The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-09-13

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While tho parents were thus speaking OF
their daughter, loud sigh OF the Wind came
90 suddenly over the cottage, and the leaf
toss ash-trec, under whose shelter Il stood,
creaked nnd groaned d,smaIiy as Il passed
BY The father started up, and going agsin
10 tho door, Jaw that q sudden change had
come ovcr tho face Of the night. Tho moon
had nearly disappeared, and wss juN visible
10 dim, yellow, gIinmcring don in the sky,
All the remote stars were obscured, and on.
jy ono or TWO falntIy glesmed in sky that
half an hour before was perfectly cloudIess,
but that was now driven with rack, and mist,
Snd sleet, tbs whole atmosphere being IN
comm osiou. Ho stood for single moment
- observe the direction Of his unforeseen
sior m, and ,l,on hastiIy asked for his staff.
(" thought had been more westher.wisa
q stosoa IL coming down from the Crainbrae.
hawsc, On I've shalI have nothing but Wild
night" lic then whistled on his dog, an old
ahsOpdog TOO old for les fofmer labo,s and
het off 10 meet his daughter, WHO nigh, thsn
for Aught ho knew, he crossing the Black
NOSE The mother accompanied her nus.
band to the door, and took frightened look
at the angry sky. As she kept gaS'og, il
became sliIl moro terrible. The last shred
Of blue was distinguished the wind won,
wbirliog 10 roaring sddies, end great fakes
Of snow circled about in the middle air,
whether driftcd up from the ground OF div
on down from the clouds, the fcsr.sri, ken
mo,her knew not but she st least knew,
that |, seened night of danger,. despair,
and death. 81 Lord have mercy on Us, James,
what will become Of our poor BARN! !" But
her husband heard not her words, for he was
already out Of sigh, In the snow storm, and
ahe was left 70 the terror Of hos own soul In
yhat lonesome cottage.
Little Hannah Leo had left her mnster'.
houso, soOn a. the rim Of the great moon
.wss seen BY her eyes, that had been long
snxiousy watching It from the window, ris
lng, like q joyful dream, over tho gloomy
tnountain.tnps; apd VII by herself she trip
ped aloog bOnea,h the beauty of the silent
heaven. Still as she kept ascending and de-
vceudiog the koeils that lay In tho bosom of
the glen, she aung 10 herself q song, q hymn,
or psalm, without the accompaniment OF
the streams, new all silent in the frost, and
ever and anon she stopped to Try 70 count the
stars that loy 10 sone More beautiful part 81
The sky, or gsxcd 90 the consultations ths,
she hnew, and called ,hcm, in he isy, by the
names they bore smoog the shepherds.
There were none 10 hear her veisc. ar see
her smiles, but the car aud eye Of p owl
dcnce. AZ on she glded and took ber looks
from heaven, she saw he's own little hre -sidc
Der parents waiting for her arrivals the bi.
Die opened for ship her own little room
kcpt so neatly for her, with its mirror hang.
ing By the window, in which 10 braid her
hair By the morning light, her bed prepared
for her by her wo,her's hand I, the primfcses
in her garden pecping through tho snow
old Trey. who ever welcomed her home
With dim white eyes the pony snd the COW,
friends all, and inmates of thar happy house.
hold. So stepped she along, while the
soow.dianoods eliuered around her feet,
and the frost wove . wreath of lucid pearls
Ground hsr forehead.
She had now reached the edge OF the
Black -moss, which lay hall way between her
snsstcr's and her fsther's dwelling, when she
heard loud noiss coming down Glen. n.Scrse
end In few seconds she felt on her face
come h'kes of snow. She looked up the
glen, and saw the snow.storm coming down,
fast 40 Asod. She felt no fears; bur she
ceased her song; and had there heeu hu-
man eSsto look upon her here, IL might
Rave seso shsdow on her face. She con
sinaed her cousse. and felt bolder end bolder
every step that brought her nearer to her
parents house. But tho snow.s,orm hsd
now reached the Black moss, and the broad
Toe OF light that had laio in the direction Of
her home, vas soon swallowed up, and the
child was IN utter dstknrsa She saw moth.
ing bu' the Gakes Of snow, unfortunately In
ts'minglee, and fS'ioosly waited In the cit,
close to her head shs heard nothing bu,
poe Gid, 6ercs, 6,ful howl. The cold be.
rsme Intense, and her little Zee, and hands
we're fast being benunbsd into insensibili
tNA b O fearful chance.s nut,ersd he