Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-19

Dante's Inferno" Indeed, seen in the muir
ky twilight, tiinging fuel to his great smoking,
mutterlng monster of a pit, or fighting tile
flames when they burst forth through the turf
covering, and struggled for the mastery, he
might have stood as a model for either the
great Florentine or our own English Milton
Accident at length, opened for me this mans
door, but God himself, think must have open
ed his heart. In falling tree, in company
with two or three other laborers, a projecting
branch-a mere twig as it seemed, had struck
MS arm with sufficient force to send the axe
INTO his thigh, nearly seyering the .femorai ar
tery. fortunately Hgature was Immediately
applied and, as the accident occurred at no
great distance from his hut, he was carried
tmther and messenger dispatched for me.
shaIl always retain a vivid impression of
the scene IN the cabin when l entered the
white, frightened faces of the men who had
brought him in, all the more CHASTITY for the
smut and dust incident to their business-the
wlld-eyed, dark featured woman in a corner.
grasping small cross and muttering words of
supplicatlon IN broken tongue, between her
soDs-the clear, high features of the wounded
man, their singular fascination heightened by
the sharpness and paor attendant upon loss
OF blood, and the effort he was making to con-
trol any evidence of emotion-the broad, rich
nght OF the June day streaming in at the open
H..
only by the drumming Of a wood-pecker upon
the gnarled butternut that sprung from a crew
Ice of the ledge. near the door-formed tab
leaur not easily forgotten.
The man submitted to the examination and
the tying OF the artery without word it was
only when dismissed the men, with the as
surance that should remain with him through
the night, that he said, quickly at is un..
necessary"
Il think it is. 1t is not right or proper to
leave you with no one but her." | said decid
edly, with glance toward the woman, who.
a1ter watching my every motion through the
operation, had returned to her cross and her
Deals His eyes followed mine, and there
was touch of pity in his voice as he said
foor Isabel it may, indeed, be comfort to
her, as you can at least keep out the crowd of
gaping fools that always rush in to see a man
die"
did keep out those, who, melted by curl
oSlty or a better motive, came to see him; but
tney would have learned little, had they enter
ed; for the woman replied to my few necessa
ny questions in monosyilables, without raising
her hand or scarcely interruptng her PRAYERS
as the man lay so still, that had it not been for
an occasional grating Of his teeth, he might
have been taken for dead
SO the daylight faded away and the brood
ing summer night, with 'its few large starso
shut down around us, the drumming of the
woodpecker gave place to the harsh cry and
loua boom OF the night-hawk, and, presently.
the forest around became vocal with the nv
rad voices of insect and reptile whose discor.
dant voices, none but the great Creative mind.
could blend with such soft harmony
The deep motionless forest stood around the
ledge, and, as leaned against the Intel of the |
door to escape the faint sickening smell of hot
blood, | tancied | could almost hear the growth |
OF the lush vegetation around-rietng as if
were IN the damp, dewy, odorous earth.
(rO be continued)