The Troy herald., 1876-11-15

yarded her gambols with kindly,
though half.coinpassionatc, npproba.
lion; but there was unnIingled con.
tempt IN his side long glance at let.
out Nsnnikin's friskings. When sho
lcapcd over his back. looking very
much as II she meant a sOinersault,
COxswsim had tO put u very tight curb
upon his temper, 10 keep him from
letting bis gemtleinan.liko scorn of
her unbeconiny behavior degenerate
into snobOish snapping ut Nanni.
kin's hind legs. When she snuf'ed at
the sca.wccd, with which the rock
was plcntifully strcwn, and pulled
back her nose, disappointed, Cox.
swain look gravely gratitisd.
When she did find anything to her
taste, he shook his dropping cars, ub.
ruptly turned tho other way, and
wrinklcd his black muzzlc into u
snccr, which plainly said: "Wha,
better could you expect from q daft
body like you Z" The poultry, also,
had been turned out, and were cluck.
ing and pccking about, finding very
little for their pains. but enjoy ing
thoroughly, nevertheless, their sunny
release from darksoinc captivity.
Jessie felt IN fairy-land AS she ram.
hled about the rough rocks looking
across the blue, golden.spanglcd wa.
tcrs, at the white spccks, ono OF
which, her father I old her, was her
home watching the bris,Iy.mus.
tached, wet.backcd seals baskin. on
the outlying rocks, or slipping of
them to swim about with quccrly
humau.like up aud sidc.turncd faces;
the comical auks, standing upright on
the rocks, with fish wriggling In their
bills, or after a flap Of their funny lit.
tie wOuld.be wings, diving in pursuit
Of fresh prey; the snowy.white,
nshen-gray, gulls. with their skull
caps OF black velvet, circling III inter.
sccting courses, brushing the gently
hcaving sea with their win..tips, and
riding on it or floating over it with.
out flutter, with equal ease. Black
through the blue water cut the share.
like back.fins Of the porpoiscs, and
when they bounded from the brine,
as II they were pIayin. at lear. frog,
Jessie dropped her kitten an,l
clappcd her hands for CLEO.
She caused the little mOttled green
crabs that were crawling about the
rocks, and scan,pcring sideways into
cranuies; pussy playing with then,
like mice, until ore that had been
brought to bay nipped Niger Par.
sons pat ting paw. She tried to catch
the swift sl.adowy little fish that were
larting about IN clear rOck.pools,
whose sides were draped with many.
hucd scawc ccd, and bOsscd with tight.
clinging limpots, bloomy blue and
yellow periwimkics, and closed anc.
} mones, looking like Jumps Of fruit.
jelly. She tried to pick up q jelly.
fish, aud clarpcd her hands again, and
danced with fun, when 1t slipped
from her fingers upon her kittens
head, making pussy gallop back to
the lighthouse like a greyhound. She
, saw prickly sca.urchims smuggling h
holes, and u raimbo .colorcd brittle
|, star moving its slender arms like
-, 1.-the snakes, as 1t noatcd IN one Of tho
: pools. She picked up spotted sun
, star, pulled muscles from the rocks
. and knocked of three thick.shellcd
oysters stuck together. Where the
blue sky met the blue sea, a little do,
! or two of white, which Alick told hcI
= was:a big ship, glit,cd BY, aud Jessi,
: thought that she had reached u spoI
. where tho sun ever shomc, and she
! could rcgale upon inexhaustible wo"
ders.
3 But before sundOwn there was {
. change in tho weather. The wind In.
I shifted and blew flesh. Before nigh
\ was over, 1t howled, the sea surgct
s with thundcrous ,hud against th'
: lighthouse walls, and spray rattle.
. like rain upon the lantern.