Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-01-22

ate and felt strengthened and somewhat
terminated.
For a daysor two then, he lay beside
log in the forest, in a condition which
it would survive; worn to a skeleton, his
feet torhSto pieces, suffering from a ter
rible wound, he still managed to collect
a little dry fungus, and cooked and ate
part of the rattlesnake, until his strength
was entirely exhausted, and he was un-
able TO get wood 10 cook the remainder.
1t seemed now as if death could not be
pnStpnned- lie took his knife and tried
toe his epitaph on the log, but while
thus engaged he fell asleep, ana dream,
ed sweet delicious dream of his old
home, his young wife and their infant
child, and finally of his deceased mother,
who appeared dressed in robe of flow
ing white, and stretched her arms. to-
wards him with sweet smile, and an in
describable gesture full of grace and
tenderness.
!. He knew not how long he slept, but
when he rose it was with renewed
) strength, and making sandals of his hat
) and vest, he proceeded on his way once
r more, taking with him the unQonsumed
] portion Of the snake as provision.
That night his mother again appeared
= TO him, and pointed in particular direc-
+ tiOD, smiling hopefully. Rising with a
strong faith that he was nearly at the
end Of his perilous journey, be struggled
: on until the afternoon, when he saw for
: the first time human habitation ii
= proved to be the house of a friend, from
: whence he proceeded TO Albany, and
r thence TO Schenectady. Here he found
g his wife and child living with some re.
: latives, and the meeting between then
|, may be imagined, but no pen could de
e scribe it. For long time she had suf
ST fered all the horrors Of the most fearful
2 suspense, and it was not until the nigh
], upon which he had seen his mother tha
T. she obtained a glimpse of relief. Or
0f this occasion she dreamed that she saw
b him striving to make his way through
J. dense wood towards her, while a whit
d hand appeared to be lifting aside tx
d thick branches 10 aid lis progress. WheI
u she awoke it was with the firm belle
I'd that they would be eventually reunited
he as the event proved.
" Return we now to Frederick, who SUI
* fered even more than his brother.
lie had made many efforts, to no pul
If, pose, TO find Jacob, who, when he fel
l. would not permit Frederick to stop an
he help him, and in seeking him had ru
ort many risks. At length he crossed ii
mt sorel, killed an OK. made some ierke
m. beef, and for seven days travelled alon
m the eastern shore of the Champlain witt
ke out i'll luck. But on the morning
,e- the eighth day he awoke sick 4 pleur
to- sy was upon lima fever in his veins
Is, pain in every limb. 1t began TO raj
ng also, and there he lay, this 9th
by young hero, not far from his brothe
who at that very moment, in that We
to neighborhood, was nursing his rattl
nd snake bite; there he lay, knowing n
TO that any one was near him, for thr
sc, days on tie earth, in the summer ra
to- and his blood all on fire. For thr
ow days, we say, be lay thus helpless. {
Itl- the fourth day he was better, and tried
to eat little of his beef, but it was spc
ods ed. BE managed, however, to crawl
a frog-pond near by, put aside the gre
pes, coating of the pool and drank.
Al caught frogs, too, and feasted, though
less Frenchman in any Of his tastes, p
ays badly. There he lay for fourteen d;
hen and nights, and having resigned all he
lck, of life, he put his hat upon pole, sot
on it might be seen from the lake. 1t ,
had seen by ship passing at the fine, F.;
ling he was found by his enemies helpless
rdly speechless, and carried back to his pri
mo again, and not only to prison, but to
pom deepest, darkest dungeon, and there,
fourteen months, he lay in utter da
nest ness, and irons so heavy that they
ould into the fesh upon his legs so tha
lind came of to the bone. And what
sur that young heroic spirit do ? did it br
for down under the weight of captivity
sing suffering? ? Not so; it was not Of :
Of stuff that the spirit Of our fathers
AXE. made. He thought Of his home, of
ape brave father and brothers, Of his
love, sister, and one not iairer, perhaps.
;caly still dearer, and wondered if they
hout survived the cruel chances Of the
ings. and bloody war. Then he longed f
were free, apd determined to live and es
, and from his prosecutors.
ound AT last a chance offered; he with
. had ers was transferred ia an islard al