Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-06-21

r Poor Rachel led a sad time of it. Hel
grandfather hardly let her go out of hi
r sight. Leverton continued to frequent tn
house. Rachel had till now been a mere
} plaything for spare half-hour his inclina
7 ton for her would probably have died ava,
: if all had been smooth, but it became very
! earnest now that she took SO much winning
His whole soul was bent upon catching
: Maurice in some act which might entail a
! long Imprisonment upon him, and so dispose
of him for time. He hated him as an over
: bearing nature detests what stands in the
path to it's will .f..- e.. s...... .r.F
; Maurice had kept out of the way as much
as possible in order that poor Rachel might
not suffer, and had continued his earnest
search for permanent work which yet should
not take him out of the district (Which your
true forest autochthones hate like death -
One fine autumn Sunday, however, he went
up to church, keeping rather apart from the
scattered groups out of the different Gotta
ges. The church, built of flint with stone
quoins, stood on little hill apart from any
village, with some beautiful old elms and
picturesque oaks round it.. The only dwell
ling in sight was an old farmhouse, the re-
mains of large manor which had belong
nights, without his head q suppose as an
appropriate punishment, in which case the
tradition was curions as an indication of
feeling in England at the time of his DEATH
drove four headless horses down the hollow
lane to the churchyard he was not pleas
ant company to meet, and that side of the
hill had rather an evil SAVIOR. At the bot
tom of the hill ran little river with foot
bridge across it. Beyond lay the few fields
of the parsonage and round in every d.
rection the great forest folding in on all
sides. On weekdays, it was a most solita-
ry place, on Sunday it served as the rural
Pail Mall or Hyde Park !; staid old labor
ers who never met on other days, inter-
changed the gossip of the week, or more
often sat in dignifed silence, summing them
selves in the porch. The ivy which cover
ed tower and walls with thick green coat,
and even crept through the roof and hung
within in long festoons unmindful of rural
deans, had trunk like tree, and the
boughs stuck out three or four feet from the
wall 1t was clipped up to certain
height, so as to form vs. shelter or pent-
house from the rain and sun, under which
stood row of men with their backs leaning
against the wall 1t was almost as great
an ordeal for young girl to pass this rak-
ing fire of eyes into church, as for the
squire's daughter to perform her first minu-
ct at her first ball-the most tremendous
exaction which society ever made on
modest young girl. n.g .,E..a.l-tT
Rachel was sitting on the tombstone of
her grandmother [whom she sorely missed,
in quiet part of the churchy ard, just be-
| foro bo ,orv;oo xpbi1o 4bo old olarly r,ya q
busy inside She sat sad and silent, play
ing with little Reuben, youngest of ten boys
of one of her few acquaintance, when Mau
rice's voice sounded close to her.
She var good friend to me, he NUT
tered, looking at the grave; then turning
to her, "I I've abrought thee posy, Rachel.
got un from the squeer's gardener (this
was four miles away. Idunna knaw what
name thou givest they flowers, but my
mother called UNI love in idles,'" and he
put bunch of purple and yellow pansies
with their velvet leaves into her hand. She
looked up with bright smile and blush,
said nothing, but put the flowers into her
bosom The parsons bell was ringing, and
with Reuben and his mother she followed
the congregation who trooped in. But Lev
erton had seen it all, and as he followed Mau-
rice into the ch urch, he said in a loud whis-
per, so that all the philosophers of the porch
| could hear, "What, he's afraid now of GO
ing after the stag and will only run after the
women" Maurice ground his teeth, but did
not turn - ss- f'- "
1t was true that he had not been "out"
for long time, but not with the least idea
of growing steady, as the polite world may
suppose. 1t is almost impossible for set
tied state of society to realize the feelings
of peasants in those parts in those days.
The Crown is such an extremely imperso-
nal proprietor, its rights are held so light
! ly, it's duties are still less considered the
deer are such thoroughly wild animals, that
the land seems to belong to no one, and to
be of use to nobody and the result alto
gether was that no young mans conscience
| deer. than the Hon. Mowbray Plantaget
suffers remorse in al Canadian forest going
after an elk. 1t was trial of skill between
gentlemen of different professions if the
poacher caught the stIg, well if the keep
er circumyented the poacher, it was fair
| too if not well. o., -4a tos =rs H.s..r .a-.r
Silas himself, the majestic Silas, though
as an official himself he had natural lean
ing to the authorities. would just as soon
that his granddaughter should marry a
poacher as keeper, if he had been as we'll
doing but Maurice just "scratted along
while Leverton had eighteen good shillings
week and house, with the chance of
! better. ... ..t ...s a.l at t.... .-.g5sr.s .. .
! Church began, but Maurice did not profit
greatly in vain the clerks periods struck
his occupied ear. Silas was particularly
great to to-day in certain psalms where he
could sound the proper plurals ''priesteses'
and "beasteses," in their place there was
| a new curate, north countryman, and he
had been SO illadvised as to try and reform
these peculiar Examinations, bat Sias knew
better "I won't be put down by nobody,
let alone by he why dunnot understan'
above half O. what he do say, he do talk so
queer, he do therefore in conscious recti.
tude he now rolled them out with redoubled
fervor. ..5 ......-. a..
! But neither this nor the psalmody had
any effect on Maurice This greatly re.
sembled the cornet sackbut, psaltery, and
all kinds of music which Nebuchadnezzar
the king had for his private enjoyment
The instruments were many and singular
/ so were the minds of the performers each