Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-10-20
A THRILLING SKETCH.
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A writer in the United States Magazine
pronounces the following description of a
Young girl. charmed b5 rattlesnake. one
of the most remarkable and beautiful de-
scriptions ever penned
Before the maiden rose little clump of
bushes--bright tangled leaves Haunting
wide in glossiest green, with vines trailing
over them thickly decked with blue and
crimson flowers Tiereyes communed va
.cantly with these; fastened by star-like
shining glance, subtle ray that shot out
[. ON the circle Of green leaves, seeming to
be their very eye, and sending out fluid
lustie that seemed to stream over the space
between and find its way into her owneyes;
very piercing and beautiful was that subtle
brightness of the sweetest, strongest power
And now the leaves quivered and seemed
to float away only to return, and the vines
waved and swung away in fantastic mazes.
unfolding evely charming varieties OF form
and color to her gaze; but the star-iike eye
Was ever steadfast, bright and gorgeous,
cleaning in their midst, and still fastened
with strange fondness upon her own. How
beautiful, with wondrous intensity, did II
gleam and dilate, growing larger and more
lustrous with every beam it sent FORTH
And her own glance became intense, fixed,
also; but with dreaming sense which
coniured up the widest fancies, terribly
beautiful, that took her soul away from her
and wrapt it about as with a spell. She
would have fled, she would have flown, but
she had no power to move. The will was
wanting to her flight. She felt that she
could have bent forward to pluck the gem
like thing from the bosom of the leaf in
which it seemed to grow, and which irrad-
lated with its bright, white gleam; but ev-
err, as she stretched forth her hand. and
bent forward, she heard rush of wings
and q shril scream from the tree above her
such scream as the mocking bird makes.
when angerily it. raises its dust chest and
flaps its slender sides. Such u scream
seemed Ikea warning, and though yet
unawakened to full consciousness, il star
lied and forbade her effort. "a asa
| "More than once in her survey of this
strange object had she heard that thrill
note of warming, and to her mind the same
vauge consciousness ofan evil presence
But the star like eye was still upon her
own-a small, bright eye, quick like tn II
of a bird, now steady in its place. an obser.
want seemingly only of hers; now darling
forward with all the clustering leaves about
it, and shooting up toward her. as if WOO
ling her to seize. At another moment riv.
eted to the vine which lay around it, il
would whirl round and round, dazzling
bright and beautiful, even as a torch. wa.
wing hurriedly by night in the hands .
some playful boy; bat in all this time ths
.rlances was never taken from her own
there it grew, fixed-a very principal o.
Highland such blight. subtle, burning
piercing, fascinating gleam, such as gath
ers in vapcrs aboyesthe old grave, ant
binds us as we look-shooting, darting di
rectly into her eye, dazzling her gaze, de
feating its sense of discrimination, anC
confusing strangely it's sense of perception
S. feft dizzy; for as she looked. clou'
of colors, bright, gay. various colors, float
ed and hung like SO much drapery aroun'
the single object that had go secured he
attention, and spell-bound her feet He
/, limbs felt momently more and more inse
cure; her blood grew. cold, and seemed t
/ feel the gradual freeze of vein by vein
= throughout her person. AT that moinen
rustling was heard in the branches of tn
!. tree beside her, and the bird, which ha
repeatedly uttered single cry above hel
{ As il we're Of warning. few away from hi
: station with a scream more piercing tina
|. ever. This moment had the effect f.
(which II seemed intended, Of bringing bac
Ito hers portion Of that consciousness sh
rlh.d been nearly deprived Of before. 81
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