Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1854-04-28

suns ~ the season had dried IL until IL Was
crispy. and ratified as | walked through IL.
I assembled gentle swell aud looked around
me. The scene was a grand one. On ono
hand were the Cross Timbers dimly seen in
the distance. resembling dense wall Of
wood built Of human hands, while in every
direction tie prairie stretched away uhi. los,
IN the distance The sun Vas getting low,
aud looked like a sunset IN the sea. hsmy
eyes wandered from point to point, they were
suddenly fixed upon a solitary figure several
hundred vsrds distant. at the foot Of the long
swell or roll NJ on which sis standing.
"!le stood in oren spare, and ! At frat
wondered how that could be, as the grass was
- high in every other place; bu, lho affair
.oon explained itself Msrc careful examin.
alton showed me iha, the solitary object vas
IN Indian, aud hi' object in packing up The
dry grass was evident, he was soirg to 6rc
prairie II was doubtless the sane fellow
that had c'capcd at the time bad been fred
on. lie had discovered my re,rea, and vas
about to rcyense himself 10 a tinggla, man.
ner
"Tho v,sj was blowing rrcsh toward, IRE
ard ifihe grass had heen set on Ere, No power
On earth could have saved me, rlr ,he iseicsl
horse could not run ~, enough to escape 10,
devourng flames. A terrible dread cf ,fai
Kind of death cane over me. stood Ike
one fascinated, and ralad Al the preglral.ca
~ The s1tasc. lie strod in tie middle s6tls
npeu space he had made, with blazing t0;,h
In his hand. lunumerable thoughts rushed
through my mind in an inslan, Of tine.
w1s never - completely paralizsd and stupe-
Gci befrc IN my life. Tho power Of
though: seemed 10 be the only power len me.
and iIat w,5 stimulated to m unnatural Do.
gree. The past, present, and future, vcr,
reviewed md speeu!s;cd upon in thar h..f
ini broken fragment Of time in wh.r. ,so
savage ,iuul waiting ior tie brand o. -gr
more brightly before lie !hru;! II in,. he
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