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i sr Hie White Hart of the Sierra. learned, a nervous affection experienced be passed on and was lost among'the* IhMramifr-SIbeplfesMNSB* we- will'.gQ* far mwy and be- happy. hand's:toward the- geniaP warmth) and by young hunters during their trees. Speak, my Ferencz, and save-your future felt that salvation was. near, fotcmy.i RromDr- Foot*'SHff*lth. Monthly. first shot at a deer, and even old hunters I remained motionlessfor nearly an wife--"' She took his bands, clinging friends must now see the light. I we- m\ [The following story was written by the Sleeplessness is aboufras- oommon- a have suffered from it. hour fearing to descend. Then-r crept tohin* as a drowning man clings A crackling noise at atlittle distance-! lt 8aot Louise Anderson, of San Rafael, complaint^ as- indigestion), and often The beautiful creature, a two-year noiselessly in the direction whence old to his last support. Tbe young Hungarian drew jay attention. Ghaparral, cones, who was drowned in the Sacramento river, old buck, stood quietly feeding, outlined as distressing as pain. The causes Clubfoot had come. My rifle, which, some months ago, while attempting to rescue was choked with tears, but the pines themselves, were ablaze. I.I against the sky. I leveled my a companion.]8ba Francisco Argonaut. must have fallen against the prostratetrunk had set the canon on fire. Dismay suddenly he pushed the girl aside and are many and there- are,-, therefore, rifle, never noticing that I had not by which I found it, was broken succeeded my short-lived gleam of turned away. Once more she- cried to many different means of relief suggested, raised the hammer, and pulled with short off at the breech, the bear having hope. In front was the chasm, behind him, but he did) not heed her. Then each having a measure of success I was born with the instincts of the all my strength. It did not "go off." struck at it with his paw in passing. the fire. I was two rods from the soldiers seized her. "Be enrsed," according as it i- appropriately employed. At last discovering the reason,I righted i rue sportsman. the ledge, and the- flames swept toward she*shneked "be cursed, yo who let the hammer with a click. The deer Imagine my surprise when I emerged me. I movedt forward. rne-die you who killed mer who are For a long time I was at a loss to raised his lordly head, snuffed the air, from among the trees to find the same my assassin.'' Eesyi remained sifent. This sudden and awful danger gave The expedients resorted'tr^or remedies know from what source had come ray and was gone in a series of magnificent little grass plot where I had killed the The girl was shotr me a voice. I screamed wildly as the proposed for insomnia are generally and the prisoner passion for guns and gunuing. My leaps. deer. At first I could not believe it, was taken back into his cell, bns* his fire reached out long, adder-like tongues such as will equalize the blood "How beautiful!" I cried, forgtting iather was anything but a connoisseur but there was the spring with the rock reason had fled and be was dismissed. for me. circulation in the head, either by increasing in the novelty of the sight ray own by which I had sat, and. the remainsof Some friends found htm and gavt- him of deadly weapons, and my mother A voice above shouted to me. or diminishing it. In feverish stupidity, of which, however, I was my luncheon lay shelter. After Hungary was once scattered on the "Quick, quick!"" I cried, "or it's too excitement the cold douche, or a never knew the butt from the muzzle not long to remain unmindful. The ground. I was tired", as well as weak more suppressed and peace established late!" sprinkling of the back of the head and of a gun, and was equally afraid of look of contempt that greeted me as I and nervous, after the fright the bear they obtained a place for him in The fire had driven me so near the neck with cool water, followed by wiping each. After carefully digging at the turned to Uncle John whithered me. had given me. But it was becoming a the asylum in whiefe he has recently edge that a step would have hurled dry. is said to be efficacious, fro "You'll never kill a deer! Never see question of life or death, and I was died. roots of the family tree, the scientific me over. I felt the terrible calm that cases of pure mental over-excitement such a chance since I was born not not willing to die. Carefully gathering comes to one when hope is dead. perhaps the better way is to lure the Jbasis for hereditary transmission was ten yards off. Pooh!" And the irate the scraps of bread and meat I had I 3aw two snakes leap upward in the Colors Discarded in- tbe British blood down to the lower extremities vindicated, for I found that my grandmother old hunter rode off, leaving