Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1863-06-05

may depart. ne VAL make reparsfion. An
give you all the money We have in ou
pockets
We laid our purses on the table befor
him
" The Lord has delivered you into m,
hands. 10 vas 50 revealed 10 me IN
DREAM We shall All be soon in anothe
~orid- Pray. Let Us pray And dow
BE- fell upon his knees. close 10 the table
With the candle burning. and the ugly lin
and steel IN bis hand. lie prayed AM
prayed thought his PRAYER would nevel
end At last he appeared exhausted. N.
stopped. and eyed the purses; and th.r
emPtied one Of them ost on the table. N,
appeared surprised. and. thought. gratis
ed. a. the largeness Of rs confent,. W.
nov thought Ne should have leave 20 retirr
but. 70 our dismay. the old Carlener sad
Nov &C vail praise God by singing
The Hundredth Palm
Tins Vas agony TO Us all After the
psalm. the old man took up the second
purse and While he was examining It's con-
tents. Ryder. Who vas close behind Tom
and myself. whispered softly.-
" ! have unfastened the door; when YOU
bear me move. make a ruslr--
The Ola Gardener. then pouring out the
contents Of the second purse. exclaimed -
" Why. there Is ALMOST enough to build
our new house Of God, Let me see wha.
the third contains
lie took up the third purse.
" Now" whispered Ryder. make a
rush
We did 50. and AZ the sane moment
heard the old fellow hammering awav with
has flint and steel We expected % be in
stantiy blown into fragments. The front
door. however. flew open before us. the
next step Nc found ourselves ia the garden.
The night w1s pitchy dark. We rushed
biindly through the nursery ground. scram-
bled through brambles and pricklv shrubs.
ran our beads against trees. then forced
ourselves through thick set hedge Al
last. with scratched faces. torn hands. and
taitercd clothes. We tumbled over a bank
into high road. This wAs the work of
bat few minutes. Ii our faces could have
been seen. II would have been thought.
from our horror-sirickcn countenances.
that. instead Of having risen from PRAYER.
Ne hal been Pursued by Ola Nick him
self
We fen upon a bank by the side Of the
road. There Ne lay without speaking a
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nighi-gAng of miners. who were returning
from their work. carrying. as j. usual with
them on dark nights. lanterns in their
hands. perceising shree persons fall from
The edge q the bank. and thinking thar an
accident had happened. ran 70 our assis-
tanos. They raised their lighted lanterns
90 our blackened and scratched faces.
The sisht Ne presented was more than suf-
hcient 70 irighten any person Of strong
mind. Il Was too much for the poor super
siitious miners. ~hO immediately scamper-
ed of-some towards the mine. others to-
wards the towns fast as their legs would
carry them. Each Of us lei, a portion o.
his skin and clothes sticking on tie thorns
and branches through which ~ had scram-
bied. Our horses were soon found. and We
gaioPed 90 Rydcr's residence. Lights
were procured. and we sat down. We
were black. rsgged. and dirty We look
ed AZ each other. and. in spite Of our mis-
cradle adventure. rosred with laughter.
We NAV laugh. exclaimed Ton. % bot
u this adventure y blown. and We are found
out. Cornwall viii be too bot for us for The
next seven years We have made pretty
sight q 10. Here We are a. black ~ three
intervals We have los; our money been
obliged 20 pretend % pray for two long
hours before great heap q gunpo~der.
With lighted candle splitting and firing
close 20 the powder. ~hile that iron-faccd.
w.il-iooking. ugly. rcd capped brute. u.tL
h.s horrible flint ani serl. threatened Us
All sith an immediate passage into eterui-
ty, oh. bow I wish some tiger or bear
hal taken a fancv % BIN whcn be las
wounded on the Geld Of battle bit nothing
in nature could stomach such an ugly m9n-
sier even shark you'd have been di.-
rusted a. such a neal And our money.
f1rsooth. must - o. build q Methodist
meeting house, Bah u is truly horrible
The fellov has PLAYED the oli soldier on
us With vsngeanoe. ard wc shall BE- the
h1-hing stock Of ihs whole country
We washed ourscive. and sat down % a
good supper Cool cheer and good vine
gave us a better sigit than We could rea-
sonahiy have expected. Young spirits
s1ra recovered their elasticity
Tie afair. howcver. vas rot vet ended