Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-12-25

for q jacket. When Marossi claimed the antelope
Tor his own, and refused to part with 1t, the old
Dutchman gave him a fogging for his impudence.
Under such influences, clouds Of stupidity of course
gathered fact over the originally bright young
soul but the strong affections, which were now
all conferred on one small animal, could not be cas-
lily stifed. He inwardly 70 we'd that be would suf
fer a~nything, death itself, rather than see his favor
lite companion cut up to make the young Doors
jacket. So he rose stealthily at midnight and ran
away with his beautiful antelope. 1t was a fearful
undertaking: for a boy of ten years to 20 forth
alone into the wilderness, where hyenas laughed
in the darkness, and lions made their lair. But
he was lees afraid of lions and hyenas, than Of
those Christian men, who whipped him for claim
ing his own, as they had whipped him for making
"A noise while the preacher talked of Utiko, who had
sent a good prophet on earth, to proclaim peace
and good will.
The morning light showed stupendous mountain
ridges, the sides of which he eagerly climbed, to
avoid pursuers. The antelope was used to such
rugged passes, and sprang lightly from rock to
rock, and sometimes apparently lost, but always
returning to her masters whistle. From the cliffs
above. the eagles swoped around him with wild
screams, and in the ravines below, balloons pelted
him as he passed. The sharp rocks cut his weary
feet, but he was afraid TO stay long, and ever and
anon he walked through streams of water, lest the
hounds of the Dutchman should get on his track.
About noon, he came among a billowy chaos Of
huge precipices, ~frightful in their fantastic gran.
deur, and skirted by dark dense forests, through
which trampcd great herds of bufaloes and ele'
plants. How awful was the landscape to that
poor ignorant boy! Vague ideas of what his moth
er said of Udali the Creator, and what the mission
airy taught concerning Utiko, the Beautiful, fitted
through his mind with COST like, oppressive solem.
nifty. lie wondered whether Udali lived up there
among that sea of precipices, and whether Utiko
; knew that he, the friendless child. was traversing
those great mountains all alone. The elephants
had forced a way for him through forests tangled
with interlacing boughs and rope-like vines
> Through these deeply-shaded paths, the weary
. wanderer came at last in sight of a wide, dreary
plain, where no vendure was. A few ostriches
were seen in the distance, and here and there a
tall secretary bird stalked awkwardly about in
search of snakes. No rain had fallen for some
time, and the country was SO parched that not
even the buzz of a wild bee or the chirr Of a grass
hopper, broke the dismal silence. Marossi had O
dread of entering upon this level tract, where no
hiding place of rocks, or thickets, could be found.
But from what he had heard the preacher say, he
Judged that a Moravean settlement lay in that d.
rection, and his hert yearned for the kind mission.
airy who came to bis fathers but and told them Of
D Utiko the Beautiful, who filled the whole heavens
. and earth with his love.
AS he travelled on, even the ostriches disappear.
, ed and no living creature could be seen, but mgr.
lads of ants crawling in black streams over the
s ground, or building their numerous pyramids Of
clay, on the sides of which, green and speckled
lizards basked in the hot sunshine. The little
streams that dubbed up in the mountains were
heard no more, aud neither roots no berries could
be found. But here and there wild water,mehns
' lay on the sand, and with them Mariossi refreshed
!, himself and fed his antelope. Fortunately he
- could sleep with comparative safety. on these
! dreary plains where there was neither food MOI
drink to allure wild beasts. Days passed, and The
half famished boy again came to mountain ridges
without having seen a single human habitation.-
IIo climbed the summit eagerly, to search for roots
v wi lie his antelope 5rowsed on the foliage. Fa,
:. below him lay q verdant valley, through which
flowed a silver stream, fringed with the graceful
willows of Babylon. Flocks of zebras fed in thu
meadows, their glossy striped coats shining in thu
sun. And there, oh joyful sight! in a grove o
-, mimosa trees, on the margin Of the river was
:, cluster of cabins Tired and foot,sore as he was
the boy pressed forward with all his remaining
=. strength, longing inexpressibly to hear the soune
~ of a human voice. But when be came nearer, anC
saw a white m.n seated in front of the cabins, biz
:. heart dropped down like lead. He looked bacl
anxiously toward the mountains, and doubted
- ,rhatho or IL 1raro NOT haef fn Au md htaa h;noeo1
- again in their dark recesses. But the smell o
~ savory food was borne on the air, and he was al
most starved. So, leading his antelope by a rop,
w of grass, he walked up to the man, and said il
broken Dutch, stranger, l am all alone in tn
-. world" The ~suppliant bend of his flexible form
Wv the sad tone of his voice, and the pleading earnest
~. ness of his large brown eyes, touched the heart O
=, the Scottish emigrant, who was himself an exil
-, 49, in a strange land. lie led the wanderer into hi
~ cabin, where the kind wife brought water for hi
weary feet, and bound soft ~bandages about them
e.Iy while the little children came, one after another, I
-. bring some article Of food. When he had appeas
his hunger, he looked up to thank them, and
is whole circle Of white faces smiled upon him a
'' fectionately. Poor prosecuted child He ha
not met such glances since they whipped his mott
NV or from him and the unaccustomed kindness Gil
ou his swelling heart too full. He laid his head dow
on the neck of his antelope and wept freely an
thus the weary one fell asleep in that friendly cabir
,o' Long and sweet were his slumbers, and be wok
leu amid smiling faces and kindly tones.
Never did Aower.bud, transp.anted from nippip
winds to sheltered hooks and genial sunsbine, ur
Ia fold more rapidly than did this wild human bio,
.nd som. His plant form moved with free
grace. his innocent face beamed with affection
:, his faculties grew keen and active in the ser,
,an ice of those he loved. while an intuitive politepes
of the heart taught him 20 be always unsel6sbl
-. considerate of them. They loved the beaut;f,
no brown boy, as if he were their own son, and fro,
-, their friendly lips the Christian maxim of peac
and goodwill sank deep into his gentle heart.