Blue hen's chicken. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1848-1854, 1852-05-14
WIZ OLE NO. 352.

VIII OLE NO. $50.
the children would grow to be men, or ne1f it.
But the day they were eighteen years OF age, ?
storm would arise, and both would perish. one
by fire, and the other By water, uzless both re-
manned beneath the roof OF the parents, enclosed
in dark ro9m; The prophecy made llne q
few years past, and the ina ter was eaiifeiy fer
y lien by him not SO the mother, she who
bore, nursed and maiurod thuse boys II rang .
lin her ears, it was her dream by nigh, her
! thought by day. The words of the mani like
the ldes Of March to the great Roman w,rrief
: CGsar, met her memory and sunk deep ina the
recess Of her fancy haunted her everywhre,
and at all times. Times changed, old seiArs
gave way to new ones, as the tide OF civilAa-
y ton pressed from the frontiers. the pione&s
+ pushed back still deeper into the far west \
Towns, and their innovations, spread OF iks
e ineiehbors, removed again still farther back in|o
Y The Wilderness. Time sped, nsw scenes soop
|. made old ones forgotten. Warland's two twin
3 boys, Edgar and Oscar, became robust, hstdy
e fellows, and at seventeen were rugged as men.
ndulgiug in the arduous sports, adventures and
v abors OF life in the wilderness, in common [
e with those Of more mature years.
g The Indian war ragged upon the frontier, The
\ battles Of the Thames and Tippecanoe were yet
TO be fought. Warland, accom- anied By bis son
10 Edgar, as mounted volunteers, had left his home
II wife and several children, under the guardian
l. shin Of his eldest son Oscar and was now un-
1 der the command Of General William Henry
A. Harrison. While laying one night encauiped
e. On the fields. or plains OF Sandusky, Warlaud
= arose suddenly from his couch, and sought the
re quarters of the commander-in-chiaf. His i'm
-loortunily was sufficient 10 gain admission 10
th lhe presence of General Harrison, although he
D was deeply engaged in conference with somr
au Of his staff officers. touching fnmor tha, had
e- lust reached them. OF large bcdy OF the skuk-
he Ing, red-faced foe, and their cruel allies, ihe
French Canadians, who were committing SAD
Havoc upon the homes and hearts ef the frontier
ssitlers.
A brief conferences with the commander-in
chief gained the purpose Of Warlaud.
go, for Gods sake, 90, it is fearful 10 con
template; lei your son accompany you others,
guard, il you wish--go.'
As the general uttered this, his counienance
= .as; setrc, ,saa % an extent porirsging hrw
tho Iadir, Z, r ~ ,',i ~, ''5 'se T.
ss.lss sS.s Ii is sr.aa No.
= itffE tent 'oi his son.
long ride beiore.us my prayer to God is thai
aed we may not he too late y
tWhy God bless us.father, yon siarea body
vhai's afoot ! The internal red skins abont &c
rae surround us 2 asked the drowsy son, aronsing
the himself from his slumbers, and donnng his cap
na land boots. about the only pieces of carmen, a
frontier soldier ever doffs, as he lays him down
he for tue night upon his mother earth.
ier- No, son, I've had dream-'
osl "A dreaas . said the son, relinquishing his
be lhold uuon his saddle, with smile playing oy
old or his manly counienanee, "a dream, father Y
ivel .Ay, quick, quick, stand not to question
seize your saddle, accOutfe your horse and
I'D. npunt; quick, we must he home before th'
hat setting Of another sun. There's danger, death
mo- ihers!'
sars Ere the Young soldier could we'll digest hi
re- wonder at the strange, ridd'e'liks manner .
liar his father that person, mounted upon iorin'd
set able charger, Joined him, and the twain s'ar'e
NJ a inll gallop towards the oulposts, Waraot
rsed ivin,- the countsrsigns 10 the Feniinels, alt
is rhibiting his .loave' 10 the officer Of the guart
ng lihs lathef and son passed. and were soon To-
one lin the thick foliage Of the forest
and The red tinis thar usher in the bright god
ing lday had already drawn their ruddy lines afour
tl,e eassrn horizon, and the vast wild areas
~ to those prinieval forests were ringing with "a
and merry notes Of million tiny s7ngstefs, whl
r de ! he harsh clagg OF the soldiers swords al
nose ,ther trappings and the thunder OF the massl
Inderlh,rsss' honfs res0unded through the heag
EN-. tmbsrpd aad thickest woods, like some thnnd'
u goIinr hast Of The whirlwind gnd. Ana ih
ak, r,do the father ami son, some miles aleng
= his drcary way, amid No less and terrible daHl
erup- fkan .ndian ambush, the bullet and The kn
ter * 4 remorseless savage foe. Bat in the S
the Of the father an instrument as keen as the I'm
boys. or the bullet was forcing its way. The bur
hony thnucht OF eighteen years was awakened,
'i his rnheeded words oi an iole prophecy had T
he'd the bushes thought, the sleeping senses
iteen, he slumbering soldier, in his tent at midnlg
I YOU, h nd heard a voice deeper and more astouhd
about ,han the caunon's roar, the Indians yell or
EN- on cracking fire of Indian prisoners sactinoe-
chill sritt aight Of time, tha busy and exeli
man scenes of squaiter's life, had rubbed nut m
q and Of the past hut slnngs providence IN
,arious and wonderful supernatural agei
, had ,'.tose denih no human thought eau lathom,
It zhe ,nisnered in the ear Of the sleeping soldi'
fav0r.- ,,o u,orroir death risis your fire ade =
-etling, The tortured mind, wrilhlng under the y
4 hap oune of an acute sentence. kept on anu
tcho ,peniou father and husband saw ms mouse
ed-the fl ames, the funeral pyTe o. MS ia'h'y,
thrifty swakening from the terror Of such fearful
m,nilion, thoughts OF the pat as wen a.
,rlnnd ~, sent attitude OF present events, were no
an. his p'e s;, N XII excited feelings and aro
ed ACE Iva,,,nd communicated to his son the 9
rau.sed r ~ alarm. the fearful Dream the lhougn
ran. OF ,,,hir, he could not shake of anu haVilg
ista absent some months, without sny 'u','"','
or sui ltinn with his family, ihet np"o.'ty IL
et tain- lion. The augury touching we late y, "'
nd ad- mis-. lhe time-just the eighteenth YER y,
ir4 his sc,,---aI conspired to excite Waranu - =
Y IN all a,i,n.-a Journey Of sixty m'es ~ o"9 l.
gossip hiougn a country, part Of wu'cn @ NA' y"
tina,e IN ba infested with the savass " nd,
=: tatier Noon came and pissed u,,sN S,Y"So ,n
a.. ohscure the early autumn sky' p1
Of hefl ,yi,ds swept over the pialns, ~" ~ u.
If which through the forget. hut onwS'1 S rsss pss
prophecy hi,h.metiled and strong lhosu a.sas,
Ia Hard ,hsir riders with quick ana s'sauy
repeated, watds their forest homes As 0""''"