Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-08-17
MORNING LEADER,
Matchlng at q lion ITunt.

The following is from "Urmsby's An
tumn Ramblcs in North Africa" a book
just published in London:
They assigned lie a posi- UH me rignt
flank, under shade ofprickly-pear garden,
commanding an open space in the brush,
and left me with strict iniunctions not to
sleep. These, 10 any one who has never
tried the position, would seem wholly un-
necessary. They did so to me at first;
but long before The vigil was over, found
that a state of drowsiness was not so re-
mote as I fancied. For the first hour or So
expectation, excitement kept you well up
to the mark, and you sit probing the twi-
light nth an impatient eye and straining
your ear-drnm 10 extract sound from 81
lence. Time after time some falling leaf
sets You listening with an intensity which
threatens to crack your tympanum; time
after time you fancy some bush or rock in
your limited landscape docs not look ex-
actly as it did before and you watch it
with vigilance that makes your eyes run
water, until you find there is nothing new
in or about 1t.
But after a while the optic and auditory
nerves gI0w weary Of that most wearisOme
of all labors, striving to when there is moth
ing to be done; and then supervenes that
state Of residences under difficulties which
men call fidgets. Your nose stung by the
sense Of inferiority which the temporary
importance Of its rivals, the eye and ear,
suggests to it. begins to assert itself by itch
ing violently The privilege Of scratching
it privately would be cheap at any price !;
but dare YOU doit? fla boar or Z panther
be in the case, it Is Just possible that the
animal, having perceived something pecu-
liar about the bush or bank under which
you are sitting, is at this moment studying
your position with watchfd eyes from the
DEPTHS of some shade which yours cannot
penetrate; and the slightest movement on
your part will clear up this doubt which is
now agitating his mind.
With young and inexperienced lion per,
haps, it does not so much matter; but if it
be an old and wary bird who has been
wounded once OF twice he will know ths
meaning of a crouching figure, with a gun
on its knee, and will take another path, SO
hunters say; or he will fall upon you and
rend YOU, say the books. Quie'l SaJe2 At
any rate scratching your nose Is not to be
done inconsideratelyI but at last driven to
yfsTT-T sEtfyEI, sTSrTtfIrly rf=7 1uI 4i'iAA1
fbopinr ferveutly that no body or thing sees
youl and find, when you reach the offend
inp member, that the irritation has sudden
Iv transferred itself to the nape OF your
neck. or to your spine between the shoulder
blades. or to some other spot, as nnattainabla
| Ia your present position as Spitzbergen--
| Y6ur nose. having exhausted that line oi
| aggravation, sudden y starts new ldt a
| and YOU find that h8 baa taken 1t INTO hl!
! tin that he wants tosneeze. This, OF eourso
| would be fatal; so, with a twesk or two
Won bring him to sense of the situation.-
No sooner have you put down insurrectloi
in This quarter than you discover atresh sea
Of disturbance in the stone upon which yo'
are sitting.
Besides being harder than any geologi
cal formation has n right to be, it seems t
have suddanlv acquired the property 0
producing knobs, humps and protubrance
for YOUR especial discomfort and, enccour
,ued by this. and by the fact that they haV
been at the same anglefor some hours you
knees begin to ache, and your lower limit
to show SYMPTOMS Of the disease known
nursery therapeutics as bone in the leg
| Most likely there will be a running accom-
imminent of mosquitos all the time; bu
that being a fair und legitimate annoysnc
? ON the part Of nature, you have no right
b complain. After couple Of hours Of thi
+ the period Of reaction setts IN, and wear
: ness succeeds. Like ear and eye, yo1'
e mind has now got tired Of doing nothing
3, boriously. You have thought OF eVel
i thing YOU can think OF 10 ki4 time, al
le now You begin to think that this kind
re work is rather nlonotonous. At this poi
I'd faculty for making Latin verses won won
a. tend a man in good stead. II ysn e9qu
a, onlg put q / wish I Vas with Nancy,
a. some othe lyric appropriate IN seHtlInel
Il, into Sspphies, the employment would ca g
u ~ you famously through the remainder s,. I !
II YOUR watch. A hardened snuti-taker /
To- one hardened beyond the snsezl1ng fot
IN would have great advantage. l reeo
u mend these two accomplishments to
er intending lion hunters.
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