would oil let .mei live; to live was i
to be happy. , , 7 ' the same along ; ,and bekides tluit,alike s
The. old Market, opposite any windotn.•;. *mon on fire;shhoting.Wis well knou'a,
with its roof like au extingulkher;resting i and we knew he nvould not go with, us-:-..
on heavy pillars, of a fine spectacle., so constant a hunter scorned so primitive
The old women, seated by their baskets (WI a shire as the-64 we proposed. - The ne ,
—lt, for the fewer It.*
vegetables, their cages of poultry and bas-,!
kets of eggs behind them; the Joym, -ol
b`clothes dealers,- 'with facts the color of.
bb,..wood Obebutehers, with naked arms,
chopping , meat at their, stalls the pew
ants,vitb large fel bats planted on the
•
-The pass was stdep and ragged.
The wolves they Vowled and whined;
Hut he ran like a Whirlwindinp the pass
And left the wolves behind." s
Macaulay
•
• "Mike, what kiMI of night - Would. this
be for fire-shooting?" sai4 the Doctor td
that, meditative Nimrod; !Who was busy
sewing np ainocesisht by the light of the
camp-fire, after a week of travel.
" so, so," replied Mike,;Without lOoking
"I am going,
No answer. Mike put:on the mended
groes we did nofwant,
party the better. , So, one of us taking
gun,'and the other Carrying a torch, - we
left the estop.
The boys were chuckling .together
they witched - us; go—the dogsbosilsd be•
. . . • • :,
'cause they could net go wititus, and Mike 1 larse t attered•around the baie of the tree, • .
gave one of his •expressive dcaighs;. that ! still 1 11 4'bring and flashing in the.daidans, .
•
said as plainly as Words,," Nciw for it;',' . 1 and the; annuals d. nials that ha surrounded us,
- We were soon Outside 'oldie • glare .of jas theylsaw . -1 their prey. escaping r
- _rushing -
the camp fire, - the !little creekiwasbrossed, 1 ferward with an.angry noise. they saw
and our torch flashed brightly on the to- . the gliWitig• embers, and held hack jtist •. .
.per trunks of the !pine trees, the climbing 1 tong enough to permit my escape'. • ..As I
vines, and the broad:leafedl
. Plants that ! drew myself up on the first - limb, a rush , . •
'grew by the! pools; of water. *I There . was of gralittitre passed . over my 50u1,.. and my • -
no wind, and walking in the P 0 .w
?(line • woods, feelinere as warm as a child's. Noth-
~.
there was no gonna. - Once in ;a "ion while ' jug e°01•1 seen, fio the sombre forest
a sand-hill crane, disturbed in his wander- I shut odt th little light there was in. the '
ings, would be seen stalking i away, with 1 atmosphere, but J heard the pattering of '
his red head high Jim the air, like a sentry I feet - beneath m fortress, like falling
on -duty; or the•indden motion of the un. • Back a'hil forward they tame :and went,
derbrush would tell us that Sane one of and snorting sounds and champing , teeth,: j .. • ,
the many.fittle. harlequins of the wood, made the black night alit/ ip with imagina : ,::: .
that gambol most when men :do sleep, had ry-shaPits„ !I wondered how it fated with , „<
fled from this ininsual specuicle of a mo. i the Diictor; yet•dared not call, for the wt= -
'ving light. But !no' :deer ~ rewarded our
,eertaility was less fearful than. the reality
iiiiirolinnbear ahowed•tuittliheavy coat.Tnight" . !h • e-• I pictured him •
~ .
t., Faith," " said the doctor; 'this roman- bauback'froin his, half attained refuge, and di- , . !
