The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-07-02
SW1STIFICATUM
HIGGLEDEDUM PJGGLEDEDUM.
A SUBLIME EXTRACT.

The following is one of the best bur
csgues on the current light liturature,
i. G., cheap poyels of the day, We have
met for long time:
eOn 2 cold winters day, in the month
of July, poor man clad in the habili-
ments and gold tinsol of the rich, was
footing along on horseback, in an open
boat, over long and dreary desert. Not
a hill, tree, rock, or spot of green ar
peared to cheer him in his tedious ascent
of the vast mountain that lay spread out
before him in fertile heaps, as far as the
eye could reach. Huge precipeces lay
scattered in his poth, and ever and anon
would his footsteps mingle in sweet ca
dencc with the black waters Of the yel-
low sky, over whose prccipitoug plains
he scrabled with all the agility of stout
pair of cowLide boots, which eucassd
his hose in a red fiery aspect. Egyp-
tian darkness had noy settled down up
on tae earth, and the noon day sun
threw his cold piercing rays full in the
face of the traveller, as he pursued his
northern course towards the beautiful
strcaks of light that now illumed the
East, caused by the rising of the setting
sun, in the dim distance Of the present
future. TIE moon cast her pale inky
light of midnight brightness o'cr the
shades Of perambuiating Hencoops,
whose blue rays of ambient green, be-
ing firmly buckled to the coat tails CT a
large boxef 1;;EaE5,,F6rlI 5 Pills, Greatly
assisted him in his prccarious passage
over the heightened shadows of the gras-
sy and verdureless lako. At lenhgt,
while thus in silent grandeur he stalked
along, he met an aged man, whose sill
yery' locks of Jet black hue hung in au
burn curic from the wLite oak brambles
of a centuries growth, which lined the
sides of a large daudy grey rucset sky
blue piuk colo~ed Partridge, whose 81
lent whirl was heard for miles, button
ed close up to the throat of the youth
before mentioned. His feet were en-
cased in large woolen bag thrown over
his shoulders in rich profusion, and clad
in yellow frock coat of fiery red, and
carrying his nose which was slightly
turned up at the end, under his left
arm, he presented an appearance
altogether striking and picturesque.
When our pedestrian first turned the
glance of his withering nose upon the
youth, on whose downy chin
the grey beard Of blush brown hung from
his eye brows upward in one congealed
mass, he slowly hastened to turn over
the North East side of bread and milk
cheese, manufactured of the best Damas
Gus Steel, whose willow branches of the
oak afforded a grateful shelter
to Twelve years, or small pine table
Of the largest dimension, and of deli
cate texture, interwoyen with iceland
steel filing and saw dust. At lenhgt
ten years after, on the same day they
sat down in standing posture to a
repast of the fore axltree of
the aged youths horse, whose unruflled
of a greenish- black cast their
sh hadows before the hind wheel of the
near horses leg. The Ravincs, whose
towering hill-tops pierce the clouds as
before mentioned, they carried between
them in large block tin knot hole,
whose branches peeped forth beningly
from the jacket poeked of the rich
clad in the silks and sattins
Of poor.
But now a change came DER the spir
it of their dream. The lightning's rude
blast moaned through the far off trees
with an imperceptible roar, and the thun-
der in terrific torrents upheaVing from
the Shallow depths of the troubled wa
ters Of the calm and placid sea, accom-
panied by the dry and scorching rain,
roamed in compound individuality over
the boundless depths of the hilly prai-
rie, and the sun in wrathy ealmness pour
I'd forth whole sheets ofwater upon the
lark and smiling earth, and our travc-
ers in undismayed dismay of this Illus
ration with cuts and gashes of the beau
les and harmonics of nature, resolve
rom that moment ten months previous,
o make straight wake for home and
five years from the present
ime they didn't go home, and arrived
here12 years ago, nor have they been
eon or heard of since.
Yours from death
RUMBLE NAN Stills KIN.
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