The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-03-22
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and without being 8farthe nolested by the
voice ofthe tree, dragged himself home.
He slept soundly that night, not being
troubled in the least with dyspeptic
dreams. His hands the next day were
terribly sore, and he was lame in nearly
every joint; buthis appetite was good, and
he was able to eat his meat without either
pepper or mustard. E. slss; 81
He would fain, however, have declined
going to the wood: but the deep voice was
still ringing in his ears, and the Devil
seemed in his heated Imagination, ready
TO catch him. He once more, therefore,
took his meoicated'axe and repaired to the
forest. He continued longer than the
day before, but SO sore were his hands,
that every stroke he struck gave him Sc
we're pain; and he was once or twice on
the point Of giving the matter up, when
the same deep voice from the holow tree
again warned him of the danger Of such
course. :. t,,s,s
In short. Sam Crookshank repaired to
the wood daily; working longer and hard
er each day than the day before, sleeping
seundlys at night, and eating his meals
with constantly increasing appetite. His
hands by degrees became hardened to this
work, and his whole frame so strengthens
ed that he could labor from morning ill
night without feeling halfas much fatigu-
ed as he endured the first day from SIN
gle hours work.
'But what plague is the reason said
he, applying his nose to the axe helve.
Il can't smell the campfire and the mur-
rer oozing through, MS the newspaper
said? I'm sure l've het the axe-helve
nearly red hot every day fora month, and
yet | can't perceive ingrediences come
through at oil. The pothecary must a
cheated me in the articles
Full of this idea. he went to scold the
apothccary for putting him off with bad
medicines; when the latter threw his pes
tie at his head, and called him fool for
his pains.
But though Sam couldn't perceive by
any outward signs that the medicine had
come through the aNe-helve; yet, mas
much as he daily grew better by handling
the instrument, he finally concluded that
the virtue Of the remedy had insensibly
the pores Of his hand, md without his
knowing it diduscd itself over his whole
system.
He did not, however, relax his endeav-
.ors, nor lay aside the mcdicated axe, un-
til his acre of woodland was completely
chopped, and his dyspepsia most thorough
ly cured. He was of his gen,lemanly
pretensionS; and is now one Of the most
industrious young men in the neighbor-
hood.
Their" is one thing, however, which
seems to him not n little mysterious, and
that is the voice from the hollow tree.
But some of his ncighbors are thought to
be wiser on that subject than he; and it is
shrcwdly suspected that Jack IVhipplc-
tree, waggish son Of the farmer above
mentioned, knows more about the voice
than the one that heard it. G.
STATUE OF JAcKsoN.-Our readers are
perhaps aware that there is design on
foot 10 erect, at Washington, bronze
equestrian statue Of ANDREW JACKSON.
Among those who intend 70 present mod
els to the committee, is our ingenious and
entcrprising fcllowcitizcn, Mr.. CLARK
MILLS, who proceeded to Washington
yesterday afternoon on this errand.
The model Of Mr.. Mills has challenged
the admiration of all who have seen it..
There is spirit and Jifc abo> it that
cannot be surpassed. 1t represents the
General on horseback and in uniform, in
the act Of acknowledging the salute Of n
body of troops whom he is reviewing.
The attitude Of the horse is exceedingly
spirited. He is taken just at the moment
when he hns been checked in full career,
and thrown back upon his haunchcs-nnd
just, as if anticipating the next movement,
he is turning TO dash down the line. Sew
eral Of the best horsemcn Of our city, who
have examined it, are of opinion that the
horse is free from all exception, and that
nothing could be more admirable than the
attitude Of the rider. We have seen the
engravings ofthc statue of Peter the Great
and ofthe Duke of Wellington, and nci-
thcr of them will compare, in point of spir-
it and action, with this model. One pc
culiarity Of this statue is, that it is self.
poiscd--whle in that Of Peter the Great
(where the attitude is similar to this) it
was necessary to fastcn the tail of the
horse to the rock, in order to retain him
in his rearing attitude.
The conception OF this model is in the
highest degree creditable to MIR. Mills. If
it does not secure the approval ofthe COM
mittec, they must be exceeding difficult
to please The artist acknowledges that
this is labor Of love with him, and that
it has engrossed his attention for year
past, He took casts Of the limbs Of n
horse in the positions he has chosen, that
he might not be mistaken in the anatomy
of the animal. We really believe that
ifthe execution Of this work is placed in