Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-11-29

ever loved!"
The son and daughter both returned from the
burial of their mother fntgued and sick. The
nurse gave them, as she thought, a simple medi-
cine. In a few hours, II was found to be poison.
Hafed saw that they must die for the laws of
nature are fixed, and poison kills. lie buried
them in one wide, deep grave, and il seemed MS If
in that grave he buried his reason and his religion.
tie tore his griy hair, he cursed the light of day,
and wished tho moon turned into blood; and
above ALL he blasphemed his God, declaring the
laws which he | al established were all wrong,
useless, and worse than none. lie wished the
world were governed by chance hut ms this was
hopeless wish, he wished that at his death he
might 90 to n world where there was no God TO
fix Vulnerable laws. lie arrnigned the wisdom of
Coz in his government over the world, declaring
that his plans were weak, and worse than none,
aud that it woHl' lie far better to have no God IN
the universe
In the centre Of llafed's garden stood large
beautiful Pam-tree. Under it was Hated sitting
the second evening after closing the grave over
his two children. The which he sat had
been reared Ivy his son. On The leaf of the tree,
which lay before him, were so'ne exquisite
written 10y the pencil OF bis daughter. Before him
lay the beautiful country covered with green,
sIrinkIed ho1e aud there, MS far ne the eye could
reach, with the habiaIions OF men, aud upon this
great landscape the shadows of the mighty noun
talIs were now setting. I'm the east, the moon
was just pushing MP her modest face, and the gold
of day was soiteniug into the silver of night
While Haied looked on all this, grief began to
swell in his throat; his tongue murmured his
heart was full OF hard thoughts of God, which
nearly amounted to hlnsphtmy
AS the night deepened, llafed, lac Then
thought, fell asleep with heavy heart. When hn
supposed he awokc, it was in a new spot The
mountain, the landscape, the home, were all gone.
All was new.
Az no stuoJ ,vonduring ,vLera In Ivos he sn 40
creature approaching him, which, at first, he
mistook for baboon but on its coming near, he
discovered that ii was creature somewhat rescm-
bling n man, but every way NAL formed, lll-sllaped
and monstrous.
He came up AMI walked around Hated AS he
would superior being, eXcalmlng, beautiful,
beautiful creature
'Shame, shame on thee u said Hafcd; dost
thou treat stranger thus with insults? Leave IF
thy jests, and tell me where | uIn, and how |
came here,
Il do not know how you ca ne here, but here
you nre in our world, which we call chance porid,
because every thing happens here by chance
'Ah is it so? This must be delightful! THIS
is Just the world for me. Oh had always lived
here my beautiful children would not lave died
under foolish and incXOrable law Come, show
me This worId--for long to see it. But have We
really no God, nor any one TO make laws and
govern you he sees fit !"
uUb hHOW Nldl yDh iIlcuu ny oOu We
have nothing OF that kind here,-nolhing but
chance; but go with me, and you will understand
all about H.
As they proceeded, Hated began to notice that
every thing looked queer and odd Some of the
grass was green some red, some white, some new,
and some dying some grew with the top down
ward all kinds mingled togelher aud on
the whole, The sight was very painful He Stop
ped to examine an orchard here chance had been
at work. On fine looking nppe-rec, he saw no
fran but large, coarse cucunbers small peach
tree wns breakug down under its load OF gourds.
Some OF the trees were growing with their tops
downwards, and the roofs branching out into the
air. Here and there great holes dug, by
which somebody had tried to get down twenty or
thirty feet, in order to get the fruit. The guide
told Hated that there was 10 certainty about these
trees and you could never tell what fruit tree
would happen TO bear. The tree which this year
bears cucumbers, may hear potatoes next year, and
perhaps you would have 10 dig twenty feet for
every poatoe you obtained.
They soon met another of the 'chance- men,
His legs were very unequal in length, one had no
knee, and the other no ankle. His ears were set
upon his shoulders, and around his head was
thick, black bnndage. He came cropping his way
and fiaIed nj once asked him how long since he
had lost his sight.
: l have not lost it, said he hut when | was
born, my eyehalIs happened To be turned in insrend
OF out and the back pars being outward, are veiy
painful in the light, aud so put on IA covering
We'll, but ranSt thou see any thing? Me
thinks thou maye>l see strange things within
True, hut the difficulty is To get any light in
tleIe. have con.ived various ways 10 do so.-
have had ii poured INFO my ears ahd nose bul all
will not do. Yet am as well off us others. My
brother has one good eye ON the top OF his head
but he only looks directly up with it TO tie cloud-
and the sun almost puts it OUT. lie shuts it most
of the time during the day hut it happens to he
~.
when he sleeps The flies trouble him badly. ]
have sister, who has nineteeh eyes in her head
hut they are veXation. She sees eighteen things
TOO many. Even now she cannot realize that she
has not nineteen fathers, and ms many mothers
She goes to he'd. and falls on the floor NJ least
nineteen times before she gets in. She goes to
drink, aud sees nineteen cups, and knows not
which is the real cup But it happened, aud
shc is ms well off as most in this chunce world
But, alter all, its glorious world, ! do assure
YOU
~ ondcrful,' said Hailed.
As they proceeded Il little further, they met II
young lady.
THAT young Indy snil The gnide, is the great
est beauty in all these parts. All our young men
nre hewilched by her; and there hive been no hess
lhan twenty ducls on her uccnunt already. You
will lbs amazed at seeing being perfect
AS ley mel, Hated stared more fully Than is
usually considered polite among the ORIGINALS. -
The beauty had n luce not altogether unlike n hui
man face, excepting TINT the mouth was under The
chin, The eyes looked separate ways, and The color
OF The hair was mixture of red, light blue, white
and yellow One loot had The heel forward, and
one arm was altogether wanting.
Wonderful, wonderful truly cried aled.
Twenty duets! But hope tley were not all
killed, were lhey?'
Here the beauty began to ogle and mince in her
steps most enclnmingly
illpu u said tI,a Uuiue won see m IN knoy
nothing about us. They all met and fought to.
gelher; hut MS every thing goes here by chance,
II is not often that can get our powder TO burn.
In this case only one got his gun off at all, and
that did not happen 10 go off I'LL night, when he
was going 10 bed, when il wounded his hand,
which has heen bleeding ever since
Ever since How long ago was this !? She
did not look as if il could have been to-day
Oh il was two years ago.
1.-TWO years ago aud why don't We seek The