tell which was the sea and which the river side the wind too seemed to shift and blow from all points of the compass then softly i said to myself be calm you are confused by terror be a man and pride came to my rescue i closed my eyes for a moment and whispered oh lord save me then with an calmer as though i had down something i opened my eyes stood up in my and peered into the darkness as far as i could see were patches of water eating up the dry bits of sand as far as i could hear a rushing tide was on all sides four times in directions i pushed on and stopped when i found the water rising over the shoulders of my horse i drew up on a sort of island of sand which was every minute growing less and gathering all the strength of my lungs shouted again and again and then listened but there c no answering shout suddenly a sound of music came floating past me i could the air it was the military band p ay ng home sweet home i tried to gather from what quarter the sound came but each time the wind instruments out loudly the sounds seemed to come to me from at once ah i shall see home no more i could have wept but i had no time my eyes were staring through the darkness and my home plunging and gave me no rest for weeping i gave him his head once having heard that horses from ships sunk at sea have reached land distant ten miles by instinct but the of land and shallow and deep water confused his senses and destroyed the calm power which might have been developed in the mere act of swimming at length after a series of vain efforts i grew calm and resigned i made up my mind to die i took my handkerchief from my u ei words conducted by you have iu england but a vague idea what this is how absolutely essential it is at present only a life in the hills for some months could show you i will describe to you what i have seen picture yourself on the top of a hill in a pine the of trees lying round a wide row of log and huts on the slopes of the hill forming the town on the hill top a crowd of rough looking men in felt hats red tt shirts and long boots they a president by and one of the crowd getting on a stump that the object of the meeting is to try certain men for stealing a purse of gold dust out of a store in the town he says the prisoners are at present in the hands of the and their to the prison at has been made out here a laugh and a growl but is it the will of the meeting that men suspected of such crimes be let loose c alluding to the distance and the notorious in matters of this kind at guided always by their president the americans are peculiarly apt in the conduct of public meetings they elect a pro and a committee of safety and out steps a splendid of the and is followed by his committee they are ordered by the crowd to take the p out of legal and to produce them i presently they return with the the authorities had resisted says the in progress and did their duty as they were sworn but were overpowered by which act the said legal authorities lose nothing of their popularity the then a ring and the prisoners sit down on the ground in the midst of their guards and counsel are appointed by the meeting and are paid one hundred dollars for their services the prisoners plead poverty a jury of six is sworn several named object their are put to the vote and accepted or refused the people s is ordered to bring up the witnesses pro and con and a judge is appointed not however without some trouble for those named who have held in the states protest against the of the proceeding and say they are sworn to defend the constitution in the present instance a grey headed old man stands up hat in hand and tells the meeting plainly that they are doing wrong so from being he is listened to at last the president is made judge and the court opens the trial of the three gold takes two days and they are eventually found guilty of the prisoners the ex officer i spoke of gets up from the ground and owns his guilt e had lost every of the gold he had acquired by gambling and then had drunk to drown thought while drunk he was by that man pointing to a fellow prisoner to rob a box which his knew of this the person pointed at stoutly but while awaiting the execution of the sentence thirty nine lashes offers to tell where his share of the money is to be found if they will only part of his sentence the jury re and reduce tim sentence accordingly as regards the first and second criminal next morning in rain and wind the leads out his victims they are tied hand and foot to a tree and till cast loose they lie half fainting curled up sick and moaning they are hardly allowed to stay in the town till their wounds heal and one dies the others creep off and go know not where i was not let me add present at the execution the last words of summer i breathes a parting whisper through the instinct with love and with solemn meaning a f fitful harvest for our mental needs richer than which s hand is it was a summer match d by none before it rose 