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MEC H A wili:li - -•; , : - .. 1, _2.,,,:...7,,,r.1.,.,...,..,.. . otcb to Politico, News, Literature, poetru Alecl)auiro, t2oriculturr, the Eliffusion of Itoefttl 3nformation, Omani 3utelligence, '2lnumment, lita"Fititfq‘ VOLUTO VII. THE REOSTER, i s p u bli s hect in the .110?tigh of A &Nam, Lehigh County. , luery, Thursday . 13-YIAIITGITSIIIWILTRTIIIE,. A tslso per annum,iqyable in advnnce,and $2 00 if not paid until ti•C end of the year. No paper discontinued,untilaltarrearagesare paid except at the option of the p prietor. ArivanTrsestesra,malting n t more than one square, will be inserted three Li s for one dollar rind for every subsequent inset tic twentyfive cents. Larger advertisements, ch ged in the sameproportion. Those not exceedi ten lines will be charged seventy-five cents, id those malting six lines or less, three insertio for 60 cents. WA liberal deduction will be made t those who advertise by the year. M"Office in Hamilton St.,one door .Xast o/ the German Reformed Church, nca ly opposite I he. , Friedensbot e Office." New 111illimors (100 as Mrs. A. S. Kaufman. , ;•-:!l4 ‘ 4 F: • Respectfully invites ~..::, $ 1 . -t.. .4k. , :t7 --!' .I' . . the attention of the La-1 ) l 4: .! ., ...e. - .17,::-:‘ , 1/./: . ;. dies of Allentown and its vi- p ...-- ~),• .', .she i ,i - ., .cmity that has taken the' 1 kl . . east corner of ON i Ison'srtme,' I I . i ''• .. ' No. 20, East Hamilton stre,l, Allentown - ....near the' German Reformed Chiaich, .direttlY.:opposi.te J. B. MosAr's,l Apothecary 'store; .where.she has receii.o _a_large..assortment oLnew And • \ Fashionable mimeo. Goods. ...... Her variety consists in phrt of French Lace Btunde,Blonde Lace,. Fluted Luce, Embroi dered Hair Tripoli, colored embroidered Bel grades, English. Dunstables. - All kinds of Casin Bonnets, Mourning bonnets, French, and all kinds of A rtificials, Caps, Facecaps. and all kinds ofßtbbons, &c. &c. Repairing, shaping,. whitening and pres sing after the latest fashion, and equal to any city establisment, is always done at the shortest possible notice. Mrs. Kaufman, mattes it evident that her stock of Bonnets, is of Om most fasionabie selection, and prices correspondingly reason able. She trusts that a generous public. ivill extend to her a liberal patronage, for which she will always feel grateful. 10 - Country Milliners will find it to their advantage by giving her a call, us she *ill sell to them ut a very low advance April, 1:3 Wholesale Variety Store. Win. S. Weil, No. 39, WEST HANILTON STREET, A.L;f4ENTOWN, . . Informshis friends and the public in gen eral that he has lately removed his establish ment to the three . , story LuiWing, on the North side of West Hamilton street, No. t 39, a few doors East of Hagenbuch's Hotel, where he is at present opening, and will al ways .keep . on hand, a large and beautiful assortment .of new and Fashionable Jewelry, Violins, Strings Buttons of all de scriptions, French and Do2nestic Suspen ders, Whalebone, Combs of all kinds, plain and ribbed Percusion Linen and:Cotton Tapes, Hooks and Eyes, Slay Bindings, La ces, Edging, Bobinet, Col lars of alldescriptions, La dies Dress Trimmings, Knitting Pine, German • Pins, Patent Thread, Nerd les. Spool. Colton of different make,' all binds of Panty Soaps, and Perfumerif, liaz.ors and !laza:. Straps, Pocket Knives, Scissors, Lead Pencils, Slate Pencils, Britania ¢ best Silver Plated Spoons, and Sewing Silks. He also just received 100 cases of his superior friction . Matches, which are so extensively known thoughout this county and which. he will sell as cheap if not cheaper than they can be, bought elsewhere. • The friOnds of Music will take notice that he sells.MUsical,instruinents either by the dozen or by, the Piece. „ Country 'Nfercharits mill bear in mind,• that he will always keep on hand a large as sortment of the above mentioned articles and many more which are too, tedious to men tion in this catalogue. The above articles will be sold wholesale at-prices• as cheap as they can be purchased either in Philadelphia or. New. York, and to nominee' his country friends of this fact it is only riecessary,for them to call