The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-06-30
WASHINGTON. d. C.
For the National Ers.
lcoPYRIsHr SECURED By THE AuTHoR-l
MARX SUTHERLAND:
Oh,
povER AND PRINCIPLE.
By EMMA D. &. N. soUTHwoRTH,
CHAP. XIX-Continued.

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When consciousness came back, Rosali
found herself living upon her bed. The room
was ouiet COOL and dimly lighted by candl
On the hearth, whose glare was shaded from
her ewes by an intervening chair with shaw
thrown over it. Mark was standing by her
bathing her face with cold water. As memor,
returned she shuddered violently several times
and her first words, gasped out, were, 9Th
wolves Oh the wolves"
aThey are gone, love; put TO flight!' sal,
Mark Sutherland, soothingly.
"And you-youy" she asked wildly gazing
at him.
Safe, as you see, love! he answered, as h
lifted her head, and placed glass of cold wa
ter to her lips
How did it hsppen, Mark? she question
ed as be laid her head once more upon the pill
low.
"What happen, love!"
"My escape, your safety, and the fight o
the wolvese"
Dear Rose, we had better not revert to tn,
subject again tonight Try to compose your
SELF
81 cannot If close my eyes and lie still,
hear again those dreadful howls-I see agar
those glaring eyes and CHASTITY fangs-l ly,
over again the terrible DANGER
"My dear Rosalie, there was really no YER,
great danger, and it was all over Us soon as
reached the spot with firearms" said Mark
calmly and wishing to depreciste the peril she
had passed, and restore her to quietness.
Yet tell me about tiff you will talk to me
about tfa escape, shall not brood over the ap
palling -
She shuddered and was silent.
There is really very little to tell, Rosalie
As approached the house on my return home
heard the bowling of the wolves surmised
the truth instantly-that they were the same
pack the neighbOrs had been after, for the last
few days-that the smell of the fresh meat we
had brought over the prairie and into the forest
mad decoyed them to the cabin, from whence
there was no light to scare them. | hurried on
as fast as possible, and soon came upon the
cabin, and found pack of some haif-dozen
wolves baying around the house, and leaping
and scratching at the walls They were prai-
RE wolves--a small cowardly race-who 90 in
packs and who are generally very easily driven
of. l first of all picked up and threw billet
Of wood ut them / forgot, dear Rose. that our
window had no better defence than sheet or
also
threw the piece Of wood, it not only passed
through the pack of wolves, but on through the
windOw-place toO--scattering the animals, but
slso making an opening, through which seve-
raj of them, in their efforts to escape leaped
into the house -
at was then tainted" said Resale.
81 found you lying on the floor, insensible."
But you and the wolves"
"A very short skirmish served to put the
enemy to fight. / succeeded in killing only
two of them-two that had leaped before me
in at the window-the others escaped"
As Rosalie continued to tremble, he added
"They are really not formidable antago-
mist my dear. have heard q pioneer say, that
he would as lief as not tumble himself, unarm-
ed, down into dingle full of them, and trust
to his muscular strength and courage to con-
quer. That hight have been all boasting; still,
know they are dastardly race; and if you
had known it, and could have raised great
noise, and thrown some heavy missiles among
them from the loft above, you would have put
them all to flight"
FAh, but if they had got in while lay here
Insensble from terror, they would have destroy
ed me, thought Resale But unwilling to give
PAIN she withheld the expression Of thOee ter
uDle thoughts.
More words of soothing influence Mark drop
ped into her ear, until ut length her spirits
were Gained, and she was enabled to join him
in earnest thanksgiving to Heaven for their
Preservation. He tanned her till she dropped
asleep. And them late as it was lie went and
busted himself with many things that remain
ed to be done-putting glass in the windows,
cutting up and sailing down the nearly fatal
quarter Of beef ripping of the head Of the bar
rel of flour, &c.-and doing all 50 quietly as
not to disturb the sleeper