New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-06

Y tfue opafsan pfeeu, WsEa voice Ike = dis
was as sonorons as the boom u 4 DID OCEAN
against hollow cliffs.
But among them all, my eye inst&atiy dc
tected o magnificent ereatare--n hsAnk Ata1a
hound, that to me seemed ahsoluteiy rHsfest, aB
q specimen Of canine symmetry His cost #as
as fine as the most glossy silk; from his head,
which was pointed like serpent's, his fns,
broad and thin ears with their great sweil'Fs
veins, depended more than an inch below the Till
Of his nose His neck, like n young staess; bis
chest. barrel ribbed, aud deep as q panther's;
his loins as clean as q gray hounds. with q
broad, strong back limbs tlt&t seemed to have
been hammered by sone wonarous skill 0ut Of
line steel; and such q voice bugles, clasions,
'cymbals, bells, Winds waters, echoes. mingled,
ciashing, rolling, roaring. inone tide Of rushing
sound; altogether, they were nothing Id thar
voice 6 Nowhere, nor nothing r as Jack Ell
claimed, ito the voice of Black Terror and
Smile, as he named . beautiful tan slus
u smaller size, which stood beside this nobls
animal Fl
The history Of this splendid couple was d
singular one, as JACK gave it TO me ON the spot s
he was sitting N the portico one morning,
looking cut over Che river, which waa very much
swollen, and hlied With drift wood He eobserved
some strange, black Objects which seenaed to be
struggling with the cnrrent He called ia Cato Z
for his spy glass, and saw at once thas they
were two animals OF some sorE who Wera trVfgx y
hard to climb upon the drift wood which fosted
in the middle Of the mighty sIream
Here was an adventure at any rate and fol 3
| lowed by Cato, Jack descended the steap bank
of the river. When he reached the water, he
found that his boat had been torn away BY the
current Here was n0npius with q vengeance
Jack was staggered but for a moment, when the
low plaintive howl Of hound reached him
4 across the waters y
It was terrible venture but Jacks coat
we nff Il
he only heard him say, Go IN, Massa Jack.
I'm here, when he plunged into the turbid cnr-
i rent, followed by the brave boy Jack said IL
/ it had been mars voice, ii could not have
/ hurt him" more than the sound Of that hounds
/ plaintive howl
Suffice II, the adventure, after having nearly
cost them both their lives, was successfully ae.
complished. by bringing these two heunds,
| which were coupled together by acclaim. TO the
shore, some four miles below, by the help Of the
drift-wcod, which they pushed before them.
/ The poor animals were nearly exhausted, and
| had probably been in the water for many hours
! Jack vowed that whole plantation couldn't
buy them They had probably fallen from some
4 steamboat, and had got caught by their chain
to the drift-wood, which had prevented them
from swimming ashore. 95
i The whole kennel was fed upon bread cxcluz
sively, during the hunting season, and we're
never permitted to touch any meat except what
=, .ney eneuseises Aiiso. . 1nis kept tnem IN nne
..s oo..om anu wina 1or running, ana made them
seiy satass ----
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cors of the a,iossaa sn X ~ ~
pack, while we follow bridie-pafh, leading
straight ahead, into the depths Of the forest
verge IL fhe Z ald ha,I y - 5s II sa3,s 20 IN,
river With tho se, sares, fbro,,,,, ,ra
i dr,y;ng an !, In a,,a "a ~ sr;h.
sheer descent ~ twentv Fat =
swamp. which WAS now drvs epceut ,shers fys
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mass u san n r,sss ti,a ~, MI, ,,t5
sttent r. get Nv mo int, tbs aI,nass
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swollen vens ana the "
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