Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-05-22
miscellaneous.
THE nELSMAN'S poe.
A MEMORY OF THE RHINE.
81 MISS PARDol

We were on our return from Hungary
in the autumn of 40, and had approached
sufficiently near home to iud ourselves in
the last steamboat upon the Rhne-l for
gct IT'S name, nor Is It essential to my story
II remember only that 1t was the one
which was To bear US into the Schcldt. and
&c deposit ms IN the amphlbious city Of Rot
terdam. The summer had been unusually
sultry, and from the consequent evaporation
which had taken place, the Astounding rlr-
or, as it Is the fashion for tourists who are
not travellers, 10 call II, had lost all its
clam 70 that overlooking adjective. The
body of water had ia fact, SO unequyocal-
" decreased, that The shadows elected all
the nautical sklll Of the local pilots; and
the monolonous progress which we made
over thls-may use woman's privilege,
and say, hreaibarc l--stream, which has
been said, sung, aud sketched, until ITS
very name is likely to become nauseate,
grew To be So wearlsomc, that we were glad
TO make amnsemen, out of the most unpro-
missing materials
suppose 1t must have been this fact
which led me to form an acquaintance with
a dog that was on board a most untoward-
looking cur, which do not believe that
Button himself could have classed TO the
satisfaction of his own conscience. The
poor lile brlie was the color of scorched
flannel aud all the hair, which had refused
20 grow IN different patches upon MS body
appeared, by tacit consent, TO have spront-
ed at the extremity of its long, straight tail
whence 1t depended after the fashion of an
oyerhung mop. Its ears had been cropped
10 one third of their natural dimensions
j, had cash across the upper lIp, that LAID
bare two of his teeth and in short, had II
not been for the soft expression of its large
round eyes--an expression more marked ant
human than had ever before observed IA
an auimal-it would have been rreclalm
ably hideous.
Such as II was, however, | was delighted
10 introduce myself to this new fellow-ttay-
eller, ia order to relieve the tedlum of oui
almost imperceptlble onward progress.
portable library is soon exhausted, aud our.
had long been as bethumbed as the volumes
IN schoolboy's satchel we had conyerseC
with the strangers among whom We were
thrown, until we had literally exhausted on
commonplace we had whispered to eacl
other of home, aud the dear cues there
until, after our long absence, we were airaI'
To trust our feelings further with the sub
Ject; aud finally, no resource remained Il
individuals who, like ourselves, knew tn
banks between which we were passing a
iamillarly as a monk knows his breylarv
save eating and drinkng-an Amusement
which, despite the opinion of many olde
and wiser heads than my own, cannot hel
considering as very questionable, when ther
Is neither THIRST nor hunger to lend them
Zest.
Under these circumstances, the compan
ionship even Of this modern "Snarley-yow
unpromislng as II first appeared. was vel
come and forthwith commenced opera
tons towards my canine monstrosity,as hu
man beings occasionally do not disdain L
do towards each olher-I fed him. cal
see at this moment the gracious aud encour
aging expression of eye with which he me
my advances. was lying upon mattres
on the deck, with heap Of pillows snug
propped up behind me, by the raised plat
form of the t'ller, discussing some DANTE
with which one of our warm-hearted Wen
nese friends had stored ltlle travelling ba: