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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-02-18, Page 7Au olil .ilitt't Fable '• 1'be ver.r< v,:• : h A >d: it panic tittle f r we to ;;o to 1 Ue I:, knew 1 bad J igloo propres$ is chat t• er. forming, despite toy sins steel fabler,' ' . •nd when I bade My' mother good-bye she eikt. '1 belieyo we seen trust you to g� Int tits world: Yo.0 do not need any rouiiel• o, the pest, or any incentive for tbe l • 't Mere than your memory will furoisll. 1 .t •a little tailsman that 011411 symbolize lea worth- of a true character may be he fol: Then she gave me this dross," And as lit 00t li.i drew from bis bosom a crus au: with precious stones. "The stench are valuable," he went on, ",Some are common, some are rare. I will tell you their names, and you will sec '.1.1 I a fit present it was for tee. This is e.0 I Laps, Lazuli, a little blue stone, oh to common, and not very valtaable. It eat was cboseu that its initial letter 'L' mi: ec always remind me of Loyalty. The next i; an Opal, and so brilliant a stone is rare. It is a lit emblem of Obedience, which is lht rarest element of character." He po :: I to a third: "Tbie is seldom found. It bit of green mottled marble, very beau, i 1,1 and very highly prized. It is called V ed Antique, and is the symbol of virtue. T.. e one, that is ahnost transparent, Emerald. It always seems when 1 h••. ; into its face as if I was beoltieg t. : the sea. is it not a fit emt.le ; 1 Earnestness? Fur the sea is ' most earnest thing in this e w ;• ti to Gimlet. t. It word. Past comas e say, Goodness Is one of life's Prime vi. tt. •- And last, Lei, D•autnud, spnrl.liug most indestructible aid 'test v;ituctl,.• all the group, was t: flash up from i „ seal into mice always tau one word, 1) ciotes "You do not know hew I love this suras. Its simple genu have become uviol v • c .., and when 1 leo.: at tle•u I .seem to b.. o u;c• ing into living faces. 1 have t om 1:1 111.1uy circumstances temptation nod a ally times have sadly seined, but this mot i,er has always helted to tering 010 to repeat /ince and eint rite, 1." The speaker stole -ea, as if his story wet done, but in a nion•eot added lhough, tilde, "Boys, 1 have told you my stwy noel have showed you tuffs cross, 1hot 1 ::ii. it tali yeu also a dream that 1 dreamed la -c night, "I was n you ig 110.n totes more, on I erre journeying the tt_ II + l•.ng and 1.vely vel:: y, where flowers we;e al out tau every• here and perfume tilled tlti air. '1'tie sing ,ng, birds and lmuxutn; is e:, toe :mthog :r:1, and the rippOeg lever seed to j in their voices to proeteitu t, at :.. r,• etre• a r•..!in which sorrow had never entre d. U , ri: • el, side of the v;,iiry were gently rul:uag Leis crowned here nod there •1 i:1 frost, est, 01 ! 10 the purple ,:i tn,.c•a few e•:1 Iut,uutGms whose 1U IItl its : t•.:Co• d Ito icy. "1t was uihrnie ;. ,v; 1 1,•,1 i root tai, as I walked lesion the vala•r. Presently in the somite, li;qu:. nit u d.: ut •unto tt summit I sate sot up ,t nt. y •.' esti, :hat loomed rbtrk.v m !n•t teti sky. Sweet and stronger gruN tit) I1 et. teat heralded tse cemto; ,I i•y, site lit t .„.i. grew the cru -s uut.l it u.:e.,ou ioi gleaming gold, urd than Oleos •n •. u from it the bt•iliittut c el"rs of to , tae goats I ha,1 worn .so long in toy little charm. I sew them all. Amazed, 1 1.s.l1 1, an 1, luck- ing heard a voete tit it ,ecru:] l.0 tete above and below and c..t 01, 1 .1,1 too, saying, 'Loyalty to princ.o.o, L • 1 .roc t., its re• quiremeuis a •d v t .0 „r produc•a a charnc•ei• who:;e aorto r "t0"t be ;ala. toyed or destroyed.' Aad 1 mei I cried iu answer, 'Ah, yes, but hew Lei , 1 be t•uo in the mid,: of :his it (Med w.,rh]1" end from the co.; ssnl cru„ 00110 my answer; for while 1 looked a trno formation touts that changed the gem into the giea;dug initials of the name that, e. as , ae note, IL G O V E and auddenly above the cross upon the sky shone out the monogram