Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1850-12-17
The SoH tary Traveller.
By i. B. DUCKS.

On one cold winters day. in the mont
Of july. ia poor man, clad IN all the habil
linens and gold and Unset Of Ire rich
was Footing along on horse back, in a
OPEN boat, over j. long and dreary desert.
Not Al hill, tree, rock, or sp9t of green
aDpehred 10 cheer him in his tedious ascen
pj die mountainwhich lay out before hin
in'ferllc heaps,as far as the eye.can reach
IIage precipiees lay Scattered in his path
and eyer and snon wonIl his iootslep,
minglein sweet cadence with the blacl
waters Of the yellow sky, over whose pre-.
cipitous plains he scrambled with all The
agiIity of a pair of cow-hide boots, which Ell.
c9sed His hose in IA red fiery aspect.
Eoyptian darkness had now settled down
mon The earth. and The noon-dav sun threw
his cold and piercing rays full in The face o.
ithe trbveller, as he pursued his nonhefri
course towards the beautiful sireaks ofiighl
l,harfnbw illuned The east, caused by the
rising of tie setting sun, in The dim distance
lof the present future.
midnight darkness och the shades pf per
aulbu.hiine hen. coops, whose blue rhys Of
ambient green, being firmly RuckleA ta-.lhe
coat iails of large box OF Brandrelh's pills,
greatly dssisied him in his precarious pas
sage over The deep grassy and verdareldss
lake. IN
4, length. While thus in silent grandeur
he sialked along, he met angaged man, whose
silverv locks Of JET blaciS hue hung in
auburn cIlr.s from the white oak bramble
or cen,,iry's growth. which taed the sides
of a largeldandy, gray russell, sky bue-pink
colored p1r,idee.5 whose STEM whirl was
henrd for miles. bauonel close up TO the
throat bf The Youth before mentioned.
His eel we're encased in a large wooden
bag. throw n over his shoulders IN rich pro-
fusion. AMI cad, in yellow flock coat of
fiery rid, and carrying his nose. which
slight turhed up al The end, under his left
ur,n. The presented an appearance that was
grand, and altogether striking and pictur-
IAYhon our pedestrian first turned The
olance Of his whitening nose upon the fair
3,iroI youth. on whose downy chin the gray
beard Of blush brown hung from his eye
browws upwards in one CONCEALED mass. he
slowly fastened 10 iurA over the northeast
side De bread aud milk cheese ~ nanufac-
,,,,.d of The best Damascus steel, whose will
law branches of the toughest oak afforded
grateEiii shelter often summers.
Il Atlehe,h. ten years after. on the same
DIV itAy sal down ia d standing position 10
! snnIp,nous repast of the axieree Of The
a,,ad rnulh's horse, whose unrnfiled breath
i6@ ofa nreenish black, cast their shad-
da1ys before the hind wheel of the near
Horses leg
Bu. row a cha nge came Ger The spiril of
heir dream. The ighlning's rude biaslI
,,.oaned through the far-off trees with
ain lmptrceprbls roar, and ths5 thunder
Il terrific torrents upheaying from the siiai-
low dephs Of the troubled waters OF the
chin and placid sea, accompanies by the
div AMI kcorchihg rain. roamed in dompol3nd
;,,,5syiJuIlitv over The boundless depths Of
prairie. and the SIN in wfalhy calm !
ness penFea forth whole Sheets of wafer up |
on he dark ana smiling earth, IN undis-
MAYED dismay Of This illustration whicilcdis
and aas!ses Of The beauties and harmonies I
Of nbiura. resolved from that moment ten 4
months urev.ous. 10 make a siraigh l wake /
for homo: and accordingly FIVE years from
he present lime they didn't 60 home, and
arrived there Twelve years ago, nor nave
bsy been seen on heard ofsiIce.