The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-02-19

Mestrs, Philips, Sampson A. Co., Of Boston.
Neither the title or the commencement of the
story give any lntmatiop,of the pleasant hu.
NOR which peryadeh the whole after the ae-
efet Ia known, OF Of the ettellegt moral to be
drawn from a. This Is one 81 many Others
which make up the book and wel deserve
the name ~ snlerlalnmenttl
My Lord Sheik, Ia the southern part Of
( Germany lies the little city of Grunnicscl,
where | was born RnG bred. IL is small, a.
all cities are in that country. In the centre
IL little market place with fountain, m
old gudhall on one side, aud round the mar.
ket the houses Of the justices Of peace and
more influential merchantSi and a eoupls Of
narrow streets hold all the rest Of the inhab-
ilanls. An know o1Ch other, every one
knows what happens everywhrre else and II
the priest the hurgomaster or the doctor,
has an additional dish on his table, by' dinner
/ time Il il know To the whole city. In the
afternoon the ladies 90 10 each others houses
paying visits Us they call IL, 10 talk, over
stron- coffee aud sweet biscuits, about this
/ great event, and the general conclusion ar
/ rived nt is that the priest ma8t have invested
Ia lottery and won money sinfully, or the
| burgomastcr have taken bribc or the doe
tor have received money from the apotheeary
on the condition Of writing expensive pre-
scriptons. You may imagine, my lord shcik
hoN dislgrecsble a circumstance Il must have
been for 80 WellrcguIated place as Grun,
wiesol, when man arrived there, Of whom
nobody knew whence he came, what he want
ed, or how he lived The burgomastcr, to
be sure, had seen his passports paper
which every one is Obliged to have among
US
"ls il 40 unsafe in your streets" interrupt
ed the shcik, "that YOU require to have a fir.
man from your sultan to inspire robbers with
'rcspcct2"
No, my lord-answcrrd the slavc-thcsc
passports are no protection against thieves,
but are made necessary 10y the law, which re-.
quires tha, it must be known everywhere
who is who, Now the burgomaster had oS.
smued the passport, and had declared at a
coffee party at the doctors, that I, was GER
tainly correctly visod from Berlin to Grun-
wiesel, but hc feared there vas something
behind, for the man had very suspicious
look about him. The burgomaster had great
authority in tho city, so it is a matter OF no
surprise that in consequence the stranger be-
CAME 10 be regarded as a very doubtful char
actcr His mo4s OF lie dill not rontf TO TffTy=a
abuse my countrymen Of this opinion. lie
hired a house for his exclusive use, put into
it a cart,loud Of strange looking furniture
such as furnaces, sund-baths, eruciblcs and
the like, and lived henceforth entirely alone
Nay, he bten did his own cooking, and his
house was entered by no human being, cx-
eept one old man of Gunwesel, whose duty
it was to buy his bread, meat and vegetables
Even this person WAS only admitted to the
lower floor, where the stranger met him 10
receive his purchases.
was a boy Of ten years of age when the
stranger took up his residence in our city,
and can call to mind as plainly as II it had
happened but yesterday, the excitement
the man occssioned in the place He
never came NJ an afternoon, like other
people, to the bowling green, never Of an
evening TO the tavern TO talk Of the times
over his pipe and tobacco. In vain did the
burgomaster, the justice the doctor, the |
priest, each in his turn, invite him to dinner
or tea, he invariably begged to be excused.
In consequence Of all this, some people re-
garded him as n desperado, some thought he 7
must be Jew, and a third party declared |
with great solemnity that he was magician |
or sorcerer grew to be eighteen, twenty
years old, and still the man was always call
ed "Ihe stranger"
1t happened one day that some people
came to the city with n collection of strange
animals. The troop which showed itself OH
this occasion in Grun@iesel wac distinguish
ed by the possession of a monstrous orang-
outang, nearly as large No : man, which Went
On two legs and knew all sovts Of cunaing
slcights of hand It rhanced cha, its per
formances took place in front OF 1he strang-
ers house. When the drum and fife sound
ed he made his appearance at first with visi-
BILE vexation, behind the dark, dust-begrim-
med window Of his residence. Soon, howev-
or he grew more amiabIe and opening his
window to everybody's astonishment, looked
out and laughed heartily at the orang-
outang's gnmbols Nay, he paid SO large
piece of silver Tor tho entertainment that the
whole city talked of it. =
The next morning the collection OF animals
went on their way. They had scarcely made
a league ON their journey when the stranger
sent to the post houSe demanding TO the
amazement, Jplpost cbaise and
horses, and set forth by the same gate and
on the same road taken by the nienagerie.
The whole city was furious at not being able
to learn whittier he was going. II was night +
when the stranger again returned 10 the gate
in the post chaise. A person was sitting
with him in the vehicle with his hat pressed