The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-08-20
A TERRIBLE NIGHT.
From an Did Magazine.
''By jove! Dick, I'm nearly done

Gteus NA Vst
"By jove! Dick. I'm nearly done
up"
$50 am !. Did any one ever zee
such confounded forest. Charley."
Il am not alone weak, but hungry.
Oh. tor steak Of moose, With bottIe
Of old red wine to wash it down :"
Charley. beware! Take care how
you conjure up such visions in my
mind. am already nearly starving,
and if you increase NV appetite much
more it will go hard with me il don't
dine of Of you. You are young, anu
Bertha saws you're TENDER
Hearted, she meant. Well, Sd
am, if loving Bertha be any proof Of
il. Do you know. Dick. l have often
wondered that you, who love your
sister SO passionately. were not Jealous
of her attachment Ia me"
$50 l was. my dear fellow. at first,
furiousiy jealous. But then reflect.
ed that Bertha must one day ar other
marry, and must lose my sister. 81
l thought it better that she should
marry my old college chu,n and early
friend. Charley Costarre, than anyone
else. so Won see there was little
selfishness in my calculations, Charley
dick. We were friends ut school
and friends at college, aud ! thought
at both those places that nothing
could shorten the link that bound Us
together, but | Was mistaken. Since
my love for and engagement Ia your
sister ! feel as ii YOU were fifty times
the friend that you were before. Dick.
We three will never part y
$50 he married the Kings daughter
AMI they all lived together Is happy
a> the days arr long," shouted Dick
with 4 laugh, quoting from a nursery
tale.
The foregoing is an extract out 81
the conversation with which Dick
Linton and myself entleavored To me-
guile the way a We tramped through
one If the forests of Northern New
York. Dick was an artist AMI ] a
sportsman, .o when one fine autumn
day Re announced his intention Of
going into the woals for II week Ia
study nature. it seemed Ia me an ex-
cellent opportunity for me To exercise
my legs aud nv trigger-iingcr at the
same time, Dick had some hack wo".l>
friend who lived In a l"g-hut OH the
shore Of Dckford Lake. and there We
To take up our quarters.
Dick, wh" said he knew the forest
was to Ike the guide. and
We accordingly, with our guns on our
.taried on loot from R1t's
4 tavern known Ia tourists, aud siin
:,ted on the boundaries ot Essex and
Warren Counties. 1t WIS u desperate
walk but we started nv diybr, ak,
and had great faith in oar pe,l.>;ri:,n
qualities. We expected I" reach the
nearest of the Eckford Lakes by
nightfall. The forest through which
We travelled was 81: the ien>cst des
.ripiion. Overhead the brancbc. If
spruce and pine shut out the day.
while beneath our feet lay frighiiul
'oul. composed principally If jagged
single. cunninyly concealed by an al
most impenerrabie brush. As the day
wore on our hopes Of reaching our
destination grew fainter and fainter.
md | could almost fancy. from the
lnxious glances that Dick cas-: around
hin. that in spite Of his blasted
knowledge Of the woods he had lost
lis way. 1t was not. however. until
light actually fell, and that We were
10Th sinking from hunger AMI ex-
,austion. that | could get him to
acknowledge il.
Were IN Il nice pickle, Master
Dick" said |. rather GROSSLY. for an
IMPLY stomach does much to destroy
mans natural amiabiIity. Son
pund your assurance that l.d you io
ct mp .> guide. OI all men painters
re tn. most cnncc;,.l"
Come Charley" answered Dick.
ood-hum"rcdiy. There is no us.. il
r"wing 20 loudly. You'll bring the
Years and pan,h-rs "n Us ii you d..
We must make the best Of ii b:,d j,I.
MI sleep in a tree"
Its easy I" talk, NV gooI fellow.
IN not 4 partridge. anil don't know
'ow Z" r"o-t nn a bouyh.'
well, You'll have To learn, ,h,n;
or if YOU sleep on the ground the
hance> are ten Ia one that you will !
ave the wolves nihhlins ut your tee
'eforc daylight
I'm hanged IL 1" either said |. |
Il am going To walk al! |
light. AMI i'll die ivf"re I'll lie !
own"
"Come, come. Charley, don't liz a
hl."
81 was fool only when I consented !
D let vou assume the role of guide"
"Well, Charley. If you are deter
,ined Ia go on. let it he -, we'll go
'gether, After al Its only an advent
re-
IL saw Dick. don't YOU see a light ?"
"By Jovc, 80 there Is! Come, YOU
&c Providence in.erv"nes bet3cen III
nj the wolves ana hungry. Tia:
nu-t he some squatters hut"
The light To which ] had 81 sudden
: called Dicks attention was very
lint. and seemed t. be about half a
lille distant. II glimmered through
he dark branches of the heniock aud
pruce trees, ana weak As the light was
hailed it as a mariner without a
pmpass halls the star nv which he
GERS. We instantly set ou, il the
ERECTION If our beacon. In momeu,
seemed rs if all fatigue had vanished,
nj we walked AS If our muscles were
: tense as iron and our joints oily rs
pi>ton-shaft.
We soon arrived IT, the dusk af
hat seemed to he clearing Of about