and examine his stoelrOf goods and price them. Mi..WEu,•hopes by punctual attendance to business, and by adopting the motto, of prefiti and•quick sales'.' he will se em a liborq 'shay° of public patronage. . • WILLIAM S. WEIL. Aprll.2o, 1853. ' , WANTED. , Timothy nay. Wheit,:ilire, Corn and Oata, for which., the highest market , price will be paid by PRETZ, GUTH & CO, May 4, 1858.. • ¶—Ow A FAMILY NEWSPAPER. poetical Elcpattatent. They met—and none were nigh but deemed. They met as friends, endeared of yore : So calm each careless aspect seemed With mutual greeting gladdening o'er. Their hands were joined, as but to hold, In' welcome grasp, each other near ; And severing, left no blush that told 01 more than friendly pressure there. They smiled—you would have thought the smile But some kind impulse Irom the heart ; Springing, spontaneous, thence, the while Its passing pleasure to impart. Thu spoke—theYe was no faltering word That wavered from its proper tone ; No-accent where a note was heard That common parlance might not own. They walked the garden, fresh with flowers ; They gathered roses from their stem, hey talked of birds, and shrubs, arid bowers • nd only seemed to th nk of them. An• yet, tune wits when either's looks, I.*words, or smiles, or hands embraced ; firers t xehacsr,ed, were sibyl books, NA • hrro both their fondest wishes raced. Dui thus it is that envious age Denies to love all outward sign ; Diojtiog, as 't were, the glowing page ..Where once he shone in every line, At Wa. Th lave still there 7—a hidden guest, captive in some secret Celt ; kraitor, trernhlttig in the breast, hat dared nat . of existence ill 7 ,love still there ? Oh, had he left bps, the eyes, the cheek, ihe brow, OI all\w, tell tale trails bereft— Tnebeart his only refuge now I • t Say wa\te 'here 01 so' uw, jny, Stript,llo\ In hopd,less ex Or, is h. like that mystic fount That hid its current deep in earth, lint shone, u'hene'er it dared to mount, right, as pure as at its birth 1 A Psalm of Life. T IrTe not in idle jingle, "Marriage is an empty dream !" For the'vrl its dead that's single, And gills are not what they seem Life is real! life is earnest! 11—;3in Sin'Ole - bssedoess a fib "Nittn thou art, to man returnest," . Has been sitolien of the rib. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow Is our destined (.41 or way ; r,tut to act, that finch, to. morrow I , inds.us nearer marriage day Lifeis long, and youth is fleeting, And our hearts, {hough light and gay, Still t like pleasant d}ming, are beating I,o , lliling marches all the way. In th world's broad field of battle, In t ~ \ ‘,l bivouac of life, Be not ke dumb, driven cattle I Trust no uture, howe'er pleasant, Lei the loud Past bury it\ dead ! Act—act t the livtlig Press4o ! Heart wi tin and hope altAd ! Lives of malied folks reminiPus We can liv%our lives as well, And, depariin leave behind us MOUS Zdeftlollo. Tigerclifintlog in Ina& - We extract hum an•Endieh book the fol. lawirig account f the 'mode of killing tigers practiced in van us parts of India iv, of killing tigers, practiced by the eat vei, ct the, Wytutd district, de serves Me*. When one of these animals ie discovpred. theiveVert in which he lies is inclosed,by a stromLnefisupported by bam boos, of 4 Baffle:lent height to prevent hitilea ping °vit. Li • All beirig'Prepared; the vil lages, head d• by tpeir , priests, surround the outside, oft e netoirmed,with leng spears; and .provolf-ng the tiger .to attack them, they meet him, is ho heigea, and pierce him • through the appa ntly feeble but impasse. ble barrier,,till he all& - ' A,, gel - 4104n ha Was . presedt - at one of these scenes deem .es it as InOtjetereating, (From .Living Age.) ?,??ad years of pain, , ambition, pride, this "fair domain, he there to hide I llLjlwu Such e.xampks as Ault "WI." k • il Such example, drat another Wasting time t idle sport, A forlorn, unmarried brother, Seeing, sliall take heart and court Let us, then{ be up and doing, With a .eart on triumph set : Still contri ing, still pursuing, And eac one a husband get ! ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., MAY 11, 1853. and in the highest degree.exciting ; for there existed the appearance of imminent danger, although in reality it was almost impossible 'I nts. -- The net, loosely suspended, yielded to the bounds made by the enraged anitind without break ing, and he retired, bleeding and discourag ed, from each attack. Tigers have been speared, however, with out such defence as that just described. On different occasions they have been turned out on race-courses, particularly at Benga lore, and speared by officers and gentlemen from horseback. There was an extremely brave English off oo Jn.tha, who used, single-handed an o rly with a spear, to kill tigers in t oft a little Arab horse. .The metholiptirsued by this daring horseman, was to gallop round the tiger in a circle, gradually diminishing the distance till he found himself within reach, when he threw his spear with unerring' aim, and in stantly wheeled off to avoid the charge of the animal, in the event of its being only wound ed. Five brothers, roll fine, resolute young fel lows, who lived at Shikarpoor, in the My sore country, were in the habit of attacking tigers when asleep and •gorged with food. and destroying therm by a determined charge. They ad vnriced in a body, each armed with n long took spear, and, at a pre-concerted Ullll7l, plunged their weapons at the same niothent Into the sleeping brute. It could be nitempted successfully only when the ani mal was Mug gorged with food, in some open plaCe, free from thick jungle and easy of access, when all the men could get mind him unperceived; for if he discovered his assailants before the Wow was struck, fifty; instead of five, would 1'6 , 6 li4.little chance against him. The natives. iniirfe , ' districts ffiake use of variouS-devieeS.felltillingiig.irs, such as poison, piifit'lls, and traps of gairieukli finis; but these hardly came tinder the denomina tion of lniiieg, and have been tr.:often de scribed to require any particular notice here. 'The method of destroying tigers said to he connnon in Persia and towards the north of Idindostan, nppenrs reasonable and con cordant with the genius of the p , opt,. This device consists of a large semi-spherical cage made of,sirong bamboos or other efficient materials; woven together hut leaving inter vals throughout of about three or four inches broad. Under this cover, which is fastened to the grotind by means of pickets, in some places where tigers abound, a man provided with two or thre e short strong spears, takes post at night. Being accom pa by a dog w,hich gives the alarm, or by a goat, which by its agitation answers the saute purpose, the adventurer wraps himself up in his quilt and very composedly goes to sleep in lull confidence of his safety. When a tiger carves, and perhaps after smelling all round, begins• to rear against the cage, the man stabs him with one of the spears through' the interstices of the wicker-work, and rarely fails of destroying the tiger, which isordi narilv .found dead at no great distance on the following morning. The most curious, and indeed the safest method (except the poisoned arrow) is in use in some • parts of the Nabob Vizier of Oude's dominions. Thoug,lt it is probable that many a smile will be excited by the recital, yet as we have confidence in the fact and do not precieve anything improbable the matter, -we hesitate not to present -it to our readers : The track of a tiger being as certained, which, though not invariably the same, may yet be known sufficiently for the purpose, tlw peasants collect a quantity of he leaves of the prauss, which are COIIIIIIOII in most undetwoods, as they rorni the larger portion of most jungles in the north of India. The leaves arc smeared with a species of birdlithe, made by bruising the berries of an indigenous tree by no means scarce, but of which we cannot at present cell to mind the name; they are then strewed with the gruten uppermost near to that opaque spot to which it is understood the tiger usually i resorts during t h at noontide heats. If by chance the animal should tread on one of the smeared leaves, his fate may be considered as decided. He commences by shaking his paw with the view to remove the adhesive incumbrance ; but finding no relief. from that expedient, he rubs