Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-03-30

"'S'ss MINUS btougHt uP, uHu At inc
instant Of striking the water the head
falls back, feet dashed straight out
when they enter the pools with the
velocity and clearness of javelln,
shooting away, just beneath the sur
face, like salmon.
Others, again, are diving in foam
ing Notwithstanding and skirling---
laughing, always neutrality-suspicious.,
swimming, half revealing their Pretty
forms before sinking again beneath
the stream. Others, still more dar-
ing and expert. go whirling through
narrow passages, thrown from side
TO side in the white waters--now
completely hidden in the cataracts-
anon rising up in recumbent NTH
tudc, when away they are hurled
over cataract of twenty feet,
emerging far below with long iresses
streaming behind, and with graceful
limbs cleaying the river, like naughi
else in nature more charming than
themselves.
Ii is a sight 10 make lover forget
his mistress, or parson his prayers.
| know il would have been my case,
had | been so fortunate as to be
either here passed all my leisure
hours, never tired of beholding The
beautiful panorama of life aud water
moving before me and there were
others, on these occasions, who were
wont TO mingle bravely in the sport,
portly post ENTHUSIASTICALLY lieu
tenanis-mad cap REFERS, of course,
stald clmplains, too but all declared
it was pleasant, exceeding pleasant!
although mingled with few indiffer-
ent remarks as to what the good mis-
sionaries might think of ii.
Many of the ioyheennees have
pretty faces, expressive black eyes,
let-black hair; then there are others
who make good limitations of Blen-
helm spaniels in the visage but
nearly all have rounded volupluous
forms, perfectly natural when bcauli-
ful and young, with small hands and
feet but such larks are they for fun
aud laughter ! with certain al. Of
sly Occurrences that renders them
quite bewitching.
In the cool Of the afternoon, a
number of Us in company with half
a dozen of these attractive Maids,
would amuse ourselves in sliding over
gentle waterfall that poured into
secluded basin stretching calml y away
below: hand in inland very
soft pretty hands they were pr,
forming long link, one after anoth
or, in sitting posture, we threw
ourselves upon the mercy Of the lively
foam above, and like lightning DASH
ed over the brink of the falls, and
were drawn with magical celebrity for
great depth beneath the surface,
until our ears uugled ana senses
retled with The rushing noise, when
we would again be swept swiftly by
counter-curreni up TO the air OF
heaven, and carefully stranded on a
sand-bank near by, wondering very
much how we got there, aud always
greeted by the gay laughter Of the
waler-nymphs around us. Nor is
II the safes, sport imaginable for in
some of these submarine excursions
an inexperienced person is sometimes
given to beat his head or body
against rocks, or be carried to The
wrong eddics aud floated among
dangerous straits, to the great deiri-
ment OF his breath and DIGESTION
However, no one need entertain the
slightest fears when attended by one
of the natives. They may, when
saving you in the last gasp Of drown
ing, hold you up in the coming
breakers, and ask, How much p
tree monee !" with a prospective
glance at reward. But when
diyerting yourself with these nut
brown Maids, they guide you in
safety through perilous labyrinths,
aud shield YOU from all HARM
Lieutenant Wise.