me to follow throwruaway, I resolved to follow the blaze and writhe- about each other in by a hot foot-bath, or hot bottles to Army. was a cousin of Kit Carson, or go back, as I chose. nearest canon down to its mouth, agony. the feet. Dr. Von Gellhorn has found Perhaps I my as well state here a I have been mortified several times which I was sure would lead me out the great American hunter and trapper. "Cateh this, and tie it under your this to be a useful plan of inducing fact, which I think is not generally in my recollection have been "spelled into the open country somewhere. arms/' shouted a "voice, and a rope sleep: A piece of cloth about eighteen down," as a child in school, have The sides were so steep that I had known outside of military circles. On fell at my feet. incnes wide, and of sufficient length, While I was a child, it amused my missed the target in archery tournaments, to let myself down by clinging to roots I was saved but never since have I dipped in cold water and wrapped our landing in Egypt for the Soudan and have been snubbed by a toothers to hear me discuss the merits and overhanging branches. I plodded cared for hunting. I was cured bv the about the leg. the wet bandage to be expedition all colors of regiments were prospective mother-in-law but never on doggedly. In the heart of the canons dying look of the white deer. of choke- bore shot-guns and breachloading well covered with a dry one, and a left on board th& fleet,, so that British do I remember that my pride was so unnumbered horrors lurked, and long stocking drawn over all to keep rifles, but when I grew to soman's soldiers, for the first time in history lacerated as now. The sunshine suddenly the rocky walls rose on each side of in place. It has been found to reduce estate this highly unfeminine went into- action unaccompanied by lost its brightness, the fresh, me, towering insurmountable. I began Hindu Child Marriages. the temperature tested in the external rfcaste displeased and even alarmed fragrant stillness was no longer a delight, to wonder if I had better go back, "Old Glory," whose silken folds had ear canal. In conditions of general It is essential for the honor of a and desperate thoughts flashed when I was startled to see open before them. They were very proper young debility, or weak heart's action, been wont for centuiies to flap among Hindu family of good caste, says a through my brain of putting an end me what seemed almost a bottomless it may happen that wakefulness results men, and did not relish the idea of a the bayonets and sabers ol its defendersin writer in a contemporary, that it to my wretched existence. pit. The declivity was probably not from a lack of good blood brain some cases jaunty and gay in young lady sister who could take a should contain no unmarried daughter At last I determined that instead of mora than fifteen feet, but it looked circulation, and then the use of general of matureyears. The existence of such the bravery of new material and bullion-wrought snipe on the wing, or pierce the bull's-eye returning home to brood over my sorrow, very terrible to me. I could not leap tonics during the day i3 necessary a daughter is not only asocial disgrace, device, in others simply I would strike off by myself into that distance, nor could I climb with a revolver at sixty paces. to improve the action ot vital organs, but a religious crime. When, therefore, the woods, and redeem my reputation around the steep slippery sides. -A a grim, war-battered old emblem, but but by way of temporary expedients Dear boys, they feared, too, that such a female infant is born, the first idea by taking home at night some trophy tall tree grew from the lower level, such a person, will do well to have in either case dear as life's pulse to -a propensity might seriously endan'germy of her father's mind is not one oJ of my skill. however, and by leaning far out I handy, by the- bedside, a pitcher of each and every one in the regiment to being settled in life. pleasure, nor perhaps of very active caught a branch and thus climbed The soothing sunshine and delicious milk, and if toward early morn there which each color respectively belonged. down. regiet, but simply how to find a husband air by degrees restored my equanimity, is a wakefulness, with a" sense of oppression They remonstrated, they scolded It may be recollected that at the battle for her. It is not necessary that and hope was high in my bosom. I I felt certain that now I must be about the chest or pit of the they brought me the accounts of all the of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, in scanned all the ravines closely, and she should become a wife in our sense very near the valley floor, for I had stomach, a drink of milk will act as a dreadful accidents that resulted