the nuisance against his face with the same intention, by which means his eyes, ears, become aggluti nated, and occusiecuttech uneasiness as to cause him to roll, perhaps among many .more of the smeared leaves, till at length he becomes completely' enveloped .and is de prived .of sight. In this -situation he may be-compared ton man .who has been tarred and feathered. The anxiety,produced by this strange and' novel predicament seep dis covers itself in dreadful hotvlings, which serve to call:the watchful peasants, who in this state find no difficulty in sheeting the mottled object ofdetestatien. The instinctive dread of man which is iMpinnted-- in the nititire of every animal, preventis even .the : blood-thirsty tiger from melting him his. preys ,until accident .has .once shown the brute howMferiar in bodily, strength is man to the!anhoals on WhiT.ll he s ,uSually,feeAs. discovery once made; and human flesh once tasted, the nature of the Tiger appears to.be changol. Vtora the day on which he first overcomes the lord of the creation, he feels that his former dread of man was groundless. It is easier far to rind - the -bones-of-our feeble—f raffle-than -to dislocate tie spine o an ox ;am tie tiger finding this becomes a 7nan•calcr.. He now deserts the forests and takes up his quarters in the neighborhood of some village_;_ cattle pass by unheeded, but their owners perish, and the tiglir is then the most fearful of all animals. A nutn-eater generally becomes remarka bly cunning, as will be seen by the follow ing anecdote : Some years ago a tigress in Kandish was the terror of the country, which she haunted . like a destroying fiend. She preyed entirely upon men, shifting her quarters from village to village scerapidly as to render it exceedingly difficult to mark her down. 'l'r-day a man was carried off: every corner in the neighborhood was tried in vain —the enemy had decamped ; and next mor ning another victim had disappeared from n village many miles distant. Rewards were offered by. Government for her destruction ; they were doubled ; but such was the druid . inspired by this tigress, whose cunning was equalled only by her ferocity, that no one would venture to attack her. Matters be came worse ; whole villages were deserted; people hardly dured to leave their houses ; and day after day some family was left in mourning. Of course the Kandish sports men proceeded to beat up her quarters, as soon as information. reached them. A chos en band of 'Skeels were put upon her trial, and for four days followed it incessantly over burning sands before they could sur round. her—so watchful. had she fiecome in .gparding against surprise—but what will riot Bheels accomplish !, On the fourth day the.tiveleome intedligence reached head-q uar teas that thisfathous tigress was nt laSt hem• toed into a.stnall thicket. Several sports men, accompanied by some good elephants, were soon : MtAlie ground. Many arrived on horseback, and one of them, in crossing a small ravine leading into thq;cover, was charged by the tigress and escaped only by his horse's speed. She was already on the alert, arid no time waste be log. An ele phant wits mounted, and with a Bheel Wal kieg by his side to track, proceeded into the cover. The trial was very distinct, and after leading them in a circuitous direction round the jungle, returned to the very spot were they had first taken it up. Here all further trace was lost, and even the Bheel was at fault. A cast was made without success, ar,d on trying back they were astonished byydiseovering die first track of a tiger over that of the elephant. This was quite un accountable. Again ti)), made a circuit of this jungle, and again the mysterious font print folloived, but still no tiger appeared. They linked, uncertain how to proveed.