The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-02

when the wary pony, la ing back her ears dis
approvingly, halted to consider her ways, and
then, with her four ieet walking in Indio,a fle
one before the othel, vent mincing and picking
her way round the marrow rim of q precipice
one or two hundred feet deep, at the base Of
another one or two hundred feet high, and gave
him time to breathe and think, it was With 0
flush of hot shame that be remembered hasty
halfhope that had stirred within him, in th.
black night on the Alleghanies, once, when thu
coach had jolted il the rough road more thai
usual, that it might .,verturn with him, ane
dash his troubles cut in the valley beneath
How easily and spontaneously do such wishe5
often arise in the thwarted breast of eager,
fiery, passionate nth How mercifully ar,
they often denied He was glad already this
his had not been ranted. A craven's mood
he felt, was no mo d to die in.
"Cbildish |! he aid to himself " what if tn
boarding school is somewhat dreary. hncongs
NAL, and uncomforfib able and it's discipline sever
and painful? What pupil in his senses woul,
ask leave to hurry .fron it, at his entrance, a.,
untutorsd, uniformed, Fraceless clown, to court z
No man ever yet vent up to the other world to-,
well-prepared to figure in it by the lessops Of .s
single day. Besides, have never yet passe..
a single day, however dreary, that / can res-
ollect, that did not bring its special blees
ing, if looked for it. Let me press forwaGl
with trust and gold hope, then, through Il !,
long line Of comforts and joys which the da !
must have in store for me, which yet staI !
between me and thu grave. What if they KS
manyf So, then, sill their blessings be-" :
An alienation OF light and darkness seems 5
disappointed to the soul on earth, as well as |,
the body. Man cat hardly escape it, except I ,
perversely shutting out the light when it ris 9
upon him, and imInuring himself in perpetu il
gloom. This was not Hermans way. He { !.
dured the darkness, but always sought the lig' /
and now heartily welcomed the returnii !
whica enabled him to enter VI 1
genuine interest ir.to the living epic which vie
opening before him. go
He drew rein at point in the pass with
overlooked the plain on the further eide. Two
huge crags rose just before him on each hard,
their peaks SPAWNED by bridge of leadan
clouds with rims of silver, making a fra ae
through which he saw the intense blue of the
sky, and the riffs below and beyond him, DO II,
ing out their Indians into the swarming vallsg.
He studied the wild procession and cavalcaits,
as it defilsd befo g him, and thought how IN.
real it all seemed how like TO some plant g.
magorial panorama corjured up by the demcfs
Of the mountains TO mock the traveller cd
work his woe, by forcing him to tell his ma ss
On his return incr aible and apparently man.
dacious or manisotales or how like the f.A.
tastic pageantry oe! those very demons theS.-
selves ! Who would have believed any aici-
dental wayfarer, who alone, and the first of N
his dim-faced brethren, she uld have lost h Il.
self on the unbout 4 I'd prairie, stray ed at. y
to westward, and e,tae back to cities and q
haunts of common .;,sn, with repor: of sieias
like these? =
from the old bro~s desert, paced together, As
if Gin solemn conference on peace aud war,
and the affairs Ct rste." The younger, a,th
their robes of skip merely belted about t>,sir
waists, and their m gni6cent busts and limbs
exposed more than hose of circus riders, seh.
ing their fine horses went dashing and ca esr
ing to and fro with Tanton and supe, fuous ~
ergy. The pretty young squaws, on pretty So
MES, all tinsel, fringe, and feathers, paced d,n-
tily along, quite unencumbered, except with he.
ry. The old and ugly ran, half clad on foot v;th
the luggage, screaming discordantly, and So ID
ing, so loud that their voices sometimes acsed
him, and hunting the laden dogs about, or so Sc.
times made an insignificant part of II Pad
trailed in trapaI at the heels of come -,foer
unhappy beast of burden. Herman cav ane
equipsge, composed Of, first, mule, tIea a
trarail, squaw in that, child on her fb sul.
ders, and in the child's arms puppy.
They halted, dismounted, asd unloaded She
leathery lodges sprang up, like circle of 70 Ish.
rooms. Herman moved on, and went d .wn
towards them. The men seated themm yes
Iuxuriously, each under his own roof tree 4 hat
is to say, lodge poles-with an air of expt sta
tion- Some of the engaging females pott aed,
like Fates, upon some of the fawning d sgs,
dragged them away from their sports, or iis ats,
as the case might be, pounded their skulls And
brains together with stone mallets, sks ned
them, and cut them up. Others made res,
and toasted them over the GOALS for t,uph
Homeric banquet. II
Bernard proceeded to pitch Hermann .nt ;
and Mr.. Grubbe, who was experienced, ans, With
all his love of the Indian" had his dstided
prejudices in favor of Meneaska housekeee ing,
took up his quarters, and found much cfu fort,
therein. Herman, on the other hand, b ID a
great fancy to experience little Of the.f aspi.
tality of his red neighbors, whom he, saf Che
caravan with whom he had hitherto trs ysrsed
the prairies, had joined only the day b.fore
Mr.. Grubbe told him that be had only % pass
under the buffalo's hide curtain of one, os the
lodges, and say tina. he had come to stfy.in it
and he might be sure of a lodging, AMI food
and welcome shut that, his cockney preitaices
prevented his doing. he walked, how.N Or, in
the twilight, smong the lodges, dark vi aout
and bright within; saw the lurid lights | the
hres reflected from the leather hanging and
leathery faces; heard the uncouth, uniit lIie;
be speech, and the bursts of scarcely lea,
articulate laughter which followed it; 40, JUS,
as to his regret he was forced by trf:v sier's
appetite to tnrn towards his own dst ling
was invited In by the signs of weaht,a btay
1.-THE Good Weman,) to partake, with lefg hus
band and children, of a supper of boilad mon
grel, which hq did very gratefully Thea, soine
to his tent, he wrapped himself in his. affalt
robes, and, with the good rifle Kilwelf for {
bedfellow, fell sound asleep, lulled by tt.
rhythmical if not melodious breathing If IT,.