Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-07-18

Free TO be happy" interrupted the
man. With the best of wives, and the
best of food, a WARMER bed than duke,
and finer garden than an emperor's.
As for clothes, why the plague should a
man wear them when We don'i need
them ? AS for gold, what i: the use of
1t where Heaven sends everything ready
made 10 your hands p? IIarken, Cap
tain Leigh. You have been good cap
tain to me, and I'll repay you with bit
of sound advice. Give up your gold
hunting, and toiling and moiling after
honor and glory, and copy US. Take
that lair maid behind you there to wife
pitch here with us; and see if ycu are
not happier in one day than ever yon
were in all your life before" "You
are drunk, sirrah William PARA
combe Will you speak to me, or shall
L heave you into the stream to sober
you p "Who calls William Para.
combe 20 answered sleepy voice 81
iocl T! your captain 81 am not Will.
liam Parracombe. He is dead long ago
of hunger, and labor and heavy sorrow,
and will never see Bideford town any
more. He is turned into an Indian now
and he is to sleep, sleep, sleep for hun
dred years, till he gets his strength
again, poor fellow" X *-A rustic
roar Shrek and Amyas lifted his
eyes in time 10 see huge dark bear shoot
from crags above the dreamer's head,
among the group of girls. A dull crash,
as the group fell assunder; and in the
midst upon the ground, the tawny limbs
of one were writhing beneath the
fangs of black jaguar, the rar.
est and most terrible of the forest
kings. Of one? But of which Was
it Ayacanora And, sword, in hand
Amyas rushed madly forward before
he reached the spot those tortured limbs
were still. 1t was not Ayacanora for
with a shrek which rang though the
woods, the wretched dreamer, wakened
thus at last, sprang up and felt for his
sword. Fool he had left it in his ham
mock !! Screaming the name of his bride
he rushed on the jaguar, as it crouched
about its prey, and seizing its head with
teeth and nails, worried it like a mastiff
dog. The brute wrenched his head
from his grasp, and raised its dreadful
paw. Another moment, and the hus-
bands corpse would have lain by his
wiie's. But high in the air cleaned
Amya's blade down, with all weight
of his huge body and strong arm, fell
that most trusty steel the head of the
jaguar dropped grinning on its victim S
corpse:
And all stood still, who him fall,
While men might count a score.
"Oh! Lord Jesus said Amyas to
himself, "thou hast answered the devil
for me And this is the selfish rest for
which | would have barlered the rest
which comes by working where thou
put me % They bore away the little
corpse into the forest, and buried it un-
der soft moss and virgin mold, and so
the fair clay was transfgured into fair
er flowers, and the poor gentle, untaught
spirit returned to God who gave it. And
then Amyas went sadly and silently back
again, and Parracombe walked after
him, like one who walks in sleep. Ebs-
worthy sobered by the shock. entreated
to come too but Amyas forbade him
gently, :" No, lad you are forgiven
God forbid that | should Judge you OF
any man. Sir John shall come up and
marry you; and thenj if it shall be your
will to stay, the Lord forgive you, if you
be wrong in the meanwhile, we will
leave with you all that we can spare
Stay here, and pray 10 God to make you,
and me too, wiser men, And so Am
yas departed. He had come out stern
and proud /; but he came back again
like child. Three days after, PARA.
combe was dead. Once in camp, he
seemed unable to eat or move and,
having received absolution and commu
Mon from good Sir John, faded away
without disease or pain, " babbling OF
green fields" and murmurIng the name
of his lost Indian bride.