Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-12-16
miscellaneous.
FROM Howitt's journal
THE SECTIONS HERO.
By COTTON nATnER sILLs. ESQ,

cast by the old sew tree under which W,
eat seem deeper and deeper by contrast. TIL,
made luxurious lullaby.
FOR awhile we were silent, living in sight, m,
murmuring sound. Then Jeremy took up our
conversation where suddenly feeling WEAKNESS. NJ
we saw that deep green ~shadOwy resting place
We had ceased speaking a quarter of an hour
9l"Iiow would you, then, demo A hero ?"
ssked.
There was a long pause. and I had almost for
gotten my question in watching n cloud-shadow
floating over the PARKWAY hills, when Jeremy
made answer: :
My idea of a hero is one who acts up to the
highest idea of duty he has been able to form nc
matter at what sacrifice. ! think that by thi.
definition you may include all phases ef charac
ter, even to the heroes Of old, whose sole land
to us, low idea Of duty consisted in personal
prowess."
We were both startled by a third voice.
III | might make so bold sir,"-and then the
speaker stopped.
1t was the sexton, whom, when we first arrived,
We had noticed, as an accessory to the scene. but
whom we had forgotten MS much rs though he
were as inanimate as one of the moss covered
head-stones.
If | might be so bold" said he again. awoit.
ing leave to speak. Je. envy bowed in Difference to
his white uncovered head. And so encouraged, ne
went on.
What that gentleman" (~alluding to my last
speech) " his just said, brings to my mind one
who'is dead and gone this many n year ago. |
may he have not rightly understood your meaning.
gentlemen. but as far as | could gatheri it, l think
you'd both have given ia to thinking poor Gilbert
Dawson q hero. At any rate" said he, heaving
n long q~uivering sigh, 81 have reason to think
him SOD
will you take a seat, sir, and tell us about
him ?" said Jeremy, standing mp until the old
man was seated. confess | felt impatient at the
interruption.
ut will be fOrty.fve year come Martinmas,"
said the sexton, sitting down on a grassy mound
at our feet, ''since | had finished my 'prenticeship,
and settled down at Lindal. You see Lindal, sir.
at evenings and mornings. across the bay; a little to
the right of Grange at least, l used to see it many
= time and oft, afOre my sight grew so dark and
] have spent many a quarter of an hour a gazing
at it far away, and thinking Of the days | lived
there, till the tears came so thick to my eyes, |
could gaze NJ longer, | shall never look upon it
again, either far off or near, but you may see it,
both ways, and a terrible bonny spot it is; in my
young days, when | went to ssttle there, it was
full OF as wild a set of young fellows as ever
were clapped eyes on all for fighting,
p%oaching, quareling, and such like work.
! was startled myself when l first found
what q set | were among, but soon | began to fall
into their ways, and l ended by being as rough a
chap as any on 'em. I'd been there a matter of
two year, and were reckoned by most the cock of
the village, when Gilbert Dawson, as l was speak
mo nj rnmp m IindaI III about 30 eton
ping q chap as | was, II used to be six feet high,
thought now I'm so shrunk and doubled my and
"A we were like in the same trode fhotb nsod 70
preplre osiers and wood f1r tho TivernooI coonars
who get n great deal Of stuff from the copses round
the bay, SIR We were thrown together, and took
nightly to each other. / put my best leg foremost
inc. though since IA hean ~ T;nJ.l III Ios. aood
mart of what I learnt and 7 Font M rougb wsavs
out of sight for a time, I fell, so ashamed Of lis
getting to know them. But that did not last LONG
3beoan 70 tb;nL he f,no;oJ y I'll 7 dosG . Wn5'
hut who had always held off from me tn lnt
she was a pretty one in those DAYS, There's none
like her now tb;nk 7 500 ber ro;na oionc ,ho
road With her donc;ng tread and sb,t;nn haot
her long yellow curls 10 give ms or ,nn otbor
Young fellow, n saucv word no wonder G;lhert
was token with her for all no. ~ 800 ond ~
80 merry and liyht Dnt 7 bea,n 70 ,b;nL che
liked him again and then NV HOOD ,ros oil So
I cot 10 haze him for evarvtb;na be d;, 49,
time I had stoned nv admirina 70 600 him hnr he
lsont- and what n t1no;ter ana cr;cLatar bo no.
And now 7 oropnd NV too,b iii hatraj 49,
he did a thing which cangbt Lettv;s eve 7 cnrij
read il in her eve tbo, she lied him for al sha
held. herself lust os b;gb With him a With al
the rest Lord God forg;vo me, bor, Tb,ta5 .hot
man. ''"'
lie smoke as if the hatred wora = tb;ro of roster.
dav 80 clear ,r;tbin Tic r,arorr ,ran -
,ciions and feelines Of bis vnu,I And ,han he he
dropped his voice and said.
well | began to look ont 10 nick = ouarre, with
him for INV blood was nm n ALL him If 7 hao+
him. land were n rare boyer in those d,vsII
thought Lefty would cool toward him So one
evening nj nno;ts I'm surs 7 donSt Lrn, hor ~
why. but large doings grow ont of small worIs I
fell out with him. and CHALLENGED him 70 fgbt
could see he were verv wrotb nv hi. color cou;ng
and going-and as | said before. he were n fine ace7
tive fellow, But all at once he drew in. and said
he would not fight. Such a veil ns The Iindal
lads, who we're Watching us. set up, hear It vet:
scorneJ J and 7 thourb hex hs so'r y . ch nln 10 De 80
meaning, and I'd give him another chance so /
said it again, and dared him, as plain as words
could speak, to fight out the quarrel. lie told me
then, he had no quarrel against me; that he might
have said some thine 70 mt me m. he Aid not
know that he had, he asked pardon; but that he
would not fight nohow.
I'll was SO full of scorn Mt his cowardliness. that
was yexed I'd given him the second chance and