State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-09-19
WHOLE no. csc.

eyes IRE once open, so as to SEQ danger, but
he makes the best of his way back 10 deep
water tumbling and laundering forward
any how, if he can only set his claws in
the muddy bottom Of the river. So with
our game. The cracker soon discoveredf
that he had caught Tartar, and when he
found the rate ut which he was going. he
began heartily 10 wish that he was loose
again for the alligator towcd hm-anv
where he wished to go-like mad. And
worse than all, he Ind no knife with himto
cut the fellow loose, and the rope was knot
ted hard, aud so tightly drawn through the
staple, that he could not unite il. Thus
he was dragged out into the lake, and back
again under the overhanging branches of
the trees, which scrapcd and scratched him
as badly as an Indian boy just bled by his
mother,-who, be it understood, ias,ens
two or more sharp fish teeth through
piece of wood, like a carpenters scribe,
and thus scores her sick child, when he
wants bleeding-pot Il very mild method
Ivy the way; but our hero got a sample of
it, for 90 he must, under the shragey live
oak limbs, MS well as any others he might
encounter.
He was lowed thus all day. until he
was sober, and his tormentor came TO the
conclusion that it was not best to tire him
self to death. Indeed there is hardly an
animal or reptile more tenacious of life
than the very one that was thus taking the
poor cracker sailing. lie did not know
what 10 debut at last he did that, which.
II thought Of earlier, would have rid him
OF all trouble from excess of spirit. He
broke his bottle, and then began to saw the
rope Oft with the sharp edges of the glass
! 4 pn0iI la -Ct Ions.
MINUS his rope and hotile, and plus a good
long tow.
The following from "OHapodiana," is 80
entirely TO The life, that it will awaken Il
smile IN all who peruse il:
"But the grand charm and scene Of IL
canal packet is in the evening. If on your
way from Schenectady to Utica, the sun
goes down into the rosy wes;, just after YOU
leave that beautiful gorge in the Mohawk
mountains, where you see the towering
pines on one side, rising prGcipltousIy near
three hundred feet above you, and on the
other, the gentle river, calmly gliding thro'
the vale below forming the only terrible
scene on the route. Well, YOU 90 below,
and there you behold a hot and motley as
semblage. A kind of stiffness begins to
reign around. 1t seems as if proiracted
meeting was about go commence. Clergy
! melI, capitalists, long-sided merchants, who
| have come from aiar, grCcn-hUrns, taking
/ their first experience OF the wonders of the
! deep ON the CGnHUt-all these arc huddled
together in wild and ineXplicuble confusion.
/ By and 10y the captain takes his seat and
the roll of hcrtls is called. Ihch, what
confusion Layer upon layer of humanity
is suddenly sheved for the night; and i'll
the preparation, what world oi hustle is
Il .f,l,,. Il
I hundred feet, aud their owners deposIte
ihem wherever they can. There was one
man - Ollapod behind him--Who pulled off
the boots Of another person, thinking the
while mistaken individual! that lac was
I Gizrv,i.ng his own shrunken legs OF their
| leather integIa-n;S, so thick were lhc
limbs and feet that steamed AID moved
round about. Another lourist-lat, oily,
and round who had bribed the steward
for Two chairs placed 10y the side of his
berth, whcrcOnto rest his abdomen, amused
the assembly by calling out - Here, wal
ter! bring me another pillow have got
the ear ache, and have put the first one into
my auricuIar organ Thus wore the hours
away. sleep you cannot. Feeble mos
cletoes, residents in the boat, whose health
suffers from the noisome airs they are
nightly compelled 10 breathe, do their worst
TO annoy YOU; and then, PhGbus Apollo
how the seepers snore! There is every
variety of this music, from the low whce2e
Of the aslhnatic 10 the stcntorian grunt Of
the corpulent and profound. Nose after
nose lifts up its tuneiul oratory, until the
place is vocal, Some communicative free
thinkers talk in Ihcir sleep, and altogether,
they make "A concerto and dIapHsOn equal
To that which Milton speaks i,whcu through
tho sonorous organ from many row OF
; pipes the sound board breathes,' Al last,
morning dawns; you ascend into pure air
with hair unkempt, body and spirit unre-
ireshed, and show yourself to the people of
some populous town into which you are
entering, us you wash your f'co IN canal
water on deck, from hand basin 1t is u
scene, ! say again, take it for al III MI, that
throws description upon HE parish, and
mikes YOU Il paupcr in words. 'Ohs Jam
salts ="