Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-03-15

chance had been at work On fine looking
lapple tree, he saw no fruit but large coarse GU
cumbers a small peach tree was breaking
down under lis load Of gourds. Some Of the
trees were growing with their tops down
wards, and tue roots branching out in the air.
Here and thcre were great holes dug,by which
somebody had tried to get down twenty or.
thirty feet in order to get the fruit Theguide
told Hated that there was no certainty about
these treesl and you never could tell what
fruit tree would happen to bear. The tree
which bears cueumbers, may she next year
bear potatoes, and perhaps you would have
to dig twenty feet for every potatoe you OBJ
tanned.
They soon met another of the chance men
His legs were very unequal in length, one
no knee, and the other no ancle. His ears
were set upon his shoulders, and around his
head was a thick black bandage. He came
Igrooping his way, and Hated at once asked
how long since he had lost his sight?
i have not lost it, he said but when was
born, my eye balls happened to be turned in
instead OF out andthe back parts being out
ward, are very painful in the light. and so
put on covering
sWell, but canst thou see anything Me-
thinks thou mayest see strange things within
True, but the officially is to get any light
in them. | have contrived in various ways to
do so; have had it poured into my ears and
nose; but all will not do. Yet I am as well
off as others. Ny brother has one good eye
in the top of his head but he only looks di-
reetly ap with it to the clouds ;and the sun al
most puts it out He shuts it most of the time
during the day; but it happens to be one that
elo
flies trouble him badly. I have a sister who
has nineteen eyes in her head they are
vexation She sees eighteen things too many.
Even now she can't realize that she has got
nineteen fathers and as many mothers She
goes TO bed, and falls on the floor nineteen
times at least before she gets in She goes to
drink, and she sees nineteen cups, and knows
not which is the real cup. But it so happen
ed, and sheis as well off as most in this chance
world But after all it is a glorious world, I
assure YOU
Wonderful, cried Hated
AS they proceeded little further, they
met young lady.
That young lady, said the guide, is the
greatest beauty in all these parts. All our
young men are bewitched by her; and there
have been not less than twenty duels on her
account already. You will be amused at sec
/ ing being SO perfect.
As they met, Hated started more fully than
is usually considered polite among the Orien-
tals, The beauty had face not altogether
unlike human face, excepting that themouth
was under the chin, the eyes looking separate
ways, and the color of the hair was mixture
of red, light blue, white and yellow. One
foot had the heel forward, and one arm was
/ altogether wanting.
'Wonderful; wonderful, truly criedHafed.
Twenty Guels but hope they we're not all
killed, were they?'
Here the beauty began to ogle, and mince
in her steps most enchantingly.
Killed = said the guide; you seem to know
nothing about rs. They all met and fought
together; but as everything goes here by
chance, itis not often that we can get our pow
der to burn. In this case only one got his
gun off at all, and that did not happen to 60
off till night; when he was just going to bed,
when it wounded his hand, which has been
bleeding ever since
Ever since! How long ago was thisi She
did not look as if it could be none to day.
%, it was two years ago.
Two years ago! and why don't you seek
the leech, and have the poor boy saved from
bleeding to death even though be was a
I fool-for more reasons than one?
'Ah! you don't understand it Everything
goes by chance here; and there is only a
chance that man who is wounded viii ever
be healed
I don't understand it, said Hated.
They stopped to look at some 'chance cat
tie in yard. Some had but three legs; some
had the head on the wrong part of the body
some were covered with wool, under which
they were sweltering in a climate always trop-
ical. Some were half horse, half-ox One
COW had dwarf of a cammel following her,
and claiming her as his mother. Young ele-
plants were there with focks of sheep; horses
with claws ike lion, and geese clamping
round the yard with hoofs like horses 1t was
/ all the work of chance
This said the guide, is choice collection
of cattle; you never saw the like before
That is true-truth ITSELF cried Hafed
-'Ah! but the owner has been at slmost in-
finite pains and expense to collect them. ]
don't believe there is another such collection
any where in all this chance world
i hope not said Hated.
Just as they were leaving the premises, the
owner came out to admire and show and talk
over his treasures. He wanted to gaze at
Hafed-but his head happened to be near
the ground between his feet, so that he had
to mount upon a wall before he could get a
fair clue to the stranger,
Don't think am happy man., said he to
Hated, in having so MANY and such perfect
animals. Alas! even in this happy and per-
feet world. there are always draw backs. That
fine looking COW yonder happens to give but
warm water for mik-aAd her calf, poor
thing. died the first week Some of them
have good looking eyes, but from some defect
are stone blind Some of them cannot live in
the light, and but few of them can hear No
two eat of the same food, and it is great la
Dor to take care of them. 1 sometimes feel
as if had almost as lief be poor man.
Il think | should rather said Hated
While they were talking in an instant they
were in midnight darkness The sun was
/ gone and Hafed could not for soma time see