Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-30

parable laShes. Her teeth were small,
white and even-hsr lips redder and swee-
ter than a wild strawberry. She was
called white headed by those who used
rough words, TO give pungency to their
speech, but her luxuriant hair, though
light in color, was fine as unspun silk,
and glislened like skeins Of minute gold
en- threads, while it harmonized truly with
her exquisitely fair complexion binding
her unsu!lied brow with n softly shining
curonal, to which consultations of dia-
monds would not have added a charm.
Mtny a princess m ght have envied her
small fair hands. with ,aper fingers and
rose tinted nails, ringless though they
were. Aud mre bewilching little feet
and anc(Esthan hers, cased in beaded
mnc1Sihs0f the fines, deer-skin. never
bounded to the sw ell Of ravishing music
ON the polished h'ors of magnificent ball
rooms. Her dress was of coarse material
in uns,udied style. bu, her form would
have been graceful IN aE, g1rh. No
wonder that poor John B ms boy s!irre d
The fire when his mother whispered a hope
that he might get her. All John! you
were not alone in your admiration.
More than you were smit.en, and all in
vain you leaned languishingly over the
picket wall. watching the sparkling rush
Of the river. thinking Of her eyes ard her
smiles, feeling poetry, (which is a better
thing than to write it) and whistling mel
ancholy fragments OF tunes, unheeding the
mellow glory O fan ln1ian summer sun
which trimmed the sky, and gave the low
ering forest AMI gliding waters q dreamy
richness of c~olnring and sheeny ~splendor.
On the nigh, following the dny after the
return 10 the station Of the rangers, whose
acquaintance we m9de in the woods north
of The Ohio, we have 10 enter one OF the
new cabins.
1t was about eighteen feet square in
side. One end was nearly entirely occu-
pied by the fire place, in which, for tho
air was frosty and chilly fog had rolled up
from the river. q fire was cracking cheer
lily. A couple Of beds. a little elevated
from the floor by long pins driven in the
walls and sustained at The exlremities by
roughly hewn sticks, occupied the corner
remote from tho fire. Over Tho door
hung Two long rifles with the necessary
a~ppcndages of powder horns, pouches and
A%nivcs, resting on a pair of bucks horns.
a few dishes were displayed on some shelves
opposite The door, aid ON array Of cook
ing utensils graced q corner near the fire.
the furniture was sparse even for a cabin
the arrangements TO, being completed.
Four persons sat by the hearth. An
Old gray-headcd man aid his mate, also
silver-haired and wrinkled-:hey looked
rs If they had lived constantly together
for forty years; and there was n young
pair, evideutly brother aod sister. and
certainly children Of the OLD Couple
The old mans head was clas;.ed in his
hands, and he leaned toward the fire, rock
ing slowly side ways, as wns his habit
when detected. The good old lady bust
ed herself with her huntingdon we'll she
The cause of his dependency. lie
was often in such moods. ana il was not
age alone that had scanned his faco deeply
with wrinkles. The young people were
silen, too, and If ii had been the old hearth
away in Pennsylvania. the song of the
house hold crickets would have been heard
but now. there were no home sounds
but the hum Of the fire, the click oil The
mothers needles, and the creak and buzz
Of The daughters flaxwheel, rapidly pill
ell. The three oak trees tina I had been the
guardians of that family, were moaning
and complaining in the night wind far
away over a deserted home, and the crick-
cts were singing sadly by desolale hearth
perhaps they were dead, with The hopes
that had died there.
The old man lifted his head. and the
fire light glowed over his noble and sor-
row-stamped features. 81 have been
thinking much of our lost Sallie, tonight
said he, and flaX-wheel, and knitting nee
die of Mary his daughter, and Mary his
wife, we're noiseless when he spoke, and
the young mall. whose ewes were TIL
then abstractedly regarding the haunting
fire, were fixed earnestly upon him
When l went to the city. the morning
that William saw her in the garden, ! saw
the young man tina, brothers wife though,
she was engaged TO. and can you believe
il. | met him again to-day-yes, to-day, in
this station? He is one Of the rangers
who came in yesterday And the old
mans eye shone strangely bright as he re-
turned the gaze of as,onishment that each
listener fastened upon him. md his words
had beer so positive that .hore was no
need of reply 10 the low in%terroga,ive ex-
CARNATIONS that were hurriedly uttered
about him.
Poor Sallie.' said Mr.. Grey, after n
minute Of perfect silence, if | could see
her once m,re, or know that she was dead
and where she rested, | would be willing
to die. | tried for ears TO feel satisfied
with my old home. when She was gone.
bu, il was no use; | would soon have died
thero-and in coming here, it is all 'vani-
ty and vexa,ion Of spirit Richard Car
roll must have been the cause OF her mis-
fortune in some way. So | have thought
and | have dreamed IT,. She must have
been crazy; she went into the woods, God
only knows where she might have wan
dered. poor girl. she was Wild
Did the ranger know you. father? ask
ed Willie-celled William now.
Il can scarcely say. | think that he
] l. ----L.. - L.. -,oe- tho, ho could