Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-08-27

seemed to protest against work. the IA
ther could not in bis heart find the conf
deuce to make a sailor or mate Of him.
oNo." said he, che is cat-footeds and
must stick to dry land" And 20. AFTER
many delays, he was consigned to a store
of friend. who sold the freight Of the
other coasting-schocners. a.
The young gentleman tried to make
himself at home in this grim retreat on
one OF our wharves. II was very hard
for him. II was most cherries to look
about him. and see no one thing that pos /,
scssed charm and Invitation. No flower
bloomed there. At times, he could scarce.
ly rcprcss his tears; aud with longing
eyes would he watch from au attie-win-
dow the white sails Of the craft, touched
with rese color in the light of the with.
drawing sun, and sigh to think what lands
Of enchantmcnt they might be visiting.
His eyes mOistened and the three little
pearl.studs which adorned his narrow
chest seemed three tears which had rolled
from his eyes Of longing aud regret. The
shock Of return down stairs after these
flights of dreaming made the squalid, IA
miliar room more rcpulsivc than before.
The place seemed the bed of the ocean,
where, as in cup, had settled IFS most
searching and pungent essence. The salt
Of the deep was'therc magnifcd as if the
multitudnous seas has shrunk to pool.
And around him lay the monsters Of the
deep, salt with the intensity Of their death,
in this crater Of a vanished ocean, and
stretching on shelves in such a perspective
of dried Goldfish, that it seemed theil
judgemcnt-day, aud so there they were
answering the fsh.horn of some angel o
tho deep.
Unable to bear the bitterness of his life
and his stihed longing for some FRESHNESS
and beauty, he eutrcated his father to al
low him to try the country.
The good-noturad parent consented
Yes" he said to himself; mo tar, n
|. salt, sticks TO that nature, He is like
flower; let him 60 and try the country"
= He placed Lin with a cousin of hi
neither, in the pretty village of H, a
= the foot of spur of the Green Mountains
i There he was happy. After running il
= to his patent-leather boots pitchfors
ID getting ANONYMOUSLY thrown in an unt
&c oual encounter with COW. whose na:ur
IT he failed to apprchend; after getting use
y in vain to the conditions of country mea
81 (which seemed to him to como from fow
'e and animals Of more robust and muscul'
" constitutions than those which the tow
o' knew, he finally settled down to the fu
re bowl of delicious milk, SO strong to b
city stomach, that it made up for the 10
OF of his meat. With this and an occasion
e' doughnut, he sufficed.
. His delight was, after the pseudo-indu
try Of the day,-thc mild supervision
his cousins tough boys INJECTING the ca
:" lie to field and home, his charge bell
- ~ the last, generality to sec the barn-do
" !. fast aud tight; the sympathetic adhesi
:: he gave to their sister, as her white arl
- - moved with an energy he envied abo
"a tho coagulating butter,--after these we
i, over, his delight was to repose from
. labors in nook of his own near the moi
os tains. .t+t'.tta
act That was bliss to him; and no wend
re- Nature, finding herself here encouraged
show her powers, was lavish of them. !
Ter seemed to gather herself together to
nv ioy and to bcwiller, before she made W
ew the pines the steep ascent to cloudla
and the skies. The smallest thing h
out was emphasized. The feet of the mo-
red tains we're .moccasoned in flowers /;
they were of many colors, and Of I
me depth of meaning which only the zone
pto the mountains and the sea, can give.
YOU trees moved their boughs with majes
blv and their roots sought every excuse
notch or ledge for twists and surpr
Of like those Of conjuror. The little br
orv started and shouted from side to 81
for scared yet amused by these waywardn
es, and finally went heels over head,
in a veutursome child, just before the
or where our hero had found and dedica
re. throne for himself ,
or Stretched there with hands above
was head, and his 6ne mind wholly unb
ther and surrendered energetically to d.
long nothing, ha was no longer man trou
her, By COWS and salt fish. Ho was Shell
spirit of beauty, ,--an essence feeding
S a the eternal loveliness, and q portion o.
ken, landscape, as it was OF him. Here he e
and at times, rose from the cosmetic cond
tho ofmihd SO natural to him, the love Q
pretty, TO the alteration Of the be'
upon full even. at tlmes. the suollmo "