Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-09-03
WHOLE NO. 4l3.

YOU to renew your Genealogical pursuits. Twice
you snatch handlulls Of grass, and cautiously open
your palm to find that you have only grass. IL IS
quite vcxaiOus. There are thousandso of them hero
aud there climbing and wriggling ON that lladeI
lcapng off from that stalk, twisting and kickinguii
that vertical SPIDERS web, jumping and bounding
about under yourycry nose, hitting you in your face.
crccpnp ON your shoes and vet not one do YOU get
lf any tcndcr-hcartcd person ever wondered how q
humane man could bring himself to such cruelty
ns to impalc an insect let him hunt for grnsshOp-
per in bot day among tall grass, and Ilbn Mt
length hc secures one, the afiXing him upon hook
will lie done without single scrupe, us nero
matter Of penal justice, and with judicial solcm-
nifty.
Now, then, the trout are yondcr. We swing our
line to the air and give it gentle cast toward tic
dc rcd spot, and puff of south wind dextcrously
lodges it in the branch Of the tree. You plainly
see it strike, and wlirl and over, SO that ~,
gentle pull l00scns it: you draw IL jerk up and
pull down, you give il series Of nnnble twitchos,
you coax IL in this way and solicit Il in that way in
vain. Then You stop and look moment, first at
the trout and then ut your line. Was there ever
any thing 80 ycSotious? Would it he wrong to get
angry? In fact you feel very much like II. Tho
very things you wanted to catch, the grasshoppor
and the trout, you could not but n tree thu. fou
did not want, You have caught fast mt the fra
throw. You fear that the trout will be scarod
You cautouslf draw nigh and peep down Yes,
there they are looking ut yOu and laughing as SURF
trout ever laughed. They understand the whole
thing. With a very decisive jerk you snap your
line regain the remnant Of it and sit down to re-
pair it, TO put on another hook catch another grass
hopper, and move on down stream 10 catch front,
Meantime the sun is wheeling behind the moVn-
tans, for you are just at the foot Of the EASTERN
ridge of Mount Washington, mot of the White
Mountains. but in Massachusetts, and Cunnccticut.l
Already its broad shade begins to fall down upoh
the plain. The side of the mountain is solemn, and
sad Its ridge stands sharp against fre-bright
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OF the charcoalcrs, and shaggily marks the sky.
llcre and there through the heavens are slowly
sailing continents Of fleece mountains-Alps AMI
Andes of vapor. They, too, have their broad shade
Ows. Ono you see cast upon yondcr hill fur to thc
east, while the base is radiant with the sum-. An
other cloud-shndow is moving with stately grandeur
along the valley Of the lIousatonic and if you rise
to a little cminence you may see the brilliant land
scnpe growing dull in its sudden obscuration ON its
forward line, and growing as suddenly bright upon
its rear trace. How maiesticay that shadow trav-
els up those steep and precpitous mountain sides
how it swoops down the gorge and valley; how il
moves along the plain. ...,!,.r .
But now the mountain-shadov is creeping down
into the meadow. 1t has ef6sssd the road where
your horse stands hitchcd to the paling of dcser
ted little house. You forget your errand. You
select dry tufty knoll and living down YOU gaze up
into the sky. OH those depths! Something within
you reaches out and yearns; you have vlLue sense
- niiiiitJ tJaf astfie-sof tho lftlos - bon..ss
life, aud the sweetness and grandeur OF diyiIe life
and Of eternity. You people that vast ether. You
stretch away through il and find that celestial city
beyond, and therein dwell oh how many that are
yours! Tears come unbidden. You begin to long
for release. You pray. Was there ever better.
closetS Under the shadow of the mountain, the,
heavens full of cloudy cohorts of armies Of ho:semen
and chariots, your soul loosencd from the narrow
judgments Of human life and touched with II full
of Immortality and the liberty Of spiritual
state. An hour goes past. How full has it been
struggling to be thougns and OF thoughts
deliqucscing into feeling Twilight is coming
You have miles to ride home. Not trout in your
basket! Never mind, you have fshed in the beav-.
ems, and f'ken pr"nt atorc ofprey, Letthcm laugh
at your empty basket. Take their raicry good
naturelly; You have certainly had good luck. /,
But we have not yet gone to the brook for which
we started. That must lie for another tramp. Pqr-
haps one'scxpcrience Of lancy tackle" and Of fly
fishing mightnot be without some profit in moral!
nralogics; perhaps mountain stream and godd
luck Unreal trout may afford some easy sdc-thoughtt
not altogether Improbable fora summer VACATION.
At any rate it will make il plinlhA 1ftcn the bcs.
part Of trout fishing is not the fishing