Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-09-11

| pale face had ever trod before, made my
situation as comfortable as his rude con.
dition and my recollections of former days
would permit. | always wished to re-
turn to the abodes of refinement and civ
Iilization, but could never evade their vi
Igilance, until few weeks ago, seizing a
favorable opportunity | made my escape,
travelling at night for the most part, and
concealng myself by day, when, almost
dead with fatigue, after numberless dan
gers and difficulties, | at length reached
this place, clad, as you see, in the remnant
Iof a buffalo robe, my only covering for
years.
u Young Croghan having attained the
age of manhood and been appointed cap.
tain of a volunteer corps, was one day
walking hastily along the street, rejecting
on the strange occurrences of his life, and
contemplating his future prospects, when,
turning swiftly round corner, he sudden
ly encountered young lady, who was
proceeding against him, and though each
|endeavored to avoid the conclusion. their
eontiguity rendered the essay Intellectual,
and they met with force which, to use a
nautical phrase, must have thrown the
lady on her beam ends, had he not instant
ly caught her in his arms, and so prevent
ed the disagreeable consequences. Shf
smiled forgiveness, and extricating hetl
self from his unexpected Embrace, was
OF before he had time 10 apologize for tie
unceremonious introduction.
i CIV oil e,;J h. u. .t.I =.
to look after her, sif mother Eve was as
beautiful as this fair daughter of hers, n
wonder old Adam was so transported al
first sight of his ribs and picking up !.
fan which she dropped in her confusion,
he gladly FASTENED to return it, making a
the same time many apologies for the en-
harrassment he had SO unintentionaly
caused her. She politely thanked him with
blush, and glancing at him "a look of in
ettable sweetness, which reached his IT,.
most SOUL observed, that'ndeed the blame
might well be equally divided among
them, but the merit of the occasion was
Exclusively his He would have said
something in reply, but his tongue refu-
sed its office, and finding himself becom-
} ing somewhat uneasy, he scarcely knew
: why, he made his best bow and returned
ion his former course. But he had moi
advanced twenty PAGES before he again
! with an impulse something similar to that
5 which actuated Lots wife, involuntarily
turned to take another look before she
had entirely disappeared. 'She is a par
agon of loveIiness,' he CALCULATED, as she
entered the elegant mansion of DR.. Hun
ter, q have lost my mother by accident
found my uncle and father by accident.
and who knows but Fortune, in playful
), mood, may have decreed that | should
thus stumble upon my future wife by ac-
cident? SAT all events said he, pulling
up his shirt collar and stroking his chin,
should it so happenI shall feel perfectly
resigned, nor will any longer be inclined
to believe the old goddess blind-the as
sertions of others to the contrary notwith-
standing.
j Time began now to hang heavy on his
hands; he became unusually thoughtful
and whenever he happened to take up a
book, to vile away the tedious hours, he
seldom succeeded in getting through hall
a page before it was cast aside; and pick
ing up his hat, he started to take walk,
hardly knowing why OF where, but how.
!, ever devious his course, he scarcely ever
, returned without passing the door Of Dr..
Hunter.
Thus weary of every thing about him,
he one day caught up his rifle, and bent
his way beyond the precincts of the city.
in quest Of game; but finding none, he
was amusing himself in tracing the sever
al meaderings of the Sciota, as it pursued
its silent course among the circumambient
hills, which in some places exhibited the
: prolific burrows of perseverng industry
and civilization; while in others, nature
appeared still to exert her sterile supre.
macy, IN defiance of the white mans in
cursons, holding in bondage the barrer
j, wilderness, in all the sublimity of its pris
tine rudeness, when he was startled by {
: shrill whistle, which was answered fur
Their off by savage yell peculiar to the
half naked sons of the forest. He followed
f cautiously in the direction of the first
and beheld at distance a willy Indian
: darling through the underwood with the
, agility of a kangaroo, and concealil,s
4 himself behind a huge tree until bis com
-ipanion came up. Both conversed to
, gether short time, with eagerness; ane
: from their significant gestures, he suspect
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