Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-18

If l should be called on for a contribution
to the Commercial Advertiser, | think that
would tell the story of the brisk young Baron
Buztuz, who many years lived IN an old castle
on the Rhine. How that he loved the Lady
Ravcnel, and paid his addresses to her; bu,
was rejected because she was of the opinion
that he loved his brave old blood-houn Dun
der better than he did herself. In fact Lady
Ravenell stated her suspicious to the Baron,
the correctness of which he made no attempt
to dispute.
"Reasons there are, my lady," he would
say, ''that Dunder should come first in my
affections, for he can hunt better than you :
he can run far faster through the forest than
you can: and have known him longer than
| have you"
AS the Lady Revenell declined coming in
competition with Dunder, the Baron Buzfuz,
as have observed before, was IL rejected suit
or.
But please observe now, how strange a
turn the tide of affairs took. As the Lady
Ravenell was one afternoon riding through
the dense, dark forest, she was waylaid and
attacked by two armed assassins in masks
One of them had just drawn glittering poin-
ard, which he was about to plunge in Lady
Ravenelrs breast, when Dunder, who hap
pened to be roaming through the forest on a
tour Of pleasure and observation, suddenly
sprung upon the bloody assassin, and struck
his tangS into his face and neck with such
force as to compel a speedy surrender. The
accomplice, or rather as it turned out, the
principal in this murderous design, seek
ing escape by flight, was also overtaken and
wounded by Dunder; and the mask falling
from his face, be was found to be a wild, reck-
less young baron who had aspred, without
success, to Lady Ravenells hand. After a
while the mellow horn of the Baron Buzfuz
was heard resembling through the forest,
when Dunder gave a long continued howl,
which the baron evidently understood. for in
"A short time he made his appearance at the
the spot. where he found the two disabled as
sassins stretched upon the ground, and Lady
Ravenell almost dead from fright.
Now, if l were really intending to tell the
story, it would be proper for me to go on and
state how that the Lady Ravenell, consider
ing within herself that Dunder had saved her
life, became exceedingly attached to him, and
in process of time consented to marry his
master. And they were married, the Baron
Buzfuz and the Lady Ravenell; and for nine
long days the old castle was fairly alive with
song and revelry Dunder was also an invit-
ed guest, and witnessed the whole ceremony
from beginning to end evncing his satisfac
ton by prolonged smile which stretched
his mouth open from ear to ear.
And then ought to relate, if were abso-
lutely undertaking to give the narrative, how
that very curious JEALOUSY arose in the fam
lily; very twisted, complicated sort of an at
fair, as you might term it. The baron was
jealous because he suspected that the baron
ess loved Dunder better than she did him, and
the baroness was jealous because she very
clearly perceived that the baron retained his
ola preference for Dunder over herself. And
SO IL came to pUss, a burning jealousy ragged
III tne heart of each-for although the baron
really dld love Dunder better than he did his
wlle, anu the baroness on her part loved Dun
DER better than she did the baron, vet they
were both uneasy because of the rival quad
ruped' AND here notice, in passing, how
glarng the selfishness of mankind and wo-
mankind appears in this. Each one was will
ling to give the preference in love to Dunder.
but at the same time required that the love Of
the other to himself or herself should he sn-
preme. Under such a whimsical and ano-
malous condition of affairs, it is certainly not
to be wondered at that the lives of the Baron
Buzfuz and his lady were involved in gloom
and unhapplness.
But this of course could not last forever,
and each without the knowledge of the other,