The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-10-26

| fouud," the brindled staghound, Killbuck,
who licked his face assiduously, with bis grim
CORY tongue and lips, and besmearing his fac
with blood and foam, rendered his aspect We
more terrible and deathlike
But now the returning messengers began Il
ride in, fast AID frequent first, old Raoul. TIT
huntsman, surest, although not feetest ant
with him, shaking in his saddle, between tn,
sense of peril and the perplexity occasionet
him by the high, hard trot of the Norman ar
horse pressed into such unwonted service, Xix,
boar's head in aspick jelly" the brothe
mediclner from the neighboring convent, will
his wallet of simples and Instruments Of Chi
rurgery.
By bis advice, the plentiful application o
cold water, with essences and stimulants il
abundance, generous draught of rich wine 0
Burgundy and, when animation seemed thor
oughiy revived, the gentle breathing of vein
scon restored the young lady to her perfec
senses and complete selfpossession, though she
was sorely bruised, and 30 severely shaken tina
1t was eDjoined ca her to remain perfectly
quiet, whore she lsy with a lincoln green fur
red hunting cloak around her, until the arri
Val of the litter should furnish means of return
to the castle of her fathers host and kinsman
And, in good season, down the hill, slowly
and toisonnely came the horse-litter, poor sub
sttute for a wheeled vehicle; bat even thus tn.
best, if not only, conveyance yet adopted for
the transport of the wounded, the feeble, OF
tho luxurious, and, as SUCH used only by the
wealthy and the noble.
With the litter came three or four women
one or two, Norman msidens, the immediate
attendants of the Lady Guendolen, and the
others Saxon slave girls of the household of Sir
Philip de Morville, who hurried down, eager
to gain favor by chow of Jealous duty, or actu-
ated by woman's feeling for woman's suffering,
even in different grade and station.
The foremost of them all, bounding along
with all the Wild agility and free natural grace
fulness Of wood-nymph or bacchaute, was a
middle height Of her Eek, but plump as par
fridge, with limbs exquisitely formed and round
ed, profusion of faxen tresses floating unre-
strained on the air, large dark blue eyes, and
q complexion all of milk and rcsos--the very
tyre of rural Saxon youth and beauty.
AS she outstripped all the rest in speed she
was the first to tender gentle service to the
Lady Guendolen, who received her with a
smile, calling her Edith the Fair" snd thank
ing her for her ready aid.
But, ere long, as the cOurtlier maidens ar
rived on the ground, poor Edith was set aside,
as is too often the case with humble merit
while the others lifted the lady into the horse
litter, covered her with light and perfumed
garlands, and soon had all ready for her de-
parture.
But in the mean time, Edith had turned a
hassy glance around her. and deserving the in.
animate body of the Saxon serf, lying alone
and untondcd, moved by the gentle sympathy
of woman for the humblest unknown sufferer,
she fastened to assist, if assistance were still
possible But as she recognised the limbs
stately, though cold and still, and the features
still noble through gore and defiement, q swift
horror smote her, that che shock like Il leaf,
and fell, with a wild, thrilling shrek, 90
Kenric, Kenric!" on the body of the wounded
man.
Z" Ha! what is this?" cried Sir Philip, who
now first saw or remembered what had passed
Chow is this? Knaves, is there a man hurt
hero ~,
GA Saxon churl, Beausre," replied one of the
pages, fippantly, "who has gotten his brisket
unseamed by his brother Saxon yonderl" and
he pointed to the dead caroase of the stag.
"Our lady save Us" murmured the gentle
Guendoien, who seemed about to relapse intoin-
sensibility "he saved my life, and have ye Lei
him perish?"
"Ncw, by the splendor of our lady's eyes,
cried Yvo de Tail!ebois, the father of the fair
young lady, "this is the gallant lad We cav
sfar, in such bold hand-so-hand encounter with
yon mad brute. We have been ingrately
shamefully remiss. This must be amended
Philip do Morvile"
"It sdall-it shall, my noble friend" cried
Philip; and ye, dogs that have let the man
perish INTENDED thus, for doing CT his devo;r
better than all the best of We, besir yourselves
If the man die, as it seems like enow, We shall
learn, ere ye are one day older, what pleasant
bed rooms are the vaults of Waltheofstow, and
how tastes the water of the most."
Meantime the monk trotted up, and, after
brief examination, announced that, though bad
" hurt his life was in 10 Immediate peril, and
set himself az ouce to comfort and revive him.
ale ia not slain be will not die, my child u
said Sir Yvo, softly, bending over the litter, to
his pale lily who smiled family as she whis
pered, In reply
"Dear father, nor be a slave any longer"
"Not if | may redeem him. he answered
.'but | will speak with Sir Philip at once
Meanwhile be tranquil, and let them convey
you homeward. Forward, there with the
litter-gently, forward"
And, Herewith, he turned and spoke eagerly
to de Morville, who listened with grave brow
and answered.
"If it may be, my noble friend and brother
If it may be. But there are difficulties Nathe
less, on my life desire to pleasure you"
"Nay it COMFORTS not with our name Oh
station, that the noble Cuendolen de Tailebois
should owe life to q oollared thral-a mere
brute animal. My lord, your word on it! He
must be free, since Yvo dc Taillebois is his debt
orr
"My word is pledged on it :" replied de Nor
vile. If it can be at all, it shall be. Nay
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speak farther of it at the castle And now
10 how he opes bis eyes and stares. He viii
be right, anon; and ye, knayes, bear him tt
the castle, when the good brother bids ye, and
gently, if ye would escape reckoning with
me. And now, good friend, to horse to horse
The litter is half way to the castle gates al
ready. To horse to horse and God send VI
no naore such sorry huntings"
SELF-TAxATIoN.-The taxes are, indeed
heavy; ami if those laid On by Government
were the only ones We had to pay, we Nigh
moro easily discharge them; but We hav,
many other, aud much more grievous to some
OF US. we are taxed twice as much By our
likeness, three times as much by our pride anC
four times as much by Our folly and from thes,
taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or delivel
us BY allowing any Observation-Disclosures.
An excellent cement for seams in the roof
of houses, or for any similar defects, may b,
made with white lead, dry white sand, and a
much Oil as will render it of the consistency O
putty; it becomes as hard as any stone in tn,
course of q few weeks The lead forms kline
of fiux with the sand, adapting it to the film,
up of cracks in brick buildings, also for point
ing up the bases of chimneys, where they pro
jeot through the roofs of Singled houses