The Litchfield County post., 1826-11-28


Hope, this animal began to droop, as was the,
supposed, from the increasing GOODNESS Of th,
weather. (which may probably have had its in
tluence,) and he refused to kill some fowl.
which were offered to him. Between the
cape and st. Helena, he was found dead II
ms cage and on. dissection, the coats of his
stomach were discovered to be excoriated
and perforated with worms. Nothing remain
ed OF the goat except one of his horns, every
other part being dissolved"
From the Museam Of For. Lit. &, Science. :
A WEDDING IN COURT.
Continued. .t
10 descend to the brink of the torrent.
which, like an imperceptible silver thread,
wound throughthe rocky defile, some thou
sand feet beneath, seemed an, enterprise
beyond human agility, and Franz felt it
his duty to demonstrate with his determined
companion before attempting it, on the OBJ
vious danger oftbe descent, and the proba-
bility that the foaning flood had long ago
swallowed up, and borne far thence. the
trophies of her lovers innocence. Find
ing his representations fruitless, lie hesita-
ted not moment in partaking her perils,
insisting only, for her sake, on short pe-
Rod for repose and refreshment.
g He had not neglected to provide her
with one of those slaves pointed with iron,
whose assistance in descending steep de-
clivities every Alpine traveller has experi-
enced; and, going before her to explore
every perlious step, he returned, after as
pertaining its practicability, to assist his
dauntless companion. Several of the clefts
through Yhich they were obliged 10 wind
their tortnousy course, were still filed with
the snow and ice of former seasons: these
required steadiness, and boldness offoot-
ing, which love and duty alone could have
inspired in an unpractised female. There
were moments when even the steadfast eve
of the bold chasseur sickened, as it caught
a glimpse of the foaming torrent over which
they hung suspended in mid air, and into
whose dark waters one false step would
consign them, and fear was sensation SO
new to him, that it pressed the more heav-
lily on his usually buoyant spirit. Clara,
however, the object of all his solicitudes,
preserved amid SO many perils all the COM
posure and presence Of mind inherent in
her character, and it was emily awhile thus
generously rescuing it for another that
Franz, perhaps, first fully appreciated the
treasure Fate had deniedt to himself. This
was no moment, however. for vain regrets,
had they been compatible with his manly
and liberal character; he gave them to
the winds, and felt only the honest pride of
the bearer Of some precious deposit, strain
ing every nerve to consign it unhar aed
to its fortunate possessor. ~. =
The more serious difficulties of the path
were at length happily surmounted; and
when no other obstacle presented itself
than loose fragments of rock, or up-rooted
trees, hurled from above by springing ava
lanches, the hardy travellers despised the
familiar dangers, and fastened on in spite
of fatigue, which none who have not de-
scended the face of an Alpine precipice,
can adequately appreciate. Sometimes
whole heaps of rubbish giving way beneath
their feet, threatened to precipitate them
into the current below; sometimes their
path seemed blocked with such masses of
rock, as to deny them farther progress j;
bat in all the glory of triumphant heroism,
and successful toll, they at length stood be-
side the NV no longer Insignificant torrent
and shuddered as they gazed up towards a
dizzy steep which the chamois or the eagle
seemed alone fitted to scale.
Blessing heaven for their safety, they
pursued with anxious steps separate routes
along the bottom of the defile, their hearts
beating highwith hopes and fears, in search
of the object ofso MANY tolls and perils.-
Providence rewarded with success the pure
disnterestedness of Franz, for he had not
proceeded many PAGES along the brink OF
the stream when he stumbled on chamois'
horn, which by its appearances Of recent
dismemberment from the head of a slaugh-
tered animal, was evidently distinguished
from sthe casual relic of one either killed
by a fall from the heights above, or the
victim of famine or disease. After search
ing in vain in the immediate vicinity, fol
any further part of poor Alloys spoil, 20
which Inc felt fully convinced that he hello
in his hand one trophy, though not sffi'
GENTLY conclusive one to carry conviction
to any but an actual witness nthe SPOT b.
naturally cast his eyes upward along thu
face Of the precipice, to ascertain whether
any particular projection in its beetlins
cliffs could have arrested, in its descent
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