so significant to us all, L H. S., Jesus Hominum Salvator; and then I read the other way, God is love, and then—I woke; but all day long I have been thinking of my dream. "This is my story. I may never tell you another, but I wish that each of you might learn its simple lesson, that the truest character is formed by loving God, for God is Love." True Friendship, A certain merchant had three sons. When the youngest one came of age he called them together and said to them, ill a voice husky with emotion: "Now, boys, you all go out into 'the world and acquire a knowledge of human nature. At the end of the year you will return, and the one who has acquired the best friend will receive this magnificent diet„ mond ring. The young meo having taken the ring to a jeweler and satisfied themselves that it was not a California diamond, accepted the situation and started out. At the end of the year they returned, looking somewhat the worse for wear. The old man i.1 medi- ately issued his call for a mass meeting, and they gathered around him. He called for the reports from the various commit- tees Tbe first one lifted up his voice and said: "I had an affair of honor. I got into a quarrel and a chellenge passed. Wo were to fight at ten step-. My f' ice 1 carne for- ward and took my place. 11e was bully wounded, but I believe ho saved hey life. I claim the ring for having acquired the most self-sacrificing friend.' Number two then took the floor and addressed the chair: "I was on board a ship. We ;) d a collision. I You id myself in the tenter. My friend was near me or. a hencoop When he saw me, he swain nil' and I} me have the hen -coup. We were both picked tip atterwarda, but he undoubtedly saved my life. I think my frien;l wns tete boss " "What sort of a it lend have you got to back upon?" asked the father of the third •ton. "I was in a tight place," he responded. "I had been fueling with the tier, and had lost au my money. M (meld (eerie forward Ind advanced me tee %n, and refused to take my note for rI:' ner"nnt.e "To you led,. Chi ria•,' said the merchant. "Penne "1 I tr t rother's friend was sitnrly n h:.:1 r s :o'. 1 . oo cos.) of rile Other brat last•, 1I1K r,•i.•n 1 ,v iv .int ,' :• :1 h• ttcr aeons tier. 'i'lley t ,,,q r1 1; 1 n.l:nit; but pets wised t, is :,t ;0111e I ..n • 1' :, t1, 1•.•nn 11 1 • . 1' a 1 .. r 1 1 -•r t• ' 'i1. tttnuey • ;mete. 1 . • es. 1••• :11' p•'ta,lase ne'11 ' et11•,rn.r." The 014, Oldl 01uek. Ob 1 the ole, old clock, of the 44usebold stock, Was the brightest thing.apd neatest; - ,its handl, though pld, had a touch of 'gold, And its chime rang still the sweetest; • 'Twat a monitor, too, though its words were few, 'et they liven, though nations alter'd; And its voice,, still strong, warted old and. young, When the voice of friendship falter'dl . Tick, tick, it said; quick, quick to bed; For "ten" I've given warning; Up, up—and go .or else, you know, You'll never rise soon in the morning. A friendly voice was that old, old clock, As it stood in the corner smiling, And bless'd the time, with n merry chime, The wintry hours beguiling. But a cross old voice was that tiresome clock As it call'd at derbreak boldly, When the dawn looked gray, o'er the misty way, And the early air blew coldly 1 Tick, tick, it saki; quick out. of bed, For "five" I've given warning; You'll never have health, you'll never get wealth, Unless you're up soon in the morning! Still hourly the sound goes round and round, With a tone that ceases never; While tears are shed for the bright days fled, oldforever! And the friends lost fusee . Its heart beats on—though he111 91e gone we'er. That warmer beat and •ou y i. Its band.; still move—though Randa we love Are eloped on earth no longer! Tick—tick! it said—to the church -yard bed; The pave hath given wa•niur,— Up—up—aud rise to the aneel skies -- And enter a Heavenly morniug. A SETTLER'S EXPLOIT. As Sathuel Bowditch, one of the : arly set- tlers on Green River, in