— The Biwel had just left the elephant's side, and. the gentleman who was in the howdah had turned to look behind him, when, to his utter amazement, he encountered the gaze of the crafty old devil of a tigress, crouching clime under the elephant's crupper, and in tently eyeing the Bheel, aa if watching her opportunity to spring upon hint the moment he exposed himself by leaving the cover of the howdah. She had all along been fol lowing in the footsteps of the elephant, which accounted for the mysterious double trial, and appeared bent upon carrying off the Bheel, as if aware that without the aid of his sagacity the weapons of the sportsmen would be of little avail. The hour was come at last. The gentleman in The howdah seizi ed the favorable moment, and a bttll directly in the belly laid her mortally wounded upon the spot. The rest of the party closing in upon the wounded brute, diSpatched her with their guns in a very skirt time. A ludicrous anecdote is told by an old Kandish sportsman. We will relate it in his own words : • . • "We were closing in upon a wounded tiger, whose hind. lug was broken. Soule Bneels who ran up the trail to a patch of high grass, were drawing back now that their game was found, when the brute started up behind the elephant and charged the nearest man—a little hairy, bandy-legged, square built oddity, more like a satyr than a human being. Away Sprung the Bheel for the near est tree, with the wounded tiger roaring at his haunches, 'By the Prophet, sir, it would have done your heart good to see the springs the active little sinner made. Just in time he reached the tree, and scrambled into a branch hardly out of reach. There he sat, crouched up into the smallest 'possible Om pass, expecting every' moment to be among the Heeds. The tiger made several' des perate eflorts to reach him, but the broken aind leg falling, he dropped back exhausted. It was now the Bheel's turn. He saw that he was safe, and accordingly commenced a philippic against the father arid mother, sis ters, aunts, nieces and children of his help less enemy, who sat with glaring eyeballs fixed on his contemptible .little reviler, and roaring as if.hia heart would brake with rage. As the excited orator-, warmed by his own eloquence, he began' skipping from.. branch to.branCh, grinning and ,chattering with the emptuntis pf an .enraged. baboon, pouring out nooggint _of the mest.,foil . abase, and.attribii. Halite the tiger's. family goneral, and his fellatio relatives in particular, every crime and atrocity that ever was or ever will be committed. Occasionally he varied his in sults by roaring in imitation of the tiger, and at- last,-when- fairly- exhausted,. he_lean-. edWird - 1111 - he appeared — WiThin grasp of the enraged animal, and ended this inimita ble scene. by spitting in his face. So very absurd .was the whole farce,. that wo who were at first shoving up the elephant, in alarm for the safety of our little hairy friend ended by laughing till our sides ached ; and it was not without reluctance that we put an end to the scene by firing a death volley." The habitof shooting tigers on foot is at tended with so much danger that few ex perienced sportsmen will' ever indulge in it: those who do so are pretty sure, sooner or later, to come to an untimely end. The ten acity of life so remarkable in tigers, in com mon with all animals of the cat kind, is suf ficient to render tiger shooting on foots most hazardous attempt. For, ever allowing that a man has sufficient confidence in his own nerve to permit a tiger' to approach quite close; in the certainty of hitting him between the eyes—yet he is still far from safe. Any old sportsnian can assure him that a ball through the head is not certain to stop a tiger. It will sometimes run a con : - siderable distance, and even charge the ele phant, after receiving a ball in the forehead.. Fatal often occur from men care lessly approaching a fallen tiger. Stitne, years ago a Madras sepoy wcs killed while measuring a tiger which had fallen and:was apparently dead: the expiring brute struck at him and fractured his skull by one blow of his tremendnus paw. An officer in the Madras army was also struck dead by a dying tiger under precisely similar circum- stances. There'was an instance of alitior , fellow rendered a cripple for life in the same way. He, with his father—nn old shikaree —fired from a tree at a tiger, which to all appearance fell dead. The young man, contrary to his father's earnest entreaties, leaped down and applied his match to the tiger's whiskers for the purpose of singeing them off. The tiger turned