The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-06
The Thundtr Storm.
BY GEORGE BPRENTIcE.

L never waSa man cf feeble courage.
There are but few sqenes of either Inn
man or elemental sti3fe, ,lpon which I
have not looked withta brow O! daring.
| have. stood il battle. when the whirl.
wind was rending oaks from. their rocky
chii$, and scattering them to the clouds.
! have seen. thesa things with swell
ling soi! tia: knew :..;o;ts vf danger; bu,
there Is something lin the thunders
voice that makes me, tremble like a
child. | have trie3sto overcome this
unman!y weakness. have calledpride
to my aid; l have even sought to
strengthen my moral courage in lessons
sts1S q tRsh1SsfatGhyl but Lay Z "sS,'s
cloud, MY leartS shrinks, quiyers and
dies within me.
Ny dread of thunder had Its origin in
an INCIDENT that occurred when i WAS
boy OF ten years. / had cousin,
g'rl Of Tie same age as myself, who had
been The constant. companion of NV
chlldhood. Strange that after the lapse
OF so many years, that countcnance
should bo familiar to me. can see the
bright young creature, her eyes flashing
like beautiful gem, her free locks
streaming as with joy upon the rising
gale; her checks glowing like a ruby
through transparent snow. Her voice
had the tneludy aud joyousness of a
birds, and when she bounded oyer the
woodl md hill, or fresh green valley,
shouting glad answer to every, voice
OF nature, and clapping her little hands,
in the very ecstacy OF her young exis.
tence, she looked as if breaking away,
free nightingale from the earth, and 90.
ing Oft where all things are beautiful and
happy like her.
1t was in the middle OF August. The
little girl had been passing some days at
my fathers house, and she was now to
return home. Her path lay across the
fields, and gladly became the compan.
ion of her walk. Inever knew a sum.
ner morning more beautiful and STILL
But one cloud was visible, and that
seemed as pure anJ white, peaceful. as |
If it had been the INCENSE smoke of come |
burning censer of Il b skies. The leaves
hung silent i'll Tie Woods. the. waters in
tile bay forgot their'undu.ating, the flow.
ers were Bending their heads as if dream.
ing OF tile rainbow and dew, and the at.
mosphere was of iuch soft and luxuri.
GUS sweetness iht it seemed cloud of
roses scattered lown by the hand of a
+ Peri, from tile iaioff garden of Paradise.
The green ear,l and blue water lay
abroad in their bundlessness, and the
peacelul sky hing over them. The
little creature Ut my side was in a deli.
rum of happines, and her voice came |,
ringing out uponthe air as often as shell
heard THE note d some strange lonely,I
flower in her ftlic wanderlngs. The,
uubroken and ahost supernatural tran.
guilty oftlle dayasted till ppon. Then |
for the frat tinb Indications fan ap.I
.prfa hing tempe. wele II o liiest. Over I
The lmnit Of ;mountain, at the dis /,
,tahcg of about ahile, the folds Of large
cloud became sldenly visible, and at ii
the the same time rhollow roar came down
on the winds asf it had been the sound /
Iofwavesin arof cavern. The clouds
rolled on like abanler uhfolded8 upon |
tle.air, but sIillhe air 'atmosphere Was Was
calm and thePaves as motionless ieli