Knr.tuelcy, was going across a patch of swamp: 1,e afternoon, about half a mile from his dw'thee, to look after some cattle, be heard a ,welt snap behind him, and turning quickly round, Le fouled himself co:tfrunt ed with a 1•uge sav- age. in all the hideousness of tear-p•tint, and with a ri(I•• t.t' a musket leveled at his head, the mu2:z10 int more time four feet from hint. Bowditeh himself inti a rifle in his hand, but h+, Encu the lisiia•t could shoot him before. he c. hid raise it and tire, and so he slid , 0: matte the attempt, but dropped it to the ground, and held up his op an palms, in token of surrender. On seeing this the savage walked up, and said: "Give Injun gull!" The settler picked up his piece., and as he handed it to the other, said, in a conciliatory tone: "I see you're a big ci•ief, and 1 hope we may be friends." "Where live?" asked the savage, as he produced a stout thong of deer -skin, and proceeded to bind the hands 1 f his captive, who, being a small man, saw rue we.; no ma: ch for the other, evert without weapons on either side, and so submitted quietly, though . agonized at the thought of his poor, help- less wife and children, in their lonely cabin over the hill. "I live out yonder, not a great ways from here," replied the captive, nodding his head ill the proper direction. "How tetany in cabin?" queried the sav- age. The settler hesitated about telling correct- ly. lie first thought he would name a num. Ler large enough to deter the lndiau from going thither, and thus, pet•heps, save his wife and children from a tate like his own; but, after a moment's reflection, it occurred that,should thesavage take to himu a him there, a chance might arise for hind to re- gain his liberty ; and so he decided upou speaking the truth. "Why tto Lung -knife tell?' demenaed the Indian, with an impatient frown. "No lie maker "No, chief; I'll tell you the truth. There are only three lemons in my cabin—my wife and two little children—but I know a big, brave chief like you won't hurt 'em." "Me go Fee 'ate:" returned the savage, with a fierce gleam of triumph, which the other did not fail to notice. Having tightly bound t to hands of his captive behind his back, the savage telt about his dress fer any other weapon, took away his ammnuitioo, and rutting both weapons. over his own shoulder, told the white man to lead the way. This the latter did full of hope, fear, and general anxiety, till he carpo itt sight of his humble log - dwelling, situated in a pleasant valley, through wh ich flowed a pretty little stream, a branch of the Green river, when the fu- dian ordered him to stop, and proceeded to make him fast to a tree, by means of an- other deer -skin thong secured to that around his wrists. "Ain't you going to let me go down to the house with youa" inquired the captive, now beginning to feel much distress as well es alarm for the safety not only of his prop- erty but also of his fancily. "Me go aloue i" was the abrupt and decid- ed exclamation of the savage. "Me big chief—want scalp of any Loug Knife!" "Oh, for God's sake don't kill my poor innocent wife and children!" pleaded Bow- ditch, fairly agonized at the thought, "You're a great chief, I know, and you'll remember that they never did you any harm !'' "Long -knife scalp much good!" rejoined the Indian, sullenly, as he finished binding the other to the tree, and strode away down the hill, carrying the two weapons with him. Bowditch watched him, step by step, as he glided away under cover of the trees, keeping su lie rock, stump, or clump of bustles between hits and the inmates of the dw ening, so they might not by any chance perceive hid approach, and take the alarm. "At any rate I can holler yit," muttered captive, "and maybe they'd hear me;" and forthwith he set up s series of yells that went echoing and re-echoing far away through the forest. The settler saw his wife and children come in haste to the door, and look up the hill in alarm. At this he