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

cattle. You never saw the like before.'
That is rue,--truth ITSELF cried Hated.
'Ah but the owner had been ut almost infinite
pains and expense to collect them. ! don't be-
lleve there is another such collection any where
in all this chance world
| u hope not said Hated.
just as they were leaving the premises, the
! 0wner came out TO admire, and show, and talk
over his treasures. He wanted 20 gaze at Hated |;
but his head happened to be near the ground be-
tween his feet, 80 that lie lad to mount up on
WALL before he could get fair view of the stran-
ger.
Don't think | am a happy man. said he to
| tnted IN having so many aud such perfect ami
mails. Alas even in this happy and perfect
world, there ARE always drawbacks. That fine
looking COW yonder happens to give nothing but
warm water for milk and her calf, poor thing,
died the first week. Some of them have good
looking eyes, but from some defect, are stone
blind. Some cannot live in the light, and few Of
them can hear. No two eat the same fdod, and
it is great labor to take care of them. | some
times feel US if had almost as lief be u poor
man.
] think should rather, said Hafed
While they talking, in an instant, they
were i" midnight darkness. The sun was gone,
and lInied could not for some time see his guide.
What has happened :? said he.
| ooh nothing uncommon said the guide
The sun happened to go down now. There is
no regular time for him TO shine but he goes and
comes lust as it happens and leaves as suddenly as
you see.'
AS don't see,' said Hated but hope he will
60 ne back at an appointed time, ut any rate"
That, sir, will be Just il happens. Some
times he is gone for months, sometimes for weeks,
and sometimes only for few minutes. just as
it happens. We may not see him again for
months, but perhaps he will come soon.
But how do you talk about months, and days,
! when Won hive n guch things y
u will soon re you about that. We measure
time 10y the gard
By the yard !"
Yes; we call that time which the most perfect
men among us take in walking yard, to be the
siNiieth part Of mn hour. These hours reckon
into days, and these days into years. To be sure,
we are not very exact, because some men walk 81
nncli tnSier than others. But this is just as their
legs happen to he long or short
As the guide was proceeding, 10 the inexpressi-
bic JOY ct all, the sun at once broke out. The
light was so sudden, that Hated at first thought he
must he struck with lightning, and actually put his
hands mp to his eyes 10 see it they were safe. He
then clnpped his hands over his eyes, till he could
gradually bear the light. There was IA splendor
about the sun, which he had never before seen
aud it was noerabIy hot. The air seemed like
IA furnace.
'Ah said The owner Of the cattle, we must
now scorch for it. My poor wool OK must die at
come bach nearer than he was before. But we
hope he will happen to 90 away again soon, and
then happen 10 come back further off next time.
The sun was now pouring down his heat so
Intensely, that they were glad TO go into the house
tor shelter--a miserable looking place indeed.
Hailed could not but compare it with his own
beautiful cottnge. Some tiubers We're often for
the tree was not, as it happened, The same thing
IN all its pats Some OF the boards happened to
he like paper, and the nails tore out, aud these
were loose and coming off. They had to do their
COOKING out under the burning sun for when the
smoke once got into the house, there was no get.
ting it out, unless it happened to CO. which was
not very often
They invited Hated to eat. On sitting down at
The table, he noticed that eacl one had different
KIND OF food, and that no two could eat of the
same dish. He was told that it so happeued that
the food which one could ent was poison 10 an
other, and what was agreeable TO one nause-
ating TO another Selecting the food which looked
most inviting, llafed attempted to eat. What
was his surprise when he found that his hands did
not happen to be under the control of his will
and, instead OF carrying the food to his mouth
These active servants put il into his right ear On
examining, he found it was with all the rest
and by Initiating The company, and twisting his
head round over his right shoulder, and placing
his mouth where the eur was, he managed to eat.
la amhzemenI he asked how this happened.
'Ah sad they, laughing at his ignorance OF
the world, 'we have no fixed laws here. All il
chance. Sometimes we have one more Limbs
for a long time which are not under the control OF
our will 1t is just ms it happens. So when we
drink, we find it always true, that
Some shed it on heir shoulder,
Some shed it on their thigh;
Aud he that does not hit his mouth,
Is sure to hl his eye.'
Il suppose that to be coffee said Hailed, and
will thank Won for the cuD'
| 1t was handed him. He had been troubled
with the tooth.uche for some hours, and how did
he quail when on filling his mouth, he found il
was ice III little pieces about as large DIS pigeon
shot,
Do you call ice-water, coffee here - said lla
led, pressing his hand upon The cheek where ia,
tooth was now dancing with pain.
| THAT is Just as II happens We put water over
Tho fire. aud sometimes it heats il, and sometimes
it freezes it.. How can it he otherwise when we
have here no fixed laws of any kind? Ii is ali
chance work.
| Hn'rl rnse from the table in anguish Of spirit
He remembered The world where le had lived
and all HAT was past He had desired TO live in
world where there was no God, where all was
governed 10y chance, so far as there was any thing
HAT looked like government Here he was, and
here he must live. He threw himself on he'd
aud recalled The past-ihe beautiful world ia
which I,e had once lived-his ingratiude,-h
''"''''''''Si "'lh MS puepHc'uy "Eu'hn' WIS.,
dom and goodness of God. He wep like inian-
cy lie would have prayed, and even began
prayer; bur then he recollecied there was no God
here--nothing to direct events-nothing but
chance. He shed many and bitter tears Of repen-
lance. AT last he wept himself asleep.
When Hated again awake, he was sitting under
his palm tree in his own beautiful garden. It was
morning, AT the appointed moment, the glorious
sun rose up in the east the fields were all green
end fresh the trees were all right end upwards,
and covered with blossoms; the beautiful deer
were bounding in their gladness over the lawn,
and The songslers in the frees, which, in plumage
and sweetness, might have We'd with those that
sang in Eden, were nttering their morning song.
Hated arose,-recaed that ugly dream and
then wept for JOY Was he again in world where
chance does not reign? lie looked up, and then
turned To the God of heaven and earth,-,be God
OF laws aud Of order, lie gave glory 10 him. and
confessed that his ways, 10 MS unsearchab!e, are