had swept between him and the object that he gazed at but � as it always did � the aspect of his marvellous friend made as hopeful as if he had never hoped in vain fear not said his heart even as if the great face were whispering him fear not he will come more years sped swiftly and away still dwelt in his native valley and was now a man of middle age by degrees he had become known among the people now as heretofore he labored for his bread and was the same simple hearted man that he had always been but he had thought and felt so much he had given so many of the best hours of his life to hopes for some great good to mankind that it seemed as though he had been talking with the angels and had a portion of their the great stone face wisdom unawares it was visible in the calm and of his daily life the quiet stream of which had made a wide green margin all along its course not a day passed by that the world was not the better because this man humble as he was had lived he never stepped aside from his own path yet would always reach a blessing to his neighbor almost involuntarily too he had become a preacher the pure and high simplicity of his thought which as one of its took shape in the good deeds that dropped silently from his hand flowed also forth in speech he uttered truths that wrought upon and the lives of those who heard him his it may be never suspected that their own neighbor and familiar friend was more than an ordinary man least of all did himself suspect it but inevitably as the murmur of a came thoughts out of his mouth that no other human lips had spoken when the people s minds had had a little time to cool they were ready enough to acknowledge their mistake in imagining a between general blood and thunder s and the on the mountain side but now again there were reports and many in the newspapers that the likeness of the great stone face had appeared upon the broad shoulders of a certain eminent he like mr and old blood and thunder was a native of the valley but had left it in his early days and taken up the trades of law and politics instead of the rich man s wealth and the warrior s sword he had but a tongue and it was than both together so wonderfully eloquent the great stone face was he that whatever he might choose to say his had no choice hut to him wrong looked like right and right like wrong for when it pleased him he could make a kind of illuminated fog with his mere and the natural daylight with it his tongue indeed was a magic instrument sometimes it like the thunder sometimes it like the sweetest music it was the blast of war � the song of peace and it seemed to have a heart in it when there was no such matter in good truth he was a wondrous man and when his tongue had acquired him all other imaginable success � when it had been heard in halls of state and in the courts of princes and � after it had made him known all over the world even as a voice crying from shore to shore � it finally persuaded his countrymen to select him for the before this time � indeed as soon as he began to grow celebrated � his admirers had found out the resemblance between him and the great stone face and so much were they struck by it that throughout the country this distinguished gentleman was known by tlie name of old stony the phrase was considered as giving a highly favorable aspect to his political prospects for as is likewise the case with the nobody ever becomes president without taking a name other than his own while his friends were doing their best to make him president old stony as he was called set out on a visit to the valley where he was bom of course he had no other object than to shake hands with his and neither nor cared about any effect which his progress through the country might have upon the great stone face the election magnificent preparations were made to receive the illustrious a of set forth to meet him at the boundary line of the state and all the people left their business and gathered along the to see him pass among these was though more than once disappointed as we have seen he had such a hopeful and confiding nature that he was always ready to believe in whatever seemed beautiful and good he kept his heart continually open and thus was sure to catch the blessing from on high when it should come so now again as as ever he went forth to behold the likeness of the great stone face the came along the road with a great of hoofs and a mighty cloud of dust which rose up so dense and high that the of the mountain side was completely hidden from s eyes all the great men of the neighborhood were there on horseback officers in uniform the member of the of the county the of newspapers and many a farmer too had mounted his patient with his sunday coat upon his back it really was a very brilliant spectacle especially as there were numerous over the on some of which were gorgeous portraits of the illustrious and the great stone face smiling familiarly at one another like two brothers if the pictures were to be trusted the mutual resemblance it must be confessed was marvellous we must not forget to mention that there was a band of music which made 