American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-08-06
WILMINGTON, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 1922


Great rivers were suddenly Hooded-and the lit
tie mountain rivule,s, few minutes before only sll
yer threads and in whose fairy basins the ninnow
played, were now scarcely fordabe to shepherd s
feet 1t was time for the strongest to take shelter.
and none now would have liked TO issue from it /;
for while there was real danger to Lille and limb in
the many raging torrents, aud IN the lightning's
Dash, the imagination and the soul themselves were
touched with awe in the long resoundng gIens. and
beneath the savage scowl OF the angry sky 1t was
such storm, as becomes an ezra among The noun
tains; and it was felt that before next morning
there would be loss of lives--oot only among the
beasts that perish, but among human beings oVerta-
ken by the wrath Of that irresistible tempest.
1t was mol time TO be Abroad yet all by herself
was fastening down Glen-Nesis, from a Shealing
far up the River little Girl not more than twelve
years of age-n truth. very child Grief and fear,
not for HERSELF but for another, bore her along as
upon wings. through the storm she crossed riyu-
lets from which, any other o. casion she would
have turned back trembling and She did not even
hear many of the crashes Of thunder that smote
the smoking hills. Sometimes at a fiercer flash of
llghtning she just lifted her hand to her dazzed
eyes. and then, unappalled. hurried on through the
hot and sulphureous air. Had she been a maden
OF that tender age from village city, her course
would soon have been fatally slopt short; bur she
had been born among the hills had first learned to
walk amohg the heather. holding by its blooming
branc hes. and many and many solitary mile had
she tripped, younu as she over moss and moor
glen and mountain, even like the roe that had us
lair IN the coppiee beside her own beloved Sheang
She had now reached the gateway of the beauti
full hereditary Mansion Of the Camecnns-and was
passing by when she was observed from the win.
dows. and one OF the shepherds who had all CO me
down from the mountain heights, and were collected
Together, not without quech OF The mountaindew
Or w2tcr OF lfe.) in large she'd was sent out Il
bring the poor CIV! instantly into the house. She
was broue ht btck almost by force, and then it was
seen that she wa, in tears. Her sweet face was in
deed all dripping with rain, but there was other
moisture IN her far blue eyes, and whtn she was
asked to tell her story, she could scarcely sneak
| 1t last she found voice to say, "That old Levi,
lCameron, her grandfather, was dying--that Nc
could scarcely speak when she left him in the Shea
lng-and that she had been running as fast as she
could to Port William for the Priest - Come nv
God little Flora. With me into he parlour--and on.
| the shepherds will go for MIR Macdonald--you
would be drowned IN trying TO that part of the
road where the Nevis swirIs over il out of the Sal
mon Pool-come and will put some dry clothes
on you-you Just about the size of my own
Lilias The chnd was i'll to persuade-for she
Thought on the old man lying by himself in the
Sheasing at the point of deatk---bu, when she saw
one Of the shepherds whom she knew setting of
with rapid steps. her wild heart was appeased. and
she endeavoured TO dry up her Tears Nothing
however, could induce her to GO into The pariour
or put on the young lady's clothes She stood be-
fore the wide blazing peat and wood 6'e in the
lkitchen-and her spirits became a little better
when she had told her tale in Gaelic to so many
lpeope belonging to her own condition. and who al
Icron ded round her with sympathizng hearts, arc
fixed 'ates TO hear every thing about poor old dyinl
Lewis Cameron
Old Lewis W well known all around the broac
: base of Ben Nevis What his age was nobod
Iprecisely knew but il was asrertanrd that he coal,
not be under ninetv-and many maintained tina hi
$ had outlived hundred years He recoected thu
a famous old Lnchiel Of the first Rebellion hat
fought in the strength and pine of manhood .
' Culloden-and had charged The French on tn
! Heights OF Abraham. He had ever since that bat
: been a pensoner; and although he had man,
wounds to show bnth Of bullets and the bayonet
E vet his iron frame had taeulrusly retained it
. strength. and his limbs mu h OF their activity I'll
r the very last His hair was like hut his fac,
n was ruddv siill-and his large wi,hered hand ha
still grasp that could hold down the neck Of tb
= dying red deer to the ground. He had lived 70
d thirty years in Shealing built by himself anon
wild heap of shelterng rocks and for the los
q Eve his little orphan and Daughter, the only on
y of his blood alive, had been his companion in hi
); solitude. Old Lewis was the best angler in tn
n His HAND and he knew all the streams, rivers, an
u lochs Many thousand grouse had tumbed on iii
e theath beneath his unerring aim and the roe wa
" afraid to show her face out of thicket. But til
If red deer his delight-he had been Keeper
e Lochel once--and many long day, from sun ris
n to sunset had he staked like shadow over ranges
e mountains till he found himself at night far ava
from his Stealing He was guide, too, to bota
s. nsts mneralogiss, painters, poets, and prosers.-
10 Philosophers, men Of science, lovers of the mus
6 hunters of the picturesque men eager after parable
II roads and vitr6ed forts, and town gentlemen ser
from garrets to describe. for The delight and in
4 structon of their fellow citizens the grand feature
of nature all came RICH, to old Lewis Cameron