shouted at the top of his lungs: 'Quick, Esther—go back into the house, and bar it up tight! The Injues ar' atter you, and I'm a prisonerl Quick! quick! ur you're lost, and the children, too I" For a motneut ur two the mother and chil- dren stood as if paralyzed with amazement and terror, and then, to his great relief, he saw his little boy point in the direction of the skulking savage, and all three bastily retreat and eloee the door. The Indian now uttered a fierce yell, and stepping Out into plain view, flred both pieces, otto after the other, at the dwelling, as if be had i npulsively adoptee this means to vent his rage at being discovered and foiled of his murderous purpose. Then looking round at his captive, he threw down the rifle belonging to the latter, and draw- ing his tomahawk, started toward him on a run. Bowditch, who bad watched overly Motion, and knew that in his rtgo the sav- age would brain and scalp him, now gat ei all hit !se re, ttg'b Gert tnt;til 41113 ,t a. jiew,• cert,rt to fr,-e 14010 14 rle''ng raft„ froltt toe insane s pi s':if•' iretelyetlee than frolu tiny Keil h '1'e or Suess rs, But to his greet einy, his unspcal;pole joy, bo l,tsu)•.i put felt !cin b ,ids a ruin, crack an 1 mate and entitle .ly found l'op'e f lree ueid bis artue tet liberty. IIS looked quickly end wiltjly *retina, u:tn sr, clispusel to d'ube his souss—to ]!sera lit tris go el fortune—(,r .,any fortune the t seamed good whie4 would give Ilton eveµ u Lett ch'sace for his life where he expected only certain death. The Indian was at least a hundred and fifty yards from 4itn, and his rifle was unloaded; and with that start lu a race for 1tCt—in a race thatiuvolved not only his own life but that of bis 'beloved wife and children—who s i swift of fout as to overtake him? With a loud yell of ntiugled joy and de- fiance, away he went over the hill, and with a louder yell of race at his unexpected es- cape, the fisrce savage care. bouncing Lifter Bowducb knew every itch of ground ill that vicinity, and he had alren .y rogaiu- ed sufficient presence of mind to shape his course so as to take advantage of all the chances in his favor. The hill, about the autumn, was a succession of rocks and bushes, w.th caves, euasuis and precipices and over, through, and along these natural obstructions the fugitive believed he could make his way with any man living, either white or red, and so took the mut trouble- some route for his larger and more un• wieldy pursuer, resolved, should he 1.y chance fled the latter gaining; un hien, to double 00 bile at a certaiu cave not more than half a tui!distant, e wherea ,, h cul I enter, and byfollowing one o g e f the labyrinth. tan passages within tonne out an the sane• side into a thicket not more than fifty fee;. from the main opening. Looking buck occasionally as ho fled along his rocky way with the ease of a mountain gout, Bowditch soon discovered that, how- ever superior to hive his adversary might be in mere physical strength, he was no match for him in speed in that particular Iocallty; end this not only in, pined hint with the haps of escape, but with suet coufitiface is his own resources, that he began to turn to eat- curate bow best he might compass the de- struction of his foe. "Why not lure him into tits cave," he muttered, "and let hint foul his time round that•, whilst I start back arter toy rifle, and then fuller up the audacious whelp( 111 do it, and if I don't git even with him yit, then it's 'ease forth' 's agin me." Having come to this determination, Bon•• ditch slackened his pace till bis pursuer was within fair view, when he pretended to stumble Hurl fall, and tl:oo got up and ran with a !Intp, which caused the snvuge to yell with fierce delight, nod red•eub!e his ex- ertions to overtake hiau. 'fees was exactly what be intended to br lee about, and icw he managed his t;a.