The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-09-01
Popular GALES.
be- MUSIC OF THE WATERS.
a THRILLING TALE.

md so all | had to do was to 90 into the
htry and enjoy myself for six weeks
3 is what it came to.
Why, if any one had struck me with a
her at the moment the doctor uttered
serdiet | should certainly have been
eked down; fortunately no such atroci-
kas attempted, so maintained as erect
Ebsture as my enfeebled health would
81 until the eminent licentiate of the
|kge of Physicians, whom | was con-
b., begged me to resume my seat.
tYou are utterly smoke.dried," he
l.ondon or tobacco2' | inquired.
both, he answered. "No physic ;
d air is all you want-mountain air, il
lible; perfect rest aud quiet, abstemious
rs, early hours aud no tobacco"
And then ?" | blankly inquired.
Then? Oh, then, he answered, "gct
ified and settle down"
4 certainly was fortunate was not
ding up at that moment, for it would
have needed n touch of the aforesaid
her TO have laid Inc low. As it was
n back in my chair aghast, "Get mar.
H. | thought; l who was utterly
pnsible to female attractions, and who
been always taught to have an eye to
main chance, and regard matrimony
i clog, unless associated with great
zess. lget married on salary of f30O
"a? Whew
Il left Savile row with scarce another
s. convinced that for real, downright,
men there were none to com
With doctors.
aps took the plunge, and within five
s Iound myself at snug little inn
4srth Wales, hard bya celebrated spot
&h as "Devil's Bridge" few miles
1A'l from Aberystwith.
|''e change soon refreshed me. | was
Hehed at feeling neither dull nor
e|4 for the tourist season had hardly
"A and | had the little inn wellnigh to
So | wandered about and gazed
at all | saw, especially at the
n, eraggy, wooded gorge or mountain
8 bed across which his satanic majes.
ensineering skill was supposed to have
Il jIhplayed.
N stood looking down upon it from
HFidge near the inn, it certainly seem.
q me u wondrously romantic spot.
Et fock-bound banks, crowned with
y hemmed in the rushing foaming
'F rs channel becoming irregularly
FsNer and more precipitOus as it reached
lad of the valley in the depths of
|e* Il lay. Here there was q waterfall
then thought, of stupendous magni-
B 1nd yet little higher up, a second,
Nfger. As Imade my way down to the
e 1S well-worn path through a wood,
zonnd of the descending waters as,
|.ed on the soft summer breeze, it rose
<A|l in liquid cadence, fascinated me
s tie very first.
ll|d weather hitherto had been su-
y Midsummer sunshine, and not a drop
I1 snnShine glinting through the trees;
EslT1 sky above; the song Of birds, not
NJ pushed, in the wood; the fresh
VIZ tolors--these all became such nov
s and charms as | had never conceived
3|a|t But seated on an isolated rock
~ silll, after all, out of the Emusic of
Eatffs that | got my chief mental
B Iasf there was Il sudden change Of
fieavy clouds swept over the land
bprying in mist or occasional
Il eq< n|l forms save those close at hand,
<aB:i|nr Welsh weather, sir |" said a
q e'||tfed elderly gentlemanlike man in
1'.<ls.s suit, whom | found the next
'tlaa b the coffee-room, "My party
house- bound for couple days at
know anything Of this country ;
{. l'.1 place for weather. Been here
.1ld him how long, and that l had
~ drop Of rain the whole time.
slsantage in that too, he went
aHlainous scenery wants mist and
y afift round the peaks, gil up
'E19aN and bring out the waterfalls,