, •
tic promenade .15 getting somewhatlorig.'l 'tided among thOningryliack ; and the • • -
"Think of the deer,- one bUck will S well: very •nbiseslielow Might be the mumbling
pay us." • • - 1 \ I
:
. , - .j of hishones= ~y - •
1 „---
~ "Fudge! if there was no bile to laugh I•• White:their ‘vhitC 01410 crotwhecio'er tits whiter FkUli. , ' 1
•atus I Would have turned-back long ago. i ..ta . ".nlr ?? ,ll-thrutZ i tirirjaw whet .. l their edges gtvw . ..- _
Give me the gun; and you tAke thei,light.',.' .t'£ , length. I sinihnoned courage and
Aceordingly we changed positions =4 -- II a.: Yoko!" ... • •
: „ . Ca e f . • .-• •
going ahead, carrying- the I tutet"eT ure " IIulloa!" :was the responsemor:7 -
me, in such a,maiiner - that ipveiih -throw.
rates e
iratelu , t to 'nit.' cur than afiy,sound. in the- '..
the light ahead as much ini - jpo i le, and I '''. 0 0 . 4. . ... , .- •
none on one persOns,,,and.the! Doctor re-',- --J j ,-. 1 1 0 , are you, lay bp , .;,
~, • r calle d:
j.
ceived the gun, and - tookbiy,pla'ce directly j , i ,,.. a ia,.. ! • • .- • -
behind: and,aliaded. by my; person. The j ` s. "Slife, thank the Lord Jr j • .
• ". ^ -
n ight liailhecomC still darker, and a, misty I " What 'a disgraceful situation tohe in, '
rainbommenced falling: We had left-the ! and how ilk; we get mkt of it?" ..
I pine woods, after walking a couple of j " I j will he g,rateful if I can only keep in . . .
•••
I miles, and had come into a grove ofjlOw- ' it; fbr tin!, tree is so small that the wolves
er timber. The long . moss drooped - in
can almost reach-me when they- jump ;
I curtains, thtodGr of magnOlia-s burdened l and, as I climbed up, (Me caught my coat-
I -- \
the air, and . et . iery Minute a denser copse I tail Mid tore it entirely oft" -• " • -
would force us to -turn aside from our " Climb iii, higher, then." .
route. 1 • - .J
.• • .
I " f can't—the tree is so small that, when -
"Hush'." whispered the Doctor,. suer i 1
• get, anvhigher, it bends over ' and lets.. • •
denly,-with a spasmodic, pill at my coat i '-, 1 . i - 1 1. 1 a e , ~ -- ...•
• .. 1 nu... t cos 11---o I e. r.•
tail, "there's a deer." • I- - • 1 " Maven% you your pistols: with Vou ?
"',was just wondering at this • absence I Try nnd ShOot., one ; and it may frighten
. .
of deer, and could not account for it, as .it I theli J i. ,, j • . .
was a rare thin,:; "togo a 'Mile -in Florida I
, . "Oh, dor, no; there are lnindreds of .:
;-without seeing.;Oue. , I therm Just look at them below`;"
1 " Where ?" I whispered, ‘,,‘ I dori' \ t seel hooked down,turd surely I could see a
f •
I it." . •
1 • "drove of then; They. were evidently the
1." Mush-lit leis gone now, but we will graV. wolf; for, in sPite of the darkness, I
I See it in it moment agaia." j . could untie in :t while detect their motions
1 We advanced on tiptoe; both in body . ..,
-front their light Coats.\ • -
,
J and expectation. • . •-
I Puke stiggested that they were_ plidn- . '
I " There! there!"
- said • the Doctor, j tomj'wolves;:ind 'declared' 'they - Were: nll
1 pointing with his - finger a little distance to 4 i,hi te. ~ - __ , I . • •
i
I the left; but the, luininouS spot was gene lj All OW fearhil stories tlifit I' had • ever • •
!before I hardle got my eves on it , •
I read came coursing through; iny brain. ,TJ • •
We were in the very place for deer:, A I
--- lain` snow!. buried lints:Muted out and ray- -
heavy - wind fall lay aheatliof ' us, and the' i,„b„-,1
.hr these prowlers,
1
iningled trun :kS and twisted branches lock- I
shriek of the child,
; ed like the claim's de frist, to some greattjtbv thrown front the sleigh
and heard the -
iis fear-maddened mother,' and •iiianv. • -
!encampment. The flickeripg. light_ made : :ui old dream reshapul in 111 V Illind lllt'.. s ,
i h4A l af i PPer, ,l iti f illtWa i ne r d i ll i ti l i l h a e I 4''''"'r*
411
nights of fear. `% - ere we• to.
1 I,„d, ~+•,1 „ , f ,,,:„,,,. „.„„ „ . ;, ) ,:,.. 1 ,....._,,,_
......._ I be tired out b . y their devilish patienee? , --
sound. Every moment I expected to see I wea - ily - felT intnitii - E - Tnif ralided jaws,.
