Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1876-07-07

with all her might to get free and crying out
FOR n knife TO cut the line. But the son
only reproaches her with her cruelty in hav-
ing made him blind, aud says "This IS my
revenge"
Then she cries out "Oh, my Ullo my
Ullol IL was | that sucked thee, IL was /
that sucked thee !" And this she continues
crying until the whale drags her into the water,
She floats for few moments on the surface,
still crying, "Oh, my son it was that
sucked thee !" and then disappears forever.
The brother and sister gaze few minutes
at the spot where she went down, aud then,
terror-stricken, turn and fee. But the cry
of their mother continues ringing in their
ears aud follows them wherever they go.
They finally fly from the village to the inte-
rior OF the country, far away from any hui
mankind, with this voice still pursuing them,
still ringing in their ears alt was | that
sucked thee, il was | that sucked thee !"
| like the refrain of "Macbeth shall sleep no
more.
But they are not dead. Their death would
not carry out the Eskimo idea, and the poet
has added one more act to the tragedy in
which their is a grandeur Of conception not
unworthy of Shakespeare himself The
event recorded in this act takes place long
time aIterward nobody knows how long.
1t may be hundred years, for all, even the
children, who knew the matricides, have
grown old and died. The tradition of the
crime is almost forgotten.
The scene is laid in the interior Of the
house Of the angakok, or priest.magician.
1t is night-a winter night in the Arctic,
with an Arctic moon throwing its glamour
over the plains aud mountains of ice and
snow. Inside the house the priest magician
is performing q conjuration, and the people
are gathered around silent and trembling,
listening to his muttered incantations. Sud-
denly they hear cry outside, and the an.
gakok says, "Somethiug evil is approaching
They 90 to the door and look out. There
they behold gigantic hunter a little dis
lance away, standing in the moonlight. His
hair is white as the snow on which he stands,
and it hangs down over his shoulder in long,
silvery locks. But his face is as black
as night. They watch him for a moment,
and he gazes at them with burning fiery
eyes.
Then the angakok comes forward and
ASKS inc SbIauBeT WIN nc Is Huu WntJ NC
wants. The other replies: Don't you
know me f' They answer in the negative
Then he asks "Do you remember the sor
who used his mother for hunting bladder ?
A very old woman then remembers hear
ing her mother talk about the crime wher
she was a very little child. The hunter re-
plies 81 am that man, aud still live"
Then he tells them something Of the life
he and his sister have lived since that time
says they are still suffering all the tortures o.
remorse as on the day of their flight; tha
he has been driven by some mysterious power
to come and denounce himself to the people
that the crime may not be forgotten and
fearful Notwithstanding all this life o
three generations day and night the voice o.
their murdered mother has been ringing il
their ears "Oh, my son it was | tina
sucked thee, it was l that sucked thee ~
Then he disappears, and is never heard o
| more.-Mac Gahan'S "U'nder the Norther,
LiqhtS.