Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-15

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beng horne swsy their inssrunesss
fell toward the ground. but bad only
descended . short distance before
two small winged creatures detached
themselves from somewhere about
their great master and, darting down
like fish-hawks, one caught the drum
and sticks, and other the fiddle and
bow.
"As their chief sped away to the
eastward, on easy wing, the imps
followed after-two small blots be-
hind the great shadow-one sound.
ing the drum and the other raspinp
the fiddle, the sounds of the instru.
ments gradually growing fainter and
fainter till thew finally died out. and
soon all that was seen was but
a small black cloud fast disappearing
over the Forty-Mile Desert.
"All about, the tombs Law quietly
before me in the moonlight. With
a long-drawn sigh of relief. I arose
to depart from the SPOT where I had
seen and heard SO many fearful
things, when just before me there
noiselessly swung down, at the end
OF q chain of some glittering metal,
from some unseen height, a gong
many teetin diameter, which vibrated
for time like q pendulum.
"This great gong was no sooner
at rest than mighty sledge hammer,
swung by some invisible power,
struck It full in the centre, producing
. crash like peel Of the loudsst
thunder. The deateninG roar rover
bsrated among the mountains and
was echoed from peak to peak, rum
bling down Six-Mile canon and dying
away far down the valley of the Car
son, toward old Fort Churchill.
I" As the sound OF the stroke thus
ceased. groans came up from the
ground on all sides. The earth be-
came transparent as glass, and /
saw the late revelers as they lay
shuddering and squirming at the
bottom OF their graves.
AGAIN the sledge fell. and with
the ciang of the gong the earth be-
came opauue. but as it ceases the
groans arose as before, the dead
were to be seen writhing in their
graves, and thus till three blows had
been struck. With the third stroke
the gong instantly disappeared, ap-
parently upward, carrying with it q
Communicating of groans and its own
thunder.
"The great hammer, however,
remained and rose above my head as
if welded by giant arms, though
naught but the hammer was visible.
GA terrible voice then said: Two
are gone-two are lost! Vile, be-
sotted wretch, thou art to blame in
this. Thou shalt die" / saw the
giant sledge descending. And to
avert the impending blow mechani-
cally raised and intefposed the bottle,
which i happened to be holding IN
my night hand TWAS shivered into
hundred paeces, several OF winch
x<ruck me IN the lace and . renaen-
ber no more, as the huge hammer
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