The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-04-10

uy is treasured IN tnat OF man SUI
denly stunned deaf by fall It wa
my last perfect pleasure, and succeed
ed by a shock that / shall never
think, get quite over
When | had bathed as long as
thought prudent, | landed and ad
vanced toward the spot where Towsel
and my garments lay as did so
every individual baif on his back
seemed to bristle with fury, and hi
eyes kindled like Goals of fire; he
gave me notice by low, determined
growl, that he would spring on me
and tear me into fragments if | APP
preached nearer 1t was evident hi
did not recognise me in the least
without my wearing apparel.
" Tow, Tow, Tow" said / plea
sanity ; good old Tow, you remen-
Der me )" bnt the brute, like the
ftiend we have known in better days,
and applied to when in Indifferent APP
parel, only showed his teeth the more
"Towser, be quiet, sir, how dare you
sir-Tow, Tow, Towser, (here he had
nearly a bit Of my calf off, you nasty
brutal dog, go away, sir, go away"
Drops of foam oozed tn ough the
teeth of the ferocious monster as he
stood up with tail erect at these re.
proving words but he manifested no
sign of sorrow or remorse. My situa-
tion became serious in the extreme.
What if he choose to sit there on my
wearing apparel until?
At this idea, too terrible to be con :
Guided, profuse perspiration broke
out all over me. Presently, feeling a
little Cold, | went back into the lake
again to consider what was TO be
done, and resolving the fell design of
enticing Towser into the water and
drowning him.
Abuse and fattery being equally
thrown away upon him, | tried stones.
heaved at him with all my force the
largest pebbles I could select, the ma
jority of which he evaded by leaping
from side to side, and those which
strack him rendered him more fero-
cious, and I believe he would have
killed and eaten me if lie could, wheth-
err was dressed or not, but he would
not venture into the water after me
still.
AT last, the time drawing on apace
for the appointed interview, which I
had once looked forward to with such
delight and expectation, ! was fain, in
an agony of shame and rage, to hide
myself in dly ditch in the neighbor-
ing copse, where / could see what
took place without being seen, and
there / covered myself over, like the
babes in the woods, with leaves.
Presently my Lucy came down, a
tri1e more carefully dressed than usual,
and looking all grace and modesty !;
the dog began to howl as she drew
near she saw him and she saw my
clothes, and the notion that | was
drowned flashed upon her at once !;
for an instant she looked as if about
to faint, and the next she sped off
again to the hotel with the speed Of a
deer.
Presently they all came back, Lucy
and her mother, and all the maid ser
wants from the inn, besides my fellow
students, anil fishermen with drag
nets, and a medical man with blankets
and brandy, chow | envied the blan-
kets and brandy y AS I expected,
neither the women's cries, nor the
mems labor in vain, distressed me half
so much as the patting and caressing
of Towser
/ was desperate by this time, and
hallooed to my friend Sanford" San.
ford and nobody else to come into the
copse with blanket"
remember nothing more distinctly
Immediate peals of laughter, now
smothered, now breaking irrepressibly
forth, expressions of thankfulness, o.
affection, of sympathy beginning
but never ending-burst in upon us
as it were, by foods of merriment
and the barking Of that execrabIs
dog. / left Killarney the same even
ing, Lucy and the mother of Lucy
and my fellow students, and the abom-
Unable Towser left them for gooC
and all, and that was how my engage
ment was broken off. and Why there
is no MRS. Peony Flush" concluded
the curate, who had turned from ross
color to deep carnation, and from tina
to almost black again during the re-
cital
The Chinese New Year.