•0 with to nmeit de- ception that, though seeming to exut't him- self to the utmost, be permitted the puut- ing savage to gain a lolls erety minute, till ,,the mouth of the cave was reached, at which time not mora thou a hundred paces divided thew. The Indian saw the fugitive disappear in the dark opening, and believing he now had him secure once more, be came bounding up and plunged in after, with a yell of triumph. The settler, who knew every twist and turn of every passage rift the cave—end there were many—now utter- ed a sort of wailtng groats from the centre to draw the Indian on, and then quietly slipped off in a different direction, and reached the bright, open air about the same time the other did the middle Interior. "Now then for it 1" muttered Bowditch, as he slipped over the brow of the hill and ran down toward his dwelling, which, owing to .the ridge bending around tit- vrtllcy, in the shape 01 tt magnet, as far distant as when be called to his wife. His family saw hint, and with a cry of joy his wife threw open the door. "Quick, Esther!" he exclttitned, as he came up pautiug; "father powder burn and some bullets—quick 1" "Aint you corning in, Samuel?" inquired the wife, in surprise and alarm. "Jest long enough to git them things, since you won't!" he answered, as he bound- ed in and hurried to the rude shelf on offs side of the room. "I've sort of played the coward onct to -day," he added, "and now I'm going to wipe it out. Shut the dour Esther, and keep yourself and c'h;'tree out of danger!' I'll be bac': soon. Good-bye!' and without waiting for a repay, he ran out in the direction of his rifle, his wife vainly calling to hint and entree ire hits to COMA back and not risk his life foolishly. As soon as he hail entre more got hold of his rifle, he hastened to load it, and then felt, as he nfterwa•d expressed it, "like a new man." Then keeping himself as much under ' cover as possible, he hurried up to a poiut where he could secrete himself and com- mand a fnir view of the mouth of the care, within easy rifle range. "Ef old Paint -face haint mizzled," he muttered, with an ominous frown, "it's my opinion he never will!" and like a cat watching for game, he kept his eyes riveted upon the spot where he expected to see him appear. For ten minntes all was still—nothing moved—and then, to his bitter satisfaction, be beheld the Indian coming out with a stealthy step, looking cautiously and suspi- ciously around. The settler's rifle was already leveled, and for a moo eat or two he sighted directly at the heart, and then flred. Thecavnge threw up his hands convulsively. uttered a noise between a groat and a yell, and fell back quivering on the earth. Bow- ditch took time to reload, and then ap- proached him cautiously. He found him quite dead, and when he had secured every- thing of value, he threw the dead body down the rucks, and Lit it to be devoured by the wild beasts and vultures. He tt en went home in triumph, and related his exploit to his ase meshed family. He lived for many years after in tha t vicinity, but was never again molested.—Memoirs of a Keetucky Hueter. Undemonstrative Hien. Ladies, as a rule, are apt to be favorably impressed by gentlemen who "wrap them- selves up in the solitude of their own origin- ality" and defy the world to probe the in- ner depths of their souls. Wonsan is prone to believe that she can read such char- acters like ale open book; that she has a key to all their mysteries. Underneath the marble exterior she sees plenty of plastic material which only needs her love and tact to leaven in delightful and deligh ting shapes. Mines of tender- ness, of intelligence, of magnanimity under- lie, she thinks, the blank uppercru-t of reserve. . 00 often, after having tried her hand at working them, she repents of her folly in sackcloth and ashes Your utterly undemonstrative neap seldom make good husbands, saysa writer in the New York Ledger. Understand, however, that there is a wide difference between mor- bid reticence, and mere shyness. The -Ity man keeps you at a distance from bins by ehrinkii'g back from yon, the nnconiiclitig man. by holding you at arm's I'ngtlt. A lady ab ,ut to [Hake a eho'ct f••r i e . etwe; the two will do well to give the prefers , e to the former. Very reserved men are vere difficult to govern. 'What's R.ifferw a . That is a touching Poem, Now !several d•yciee 914, •tl.bottt the hairs of silver That mingled wltb the gold. But yet for Royal splendor, . For wild barbaric strength, FM' riousese and for fullness, For hight and depth and length, It can't with Mrs. Gray's remark An instant btief compare, x hep on her husbands silver head Sbe found a golden hair. LOVE'S WAY. Mrs. Dewsford sat ie her own room, as- siduously employed in fastening dried but- terllies on a sheet of pasteboard, with an ,'Encyclopedia of Entomology" Iyiog on the table beside her, and a magnifying glass affixed in some mysterious manner to her nose. She was a spare, prim, hard -featured matron, was Mrs. Dewslord—ode who be- lieved in Women's Rights, and thought woman generally a, much abused personage, deposed from her proper sphere and trampled on by the tyrant man! Mrs. Dewsford had come very near being a man herself—what with a deep voice and a bearded chin, and a figure quite innocent of all superfluous curves or graces! Really, if she bad changed her g skit•t and bodice to trousers and coat, she would uld have passed for cue of the contemned ed sexwithout ou much d acuity. But Lizzie Dewsford was quite dlifereut— Lizzie Dewsford whosstood beside her moth- er with cheeks round and ripe as a peach, deep blue eyes made mystic aid shady by their long lashes, and brown hair wound round and round her pretty head in shining coils. You woudered, as you gazed at her, how tbey could both he women and yet so unlike. "Nonsense, child, ' said Mrs. Dewsford, critically examining a butterfly with pale yellow wings, sprinkled with carmine. "But, immune" pleaded Lizzie, "it isn't nonsense. He really dues want to marry me." " Marriage is all a mistake, Elizabeth," ea'd Mrs. Dewsford, iayiug down her mag- nifying glass. "1 don't mean you shall marry at ult.' "Mautmn!" "A woman who marries," went on the ,!rung -minded matron, "is a woman en- slaved. 11 I had known ns much about life when I was etghteru as I do now, 1 would never have married. From the standpoint of a grand mistake committed in my own life, 1 can rectify yours, Elizabeth.' "But, mamma!" cried peer Lizzie, "what shall 1 del" "Do, child! do!" ejaculated the mutber. "That is a pretty question for my daughter to askl Why, read—study—improve your mind. Devote all the energies of your na- ture to the solving of the great social prob- lems that surround you." "I don't care a pin for the social prob- lems, mamma," remonstrated Lizzie, "I rather like Charley Everett, and I'm going to marry hint!" "Never, with my consent." "Oh, mamma," cried Lizzie, aghast, "surely you would not"— "Elizabeth," said Mrs. Dewsford, in a tone of judicial calmness, "don't you see what a confusion you are creating among these insects which I have so carefully classified? 1 beg you will interrupt my studies no longer. Go and finish reading that Report of tbe English Convection tor the Ameliora- tion of Womankind. What are you crying for? A well -regulated woman never cries" "I wish I wasn't a woman!" sobbed poor Lizzie. "I•wish I wasn't something that had to be elevated, and improved, and cul- tivated! Oh, niti U t a, darling, you weren't in earnest when you said you wouldn't con- sent to my marrying Charley! We shall be so happy together; and he says be will be miserable without ate: and"— "Elizabeth, tem astonished at you! Of course I was in earnest! 