Daily national Democrat., 1860-03-27
How a sunday may be Spent.

went on.
Second incident-a ferocious COW, with long
tail, stood full in our path, as we were crossing
the spacious meadow Of the Quintay Ranch
and shook her head at us, as if in serious
doubt as to whether we were entitled to the
right of way The ladies, of course, scream
ed, but, with that cool determination which
is so much the admiration of the gentler sex,
an opportunity for the display it, We "made
a break" for the animal, while our dog put
out in another direction. She stood perfect
ly still and looked at us, as if with an inten.
tion of meeting our advances halfway, and
we were Just about to call halt in our mad
career" when she seemed struck with a sud-
den panic, and rushed frantically for neigh.
boring thicket To say that we were meas
urably relieved in mental point of view
would be perhaps superhuous One of the
ladies remarked to us that we treated the
COW quite rudely, inasmuch as she was simply
about to invite us to take horn"
Third Misunderstanding in a patch of
tall grass, somewhat inter-spangled with
flowers, another of the ladies stopped down
to pluck "a love offs violet" within few feet
of us, when she suddenly sprang back with a
piercing shrek, and calculated the suggestive
inonosyllable, Snake 1--WE had "keerless-
/ ly" ran our yellow-tinted rattan through the
grass within an inch of her daintily occupied
hand)
Fourth incident-We had all reached a
"morantic grove" near the rivers bank, and
were poetically luxuriating "betwixt the sun
shine and the shade" when one Of our de-
lightfully appreciative companions, looking
up said with great enthusiasm: "Do see
those two immense eagles soaring in the blue
empyrean.' And went on to repeat
"The fierce, grey bird with the bending beak,
ct cetera, with such felicity of emphasis and
modulation, that we could not find it in our
heart to tell her that she was laboring un-
der slight hallucination, and that those
immense eagles" were only couple Of tur
key buzzards. There is nothing like having
vivid imagination. ut is a good thing"
as Sparrowgrass says, "to have in the coun-
try"
Fifth incident We ate our lunch with such
a degree of appetite that Towser got nothing
although he evidently expected share, from
the manner in which he wagged his tail and
looked into our faces. Finding himself badly
sold in the operation, (and perhaps a flea
in his ear) he made ehimselfacquainted, in his
own peculiar manner, with sundry stumps
posts, etc and ''moles and moudieworts he
/ howkit"
Sixth incident-Taking up our line of
march, we approached an immense thicket Of
elders, which we intended to penetrate and
explore, and also to recline therein if the
locality invited, when out stepped from the
parted bushes tremendous bull, and com
meneed 'bowing and scraping, in the politest
manuer, and with such an evident intention
OF forcing bis attentions upon us, that having
no desire TO make the acquaintance ofa stran-
ger ne retired; the ladies and the little lass
somewhat preepitately. As for ourself we
walked firmly and with much dignity behind,
occasionally casting backward a defiant
glance. Seeing us depart, the polite quad
ruped turned around and disappeared in the
thicket.
Seventh Incident Being earnestly request
ed, 10y both ladies, we took up volume of
Tennyson's poems, which one of them had
brought along, and, while the little lass of
eleven summers was out gathering flowers,
read to them the "Lotos Eaters" After we
had finished, we turned to ask the lady near
est to us how she liked it, but, finding that
we would have to wake her from a very de-
licious slumberi in order to obtain her opinion,
we dcssted, and commenced whistling "Old
Dan Tucker" The poem is one suggestive
of dreamy langor, but then one must be
awake, we should suppose, in order properly
to appreciate it.
Eighth incident-About fifteen very lean
cows came towards us, tails up from across
the meadow, SHE'D off as they neared US,
much to the delight of the females, and rush
ed into the middle of the ow-rolling
river. 1t happened to be shallow at that
point, and they stood up to their bellies in
the water. Remaining very TRANQUILITY for
few minutes, they leisurely walked out and
resumed their ruminAting meanderings over
the meadow In short time they again lifted
their tails in the air, and "broke" for the
river where they remained very plaeidly for
a while and again sought the meadow. This
thing they repeated at such frequent inter-
vals, that it assumed the character Of phe-
nomenon No doubt it can be accounted for
philosophically. We concluded, at last, that
they must have found a rich patch OF grass
directly in the neighborhood of a yellow
jackets nest, and We steered clear of that
patch.
Other incidents there were but we shall
only give the last
Last incident-We wended our way home,
and, as we turned from the green-Lordered
path into the dusty road, a goldon-breasted
lark, on the summit of tall oak, gave us a
parting song, so full of sweetness that it lin
gers in our bosom still The declining sun
shone full upon his breast, and he felt its
gadness in his heart. Sportmen were around
with their murderous guns, but we hope
they spared that silver throated lark.
Mr., Wyke, the British Minister to Central
America, has negotiated treaty with Nicara