Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-02-19


through dense curtain of cobweos- Indeed
the whole stairs, and platform, and ladder
were fesrooned, and csrpe,ed, and canopiec
with co5web.; which, in funereal accumu.
latisns, hung, too, from the groned murky
ceiling, like the Carolina moss in the cy.
press forest In these cobwebs, swung, as
in erial catacombs, myriads of all tribes o.
mlmmied insects.
| Climbing the stairs to the platform, and
pausing there, to recover my breath, curl
Gus scene was presented. The sun was
about halfway up. Piercing the little sky
light, it slopingly bored rainbow tunnel
clear across the darkness of the garrett
Here, millions of butterfly moles were
swarming. Against the sky-light itself.
with a cymbal.like buzzing, thousands oI
insects clustered in golden mob.
Wishing to shed clearer light through
the place, sought to withdraw the scuttle-
slide But no sign of latch or hHsp was Wis
ible Only after long peerine, did dis
cover little paddock, imbedded. like an
oyster at the bottom of the sea, amid matted
masses of weedy webs, chrysalides, and in
sectivorous eggs. Brushing these away, l
| found il locked. With q crooked nail, /
tried to prick tie lock, when scores OF small
ants and flies, half-torpid. crawled forth
from the key-hole, and, feeling The warmth
of the sun in the pane, began frisking
around me. Others appeared. Presently,
| was overrun by them As if incensed at
this invasion of their retreat, countless bands
darted up from below, beating about my
head, ike hornets At last, with sudden
| Jerk, burst open the scuttle. And ah!
| what change AS from the gloom OF the
grave and the companionship CT worms.
man shall at last spturously rise into the
living grenness and glory immortal, so, from
nv cobwebbed old esrret, thrust forth my
head into the baimy air, and found myself
hailed bv the verdunt tops of great trees,
growing in the little garden beiow-trees,
whose leaves scared high above NY tupmost
S ate.
Refreshed bv this outlook, turned in
ward to behold the garret, now unwcn;edy
lit up. Such bumped masses OF obseietr
furniture An old escr!toir, from whose
pigeor-holes sprang mice, and from whose
secro, drawers came sublerrupean sqeakines.
as from ,.hinmprcks, holes in the WOODS:
.nd ,roLor-d -d,vn old chairs. with s;rapce
carviors wbirb seemed ft to seat a con
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oIl ancr.,aDts. ona of which. with a faded
red ink. blot at the end, locked as if it might
have been the ORIGINAL bond that Doctor
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