! • •the• ;1, 1
I again tu o ,p..ospaorc.,cent stars . that I thus do he hurled into oblivion? • . . -
indicate the deer's eyes, and then the tree l:shouted in the hope that . some one
sink d•b
woulring us the prize for our Jla
onighthear me; but whatgood to show:
1 bor. It seemed a long time in coming lln the Midnight forest ? • I heard a voice— - •
1 rain. a ' -- ! •
1 e
.• , ,it Avas Poke saying•hia prayers. a liken- •
1 "That deer
,thust be very shy," • wills - j ed devoutly, but cosh( offer none myself.
pored the Dlietor i '„lnst above
. his breath.. • I
' When he had finished I called to, him. -
1 The next tittle I saw it first.. ,It ' -
was ` Ileiaintwered faintly— ,
i some distancetaltead, and there were two. I • , 1 What is it ? speak. quickly ; I can't
.Tust before I tiould point ltheni 'out tic - iny
. .
• hold on much longer." -
1 comrade, theyhail disappeared. Present-' " Fire your pistol-4o try; it may
I ly, we.saw it one side ofjus, - : -,,
" Charlie, that's a will-O'-the.wisp," said bri , i - i f.;• . s . o l i i iie t help, even if it does not
„ . 11.1 rv, "answereds Poke.
1-Poke, in rath& a subdued tone, "or the Aia.,.e. was a momentary- 'panic, and
I devil ; Who ever heard hf 4- deer going., then ,the sharp crack of a ' pistol was fol- '
• around so f i ' •!-; . - I • ' ,
' loWed by the singing, of a bullet " close by
"Ile is examining you; to see what man- inV. ear:, By the - flash I saw Poke, hatless ..
ner of man ycM are." j •- . and•ahnost (imless, liangitig on to the
" Perch:wee it is - some spirit - of a de- tolMinst branch of. a young pecan, that ,
I parted buck, leading as on a wild chase to beitt with him like ail orange tree under
destroy us." j'. • : ,- 0 heavy load of fruit. With the report
"There it is, right behind nte,.as I lire!" 1 ortlitt pistol there was a scriauble among
I ejaculated the Doctor, evident, trepida- J,the voracious - crew at oarfect ;--,but, the y
• - s•
tinn. 1 4- . did not go away. permanently, and we
- re
Sure enough; as. P turned my head, I bark in a,moment: , , .
saw the two blue lights.that - indicate the . 1‘ Fire the other barrel, dear Poke, but,.
reflecting lenges of the eye. The Doctor
• tri and fire it the other, , way—point it -
I was taking aim; .but I noticed it . was not down; , . ,
.... j
very steady. jj He pulled .643 trigger—a
. I:kmo'j-sounded the pistol, and I heard •
dull snap announced a miss fire. He.pull-•
fel
ed the other ;trigger—it. snapped in the
same Way. the gun was wet with rain.,
ii ilium on the ground, as the poor
lett' threw away the now useless "weapon. - .
!` Hold on, Poke—take heart, .niydear ,
" Was anything ever! so
. provoking r b 6,..„.
, .
said Poke, • •ae, the eyes I vanished in the
1, Oh "i •- • ay enough to say take'heart,
.., , I, }s Ca.
',darkness. - ; . j ' butt when the tree bends 'a little More
"If it is the devil he will have
"How can you falksix?", said the Doe
tor, with a'strong accept on the-"can." • .
You noW• 7 thin usind lam within a foot of these hell
hininils. - Oh,- clear!"
; !iAt this moment -I. thought t ran' a- light
"There is lyour deer, Poke, in the wind flashing 'through the lbliage. A •mo.ment
• fall," . said lota I caught sight of the eyes niore,l was sire of it. - • • -
I mothg rapidly along over the mass of, . • •,‘!Where-wliere! 011, dear, I can -
I timber that lay heaped 'and knotted to- t ,iii i my hea d lost I sl i p oi r, j -' ' • •
I gether. j;J" There they come; I see them—three
"That's no deer," said Poke; "no do
."touches and men and dogs.".
..
