The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1857-11-06
4 THRILLING SKETCH .
CHARMED BY A RATTLESNAKE.

4 wrl,prln the United States Mogao1ne pro-
nouncps the following description Of Young
girl. charmed BY rattIesnakr, one of the most
remarkable and beautiful descriptions ever pen
ned
''Bytore the maiden rose little cl0mp Of
bushes-bright tangled leaves aaunting wide
in glosslrsl green, with vines trailing over them,
thicky decked with blue and crimson towers.
Her eyes eommunrd eacantly with thesp; fas-
cnaied bya sar-lke shining glance;a a subtle
ray that shot out from the circle OF green eaves,
seeming TO be their very eye and sending out a
i.Old lust-r that seemed to stream over the space
between and find its way into her own eyes
very piercing and beautiful was that subtle
HrgatnrsS, Of thr sweetest, strongest powers.
And now the leayps Qujvrrrd and seemed to
lIoat away only 10 rplurn, and the wires waved
and swung away in fantastic maze. unfolding
ever charming varieties Of iorn and colog to the
gaze bot the star-liae eye was ever steadlaSt
bright and glorious, in thriT Hidst, aud still
l2sIeaed with slrauZr !onduess upon her oWn.
How 0raatui with what von5rous intensity did
# siram aad dtlatr, growing larger ana more
iafoE with every 5ram il sent forth. And
her o~R glance became intense, fixed, also, bot
with draining sense which coniuYrd up The
"IidrSt taacIsS, terribly beautiful, hat took her
SOUL away from her and wrapt ii aboul as with
spell. She would have fed, she would have
n'"n, but sue had 10 pou,er to move The
VIII vas wantlag to hrr flight. She felt hat
$ar could have beat forward 10 pluck the gem
IKE ,hIaI from the bosom Of the leaf IN which
SEEMED 10 grow, and was irradiatrd with its
5'igal, Whit CLAM : bot EYER, as She stretched
'fla her band, and bent forward, she heard a
hl o wings aad a shrjll SCREAM from the tree
@.oV- her--sueha a scream as the inocking bird
@iNrS, when angrIIy It raises us dusky chest
-aa TAPS lis slender sides Such scream seemed
IKE Warming though yet unwakrned to a
''.' Consciousness, it startled and forbade her
effort.
More than once in her survey ofthis strange
'2ecl had she heard that shrill note of warning,
'"l 70 her mInd the same vague consciousness Of
Gu eva presence. Bot the star-like eve was
s''' upon her own-a small, bright eve, quick
'5'7 '"d' oI bird nov steady in isplace, and
servant seemingly OF hers: now dartiag for
1aFe with all the clustering leaves about It, and
''o'iNS up toward her, as If wooing her 10
s''1'' Al another moment rivetpd TO the vine
"''Oa '4y around il, it would whrl round and
.'-'4' 3azz!Ingly bright and beautiful, even as
". ''' waved hurfediy by night in the hands
l4AyiuI boys but in all this time the
5''1Ss was never taken irom her own-there
LIZ. s's" ilXed, very principle Of light a
sIsn,' suoIe' burning, piercing, fascinating
',a"'' SVch as gathers in vapors above old
a,sS dnd blinds Us as look, shooting, dartiug
,ar S''s mo her eye, dazzling her gaze, defeat
I" sense OF discrimination, aud confusing
rseIy Us sense Of PERCEPTION She felt dizzy;
y,-,a,s s"e ''&ed, cloud Of colors, bright, CAV.
4I,r 'ooiS' iioatrd and hung like SO mucl,
cgr-J aio"aa the single object that had SO se-
H., = "rf attention, and speIl-bound her fps,
r,.. ''''''N ir'' momently more and more i,sa-
I, r.,, oood grew cold, and she spe,nad
Inv. '"F gradual freezing of VEN by y.;n
I'm, s'o0' "rr perspn. a that IN ,n,nt r,s,.
brsd 4s arard IN th- branches of the traeo
ulrr.d a''I ihr birds, which had rep4af,dlv
Warm Sn'Slr cry above her, as il were or
scfpan s' ..I Hs" away from her station with a
nroth.n more rlrrcing than ever Th;s ,noye-
brngo' a' me effect for which If was intended If
scolsne.. 'a0N 10 her a portion of that con-
6r. 6.''neSs she had beeA npayIy Jsn.;,d
but t4,r,bI 5le stove to msve from the beant;td1
in vain '''s u presence, boz for while she strove
"e afch, siar-like glance still riyeted