Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1867-11-02


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ground every stroke. A little higher up
the Pilot directs my attention to wi,hered
pine-a very tall, dead trre-in the top
branches of which. as in bowl. wild
goose has built her nest to keep her young
ones safe from the wolves and other depre-
dators ofthe like.
A wise goose that!" observed the
Pilot with mirthful wink. as though he
says something equally as wise as the
bird and then whirling his wheel until
the spokes blend and disappear, seems
immensely pleased.
AS we near :le Landing, all along the
left bank, a little back from the river,
grandly overlooking, and with precipitous
bold cliffs fred slate serving as an unlift-
ed shield to every thing-woods, meadows.
Indian lodges, and all the incidents and
figures of the scene-the Cabinet Noun
tain magniicently towers and spreads its
ample wall. the face Of which is deeply
furrowed, and the upper line of which is
broken. pointed. or rounded into tablets,
suggestive Of gigantic gates. or monstrous
head-stones in graveyard Of buried
Tians In the full blaze of the sinking
sun we head mp against tho Landing, and,
making tho Mary lloody fast, scrambling
up the shelving bank, to find ourselves in
"A bustling little place-somc future town
ofprolisious consequence, it may be. now
in its noisy iniancy--consisting Of two
houses. and capacious shed for horses and
mules. A saw-miIl is in vehement opera
ton here. sweating at its work which
fact the big drops Of perspiration oozins
from it are evidence enough. The owner
of it, Mr.. Abrahams, rigid religionis,,
who shuts himself Theoretically up on Sun
days, invites Colonel Cornelius O'Keefe to
his house-ons Of the two just mentioned
and courtcously entering it, the Colonel is
introduced to Mrs. Abrahams, whose table
is pcrfumrd with bouquet Of mountain
flowers. the offering of the men at work
about the Landing, who thus. even in these
wild solitudes, vindicate the provcrbial gal.
lantry of Americans to their countrywomsn.
and, indeed, to women generally the world
over. Another lady is present, whose son
served in the Second Wisconsin nt tho first
battle of Bull Run. The Colonel, being
shown his photograph, recognized an
accomplished and brave young comrade.
who, having entered another regiment
from the same State shortly after that Gel
ebrated event, fell at Fredericksburg tho
day that General Burnside knocked his
head against it.