from looked wisely on the ground for tracks which a certain infantry regiment was been descending a long time. Behind of the word. It suffices that she should food stimulant and improve the the use of fire-arms, and tried to extort of beasts. I rode long and far, and me, in the hollows of the canon, the be given in marriage, and go tnrough heart'saction and thebloodeireuJation ambushed, but could have escaped when the sun was high threw myself shadows of evening were already lying. from me a promise that I would the ceremony of the Seven Steps, which thus relieving sleeplessness. When, were it not that the enemy devoted all jnever touch a gun again. I might have beside a little spring that bubbled I had sprained my ankle in the owing to slow digestion, it is found completes the religious rite. Aged his energies to the capture of the from the rocks, and ate my luncheon, descentan injury that at any other best to eat a light evening meal, a Brahmans of good family still go about yielded had not an unfortunate cir-cumstance colors, the men stood by them in defense, allowing my horse to graze near me. time would have disabled me. but glass of milk on retiring may be advisable, the country, marrying, for a pecuniary occurred that made me and so were completely annihilatedwiped On my right was a small patch of now could not be allowed to impede but good judgment must be consideration, female infants whom green herbage, across which the tall my progress. I limped along, hoping off the army libt, as it deaf to all entreaties used in choice of foods at bed time, they sometimes never see again. With pines cast a sombre shadow. There and fully expecting to see, at a turning since sleeplessness and bad dreams were. Of course, the colors were lost. in the memory of men still living this An uncle who had heard of my skill, was not a sound except that of the not far off, the valley before me, often result from irritation of undigested This decided the War Office, and the abominable practice was a flourish* -and was queer and old-fashioned horse feeding. I was too hiqh for birds the green fields, and the dwellings of loads in the stomach. ing trade. A Kulin Brahman, perliapg. order was issued that henceforth enough to adn. "e it, sent me on my they were below in the valleys, though men. Aromatic spirits of ammonia may white haired, half blind, and decrepit, Biitish soldiers must fight without now and then a vulture sailed majestically -eighteenth birthday, a handsome How wei-e my hopes mocked when I be used as a mild stimulant for anaemic went the round of his beat each spring, colors. around some distant peak. The found, instead" a precipice fully sixty sleeplessness, and a drop or two of Winchester rifle, which he had ordered going through the ceremony of marriage loneliness and silence of the place began feet deep. With a cry of horror, I tincture of belladonna, for nervous It is, perhaps, not generally known made for me. From that day I with such female infants as were to be oppressive. drew back and wrung my hands in excitability which postpones sleep, that in the British service the colors offered, and pocketing his fee, and parhaps /Ceased to struggle against fate. despair. Suddenly there was a rustle in the but the use of chloral and morphia (two to each regiment) were always never returned to the child's 'Bryant's "Lines to a Water-Fowl" tall grass under the pines. Looking should be very exceptional, and never carried by commissioned officers Had I been saved from the jaws of house. So long as he lived she could up I baw the head of a deer. I seized as a nightly resource. These or .-always brought to my imagination generally the juniors as to service. a savage beast only to die more terribly marry no other man whenhediedshe my rifle, and, leveling it, fired with a proprietary anodynes are dangerous other t&oughts than those commonly These colors were escorted by a color by starvation, or to be dashed became a widow for life. The Hindu steady hand. A deafening report expedients, especially for ironic invalids. guard consisting of the first of colorsergeants to pieces in a rocky chasm? suggested to feminine readers and not child widow is looked upon as a thing crashed through the stillness, and Sleep is indeed like the beauty of each company, who were Nature had never seemed to me so only in thought, but in rubber boots apart and accursed, bearing the penalty there escaped into the air a white which it favor3, dependent upon a also the pay sergeants. Now, in action, pitiless. and with game bag, have I hunted in this world for sins which she has deer! I sprang to the place. In the general wholeness, health and balance in case the color-bearers were The stony walls looked down at me that classic bird on lake shore and committed in a past existence. Her