Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-09-03

until two o'clock, when as l expected, the pain
abated. AT five l was entirely free from head.
ache, and felt much in need of a walk in the fresh
air, which q slight shower at noon-day had cooled
and purified.
Choosing the shaded route, and ascending by n
gentle slope, l walked out upon the hill, and, book
in hand, sat down under q tree, alternately read
ing, aud gazing upon the sweet rurul picture that
lay before me. Soon a pleasant languor stepped
my senses. Dense wood and craggy hill, green
valley and gushing brook faded from sight and
hearing, and l was asleep
Probably half an hour elapsed before l opened
my eyes, and saw sitting beside me the same elfsh
little figure l had once before encountered In the
wood. The stringy hair, the sun-burnt neck, the
tattcred dress, the wild, wierd-looking eyes, could
belong to no one but Mrs. Walkers Betsey. In
one hand she held my parasol, opened in a posi-,
zion to shade my face from the slanting sun
beams; with q small bush 10 the other, she was
protecting me from mosquitoes, and other insect
annoyances.
SWELL done, little Genius Of the Wood an [ to
be always indebted to you 70 finding what
lose," l said, Jumping up and shaking my dress
! clear from leaves.
INV iuukuCu iIuuuOuCEdktlJ. HS yOu lO5t
. your shade in the woods; and now you have been
and lost yourself. 1 guess you'll have to keep me
always" she ~giggled, trotting along beside me.
t II was mighty scared when I see you lying there,
s and the sun creeping round through the trees,
e like a great red lion going to spring OF you and
t eat you up. l thought you had gone to the ride"
r Iexplained the cause of my detention, and saw
l that she was rather pleased than otherwise; for,
n as l soon drew from her, she had been bitterly
disappointed in the affair, and felt her rejection
very keenly. She had come to this spot now, for
d the sole purpose of peeping from behind some rock
; or tree at the merry company on their way home,
6 which would be at six o'clock.
II coaxed old Walker and his wife to let me
have some green corn and c~ow.cumbers, and 1 put
on my best spencer, and went to the depot this
morning, but none Of 'em asked me TO get in.
Hal Price kicked my basket over. too! 1 s'pose l
wasn't dressed fine enough. They all wore their
Sunday things. l wish 'twould rain pitch, and
u spile 'em 81 do so !"
l offered her many topics of consolation, bu,
she refused to listen, and went on enumerating
sundry disastrous results, which "she Just wished
would happen, she did so !" and giving vent to
various amusing, if unchristian denunciations
;, Suddenly she stopped, and at the same instant,
we raised our heads and listened. 1t was q deep
grinding crashing sound, as of rocks sliding over
and past each other There was q cracking as
e of roots and branches, twisted and wrenched
from their places, then a jar, heavy and terrible
that reverberated through the forest, making the
earth quake beneath our feet, and all the leafJ
: branches tremble above US.
y We knew it instantly-there had been q heavy
fall of rock not far from us, and instantaneous
We started in the direction Of the sound. Tit
place was soon reached. An enormous mass o
rock and earth, in which many small trees wer'
growing. had fallen directly upon the railroad
track, and that, too, at the point where the stream
- wound nearest, and its bank make q steep descen
upon the other side.
= After a moment of gazing in horror-stru,k 81
lence, the thought started to our lips-What mus
~ be done2 1t appeared we were sole witnesses 0
the accident, and though the crash might hav
~, been heard. and the jar felt at the village, VIII
a. would think of q land slide? And upon the rail
road |! Ten minutes ct least must elapse before W
could give the alarm, and in half that time til
train was Cue.
In that speechless, breatbless moment. befor
;" my duller ear perceived it, Betsey caught tn
sound Of the approaching train, mufaed as it wa
- by the hill that lay between. 1t was advancin
a" at fearful speed; rushing on-all that freight {
joyous human life,-on to certain destruction; int
the terrible jaws of Death !!
WI l was utterly paralyzed. Not SO Mrs. Walker
Betsey.
,ss 'Pm goin' to run and YELL" she cried and we
od off upon the instant. Screaming at the top of BIZ
ora Voice, keeping near the edge of the bank frol
which she could be soonest seen from the a
tor- preaching train, ~plunging through under-brusl
,or. and leaping like a chamois among the rocks, 81
bod dashed on, and sounding her warning cry as 81
;or. went.
ted Fire Fire Murder! Hello the house Hea
nto the horses Thieves! Thieves Mad dogs G
rho out of the way old Dan Tucker p we're few
re- the changes improvised as she ran.
uld ! followed as l could seemingly in a sort
int. nightmare, wondering why l did not Shrek, y
ed incapable Of making q sound expecting evel
felt moment to fall upon the rocks.yet picking my ste
ion with q sureness and rapidity that astonished n
ary even then.
,se- Betsey's next move was to bend down o smf
|saplipg, and calling to me TO throw my red sea
nv upon it, she allowed it to rebound. Then she b
the me shake it, which / did vigorously. 1t stood
no an angle upon the bank, and commanding q lo
had stretch of the railroad, it was q most a~ppropria
place to erect q signal. Then leaping upon t
, be track she bounded on like a deer, shouting a
gesticulating with redubled energy, now that t
ned train appeared in sight. 1t soon became evide
that the engineer was neither blind or deaf, for I
she brakes were speedily appl led, and the engine
err. versed. Still it dashed on with fearful veloci
rself and Betsey turned ana ran back toward the
on. structed place in an agony of excitement.
g to Gradually the speed lesseped, the wheels obey
,ven their checks, and when at last they came to o /.
RI TO stop, the cow-catcher was within four feet of
her rock. Many, seeing the danger, had already lei
hen ed off many more, terrified and unconscious
lars, the real nature of the danger, crowded the pl