The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
9GaItrr Zpsle.
OR A PROMISE REDEEMED.
BY ROBERT p. GREELEY.

"This retreat
OfSprcading boughs, where summer winds make
SWEET
The blackbcrries ripening meath its emerald
screen;
These hollows, rooted with cedar, where the wren
Chirps undisturb'd beside the running brook"
BEAUTIFUL valley. bordered on every
side by clustering masses of rich and M any
colored foliage iniersects, like deep-set scar.
The central portion of Pennsylvania,-noi
the least remarkable feature of which is its
almost total seclusion from the turbulent world
by which it is surrounded. Owing to its Pc
cuIiar appropriateness for business, or to
combination Of similar causes, its quiet hooks
and shady glens have heretofore escaped po-
luton, and railway shares, with other like
Authorizations, are things unknown.
As il II had been intended that nothing
should be wanting 10 complete the attractions
of this favored spot, its indwelers seem to
have become imhued with the infectious spirit
of peace which broods over il, and the clsck
ing Of millwhecls. the roaring of miniature
water falls. the lowing of cattle. are the only
sounds Which occur to vary its delightful still
ness.
When the crimson sunset OF mid summer
is lingering upon the tops of the distant bills
envelopiug them, as it were. in purple veil.
and casting into the shade all thai lies between
The beautiful Snsquehanna. catching The fad
ing days,
As slowly they bend with the coming OF eve"
seems transformed by their subtle alchemy
into vein Of molten gold, and gides gently
upon its winding course amid the far off dels,
until lost 10 view in The distance. A change
now comes over the sinmbering landscape.
The last beam of Old Sol had disappeared
reluctantly from the lofiiest hill top. and Won
der high 10 the star gemmed arch above, the
early moon comes forth with her train Of gilt
iering satellites. and casts a softer glow upon
the scene. From among the trees which line
The valley Oh either side, a multitude Of little
ligns shine forth from the windows of The
cottaGers, serving as beacons TO the way worn
traveller. and in the tangled underwood is
heard the ceascless chipping of .nnumerable
crickets.
Ii was oil such night as this we have Just
dcscrbed-the time, mid summer that Wal
ter LySe, the youngest aud most Industrious
farmer IL the valley, sat down. in company
with his blooming wife, to whom he had been
but few months married, TO partake of their
evening meal The kettle sang merrily upon
the hearth, and the little fire which was al
ways kept bnrning let the weather be warm
or cold, for household purposes, cast rudy
glow upon the snow-white table cloth, and
npon the simple objects of furniture which
filled the room. A small wicker cradle stood
upon the floor, mid way between the yonng
couple. containing treasure which neither
would have barteTed for the wealth Of thou
sand Golcoudss; and upon the ample hearth
stone, with his nose placed as closely against
the cracking embers as the heat would allow.
huge and shaggy dog. the farmers only as
sistant in his daily toll. and the faithful COM
panion Ct all his masters rambles. had set
tied himself coozily down for an hours un-
interrupted cogitarion. From the suItriness
of the night. the windows were both thrown
open, and the chirping Of the crickets with
ont, and the singing Of the kettle within,
mingled together in kind of fantastic chorus,
by no means un2leasing to listen to.
The cottage was, in itself. a mere handbook
Of place, with hardly room enough TO move
about in, and surveying it as a stranger from
without. you could not help wondering how
two human beings of any dimension could,
by any possibility. continue to live in Sd dimi-
nutIve dwelling. Yet Walter Lysle aud
his pretty wife had never bestowed thought
upon The matter but lived in their own hum
BILE way throughout The year. without sin
gle care TO disturb the even current of their
existence.
Walter Lysle was the son of an upright and
thrifty farmer. and had received bis education,
although plain one, in common with many
whose families occupied, as the world goes.
a position far superior TO his own.-Among
those with whom he became thus associated,
was one for whom the young farmer eonceiv-