bloodstained gras3 lay the noble animal, of natural functions, and all shot down, ther*? was always great in awful silence. The yawning precipice hair is cut short, or her head is shaved river bottom. At one time it was a struggling with death. those influences which favor soundness emulation on the part of other ofheers at my feet seemed waiting with a altogether she exchanges her pretty canvas back, slowly veering to the of mind and body, favor their I felt a thrill of seperstitious horror to seize and bear them aloft, thus offering sickening expectancy. childish clothes for the widow's coarse normal operations, one of which is south, with neck outstretched and eye something as an old Egyptian must themselves as needless targets Before tnis I had been afraid to and often squalid garment she is forbidden sleep. have felt had ho killed unwittingly the for enterprising sharpshooters. This of faith at another it was a stately speak aloud, for fear of rousing some to take any part in any village sacred ibis, or the Ancient Mariner sort of thing might be repeated till Another chapter might be written mallard or jaunty teal, a spoon-bill wild animal but now I felt that I festival or family gathering the very when he slew the albatross. I tried all the officers were placed hors on mind-cure for insomnia, for methods should be glad to see or hear anything or sprig-tail. But I panted for nobler sight of her is regarded as an ill omen. to staunch the blood, but the murderous du combat, when of course, the real of tricking one's self into the land with life, even if it were a savage. I came. Her natural woman's instincts are ball had done its work too backbone of the regiment (the noncommissioned of nod. The power to psychologize shouted myself hoarse, but only I longed for the excitement of the well. Hardly knowing what I did, I starved into inanition by constant btaff) would be expected one's own mind into inactivity, repose strange echoes answered me from the -chase to be where took the head of the dying creature fasts, sometimes prolonged to seventytwo to take command but if the colorbearers and sleep has been acquired by some, frowning woods. into my lap. In the large soft eyes "The stag at eve had drunk his fill hours. Amid the genial and brightly-colored were swept off it would be while others have hit upon little ideas The shadows grew deeper. I must do were reflected the rocks and the swaying to -see and be the belted hunter. quite likely that the color-guard life of the Hindu family she ot their own, such as going to bed somethinganything. pinos. As the breath grew fainter the When I should have been devising patterns shared their fate, when the regiment with one stocking on, climbing er the flits about disarrayed, silent.shunned, It occurred to me to make a rope of head turned with a convulsive movement, for sofa-cushions, and learning would quickely become like a ship foot-board, lying in some peculiar disfiguredin some parts of India a some of my clothing, and thus descend. and the fast glazing eye.s looked to paint on silk and china, my heart without either rudder or a pilot. position, or some other curious excentricity hideously bald objectforbidden all It was the work of but a moment into mine with a gaze so human in its intelligencethatl was away on the boundless plains, Reasoning thus the magnates of the which is effectual simply because joy and all hope. There are hundreds to take off my long stockings was almost crazed with 'Chasing deer and antelope. As Caedimon War Office decided that the carrying the person who adopts it of thousands of widows in India who and tie them together, and then to grief and terror. I hurried from the was haunted by a vision, in of colors entailed a needless mortality believes it will induce sleep therefore, have acquiesced their cruel lot. add my scarf. All this made only spot, only to find that my horse, piobably which he was told to sing as Socrates among the most efficient members of a it does induce sleep. These four or five yards in length. I tore They accept with a pathetic faith and frightened by the rifle-shot had was pursued by a daimon, who insisted regiment, thereiore the practice must are all innocent expedients which may the skirt of my stout waterproof suit resignation the priestly explanation disappeared. I was alone and miles that he should make musicso cease, as the army could fight well be indulged in ad libitum, but some into strips, which I tied together, until which is given to them. They penitently from home. by some strange law of psychology, I enough without them. The strangest notions are not so. We once knew of I had what seemed enough. Then, believe that they are expiating sins 'ifelfc that my life would never be complete part of it all is, the rank and file now a