Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-10-06
|Tur YOUNG WEST INDIAN.
~ rnr AUTHOR OF HoDoMoK.

d the phlosophc call romantic, and
,oopv.loyiug, a strange, unaccounta-
psioc Left with small patrinony,
thrifty man would have increased
paueuce, / chose TO indulge my ruling
0,pon. which was to see men and man
i every variety of light and shadow !;
,6er thirty years experience | do not
nmy choice. Nothing tends so much
beIorate personal character, as this kind
Is,inp collision with the motely crowd
OrYiudjces are overcome by finding the
Great machinery of heart and mind
\ where in motion; and the pride Of
Ian nature bows down, at so frequently
q the tremendous velocity Of excited
Eon destroying the equilibrium Of the
'hliest intellect. The thousand trifiing
&uces Of selfdenial, which a traveller is
+ ID upon to practise, act on his temper
4 rolling friction, destroying its inequsli-
Ind polishing its surface; andthe morbid
tbiIay which loathes human folly. even
|; most harmless forms, gradually loses
pnnoying power: for it needs but brief
|rieucc, to prove that a nerve thrust out
yery pore is an uncomfortable armour
Ibis worlds conflicts. =
" Of my acquaintance pity my philo-
c enjoyment, and hint that concentrated
lions and more productive Of intense
puess, than such widely diffused inter
possibly can be. Alas, | doubt 1t not !;
their kindness touches broken and
eIess string. They know not that its
ody has departed; for manhood often
ures with cheerfulness wha; it neither
9uers or avows and if the sun Of youth
love, making heaven SO bright and earth
srdani, is obscured by a morning cloud,
surely both wise and virtuous to leave
head open to the glsddening iaAaencr
Fihers' happiness. AT least. during all
bbes, have found good na.ured will
6uess 10 please and be pleased, the genu-
inidOe 10 all corroding thoughts. The
dents have met with, have been vari-
and in many cases extraordinary. One,
Remarkably indicates the finger of an over
ng providence, that | cannot lorbear Civ
1 i in all its details.
was in the summer Of 1903, that
I'D from Cuba, in merchant vessel,
iud Tor Boston. ! awoke on board, early
bright and sunny morning. The sea
;sled as if Dolphius were sporting on its
Place. the sails of the Amplitude filled
her Prov rose above the waves as If she
be gallant bird, eager for her homeward
shli and the fair Spanish island, wreathet
lemon and citron. reposed in the dis
&C. like beautiful Naiad on her oceaI
low, We had dropped down from tn,
FIGURING the nighttime, and waited the
pal Of passengers from the shore. TIL,
bad not risen far above the horizon
en IN answer 10 loud and somewhat i'm
eul signal from the captain. boat pusbet
iom the island The oars. struck by
er.y arm, left a bihowy wake behindlhem
Jung and loaming for while. but subsid
INTO Peaceiulness as rapidly as the ex
Enen's Of our early days. The lou
eSs sounded nearer and nearer; pres
we heard the drops trickle from tn
sS they slowly rose frem the water, an
ms was interrupted by harsh an
f',0s sound, as the boat rubbed again:
A'Ooard side. A gentleman with shar
ana lips closely,eompressed, ordered
e'adder 10 be lowered for his wife an
u BY the united assistance OF her hui
resnrms from below, and mine reachin
nc quarter deck, a pale, but very intel
"y looking woman, assembled the vesse
was Immediately followed by ittl
apparently four or five years old, who's
''eneek and burning eye betrayed a Spar
virgin The gentleman himself, a fe
asn's alter, leaped on deck. and by h
~ ala minute enquiries. l soon discove
'p'lne was Mr. Reynolds, New EN-
merchant, and chief owner OF the An
E sa'e For one roaming about the wor
4 !, ''Sn The lew bright rays wandering I
A ID uvwh rs hazy atmosphere, nothin
III more fortunate than the arrival
Ivy and her pretty companion. N
always warmed towards childhoo
~. T,s,liIngs as bright and pure as that b
"V'ld from whence the stream Of tends
~ poured into the human soul; but
nrSer met with child so attractive
s''lna' Soul shone through her who
,auu played hide and seek like sunshi
'apld stream. II seemed as if a m
w.. elm now welded his sceplre fro
1 AZ E.s diamond throne-now hid hims
r. labyrinth Of a dimple--and anon da
I'ne corner of her laug hing lip. II
~ O'oWn hue Of her cheek, gave a ric
, dnu glow TO this light Of expressie
"s setting sun mantling autumnal f
h. 1ier long black hair. slightly curlir
M round her, like a fairy veil Of clou
|I;asa gave 10 her slender figure that wavi
luz b - 80 essential 10 beauty. Her voice "
/, "ad imagined, like the murmur OF Q
i. 'oun'alns, forever joyful and melodic
gurgllng soundl and her viyacity "
''''ng as the Tiny slar-cresled bird, ie