Neil foot could go over that Windfall that , jI" God bless them!" I heard Puke ;say,
r,iway. I %mild - rather see the night hurs
. faintly. . •
'man of the Martz 'Mountains than to sec a. was afraid he was ! fainting. • "Hold'
those eyes again." Aslhe was..speaking, on, Poke' I said, and screaming to! the ,
I saw in the; inky darkness ahead .of us men, I' caller} them to- hurry. On they
j another paill of eyes, and two,. er- three-!ciime - at a run. I recognized them as they
pairs on' the; left. The I truth' flashed Oil I etiatieuli with their torites. flashing thro' :
.
me. The scarcity of the deer, the prox- the woods; they wore Jackson and his
imity of the!windfall; the restlessness of I Men. Ile had been in our. camp. only the
those balefid eyes; all gavel me the clue— j da y and told us he had ft. sheep
pre ~ ions, .
tlie • wolves avere around us. . I fun in this neighborhood. "Quick, this
! A word. th 1.'04 and the affair *as ex- I wa y," • I shouted; "the wolves ! . the '
pluined; and-we.stood I still for consult* wolves)" He answered me. • How bleis
don. We tried new daps on our guns, end a thing was the sound of a Mutual voice
but it was Of vii use-the cones 'were sat,- in our necessity. , They - canto under the
urated with water. • • -We turned toward trees we were in.
~ - - . -
the camp, but in our cOnfusion we lbrgot , j jj"Hulloa,There! where are yen! Where
the direction. • To heighten the misery of aro the wolves'?" he shouted in his sento
the.seene, Our torch .was alMost burrit out. shin „One's. ,
—let that die and the rest ibuldhe easily I i "Da4-e's de sheep Puelin handle-ail dis
divined. - I • • • • • • • ' z , .
- biesmed night," exclaimed a negro whoae-. -
' We were standing* thelinao under- a COmpanied •Ja - eksou on his - search. ~ •
grove of small pecan trees; and - at:that in- I Inoked around, and there was jack
stant a long snort was heard_ from the son's big flock of sheep,•••staringtlandly at.
shadow near us, like the cough of a dog. tit up lathe trees and at their master by
Poke did not say a Word, but drOpping tarn: I It-had been their eyes we bad seen
the gun and seizing a limb df one* rot :the, in-the darknesk
trees over his head, With an. agility which •.• j And there was Jackson see-sawing on a
I had never given Min'. the least' redit, el- fallen - tree, biooughing .. and laughing and
evated himSelfto -the; crotch, about ten biying by turns;' and there were.' tile ice
feet front the ground.l
groos,land they called in the - sheep, "Ho.l
I did not want-to do anything 'of the . ho I hull Oh, laws a maussyl -did I: ever
kind, of course not; I would rather haye 4.4 10 / lint I R ! ho! wolies! Oh, laws ii,
placed,my back agancit a tree, and won a infunq r ...
..
. .
_
glorious death in bathe against my tin- ' Poke slid down the treibewas lug pick-;
merotis foes; but alttok ! for a bad exam- ingnp,,illiscolit tall, that had bel3n aorn or
ple, I drop'ped the torch, • that broke 1_,(1. Tly ali•oken limb,: in his
in filling, and 'Clasping the-nearest k gbius hurried. acent,
trim, N lfick happened ; to I:* a Medium a* . 4b, that I bed the wthpots•doTC"
tsl ifttrn-tree, soon scrambled up to ail** '
of milky. , LackY it Was for me that . 1 hi*.
that torch in mfhand,,, for 'when it fell; it
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Jam: - lit AttAiStk •
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• 31Qru6 xnz error, or THE
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Ilium" AND PROMPTLY,
AND "Lirrt AND 'MT LIVW
,
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hss recentli.beenriled with a new nod choice mitt?
of t ~ etc.; and e are now pntpared to inint pamphlets
On., et , lti We ten at/le, On anoTt notice, , .
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Cin Programmes,* ,-
other Ot.trotk is this line, difi u 1 fteeprtllng to . ,
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...JustiCes' aud_Constables' Bhutto, Note ,
O. 33.
Decdo, aokall ei MOOS, 011 beak tie inieted to order
7 .ll 4 o,eritit;nditi;e:lo, to — tie peid
Or cbmspowleut wants to knOw ifs
Asia good for anything after it is cracked .