Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-01-23

an admiring eye. The poor girl looked at
Harry, who stood near with troubled brow
and angry eye, and then cast upon the new
competitor an imploring glance. t
Placing his coat in the hands of one of the
Judges, he drew sash he wore beneath it
tighter around his waist, and taking the ap-
pointed stand, made, apparently without effort,
the bound that was to decide the happiness or
misery of Henry and Annette &
Twenty-Five feet and one inch . shouted
the Judge. The announcement was repeatad
with surprise by the spectators, who crowded
around the victor, filling the air with their
congratulations, not unmingled, however, with
loud murmurs from those who were more
nearly interested in the happiness of the low
Ii&Qld man approached, and grasping his
hand eXultlngly, called him his son, and said
he felt prouder of him than ifhe were prince
Physical activity and strength were the old leap
er's true patent of nobility.
! Resuming his coat, the victor sought with his
eye the fair prize he had, although nameiess
and unknown, fairly won She leaned on
her fathers arm, pale and distressed
Her lover stood aloof, goomy and mortified.
admlring the superiority of the stranger in
, an exercise in which he prided himself as be-
| ing unrlvalled, while he hated him for his sue
cess.
Annette, my pretty prize said the victor,
| taking her passive hand have won you fair
iy.' Annete's check became paler than mar
5 BILE; she trembled like an aspen leaf, and clung
closer to her father, while the dlooping eve
sought the form of her lover. His brow grew
dark at the strangers language.
, 4 have won you, my pretty flower, to make
{ you bride -tremble not so violen,ly-I mean
not for myself, however proud | might be- he
} added with gallantry, to wear 50 fair gem
next my heart. Perhaps and he cast his eyes
around lnquiringly, while the current of tife
J leaped joyfully 10 her brow, and a murmur Of
surprise ran through the crowd, perhaps there
2 is some favored youth among the competitors,
: who has higher claim 10 this jewel. Yonng
ry, 'methlnks you were victor in the lists be-
2 fore me. strove not for the maiden .thouo one
could not well strive for farer but from love
| for the manly sport in which saw you engaged.
You are the victor, and as such, with the per
: mission of this worthy assembly, receive from
? my hand the prize you have so well and honor
5 ably won
The youth sprang forward and grasped his
hand with gratitude; and the next moment
4 Annette was weeping from pure joy upon his
: shoulder. The welkin rung with the acclama-
p tions of the delighted villagers, and amid the
e temporary excitement produced by this act, the
f stranger withdrew from the crowd mounted his
e horse, and spurred at a brisk trot through the
village.
: That night Henry and Annette were married
d and the health of the mysterious and noble
S hearted stranger was drank in ovcrlowing bum
S pers of rustic beverage
d In process of time, there were born unto the
| married pair sons and daughters, and Harry
S Carroll had become Col. Henry Carroll, of the
e Revolutionary army.
0 One evening, having just returned home after
, hard compalgn, he was sitting with his fam
d lily on the gallery of his handsome country
house, when an advance courier rode up and
y announced the approach Of Gen. Washington
e and suite, informing him he would crave his
il hosptallties for the night. The necessary di
Il rections were given in reference to the house
S hold preparations, and Col. Carroll, ordering
his horse, rode forward 10 meet and escort Il
|. his house the distinguished guest, whom he haC
n never yet seen, although serving in the same
+ widely-extended army.
h That evening at the table, Annette, now be
e come the dignifed, lonly and still handsome
, Mrs. Carroll, could not keep her eyes from tn,
a face of her illustrious visitor. Every momen
r or two she would steal glance al his com
manding features, and half-doubtingly, half-as
e suredly, shake her head and look again, to b
e still more pnzzled Her absence of mind an,
: embarrassment at length became evident TO he
: husband, who inquired affectionately if she wa
le ILL.,
le i suspect COL, said the Gen. who had bee
some time, with quiet, meaning smile, obser
ia wing the lady's curious and puzzled survey O
o his features, that Mrs. Carroll thinks she re
ID cognizes in me an old acquaintance And h
% smiled with mysterious air, as he gazed upo
,s both alternately.
The Colonel started, and a faint memory G
. the past seemed to be revived, as he ga7ed
a while the lady rose impulsively from her chair
,e and bending eagerly forward over the tea-url
l. with clasped hands and an eye of intense
lie eager inquiry, fixed full upon him, stood 70
" a moment with her lips parted as if she woul
10 speak.
Pardon me, my dear madam-pardon me
IN Colonel, | must put an end to this scene
k have become, by dnt Of camp-fare and har
n usage, too unwieldy to leap again twenty-tw
o. feet and one inch, even for so fair bride as on
an wot of.
b. The recognition with the surprise, deigl
r. and happiness that followed, are left TO the in
agination of the reader.
10 General Washington was indeed the hant
r. some young leaper,' whose mysterious al
pearance and disappearance in the native vi
- of the lovers, is still Evolutionary, and who's
claim to a substantial body of bona fde fles