1 have neither gold nor jewels to lay on the shrine of the cause; but I have a daughter, and I intend to show the world what a woman, unshackled and unfettered, can be capable of! You, Eliza- beth, should glory in thus becoming an of- fering!" But Lizzie, apparently unappreciative of the great lot iu store for her, cried more piteously than ever. "'Tears will not melt me," said Mrs. Dewsford, calmly resuming the encyclopae- dia. "1 only regret to bo the mother of so degenerate a daughter!" "Mamma," ventured poor Lizz e, after a few minutes cf silent grieving, "I --I prom- ised Charley to ride out with hint this after noon!' "You must give him up, Elizabeth. Upon such a subject I can accept uo com- promise." "But I promised. mammal" Mrs. Dewsford gravely rubbed the end of her nose, "A promise is a• promise, Elizabeth; nor shall I require you to break it." (lie. e Lizzie brightened.) "Butt shall uccompauy you!" (rho pretty face became clouded and overcast once more). "Where are you going?' "To the woods beyond the glen, maanma. Charley is going to get some wood sorrel for my herbarium.' "Nor will the expedition be unprofl table to me," said Mrs. Dewsford, gravely. 'There are m iiy eh .ice varieties of Adiautunh and Aspleuiuui to be found iu those woods, and my collection of native ferns is as yet inc ,m• plete.'' And Lizzie went away in great c,nsterna- tion--nut to rend reports, nor to study paleontology, but to slip out in the garden, where a great rose tree carpeted the velvet grass with showers of soft pink petals at every pa -sing breath of air, and wbore Charley Everett urns busied ie cutting out sticks for carnations. "•Olt, Charley—Charley! I am so wisor•- able!" "Lizzie, what is the matter?" Ile dropped knife, sticks, and all, in dismay at her woeful couuteuance; and Lizzie told him to the bast of her ability what "the mat ter" was, "Itt that all!' he asked, quietly, when the recital was concluded. " I,:a't that enough!" she rejoined,'pitonus- ly. "When we were going to have Bitch a olid drive all by ourselves, and then come home by moonlight, and"- -Den't fret, cara tufa; it will be all right! So she won't consent to your marriage, eh?" "She says most positively that she will not." "What shall we do, Lizzie? Shall we elope quietly?' "Olt, Charley, you know I would never marry without ber consent!" "And are two lives to be made miserable just because she thinks matrimony a mu- co ke 1" "I suppose so, Charley." ILzzio Dewsford's pretty head drooped like it r,•se in the rain. Charley watched 1 ' quivering lip and tear -wet eyelashes, n i :aid no morel r . Dowsferd was ready, with a prepos- terous green umbrella to keep off the sun, a !Ili C5$ tel put rgillis ill, and an.extra: pair of Wats. in the event of ni'atnp7 walking, rhea Mr, :Fverett't little light pllaatpn drove up to the door, The springs creaked oeilliously Ra shestepped iw and .Lizzie, meekly follow- ing! wag mead); overwbelleted by Tier lnoth- er'svelugli»otie draperies. ",[.bad better sit in the •xtrlddle—it pre•- serves the equililu•iutn of the vehicle batter," said blrs, r)ewuferd, wedging herself in between Lizzie and Mr. Everett with a ensile of ,great compiaceuoy. And ..lie immediately began discoursing on the properties and hablts of the fern, with uupausing volubility, while Lizzie perched on the extreme outer edge of the seat, had ail.sbe could do to keep ill the vehicle, and Mr, Everett'e eyes were 10 ex- treme danger with the points of the greou umbrella, which veered to and fro like a ship in a storm, as Mrs. Dewsford's tale waxed ht interest. Suddenly she checked herself, as her eye caught a cluster of green waving vegetation on the crest -like point of a rock which over- hung the road. "Charles! Charles!" she cried, "step a minute! Can't you reach that Aspleniuw Ebenuw1" "Is this it, ma'am?" said Mr. Everett, making a dive at a tail stalk of something. "No. no; nut that—the little greeu thing with the black stem t" "This, ma'atn?' hazarded Charley, clutching at a Pat -leaved cluster of weedy growth. "Oh, dear, dear, Charles, how stupid you arel" sighed d Mrs D w sIrd . I ll jump P out and get it myself i" "Mamma!" remonstrated Lizzie. "Ob, I'll help her!" nodded Charley, springing eimt.ly ou the cliff, and pulling Mrs. Dewsford by main