The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-02-13

!, of her falling of, though the wind
. was blowing hard enough to whirl
2 her from her seat. ST. siss u aas aaE
Before we had got more than a mile
: from the farm. the rain recommended
with redOubled fury, and in few
: moments we were wet through. The
wind, too, grew from a gale to a hur-
ricane, and amid the continuous roar
, of the thunder and flash of the pale
lightning through the air, we now and
then heard a mighty crash, as some
laged monarch or the plain fell prone
to the earth. .3aI II 4oi ,Y!e8ozssD
lnn Suddenly Aash oflightning darted
right in front of Carlos eyes, and
with = snort of fear he reared nearly
fupright. l3a-J 2sij i55ll3 u 'a tiTHa
:. Hold fast, GertrudelHI cried, en-
deavorng to throw my right arm
around her to keep her from falling
off '''o = ~ 't''''
liII' was too lateAshe had fallen, L
heard a splash in tile water, a cry, and
the darkness hid her from my sight.
just, no viewer as i was about to give
way to despair, another flash revealed
her to me standing amid the flood and
not dozen yards distance. Z ,ils"'
L. i spurred towards her, and present
lly she was on Carlos broad back. ,,,
The excitement of this event, and
the turning of my horse round and
round, had made me forget the proper
tdircction to the town, so that we now
trode on notknowing whittier We We're
hheading. d.i,,,a,. fti-, ,; ,...f, ,,.,-..e.,f
| Meanwhile the food grew, deeper
each moment, and presently l discov-
fered that Carlo was oswinlming. o5I
had noto felt fear until noWs;e but I
must say that whichever way guided
my charger he could not touch ground
i knew that weighted as he was he
could not keep affoat Tong, and each
moment hefseemed to sink deeper and
deeper in the water tsd5 gai1E,9ah
y Al. this critical juncture of affairs |
the moon shOne outagain, and fighted |
up the scene as though it had been
broad daylight q Far aso the eye could |
reaeh not o speck2 of dry land was
now. visible; but to my great joy, i |
| whose boughs were So disposed as to |
bbe easily scaled. g.ii alodW edt ,2sb. |
ia", Do you think you could climb |
that tree, Gertrude 2" ]. asked. 1T is /
| the only chance of preserving our /
l.iivess ,11f55ywv n2.eillG Il t3liialni0S ed |
| FHShe answeredfeebly inoth afirma-
tive, and with some little difficulty i /
SWAN Carlo alongside. Under the
| tree he regained his footing, and was I
glad Of this, as he was enabled to /
stand steady for my little companion
to climb into the branches from his
back. .,,,,i .,-o.Fe s,tts,,a. adj a.,ol
When. she had accomplished this
feat, took off his bride so that he |
shonld not catch his feet in it if he /
hadato swim for his life, and then
Gertrude and got some twenty feet
higher up in the blue-gum, and paused I
to rest. Shawls and wraps had long Il
been lost, and now poor Gertrude
was exposed to all the inclemeney of
the weather in .the3lowrnecked, short
sleeved dress she had worn during I
the evening. '''' '.l''''''''''i - 9I','o
iia-Why, Gertrude you look Iike"a |,
veritable Undine, 81 said, and having
no cape or oyercoat to protect her i I,
dofed my uniform and made her put
it on. s'i 4
We then sat side hy side, and put |,
ting my arm around her neck. Z told
her all about my interview with her L
father that evening. f...fF..7srT-,I. - ! 7;
" And did papa say that when you Z
were as rich as himself he would let
me marry you, Willie ?"jhfas cal aE |,
99ts Yes,6 Gertrude, he gave ame his
word Of honor to that, effset..'o I re-
sTheno he won't break it, she re- {
piled. ie" Poor papa! this might has 4
made him q beggara q All his money ]
was invested in improvements on his +,
land and an increase of his stock. Z 1t
is ali lost now, SO you may claim me ls
sooner than you expected, 9Willie?" Id
This views Of the case had never
struck me before, aud1Io nearly jump
ed off the gumstree in, .fear,sa most r
selfish, ecstacy, a of delight. !, was {
bound to control myself however, II
and exert all my attention III COM
forting sGeitrude, who, now that the {
excitement attending our escape was II
over, began to- entertain thousand II
fears concerning the, fate of her pa u
rents. nilif9anoo s3sfmo1q cid III s4sn la
! At last,I succeeded in convincing !
her that 1T was aoimatter of limpossi- 8
bility for the flood to cover the house
before rescue came in nthel morning, Ii
and thereupon she became composed, t
and our thoughts reverted to our own a
hopes and fears, land amid the rain t
and howling wind, and the still rap bs
idly rising waters below, she Inestled 9
in my arInss and we efalked love. until l
the cold gray dawn aroused GUS from q
our seventh heaven. of bliss. Well, q
then, to make q long story short after
another. three hours'npercb,i we per-
ceived5 some boats coming from the a
of Windsor, and by the aid j. +
of a brilliant scarlet handkerchief that c
fortunately possessed, we signaled ,
them, attracted their attention, and 9
were in, due time taken on board.lon +
~ AT my instigation, we then rowed !
to MIR! Martins farm, and saved the
old man and his wife from the chin !
ney-top, whereon they were both sit
ting, with their feet held up out of the !
water. We were only Just in time. r.
= Two months later, Gertrude Martin =
becaE1e my wife, The old man stuck
to his word, and our position was not
SO bad after all, for, a month previous
to our marriage came into an annui- :
ty of f150 per annun, on the death of =
q distant relative in England; so that, q
with my pay of even-ard-sixpence
per day, we were able to begin house
keeping pretty comfortably. l,vv
i Mr.! Martin had retrieved his loss, i
and is now owner of a capital farm at !.
Ryde, New South Wales. ~ itl'.i" i"i
Huoo = T7-7T7 = r7TT5TTI ITTsi,' .
lai eAnecdote of Hogartll. ' y y
We remember years ago of having Q
heard the following anecdote of Ho- c
garth, and we deem that it will bear e
epeating: The celebrated artist was p
once applied to by q very wealthy. but o
very penurioua old noblemsn, to paint n
the main hall OF q new mansion with /
= historical piece-a style OF embellish- g
ment much in vogue among the aris- i
tocracy of the period. Hogarth was 9
open to the -proposition,i and was q
asked 10 paint upon the wallis of the I
hall a representation of the Passage Il
OF the Children of Israel across the 4
Red Sea, pursued bv Pharaoh and his v