Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1862-04-04
FRIDAY. APRIL a, 1862.

ly followed BY the mother. Who Was scold'
Ing him sharply, aud beating him with .
s'iet. IN teach you to 80 sirigh'snins
out poor little Mary. that ~ill-yes and
you killed poor Towsrr. too!' Now. wbeih'
sr 10 Vas at this rrminscenoe. or with anger
broush, to pitch, a. woman's anger often
10. BY the uninterrupted sound Of her own
voice, ., matters little. bu, certainly the
stict came down with greater violence than
ever. aud. % fate would have IL. on the dog g
head. lie turned s' u to leap at her. bot
seeing that ] MAS looking at him. he 70.
treated, bat with his eye glarins With .
passion which could not believe dog could
ieel o. express There MAS no mi'taking u ;
IL was look Of unmi,igaied hate.
looked round ut :he faces At the table,
to zee 70 any one had taken notice Of this
extraordinary look bot apparently no one
had. Thinking ,ha, they would only laugh
At me. ! resolved 10 say nothing about IL.
determined. however. nerer again to let the
dog escape fr.m my eye. tried 70 rssson
wish my,rl.. and to prove how absurd !,
wAs-that mu.t DO ni.,sken--tbst " I
was not. the circumstances could still bs OF
no moment. Dot Do What l would. I could
no, shake Oa = vague sppebsn'ion ,ha,
weighed on my mind like lead. Tho words
OF Shylock occurred again aud again to the /;
Hates any msn the thing be would not
tillr Yes. any msa.' 'twas true enough
II man; ~, !, was absurd to apply it 10
= dos. reasoned ! with myslf. P,.h (.
Non.cn-e At-urd.' But stili that dogs
face haunted me.
vas aroused from my morbid reveries by
,hs voice OF our hoe, asking Us 10 como for
a''rOll over the farm. l.lmuediately jumped
up. called Rudolph To follow. and ou, we
went. Nothing occurred IN our walk which
10 worth mentioning now. We cav some
gigantic ,urnips. and BSobdignasian man.
gel ~urrel, and weto much ediGsd by long
lecture a, each gate. upon wha, such aud
such Geld had produced last year. the
quantity OF whea, ,ha; such another yielded
TO the acre, and statistics OF the Partridge.
he had once killed in one Jay anohs them
turnur.'
when We came hack again. .ho farmer
gave Us over 90 bi. wife. 10 DO shown the
iarmyard. From the peculiar siructur, Of
The house before mentioned. every room in
II overlooked ,h,. yard. THAT roou,. be.
gan our show.woman. over there. 10 me
and my good man room just above the
'b-d with the straw berry cali. Oh. you
must come and look a, my cali-hs's such
pet Of mine There. ISN'T he beauty ?
And to think he's Got 10 be killed Why
weren's you COW you s'lly7 And thai.
window there. gentIemen-,hat littls win.
dow-Ju', above the pig .,y, neI, TO ours,
that's my 'x,e, darling taby's little room.
Oh, you mus, come aud 'ec our ries,y, With
our Ioor dear sow. with her last litlle white
pIgsy-.ouve jos, eat,n Ii. sldes, brother.
cir that l.. we called IL the eldest. but. OF
course, cir. you know. 'ir here the pOOr
woman blu'hed up 10 her merry eyes iha,
tLny wrren't none VI 'rm older than the
other. And there. the hen house. aud jus,
abo,ss where Mary sleeps, and there's the
stables and that. poor old Smiler. SIR,
thirty years old. aud as sound as , roach ,
and-what's thatY
I, Was the baby crying again, and the
mother. begging us TO excuse her, rushed
od TO comiOr, her poor little darling. When
the erie. ceased, became aware Of = sro~l.
ing noi,s, like low thunder, that SEEMED to
proceed from something behind me. l
: turned and saw Rudolph showing his teeth.
with his eye. sIcd inten.ly, with the same
awful expression, on the little window above
pis..iy.
had never dorins the whole day forgot
ten that look. and when saw It again, un.
able to conquer my isar-. I determined
would not rest ill bad seen the dos safe.
ly chained up IN his kennel Mt home and
80. hurriedly saying that did no, icel we'll,
and sking the iarmer TO make our excuses
to his wife, ! walked away with my brother,
calling Rudolph alter mo When We reached
home. I fel, tired, and telling the servant to
chain up the dog, went in aud threw my.
-eli on the sofa.
| i'uPposs it must have been about three
hours after this that | ~as startled irou q
sleep that had forced it'elf upon me. ty
IN y bro,her's voice Hollo! = he said, wake
up, what nonsense you're taking; some.
thing about easy leap for dog like him
- over tho p,esty - open window
declare you quite frightened the when you
cried out in M awful voice The child, the
childv You eaten too much sucking.
pig.
I had had q most dreadful dream. !
dreamed that I Was in tho Arm yard tha,
ws had lately qui;,od. aud that sAw Ru.
dolph In the distance. carrying o something
white. and the ground was covered with
snow. Then heard a shrek. and turning
towards the place whence /, scemcd 10 pro.
ICED. ! cav the farmers wifs at the listls
window, pointed out as that u the baby' Z
room. and which was open. sesticulating
wildly. Then ! remembered calculating
What an e~J leap IL would be. Tor . dog
l,ie Rudolph. on to tho window sill. and
then heard voico crying out Save 10 +!