Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-09-05

his deuations of character are something
Eondertul in ther knowledge of the spiritual,
moraland mental anatomy of those of whom
ne writes. Some OF his sketches and his nara
tiyes scarcely less felici;ous than the best
stories of that almost inspired writer, Ch risto-
pher North. His " Marjorie Fleming in
cluded II this volume, published some years
ago by Messrs. Ticknor i Fields, in thin
Pamphlet, and we'll known to the literary pub
lie, is one of the sweetest, most poetic, tender
and touching stories IN our language. There
is freshness, versatility, brilliancy, originality
and power about every production of DIR.
Browns pen, that mark him as a true genius.
He Is never common place, never ike any body
but himself. Who has not read Rab and
His Friends and who has read anything like
it from the pen of any other authorP Here
is another picture from the chapter on dogs in
this volume.
II Peter was the incarnation of vvacity
Boz that OF energy. He should have been
called Ihalaba the Destroyer. He rejOiced in
demoIition-not from i'll temper, but from the
sheer delight of eEergizng.
hen first knew him he at B ink bon
sut the house lonely, and Bob too terrific
for any burglar. lie tall and heavy as
icxh0Ipd, but in every other respect pure
od-fsslio1ed, why, Scotch terrier-red as Rob
Roy beard-havlng indeed other qualities OF
RIJ's than his har,-choleric, inscriptions,
stf-c-iOnate, stanch,-nJ in the least magnani-
mJus,-as ready to worry little dog as big
one. Fighting was his " chief end," and he
omitted no opportunity of accomplishing bis
end. KaO liked fighting for It's sake, TOO,
but scOrned TO fight anything under his own
weight indeed, was long suffering TO public
meanness with quarrelsome lesser dogs. Bob
had no such weakness.
After some difficulty and change of masters,
| bought him, am ashamed to say, for five
pounds, and brought him home. lie had been
chained for months, was IN high health and
spirits, and the surplus power and activity of
tnis great creature, as ne dragged me and my
son along the road, giving battle to every dog
ne met, was something appslIing.
| very soon found 1 could not keep him.
lie worried the pet dogs ali around, and got
me into much trouble. So l gave him SIS night
watchman TO goldsmith IN Princess Street.
This work he did tanously. | once, IN passing
at midnight, stopped at the shop snd peered
IN the little sup ot glass and by the gashgh,
/ saw where ne lay. 1 made noise, and out
came he with and bang Of siedge
hsmuer. | then called his name, and in an
within that ntImated the wagging of the tail.
lie IS still tEere,-hes settled down into
putable, pacific citzen,-a good deal owing,
perhaps TO the disappearance IN battle OF sun
dry OF his best teeth As he lies in the sun
before the shop door he looks somehow like
the old fighting Temerare-
never saw dog OF the same breed be is
& sort of rough COB OF dog huge quant!-
" of terrier one skin for he has all the uu
and brIskness ana faIlng5 and ways OF a smal
dog. begging and hopping only 1t does
Once his master took him to North Berwick
Ills frst Iay ne spent 10 careering about the
sands and rocks and in the sea, for he is noble
swimmer. HIS next he devoted 10 worrying
all the dogs OF the town, beginning for conve-
nIeuce, with the biggest.
This aroused the cltiz-ns, and their fury was
brought TO focus on the third day by Its be
ing reported slterLatIvely that he had torn
chlo's ear otf, or torn and actually eaten l.
Up rose the town man, AMI the womer
each as TWO, and, headed by Matthew Cathie
the oue-eyed and excellent shoemaker, with
tall, raw, divinity student, knock-kneed and sll
feet two, VINO was his lodger, and was OF course
called young Dominic Sampson. They bor'
down upon Bob and bis master, who wert
walking calmly on the shore.
Bob was for 10 aking d stand, after the man
uer 0. CorIoiaEus, ana banishlng Dy instant as
sau!t the common cry of ours " F.; but nj
master sew sundry guns and pistols, not Il
speak OF cd harpoon, and took TO his heels
as the only way of getting Bob 10 take 10 his
AuI Jer, with much I.eus, made for the polic'
station, and, With the assistance of the conste
bes and half q crown, got Thalabi locked vi
for the night, safe snd sulky.
Next morning, Sunday, when Cathie and hi
huge student lay uneasy asleep, dreaming 0
vengeance, and the early dawn was beauIifu
upon The Bass, with its snowy Cloud OF Sea
birds, L" brooding on the charmed wave,' Bo
wss hurried up 10 the station, locked into
horse-box-hIm never shall that ancient burg
forget
nave notion that dogs have humor, an
are perez ptive OF d joke. In the North,
shepherd, havlrg sold mis- sheep at a maTke
asked by the buyer to lend him his dog t
Lake them home. s. BY . manner o mean
tax Birkie, and when We r done WI HIM jus
play 60 (m4king movement with his ANN
aud he'll ce hame in jitfy." Birkie
clever and useful and gay that The borrowe
coveted him; and on getting to his farm sh'
hin up, intending to keep him. Birkie e
capped during the nigh, and tock the entii
hrsel (hockJ back TO his own master FanG
MIN trotting across the moor with them, the
willing Is he.
And note how the hand that can paint
four-footed friend, writes OF " Children al
How to GUIDE Them
CHILDREN AND HOW TO GUIDE THEM.
Our text al this time is children and the
tire tment or as il sounds better to our ear
BARNS, and how to guide them. You ali kno
the wonder and astonishment there is in a hou
among its small people hen baby is borr
how they stare the arrival with its r
face. Where does it come from Some tt
them il comes from the garden, from a &c
tain kind of cabbage; some from "R Rob Ro
.on's bonnet" CT which whs haspa heart
some from that famous wig of Charles,
which the cat ki;ted, when there three
them leevn', and three o them dead /; and y
know the Docto is often said to bring the ii
baby in his pocket; and many time have 4
pockets been slyiy examined by the curio
pscially the girls in hor
OF finding another baby. Bot III tell you wh'
all the babies coue from they all come f'.
God His hand made and fashioned them
brea'ned into their nostrils the breath OF Ii
of His life. tie said. .' Let this little ch
be,' and it was. A child is true creation
its soul, certainly, and in true sense, ts TO
too. And as children came from Him,
they going back to Him, and He ler
them to as keepsakes we to keep a
Tor them for His sake. What siran
and sacred thought this is Children are Co
ifs y Ia,x .d. iiry