upon him, and seizing him by the thigh, held him fast till forced by death to relax the gripe. Some months after the accident occurred, the lad was walking with a crutch ; the limb was contracted and wasted to the bone, without any prospect of its ever improving. In proof, of the extraordinary muscular power which a tiger can exert, two remark able instance may be quoted : bullock was killed by a ti g er near an encampment,-on the banks of th e Jumboo dra, in It field surrounded by a hedge of prickly bear, about six feet in height. The carcass of the bull, still warm, was observed by one of the props was tarried intelligence to the tents. ,Within two hours the officers were on the spot, and to their astonishment found the carcass of the bull, partly devour ed, on the outside of the fence. Not a twig in the -hedge was broken, and the only clue to account for this apparent mystery, was the deeply impressed footprints of a large tiger on either side of the hedge, from which it appeared that he must have sprung over the harrier with the prey in his jaws. The confirmation afforded by palpable traces to the peon's assertion that the bullock was, killed within the enclosure, and the impos sibility of the carcass having sheen removed in any other way, alone convinced the offi cers of the fact ; otherwise they could not have believed that an animal weighing under (300Ibs. could have exerted such pro digious strength. Any one, however, who has examined the anatomical structure of the tiger will readily believe.the extraordi nary power he is capaslo of exerting. His foreleg is the most perfect and beautiful piece of mechanism that can be conceived, supported by a bone as hard and compact as ivory,"and displaying a mass of sinew and muscle to be found only in this most for midable weapon.of the most agile and de structive of all animals. His jaws, neck and shoulders evince a corresponding degree of strength." • The other instance'to which we have al luded was as follows. Four fine oxen, harnessed in the same team, were destroyed by a tiger while, their owner was driving them before the plough. Lie described, their death as havingleen the work of a (eh , seconds. When he was in the act of turning his cattle at the end of a furrow, a tiger sprang from some neighbor ing brushwood:on the lending bullock;,brolce his neck by a single wrench, and before.the other terrified animals could disengage them: selves, all were destroyed in the same man ner. The, man tied to a neighbOring tree, from whence he saw the monster 'finish his work of death, and then trot back into the jungle without touching the carcasses, as if he had dime it froat_mere love or slaughter, and not to acidify the cravings of hunger.-- One cif - the bullock's had been throWn back with such violence that horns Were dri ven into the . ' ground a'Consiaimable depth. 7 The", , carcass ,exhibited no marki of violence except the. punctures of .five Claws on each side pf the head, and Mood Slo w ing I rom ,the nostrils; .but .the skull was so votapletely smashed That the •"' sure of the hand; like NUMBER 321 Curious History of a Tame Eagle. On the gth of April 1849, the inhabitants• of Westminster (a parish in London) beheld with - varied - . feelin l s an- omen - sithich -the • interprets each according to his own views., A magnificent eagle suddenly appearedsailt . ing over the towers of Westminster Abbey, and _after perfortning_ . .numeroils gyrations was seen to, perch upon one . of thepinnacles a of the abbey. Ele formed most striking object, and a crowd speedilircolleoted hold this unusualspecniele. After. ga2ing about him for a time, he - rose and began as cending by successive circles tO an immense height, and then floated off to the north of London,'oCcasionally giving a gentle flap with his wings. but otherwise appearing to. sail away to the clouds, among . which ha, wits ultimately lost. Whence came this royal bird, and whither did hq:Ati l iktid 'his way ? Ills history:was as folloWit, in 1848 a whitetailed sea-eagle was-.brought, to London in ti . ; . cottiEttiearner, cooped up in a orib4i.ied,;for wine: betties, and presen ting ajneiknai3litnehOly and forlorn appear. kind-hearted