young woman who could only sleep I discovered, too, that I lacked one fastening a stone to one end, I crept committed in a past life, and they until I had hunted the deer or cheerfully coincide with the views of on board a steamboat, and this so of the most necessary requisites of the to the edge and let the rope down to humbly trust that their purifying sorrows tracked the grizzly in his mountain their superiors. Pardon the disgression, seriously inconvenienced herself and true hunterability to find my way measure the distance. It still lacked here will win a reward in the life s&ome. but I think it was necessary? friends that it was best to discourage under all circumstances. a little. The deficiency was soon supplied to come.London Standard. it. Don't be too crankyjust cranky It was already afternoon. I started from the sleeves of my jacket. The opportunity came. Some The day preceding the battle of enough.From Dr. Foote's Health to go back on foot the way I had The root of a pine afforded a convenient friends invited me to spend a few Tel-el-Kebir general orders commanded Monthly. come as nearly as I could remember place for attaching the rope and, weeks at theilittle homhouse in the Sierra. Bravery in Ocean Peril. that in the coming advance no bugles The had a among the it. When I reached a point high 1 having first tested every foot of it, to were to be bounded, no drums We are not without abundant and enough to command a view I did not make sm^e that it would bear my pines, in one of the most romatic regions beaten and no loud words of command An Hungarian of '48. well-auchenticated stories of remarkable feel reassured, for the mountains looked weight, I was ready to swing off. of the range. given whittles were to be used bravery in ocean perils. Mr. W. Pall Mall Gazette. all alike, and range after range instead.British soldiers in Boston A hunting party was formed for my Several times I looked over, and my Clark Russell, in his late book, cites stretched away on every side, silent Hungarian papers announce the Commercial Bulletin. -especial entertainment, and the night head grew dizzy. I decided to go several which may serve as exampl 3s and relentless as the tomb. There was death of old Ferencz Renyi, a hero of before, as a prelude to the morrow's backward, to obviate that difficulty. of a virtue which the world never fails not a living thing in sight but a buzzard one of the most terrible episodes of excitement, we listened around the Fearing my shoes would be a hinderance "Loss of Memory. to praise and honor. In the narrative circling about a far-off peak. the Hungarian war of independence in fire to the wild stories of the mountaineers. in my clinging to the rope, I of the loss of the Kent in 1825, The loss of memory in the aged is a At last I set off in a direction where 184.8. For thirty-six years Renyi has "Old Clubfoot," a grizzly pushed them over, together with my it was related that when it was seen I thought I recognized familiar rocks. familiar example, says Dr. M. L. Holbrook, who had bepn known in the region tor been a lunatic in a Buda-Pe3th asylum, cartridge belt. Another instant of that the fire was gaining fast, and The killing of the white hart weighed fifteen or twenty years, was a favorite and the history of his sufferings hesitation and heart-sinking, and I and can only be accounted for while several hundreds of people were heavily upon my spirits, and filled me topic. No one had had the hardihood is recorded after his death by the Petit was fairly off. by a deterioration of the brain elements rushing wildly about in seaich of husbands,children with vague fears. The stories of the to attack him since he had pursued Parisien. Ferencz Renyi was a young I reached the bottom sore and or parents, several old and a diminution of blood supplied night before added to my uneasiness. a hunter a long distance and breathless, but safe. Another trial schoolmaster of twenty-seven years soldiers and sailors.giving up all hope, There was the danger that I might to them. One of the worst features Skilled him with a stroke of his gigantic awaited me. In the gathering gloom at the beginning of the war, proud, but without making any fuss, went meet a bear. I had my rifle and three paw. An enormous trap had once I could not find my shoes, "and the of such cases is the fact that an handsome, and full of buoyant life. and sullenly seated themselves directly dozen cartridges in my belt, but Uncle been set for him, and he had caught sharp stones cut my tender feet at His pupils adored him, and he was old person is not for a long time after over the magazine, and there waited John had said: "Give grizzlies a wide liis foot in it, but, with wonderful intelligence every step. Moreover, I dreaded rattlesnakes, always welcome among the