Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-10-02
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From Haiper's Monthly Magazine. for Octobe
A TERRIBLE NIGHT

by JoVe! LICK, Il III nearly cone up.
$50 am /. Did any one ever see such a
ccDfounded forest, Chsrleyi"
81 am not alone weak, but hungry. Oh
for a steuk of moose, with a bottle of olG
red wine to wash it dowD."
"Charley! beware Take care how you
conjure up such visions in my mind. | am
already nearly starring, and if YOU increase
my appetite much more it will go hard with
me if ] don't dine off of you. You are
''"IT "Hssrtsd rte p ~hsnS Sss WI. so am. if
loving BeAf pF@set. it. Do you
know, Dick. ] have often wondered that you,
who love your sister SO passionately. were
not jealous of her attachment to me.''
$50 was, my dear fellow lat first-furous-
ly jealous. But then I reflected that Bertha
must one day or the ether marry, and must
lose my sister, SO thought il better that
she should marry my old college chum and
early friend, Charley Costsrre, than any
one else. So you see there was little sell
6shness in my calculations, Charley"
"Dick, 1--we were friends at school. and
friends at college, and thought at both
those places that nothing could shorten the
link that bound us together, but was mis-
taken. Since my love for. and engagement
to your sister, feel as il you were fifty
times the friend that you were before. Dick
we three will never part!'
$50 he married the kings daughter, anG
they all lived together as happy as the days
sb ,ol 81, ,,,,
ing from nursery tale.
The foregoing is slice out the CONVEX
sa:ion with which Dick Linton and myself
endeavored to beguile the way, as we tramp
ed through one of the forests of Northern
New York. Dick was an artist, and was
q sportsman, so when cne fine auiun Jay he
announced his intention going into the woods
for a week to study Nature, it seemed to me
an excellent opportunity for me to exercise
my legs and my trigger finger at the same
time. Dick had sJme backwoods friend
who lived in log-hut on the shores of Eek
ford Lake, and there we determined to take
up our quarters. Dick, who said he knew
the forest thoroughly, was to be the guide,
and we accordingly, with our guns on our
shoulders, starred on foot from Roots a
tavern known to tourists, and situated on the
boundaries of Essex and Warren counties.
1t was desperate walk; but as we started
at daybreak, and had great faith in our,pedes-
trian qualities, we expected to reach the
nearest of the Eckford lakes 6y nightfaiI
The forest through which we travelled was
of the densest description. Overheard the
branches of spruce and pine shut out the
day, while beneath our feet lay frightfu
soil, composed principally of jagged shingle
cunningly concealed by an almost impentr a.
BILE brush. AS the day wore on, our hope:
of reaching our destination grew fainter ant
fainter, and could almost fancy, from the
anxious gances that Dick cast around him
that in spite of his boasted knowledge o
the woods he had lost his way. 1t was no
however, until night actually fell and thai
we were both sinking from hunger and ex
haustion, that could get him to acknowl
edge it.
"We're in nice pickle, Master Dick,
said |, rather Grossly, for an empty stomach
does much to destroy a mans natural amia
bility. "Confound your assurance that lie,
you to set up as guide. OF all men paint
ers are the most conceited."
aCome, Charley" answered Dick, COED
humoredIy, "ihere's no use in growing S
loudly. You'll bring the hear, and pan her
on US if you DO. We must make the bes
of bad job, and sleep IN tree"
ats easy to talk, my good fellow. II
not q partridge: and don't know how to roos
on bough."
"Well, you'll have to learn then; fer
you sleep on the ground, the chances ar
ten to one but you will have the wolves nil
bling at your toes before daylight
"I'm hanged if I'll do either!" said /, dc.
perately. "l'm going to walk all night, an
Ill drop before I'll lie down"
"Come, come, Charley don't be fool"
81 was a fool only when consented
let you assume the role of guide"
4 "Well, Charley, if you are determined
It 20 On, let it be SO. Well 60 together
K After all, it's only an adventure"
l. 81 say, Dick, don't you see light"
4. "By Jove, SO there is! Come, you sc
/. Providence intervenes between US g. wolv,
Cand hunger. That must be some squatter
'chhut"
A. The light to which had so sudden
Dicks attention was very faint, al
ter,seemed to be about halt mile distant.
ert ylimmered through the dark branches of Il
and spruce trees, and weak as d
{, Atrht was, hailed it as a mariner witbo
compass halls the star by which