The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-07-29
From Chambers Journal.
A SPIRITUAL SUBPOENA.

Some dozen years ago, passed coup
lc Of summer months in Dcyon@hirc, fish
inc; changing one picturesque scene Of
sport for another, aIways disbeliesing that
| should find 50 fair place as that last
quilted, and always having pleasantly to
acknowledge myself wrong. There Is in
deed an almost ineXhaustibIe treasure Of
delicious hooks in that fertile country,
which comprchends every clement Of land
scapc beauty coast and inland, hill and
valley, moor 2nl woodlaud-and cZccls in
nothing more than IL curved rivers-
What clitf-Ike and full folia9ed banks
about their sources, and what rich mead
ows, sprinklcd with uurivaIIed kline, as
they broaden towards the sea.
At the close Of my tour, | was lodging
in farm house near branch of the Exc,
rather rcgretfu at the thought Of so soon
having to shoulder my knapsacIl aud re-
turn to native Dorset, near a certain pro-
lincial town, Of which county, and in a
neighborhood without a tree within sight,
or stream within sound, it was my lot to
dwell We hal lately thrown ont a bow
window to tie drawing room there, but
why, | cannot tel, but there was certain
y nothing to see from it. What a differ
ence between such a spot and my then
abode from the windows Of which a score
Of miles Of uululating and varied land.
scapc could lie djscerned, with the old ca
thedral towers Of the capital city stand
ing grandly mp against the southern sky,
1t is not true that people who live in
picturesque places DO not appreciate them,
but only that they require to he made to
understand their good fortune. Michael
Courtenay, the good man Of the farm, and
like all his class, 4 thorough stav-at-homc,
could not discover what ] found in that
lookout from his house to make such 4
fuss about; Lut his wife, who had once paid
4 visit to her son when in business at Hir-
Iningham, knew perfectly well. Concern
ing which son Robert, hy the by, there
was a sad tale lEc was the only child of
the good pair, and one who should have
been there at CoWlces, the right hand of
his father, and the comfort of his loving
mother: but the Young man had decided
otherwise. He had never taken to farm
ing, but had -rieyed his father hugely by
hankering after mechanical studies,
which the old agricuIturst associated al
most with the black art itself Thinking
himself 70 have a lift for the practical sci
cnccs, Robert had got apprcnticcl at Bir-
miugaam, and for sometime bill fair to &C
ami n..~se.: well. But it had not been
farming to winch he was in reality ayersc,
30 much Is to restraint 81 any klul, and
finding, after a little, that ho could not be
his own master 1T the lathe, any moro
than at the plow, he torsook his second
calling likewise. This had justly angercd
Michael. and drawn from him. ON the re-
turn Of tie lad, certain expressions which
his young spirit uuIuGtuiIy resented,-
TheTewa- violent scene ~ that peaceful
homestead of Coalces one day, auI the
next morning. when the house was astir,
il was found that Robert had gone away
in the night time, nor had he since either
returned home or written of his where
abouts.
II was 4 ycIr aDi more by this time.
during which period Mrs. Courtenay had
grown older than in half dozen years be
fore, while the old man himself, said the
farm people, bal altered too, fu.l as much
rs she, although, for his part, he never
owned to it, II was not be, who told me
of the matter, but the gndewife, who was
fond Of me as my vanity was obliged 70
coufsss--mauly because ] was of the age
of her lost lad. aud 50 reminded her OF
him. | slept in the very room which had
formerly been her Roberts, and very
comfortable little room il vas.
Here II was, yery early one May morn.
inc. te!y!e even tile earliest fiseTs Of the