Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-04-29

various transparencies.
By slow degrees Annie and her pap;
and mamma were filtered out into thu
City Hall Park, where the People of the
United States was to be found as com
ipact. as dirty, and as sovereign as ever
There they witnessed pyrotechnies o
some patriotic person who let off Roses
of Bengal. Palm Trees of Bagdad. anc
the Fountain Of the Silver Elephants o.
Ceylon. without charging the city pen
ny for the exhibition, TIE whole con
cluded by fiery t,bleau Of the Laying
af the Gable, in which was an ingenious
Niagara separated from a eombustiblC
Agamemnon in the midst Of fiery ocean
paying out over their sterns severa
yards of''chain lightning.
All was now over. and the People o.
the United States commenced going
home. 1t turned itself towards that cor
ner Of the Park which abats upon Dal-
monico's, and forming itself into tho
shape Of wedge. inserted its small end
into the entrance between the iron rail
ings. and there stuck. Being sovereig",
the people expected the iron railing to
give way. But the ratings being put
there by law. seemed to consider tina,
they had right to stay there, and they
accordingly stayed. The people groan-
ed from its inmost depths. 1t trod on
/ it. own to-s, it smashed its own hats. it
pickel its own pockets. it punched Its
own head. That unfortunate corpora
ton whose members mt to logIerhcad>
with It's belly never had worse time
/ than tn People Of the L United States had
| in that narrow corner. Justice in vain
sprinsled the turbulent body with few
policemen. They failed in producing
any chemical change The People open
cd its mouth aud spoke sundry impreca-
tons. and that was all. Annie and hfr
father and m thor were in the very
midst Of the People. L. was in vain
that MIS-. w. bri,tlei all her maternal
quills, it was in vain that her h"sband
made of himself sort of ch"rdur de
fri7e ef elbows. The People was rest
less. rtmorsclcss. II crystaliz d. as II
were. gradually around them, liulc
drop of humanity walked in with fast
/ condcnsing impenrtrabe matter.
Annie was dismopnted from her IA
ther's shoulders. and placed in iront,and
over her little body both the parents pro
ecteo their bodies, forming a sort Of
protection like the tesiH3o of the arcient
Roman soldier. Bit by jerk by jerk,
the grea, wedge of which they were the
! centre, advanced as Il some huge hammer
were silently falling on is bro~h end
Poor Annie. under the parental testado
began to snHocate. Her mouth was about
on a levcl with the coat t,ils Of the peo
pie. She pushed and showed with he.
delicate little hands against the hl,cis
, wall that surrounded her. 1t was solid
as rock. Ihe roiscless hammer fell on
the wedge once more; suddenly the black k
wall gaped, a crevicc appeared, and An
ME slipped through; the wall closed
again in a moment, and she was lost
She knew it in an instant herself. 1t
did not need her mothers wall which
rose from the midst of the Soversl IN
People to tell it to her. 1t appears to
her on the moment that some mighty
power had suddenly taken her up and
flung her INTO China. There was only
the thickness of half adozcn People be-
tween her and her mother and tAth rand
vet she was as completely separated as II
the bulklyiny between tie north and
south piles divided them.
She began To cry little Not much,
for there was hardly room to cry-fat
tened up as she WAS against the Sovet
egn People but still she indu gel in
that relief as well as she cculi. Sud
denly she felt her hand grasped. Shc
could not look up to see who it VAS, but
she felt that it was neither her papa's nor
mammas. 1t was hard and Ih.-
Still it was human touch, and 1t glad
dened her. She held on conf iin5ly to
the hand The wedge drove father AMI
mother until at last it seemed to split IN
all directions. and Annie found herself IN
the street-wh9t rect she knew not
still holding the hand.
Whats your name, my dear - ask
ed the owner Of the hand, woman OF
about sixty. very wrnkled and very
shabbily dressed.
90" sobhed poor Annie. 'my name
is Annie W. and LIN lost, and !
want to 90 home
"What - exclaimed the old lady, sis
it possible that you are little Annie, the
daughter of my friend, Mr.. w.
Give me kiss darling. know your
papa very well. and will take you home.
Annie gave the kiss reluctantly, but
cast a wondering glance at her father S
friend. She had never seen such friends
at their house. Her papa's friends usu-
ally had clean faces, whole shoes and
brushed their hair. This bosom associ-
ate was attired in a singularly ragged
gown, shoes that trailed on the pave
ment, and MOP Of tangled gray han
struggling all over griny countenance
Annie was, however, too bewildcred to
be critical; besides, the woman promlsec
to take her home. She gladly followed
Tatterdemalion, still holding her dirty
hand.
Tatterdemalion was quite sociable as
they walked along, She knew Annie
father very well indeed, Wasn't he Mr.
W, of the firm of W, Dash anc
Company Annie SAID she thought i
was probable. A firm or company
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