The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-01-06

they would be my only means of safety. Every
halt minute an alternate yep from my fierce atten-
dants, made me but too certain that they were IN
close pursuit. Nearer and nearer they came |
heard their feet patterng on the ice nearer stlii,
until could feel their breath and hear their smut
fling scent. Every nerve and muscle in my frame
was stretched to the utmost tension.
The trees along the shore seemed to dance In the
uncertain light, and my brain turned with my own
breathless speed, yet still they seemed to hiss forth
their breath with sound truly horrible, when an
involuntary motion my part turned me out oi
my course. The wolves close behind, unable to
stop and as unable to turn on the smooth ice, slip
ped and fell, still going far ahead their tongues
were lolng out, their white tusks glaring from
bloody mouths, their dark, shaggy breasts were
Aeeced with foam, and they passed me their eyes
glared, and they howled with fury. The thought
flashed on my mind, that by this means l could
avoid them, viz by turning aside whenever they
came too near for they, by the formation Of their
feet, unable to run on ice except in straight
line.
Immediately acted upon this plan. The wolves,
having regained their feet sprang directly towards
me. The race was renewed for twenty yards up
the stream they were already close on my back
when glided around and dashed directly past my
pursuers. A fierce yell greeted my evolution, and
the wolves, slipping upon their launches, sailed
onward, presenting perfect picture Of heplesness
and bailled rage. Thus gained nearly hundred
ydruS AT edCH turning HIS was TtpedtSu TWO OF
three Ii nes, every moment the animals getting
more excited and baffled.
At one time, by delaying my turning too long
my fierce antagonists came near, that they threw
their white foam over my dress they sprang tc
seize me- and their teeth clashed together like the
spring Of a fox rap. Had my skates failed for one
instant, had tripped on stick, caught my foot
in a iissure on the ice, the story am now telling
would never have been told. | thought all the
chances over; | knew where they would first take
hold of me if fell | thought how long it would
be before died, and when there would be search
for the body, that would already have its tomb
for oh how fast mans mind traces out all the
dread coors Of deaths pictures, only those who
have been near the grim original can tell.
But soon l came opposite the house, and mI
hounds-l knew their deep voices-roused by tht
noise, bayed furiously from the kennels. heart
their chains rattle /; how wished they would breal
them, and then | would have protectors that woul,
be peers to the fiercest denzens of the forest Thu
wolves, taking the hint conveyed by the dogs
stopped their mad career, and after a moment
consideration, turned and fled. l watched then
| until their dusky forms disappeared over a neigh
boring hill. Then, taking eff my skales ] wende,
my way to the house, with feelings which may b
better iinag gined than described.
| But even yet, never broad sheet of ice, il
the rnoonshine, without thinking of that snuflin
| breath, and those fearful things that followed IN
so closely down the frozen Kennebec