villagers, decay has begun aware of it. I am now with folded arms and set faces tor berth." ho had gone to the nearest and listened with painful whether he came with his violin to the powder to catch, so that there treating a case of less of memory in a* trock and beaten it off. He was seen What could I do if I met one? acuteness for the warning rattle. I did play to their dances, or whether his might be an end at once to their sufferings. occasionally in the passing years, and not hear anything, and soon lost that person advanced in years, who dia not The way ?rew more and more intricate. voice was heard among the patriots In the case of the loss of one now and then he helped himself to a fear in my overpowering anxiety to Now I had to climb over know that his memory had failed most chanting the praise of their country. of the East India Company's ships, sheep or calf unmolested. reach some human habitation. bowlders, and now force my way He lived with his mother and sister remarkably till I told him of it. He ismaking all the boats but one were lost, and There was also a white doe among through tangled under-growth, from It grew dark so rapidly that I had and was engaged to a bright young into that eight of the crew jumped and vigorous efforts to bring it back the neighboring mountains which seemed which I emerged into the shadow of to use my stick at every step, as a Hungarian girl, when the Government, rowed away, leaving the rest on the again, and with partial success. to bear a charmed life, for many pines so gloomy that twilight seemed blind man does, to feel the way before after proclaiming the independence sinking vessel. Those who were left hunters had shot at it, but always missed. suddenly to have fallen. me. Before I had groped along The method pursued is to spend twohours of the country, called all good patriots shouted to the others to returnnot, A superstition had naturally There was a crashing of bushes, as many rods my guide gave me timely daily, one in the morning to arms. Ferencz left his school and they said, to carry any of them off, grown up about it, and the mountaineers of some heavy body pushing itself warning of a chasm. Feeling for a and one in the evening, in exercising enlisted in the ranks. One day after but simply to rescue two little children, held that some great calamity through. I tried to run, but the stone, I hurled it forward and heard this faculty. The patient is instructed having fought valiantly at the head who could add no weight to the would attend the person who killthe roughness of the ground made me it strike far down below me. to give the closest attention to all that of a detachment ofsoldiers,he was taken boat and the seamen returned, took white deer. stumble at every step. he learns, so that it shall be impressed I could go no fartherat least until prisoner by the Austrians. Brought the infants and rowed away again. These stories aroused my imagination The noise came nearer. I knew that on his mind clearly. He is asked torecall daylightso, drawing back a few feet, before Gen. Hay nan, Reyni refused to Ten minutes later the ship went down, so that I could scarcely wait for it could be nothing but a bear, and every evening all the facts and experiences I sat down to wait. I was so weary indicate the place where the rest of his and all on board perished. When the the dawn of day, and I lay awake long every other anxiety was swallowed up of the day and again thenext that I immediately fell asleep. I was Montreal burned off Quebec, a mother regiment lay hidden. On learning that after the house was still, but was the in present terror, "i remembered that morning. Every name heard is written awakened by a rifle-shot, followed was thrown into the water with her his home was in a neighboring village, first one stirring in the morning. grizzlies do not climb unless the tree down and impressed on his mind quickly by a second report, but they children. With one hand she clung to the general sent for the mother and An old hunter, whom we called Uncle is neither too large nor too small. clearly, and an effort made to recall it sounded a long way off. a rope, with the other she kept the sisterand brought them into the room John, was the leader of the party, and Ten yards to the left stood a slender at intervals. Ten names from public I started up and tried to shout an head of a child above water, and with where the prisoner was kept. "Now to his care I was assigned. He had tree, with trunk clear for fifteen men are ordered to be committed to answer, but my overstrained throat her teeth fastened to its dress she sustained give me the information I require, if always wished to see a'woman shoot, feet. memory every week. A verse of poetry could make no noise except a hoarse a second child. She could not the lives