Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-10-03
o visit the woman Of his seeking.

IS tue other thousand miles of, notwihslandin
they met quite as cordially as rivals could be e,
q pectcd to do.
= But somehow the conversation Jagged excee,
: lngly' and at last Jason proposed 10 Seth tha
they should 90 down 10 the grove in search G
Lefty, to which the latter gladly consented.
$ She did look like a picture as she knet there
r plng up the dead, old tree boughs, while tn
shadows and the moonbcams danced restless
, over her figure, as restless as they.
= The Young me,i came suddenly upon her, an,
, she spfang up with little shrek and bound
ing OF the blood into her cheeks-but her lau n
., that was like all sweet sounds. as it ran rim
ping off to the echoes of Blueberry Hill
Wei, you've come, and now | shall Sc
you straight TO work, young gentlemen saic
the girl, with th dainty, futtering motion o
the head, so natural to, and graceful ia, som,
women.
= OF course you will. We're ready to obe,
orders Lefty" was The simultaneous response
OF the two young men and the dainty merchant
and the handsome miller set themselves yigor
ously TO work and the voices OF the trio min.
eled loudly and merrily as they piled up tho
branches OF pine, and birch, and hemlock, Let.
y affirming that the sugar boiling was likely to
be the easiest she ever tended, now all the trou.
lc of gathering the firewood would be over
Hark !" didn't you hear strange kind o.
noise !" and Lefty lifted her head suddenly, and
stared eagerly around her.
Its nothing, Lefty, only the sap dropping in
to the tubs" answered Jason, as he added a
fresh handful Of buoghs 10 the rapidly increasing
pile
" No. it isn't the sap. There, | hear it again.
It's rustling among the bushes"
They all heard it now; it was a strange
siealthy. mysterious sound, that, heard in the
woods, and AT night, is, perhaps, more startling
than any other.
| A faint shrek suddenly broke from LEFTY.
which drew the gazc of both the young men 10
her She was standing few PAGES from them.
her face white and rigid, as though death had
struck suddenly at her heart
There was something in that stony face that
chilled both of the young men, and they sprang
eagerly towards her, crying " Lefty what is
the matter p
They saw what il was then, and the faces of
these two strong men grew white as the girls /;
for there, peerng out with their wild. garing,
hunger-lighted eyes from the low underbrush,
were two large bears crouched down, ready to
spring upon them.
The young mems question broke the spell of
horror which had transfxed Lefty Pease. With
low shrek she sprang pas, her companions,
and with cry, fearful in its rage and hunger,
the animals rushed out.
Jason Williams followed her for the men had
no weapons-those beasts were wild, savage.
hunger.mad, and the love of life was strong with
IN hlm-no wonder tha, he soon outstripped the
girl, whose trembling limbs were poor match
against her pursuers.
ltwas a fearful race. They gained upon her
IN the first few rods. " God of Heaven. help
her. croaned the white lips of Seth Peters.
And Go heard that prayer, moaned out in
that terrible agony. There cleaned out sud-
denly upon him, from among the gray tangled
grass of the last year, large ave. which Enoch
had ground sharply three days before, to make
an inclsion in the maple trunks, and thrown
down there in haste or fnrgetfulness.
) lh caught it mp eagerly, and with loud
shout he bounded forward LEFTY was nearly
half way across the LOT, but it was not large
one, and in her terror she had taken circuitous
route, which the bears had followed, so the dis.
tance between Seth ard them was only few
rods.
lie shouted 10 Lefty to turn into the mead
ow; it was strange that she heard him, but she
did and instinctlycy obeyed.
run of a few yards which the young man
accomplished quicker than our pen has written
1t, brought Seth face to face with the wild ami
mails. 1t required stout heart to confront those
two raging, ravenous animals, but Seth Peters |
thouoht only that death ,yas close IN ,be ,yon,a,,
that he loved
A moment more and il had reached her. The
hot breath Of the beasts drfted almost acros, her
nyins feet, as the miller rushed by her: for in |
tGrnins towards the meadow she had shortened |
the distance between him and herself: indeed |
at the farihest, it had been only a few rods.
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