Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-05-03

FNaA aANNtNt Ea@aN1 AhNI
are very poor, and find it hard to get
along. The eldest supports the rest, for
they arc not old enough to work. You
are rich; will you help themf"
"They-they are not here" stammered
the old mAn, raising his face.
IL can take you to them in a moment"
said the dwarf. '"Will you help them T.
"Spare NE, spare me! l am very
poor. cannot. No, no, no; | have
no money" cried the miser, very implor.
ingly.
why will yOu'insist upon saying that
you have no money!" said the dwarf,
irowning. Il saw it buried in the cellar.
Why will yOu tell lies? Stand aside |!
Here! Quick Stand aside!"
The goblin uttered this command in
sharp, imperative accents, and, raising
him suddenly from the ground, hurried
him to the other side of the tree.
In much astonishmeut the old man
looked for the cause of this movement,
and saw slowly vending its way through
the wicker'gate into the church-yard, a
plain funeral cortege, There were nc
carriages. The coffin was plain aud un.
vanished, and was borne upon the shoul.
ders of four men, and was followed by
the undertaken, the minister, the sexton
a few idIers who had been attracted by
curiosity, and parcel of school-children
who romped, and played among the grave
stones and appeared very merry and
happy indeed. The procession slowly
filed past the place where they were con
cealed, and Immediately at the goblin
bidding, he and the old man emerged from
behind the tree and followed after at
respectful distance.
They came at length to quite anothe
portion of the church-yard where Their
was new made grave; and the underta
ker's men, resting their burden down up
on it. sat down upoL the grass and wipe,
the perspiration from their foreheads a
though they were heated and weary. Tn
idlers and school children gathered slowl
around while the minister read the buria
service. There was no reverence exhibit
ed on the occasion, and no respect show
for the memory of the dead.
"Here, you undertaken, take off tina
cofin-lid, commanded the dwarf. "Lc
that man see who it is"
The undertaken removed the lid and re
vealed to the eyes of the old man tn
marble features of the woman whom h
had seen in the city, together with tn
child upon her breast, its little arms tigh,
ly clasped about her neck and its eye
closed in the long eternal sleep Of death
And then loud voice rang in the Of
mans ears, saying:
"Died from want and exposure. Dead
dead dead A few dollars would hav
saved all this, but you refused to give
though you had thousands. Morally yo
are her murderer, and the long night {
retribution has now come !"
A confused murmuring was in the all
objects became indistinct and blurred tn
old man reeled, staggered and fell dowr
down, down into the unfathomablc depth
of the world below.
When the old man came to himself h
found that he was in large gloomy ca,
ern, with arched walls, and at one en-
was heap of dead mems bones, bleache
perfectly white, as if they had passe
through furnace of intense heat. Nea
these bones in the floor of the cavern, wa
a spacious, circular hole, out of whic
vapors continually poured and filled tn
place with smell of birthstone that WI
almost sufocating. There was ghastl
row Of grinning skeletons, out of who's
jaws streamed PHOSPHORUS light th'
lit up the cavern with a weird, unearthl
glow.
There soon emerged from the hole
the floor fearful looking animal, uprigt
on two legs and perfectly begrinncd wit
smoke and SCOT. His body was all cove
ed with scales like fish his feet wei
cloven; he had long, darted tail, whic
for convenience, he carried under his arm
;. his hand were long and bony, with man
moth claws at the ends; a hooked nos,
like an eagles bill, was set between tw
sharp, piercing, Misunderstanding eye
and on his head he wore a pair of in
mense ox-horns that he had a way
shaking once in while that was positiv,
] lv enough to make q persons blood ru