Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-14

travelling caravan. N. Oufe turned TIL
dress over, and its originality attracted hi
Interest. He thought he should like to Sc
whether it would 1T his person, he there
fore arrayed himself in the habit, an
found that it suited him to Il 7. Just the
the idea entered his head that the oppoI
tunity Of disabusing Madame Oufe of he
superstitions had now presented itselt
Madame QUITE was nearly as great a foo
as her husband, and that is saying a goo,
deal. She was infected with the vulga
belief in witchcraft and demonology, am
believed implicitly that warlocks coulc
transform themselves into wild beasts 70
the purpose of ~devouring children.
Nov" unused NJ. OuAe, His a chanc,
for me 70 eradicate these baneful super
stitiOns from her mind. If she sees me il
this dress, and takes me to be a werewolf
and when ] show her the deception, sh,
will believe in the supernatural.
again"
Accordingly he walked to his wife.
door and listened. The servant was still
with her mistress, SO NJ. QUITE retreated
down stairs to the dining room, intending
to wait till his good lady was alone; and
that he might know when the maid was
dismissed, he placed the door ajsr.
Then, taking up a book, he seated him.
self before the fire. The book happened
TO be Bodin's "Demonomania,n and NJ.
Ouie opened it at the chapter on Lycar-
thropy.
He read on, and the tales of were-wolves
Heated in strange colors through his brain,
TIL ne fell asleep with his head on the ta-
bic n the book on his lap. And as he
slumbered he dreamed of sorcerers being
provided by the Evil One with wolf-skins
which they were condemned to wear for
seven years, and of Lycaon sentenced BY
Jove to run about in bestial form, till a
piercing Shrek and a crash brought him
with a start to his feet.
The lady's maid, after having pinned
her mistress black hair into a heap. and
fitted over it the nightcap, had left the
chamber and had come down stairs, As
she passed the dining-room she saw there
was still a light in it, and thinking that the
candles had not been extinguished, she en-
tered precipately to put them out.
There in the dead Of night she stood,
and saw before her a INDUSTRIOUS black bear
fast asleep before the fire, snoring loudly,
with its head on the table and its snout up
in the air, its hind paws upon the fender
a silk poeket-hahdkerchief over n knee,
and a book on the lap. No wonder that
she dropped her book and screamed.
But the shrek which testified to her
fear frightened NJ. QUITE out of the few
he did possess. He sprang up, be-
wlldered with his dreams, confused with
the fumes of wines, and alarmed at the
.suddenness of his rereI. Opposite him
was a pier-glass. He forgot entirely all
circumstances connected assumption
Of the bear-skin, and with the last impress
sions produced by Bodin, and by his
dream, stamped upon his brain, he jumped
10 the conclusion that he was bewitched,
and that he had been changed into a were
wolf. Full of this idea, he dashed past !
the terror-stricken maid and his wife, who |
had rushed to the landing, saw a frightful
monster bounding down the stairs, utter
ing howls sufficiently loud to awake the
lead, heard it unlock the front door, and
burst into the street. Thereupon she
away.
NJ. 0ufe, impelled by terror, ran along
he street yelling for assistance; he was
naturally provided with a deep and ono
JUS bass voice, but his voice sounded hol-
ow and fearful through his hideous vizor.
A few terrified people appeared in their
light-caps at the windows, only to run
Jack and bury themselves trembling be-
the clothes.
A watchman who had started on his
Odhds came upon him suddenly as he
urned a corner, and dropping his lantern,
,eat a pecipitate retreat.
In an adjoining street lived a fair dam
el Of considerable personal, but superior
,ecuniary attractions, who was loved to
distraction by a groeer's apprentice. The
rOung man had made the lady's acquain-
ance as he served the shop, and had
,reathed his love over the cheese he sold.
His addresses had been countenanced by the
one, but were discouraged by the
who had not permitted the devoted
-outh to set foot within their doors. The
pprentice had no other means open to
i'm of testifying his devotion than by
a band of street musicians to per-
Ofni at the rate of two francs IN hour,
the silent watches of the night, be-
Ow the window of the adored.
On the present occasion the band wa
performing the descent of Mars" when
diseordant howl in their ears produced a
udden pause in their music not noted in
heir score, and the apparition of a mon
trous bear, running into the midst Of them
Ipon his hind legs, with ears and stumpy
all cooked up, produced such a panic
.mong the sons Of Orpheus that they cast
heir instruments from them, and took
o their heels. Not SO the grocer's appren-
ice. True love knows not fear. He flew
0 the door of his beloved and cast himself
'efOre ii, determined to perish in her de-
ense.
But the monster, without perciving him,
an on repeating its dolorous howls.
The grocers apprentice rose from the
DOR step, busted his coat, collected the
catered instruments, cast an ominous
lance at the window of the adored, and
etired home.
A party of students from the university
1ere that evening going their rounds,
feats of heroism, Of which
hey might boast among their companions.
'hese feats were not attended with much
and yet the achievement of them
1as an object of considerable ambition.
hey consisted simply in breaking lamps
nd wrenching the knockers off doors.
Some people might think that the
MASKING of a street lamp was an opera
within the scope of the most infantile
and that the wrenching of a
nocker from q door was neither q hazard
us nor a very heroic act. Bit these peo-
lie are entirely mistaken. The police oc-
asionally interfere, and capture one of
hose engaged i'll these acts, and if cap
lred it costs the student several francs to
ribe the officer to. let him escape.
Consequently, the ringing of a street
ell at midnight is regarded BY University
nen as an achievement equal to the bra
est deed of a tried general, and the break
ny off of a knocker is supposed to rank
cry much on a level with the proudest
rophy Of d Bl0od-staihed field.
On the night in question four valiant
ollegians were engaged on the hazardous
Undertaking. Of screwing up the door of a
worthy citizen, an act of consummate in
and sublime originality. Sudden
y a wild and unearthly yell ringing
trough the hushed night broke upon their
ars. Instantly the four students paused
nd turned pale. In another m they
aw a diabolical object moving rapidly
own the street towards, them. The young
nen shrahk against the wall, each en-
.eavoring to get behind the other, and re-
-ersing the proverb of the weakest going
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