Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-07

Oh! thou shalt ind, howere thy footsteps roam,
That land thy, country, and that spot thy home
| From 1ictuor Fields Young Folk, Monthly. s'ai
| Hum, the Son of Bus l,s..>
! Br MRS. HARRirr sErcHHR srowz.
At Rye Beach. during our summer,s "a.
cation, there came, as there always will TO
sea side vi,itors, two or three cold chilly,
rainy dsys.'--tdys when. the skies that Iohg
had mol rsiued q drop seemed suddenly TO
beihink Themselves OF their remissnes. aud
to pour down water not by drops, but by
pailfuls. The, chilly wind blew aud whis-
tled, the water dashed aiobg rhe ground.
aud catered IN, fosmy .tills along the road
sider aud the bushes bent beLeath The con.
stan. food. It was plain that there was
TO be no sea.bathing on such day, no
walks, no tides; and SO, shivering aud
drawing our blanket.shaw " Is closely about us,
we sat down TO the window 10 watch the
storm outside. The rose. bushes under the
window hung dripping under their load OF
noisture, each spray shedding a constant
shower on the spray below it. Oh one of
there lower sprays, under the perpel ual
| HfPI "but VIC oSC but pOOT lIIttlt
humming- g-bird. drawn up into The iiniest
ohivering ball, and clingiDg with desper-
ale grasp 10 his uncomfortable perch. A
bumming bird We knew him TO be nt ouce,
though bis feathers were so matted and
glued down by The raiu that be looked uot
much bigger than ,houoy,bee. and as DIFF
ferens possible from the smart, pert, airy
little character that we had SO otten seen
duttering With the flowers. He @wes evi.
deutIy as humming bird 10 adversely, snd
whether be ever wouli hum again looked
to US excsedingly doubtfui.s InncdialeIy
however, We sent out 10 have him taken III i.
When the friendly hand eeizod him, be
gave q liftle, faint, watery squeak, evident.
ly thinking that his last hour. was come.
aud that g,im Death WAS about to carry
him off TO o!tbe laud ofSdead birds. q What a
lime We had Ieviving him,--holding The
littlc wet thing in the warm hollow of our
hands, aud feeling him shiser and palpi-
tate His eyes were fast closed hi, tiny
claws, which looked slender as cobw ebs,
were knolled close 10 his body, aud it was
long before one e-could feel the least motion
in them. Finally, to our great joy, We
felt brisk litle kick, and tbeu fuuer OF
wings, aud then determined peek Of the
bcak, v hich showed that there was some
bird left ip him yet, and that be meant at
any rate to GDd out where he was. Ss7
| Unclosing our hauds small space, cut
popped the IitiIe head wilhia pair of ronnd
0rillluut eyes. Then We bs,hought our
selves Of fecding him, and forthwith prepar
l p0 him a etiH trt.cs ~ CT nj
drop of WHICH we, held TO his bill Af.er
u'ning his head a,tentiveIy, IKE bird
who iEnew, bat he was about aud xdidn't
mean 10 be chafied, be briskly put out a
long. flexible tongue, slightly forked at the
end, and licked of'the comfortable, beyer.
age with great RELISH Immediately he
MAS pronounced out of danger b, the small
humane society which had snpder,skeu the
chargeaoi us rest sioraiioD > and began ia
cast ubont Tor getting him o settled estab
lishment in our apartment. l. gave uIl
my work-bok 10 him ffora sleeping room,
and it was medicslly ordered ID at he should
take nsp. So We filed the box with
cotton, aud he was formally pntto bed
with folded cambric handkerchief round
his peck. 10 keep. him from beating his
wings. Out of his Whi'e wrappIugs he
looked forth green and grave as any judge
of discrenIian. he seemed IN nnds,.tand
vbs, 'was being done no him '.no resgned
himself sepsibly 10 ,i,t 20 10 sleen
r.. ~ .,,sqa. = g,.lf
ine eoA "s' vu,0,eu WIN shee' OF pa
per pe'ioIa'ee ~''nsno'es lor purposes oil
Ven'ila.,on J LOT eysus snunm,ng pros nave nav
pa,r OF lungs any peeu lhelr own h.'le
portion o' ar 70 ~. lnem, so 'nal lhey
may make ol'Sa, scaris. hl.Ie drops o'
olooa 70 Keep nes n,e ourn'ng In iheii
uny ooa'es ouf pros inngs manuiaetnr
ea o'i'iian' o'oou. o. we tonnd out oy ex,
periehce lor " nus nrss nap DC con'rived
70 nes,'e n'@seh 'n'o .ne cotton OF which
DIS oea was @aus ana 10 get more OF II
man ne neeaed sinlo his long bul; We