gentleman seeing him Ent this wore' plight, look pity on him, purchased him, and took him to Oxford, he being';duly labeled 'at the Great Western Station, "Passenger's Luggage." .By the care of;his now master; Mr. Francis Buck land, the bird soon regained his natural noble aspect, delighting especially to dip and Wash, -in a pan of water, then sitting on his perch with his magnificent wings extended,to their full extent, basking in the sun, his head al ways turned towards that luminary, whose: glare he did not mind. A few nights after his .arrival nt his new abode, the whole, hckuse was aroused by cries ns of a child in. Mortal agony. The night was intensely dark, but at length the baldest of the family ventured out to see what wits the matter.— In the middle of the grass plot was the eagle,' who had evidently a victim over which he was cowering with outspread wings, croak ing a hoarse defiance to the intruder upon his nocturnal banquet. On lights being brought, he hopped off with his prey in one claw to a dark corner, where he was left to, enjoy it in peace, as it was evidently-not an infant rustic from the neighboring village,. as at first feared, The mystery was not, however, cleared up for three days, when a large lump of hedgehog's bristles and bones,: rejected by the bird, at once explained- the nature of his 'meal.. flu had doubtless. caught the unlucky hedge-pig (as it is.callect in Oxfordshire) when on his rounds in 'search of food, and in spite of his formidable armor of bristles, had managed to.unceil him with. his sharp bill and to devour-him,. Row the, prickles found their way down his throat, is • best known to himself . ; but we should think it must have been rather a stimulating feast:. This eagle was with good reason the ter ror of all the other pets of the house : On one occasion he pursued a little black and, tan terrier, hopping with fearful jumps, as listed by his wings, which, happily fOr the - affrighted dog, had been recently clipped.. 'Fo this the little favorite owed his life, as he. crept through a hedge which his assailant could not fly over ; but it was n very near thing ; and if the dog's. tail had not been. between his legs,. it would cortainlY have been seized by the claw which was thrust after him just as he bolted through the bri ars. Less fortunate was - a bcinutiful little - kitten, the pet. of the nursery-41. feiv tufts of, fur-alone marking' the depository'of her're mains. Several guinea pigs and sundry cats too paid the debt of nature through his . means ; but a sad less Was that of a jackdaw of remarkable -colloquial . powers and un bounded assurance, who rashly .paying.: a visit of a friendly nature •to the engle,. was ; instantly devoured. Master . Jacko, -, the, monkey, on one occasion only saved his. dear life by swiftness of foot, getting on. the. branch of a tree just as.the eagle came. rush ing to its foot with outspread wings anttopen:: beak. The legend is,,that beko becaniei v rather suddenly gray, after this:adventure ; but perhaps the matter-is open. to doubt.: One fine summer morning the window of the breakfast room was thrown open previ; ous to the appearance of the family. .on, the table was placed .a ham iemarkable flavor and general popularity, fully meriting,' the high encomiums which had been pasired;•, upon it the previous day, Thei rustling Or:, female garments was heard 7 =tbe breakfast room door opened, arid —loft, gracious ! what sight.! The eagle, perched upon the, hrtm,, was tearing away at-it with unbounded air l, petite, his talons. firmly fixed in the . rich' deep fat. Pin.ding himself distuKded he endeavored, to fly off with the prize, and:, made a sad clatter with it among the. Cups : , and'saucers : finding, hoWever, 'that it was two heavylor him, he suddenly, dropped on t/te rich earßet, scnatched up ti cold par tridge nod made a hasty exit thiough the: window, well satis fi ed with ,his foraging, ex- pedition. The ham, however, was left too deplorable tratate to bear description. The eagle was afterwardtitaken to tendon and placed in a court-yard near Westmiti` titer' Abbey. wh. ,` e.' thsoli majest dB et , ,;.. ',I4F.
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