force up the steep side of the rock, "Here you tiro, ma'am!" it�'Yes," panted Mrs. Dewsford; "but—but as very steep. I really think women should devote more att attention tun to gymnastics. Ob, here's the Asplenium—very choice specimens, too. Charles, where ate you going?" For Mr. Everett had spruug back into the phaeton. `Only for a little tura, utu'am, whsle you are gathering your botanical treasures.'' "Yes, but, Charles"— Mrs. but, words of remonstrance were drowned in the rattle of the wheels, as Mr. Everett drove briskly away, with Lizzie Dest!,ng up to his side. Ono long, lingering glance she gave after tete depart- ing pair, and the returned to her tin case and umbrella. "They'll be back presently," she said, But the alteruoon sunlight fad.el off from the cliff, and the red orb of day souk majes- tically down behind the evergreen glens that bounded the westere horizon, and Mrs. Dowsford grew tired, and cross, and rheu- matic, and still, like the character of romance, "they carte not." "Something hos htippehedt' dried the prophetic soul of Mrs. Dewsford. "It can't be possible that I shall have to stay here all night!" She looked nervously round. It was a tall, steep cliff whereon she stood, cut off from the wood beyond by the rush and roar of a wide and by no means shallow stream on one side, while on the other three it was almost perpendicular, rising some twenty feet up from the road. Mrs. Dewsford be- gan to feel, as she surveyed it. very much like St. Simon Stylites on his column in the wilderness. "If they shouldn't come!" she thought. But at the same instant a welcome rum- bling of wheels broke the hushed stillness of the seldom travelled mouutuin road, and Airs Dewsford's strained eyes caught sight of Mr. Everett's spirited gray, dashing round the curve of the hill. "Weill" she cried, "I never was more thankful for anything iu my life! I'm tired to death waiting." "Are you?" said Charles Everett, as he checked the horse in the middle of the road. "Yes. Why don't you drive closer!" sharply demanded Mrs. Dewsford. "Oh, did you want to drive home with rte?" "Why, of course I did! I'd have been home long ago if I could have got off tbis place." "Well, ma'am," said Charley, in accents of the coolest deliberation, while Lizzie clung, frightened and yet smiling,- to his tide, "I shall be very happy to help you off the cliff on one condition." "Condition! Charles Everett!" exclaim- ed the astonished and indignant matron; "what do you meau?" "Simply this, Mrs. Dewsford. I want to marry your daughter. But Lizzie, like a too dutiful child, will not become my wife without your consent." "Which she shall never havel" said Mrs. Dewsford, emphatically. "Very well, ma'am! Gee up, Whitey;"—and he shook the reins. "You're not going to leave too here?' shrieked Mrs.Dewsford, in a panic of terror. "Unle•syou comply with my condition, ma'am, I most certainly shall. "Aud that condition is?" "Your consent to my marriage with your laughter!" "Elizabeth!" cried Mrs. Dewsford, "will you be a witness to this—this atrocious con- Juct, and not interferst" "Charley won'e let me have a voice in the matter, mamma, at all,'' Lizzie said demure- ly. "He says he don't believe ill women's rights!" Mrs. Dewsford gave a hollow groan. Mr. Everett toucher his horse slightly with the whip. "Stopl' cried Mrs. Dewsford. "I consent —but it is under protest!" "You can protest all you like," said Mr. Everett, driving closer to the rock, and standing up to assist his mother-itt-law_ elect into the phaeton. Silently Mrs. Dewsford entered the vehicle —silently she rode home—silently she crossed the threshold of her house, as became a con - leered party! "To think," she said, in a hollow voice, ae the sat down to dinner, "that after all my precepts and example, Elizabeth should end her career by getting married!' "Mamma," said Lizzie, timidly, "I don't think it's so very terrible, after all!' 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