of these two women are dear he said, and I should have a grand I sprang toward it, and although I is to bo learned, also a verse from croaking, like a child with croup. I scream, and she would have beer to you," said General Haynantohim. .chance to show what I could do. had never bpen able to climb a tree before, the Bible, daily. He ib asked to remember was sure the shots came from my drowned in a few moments had Renyi trembled, his eyes filled with "Don't kill the white deer!" some I climbed now without a moment the number of the page any friends, searching for me. not her situation been noticed. In tears, but he remained silent. "Do one called after us. of hesitation, and scrambled to a seat book where any interesting faet is recorded. In the pocket of my jacket were the wreck of the Queen Victoria, a dis not speak my son," cried the old among the branches. I shook so The? and other methods are "No, no," I laughed back "we'll some matches that I had not before charged soldier saw a woman with violently that I had to hold on by mother "do your duty and think not slowly resuscitating a failing memory. vtake the greatest care." remembered. It was not a moment child in her arms and offered to take main force to keep from falling. I had Boston Herald. We rode in silence till we reached of me, for at the best I have only a before I had scraped some leaves together it that she might be free to help her been there probably thirty seconds 4he crown of a little hill where there few days to live." "If you betray and set fire to them. A number self. She consented, and he placed when there shuffled from the bushes, was an open, grassy spot. I was close your country," added his sister, "our of cones had fallen from the pines the child on his shoulder. But the with awkward but impressive gait, a 'beside Uncle John, when I saw him A colored man in Talbot county, above, and there was a mass of dry name will be covered with shame, and mother's love proved too st rong. She monstrous grizzly bear. gaze fixedly ahead for a moment. Georgia, digging a grave alongside another chaparral, so that I had no lack of what is life without honor? Do not looked on a moment, and then passionately Then, without turning his head, he fuel. I had dropped my gun in the excitement, that had a sort of a little shed speak, Ferencz. Becalm! I shall know snatched the child back, and said, in a whisper: and even had I kept it I should By the blaze I could see the nature how to die." Renyi remained silent, covering it, was scared out of his wits the two were drowned, while the soldier "Get down quick! Here's your not have dared to fire. As the great of the place around me. I was stand and a few minutes later the two women when he saw four large eyes glaring at swam ashore. Such* instances chance! As fine a4 shot as ever I see." beast shambled along I saw that he ing on a platform much like the one were dead. Another trial was to come. him from under the covering. He might be multiplied indefinitely. I was down before he had fairly be-gun was lame. It was old Clubfoot, the from which I had descended. On one General Hay nan sent for Renyi's future dropped his spade and, with an unearthly Every shipwreck furnishes something to speak, but trembling all over, terror and autocrat of the mountains. side was the sheer wall, on the other wife, who wa* weaker than his mother yell, leaped from the grave, of the kind amd on", can not help .and my teeth chattered in a most unaccountable He was headed directly for my tree. the precipice. I was hemmed in by and sister. With wild cries thegirl flung yelling: "Fore de L.ord! dem people thinking that human nature, with all way. My blood curdled and rny breath stopped. prison walls. herself at her lover's feet, pleading, dun cum from dar graves, and is its faults and weaknesses, has still a 1 have no distinct recollection "Slip up behind that sugar pine and I heaped on branches till the flames "Speak, speak. Ferenez. See I am watchin' ob me under dar. Oh, Lawdy, saving grace of goodness so long as of the next few seconds. He approached blaz away," was the whispered order ran high and made a roaring sound. young, I love you do not let me be I'so gwine to die, too!" An investigation deeds like these continue to be performed within ten ieet of my hiding-place, .and, hugging my rifle, I obeyed, all the The whole canon was illuminated, and killed. Yon will save yourself and me revealed two very large owls whenever occasion calls for rolling his heavy head from side to -time with that dreadful shaking. It the tall pines shook like spectres in if you speak out. When you are free them. under the grave cover, side as if aware of an unseen foe. Then was "buck ague," as I afterward the fantastic light. I stretched my 'h/. s* """'13 'sL &&S&SS- h, Jin BHJBI^ BD