The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-04-24
low RUSSIAASMEET DEATH


tI,Jqs,atei by Lady George Hdmiton.)
have a neighbor, Ardalion, n young lniro
,ad a keen sportsman. One fine July morn.
gg l rode over to his place, to PROPOSE ouI
oIug OF, grouse-hunting together.
"lss.n said he, let's ride through my
-upses. / will look ut Tchaplygino on tn,
sy my ~oak-wood, you know. It's being
tnlmed.
We st of. Ny neighbor took with him
his bai-ih, irchip, "a strong, understood
peasant, with a squire face and pre-his-
l~Vrically developed c~heek-bonesi and an
nyenseer just come from the Baltic Provin-
-es. Herr Gotti.b Won der Kolk, q thin,
AIR, Bhort-sighted nineteen-yenr old youth,
With eloping shoulders and a long neck
ally neighbor had not long come into posses
sion of his estate. He had inherited 1t from
uu Kunt, an uncommonly fat woman, who
ven when lying in bed used to be always
painfully painting.
Wait for me in this glade said my
n~eighbor, Ardalion, 20 his companion, when
sc reached the coPse.
had known Ardalion's forest ever since
my childhood. / often used TO 60 to Tchap.
iygino with my treuch tutor, NJ. Desne
Flgury, q most kindly man, who nearly
ruined my health, by making me tax,
I,hysic every night. The forest consisted
of some two or three hundred oaks and
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stood proudly out IN dark relief agninii
the transparent ~gold-fRked green OF the
hazel-bushes and naples Higher up they
were sharply outlined against the clear aArre
Of the sky, and there spread out like u tent
their wide and gnarlcd boughs. Above their
m~otionless tops scared, with shriH cries,
hawks, buzzards, and kites, while notified
~Soodpeekers tapped away loudly at then
thick bark the blaekbIrd's clear notes
suddenly resounded through the d-nse foil
age, mingled with the iyolga's fluent song.
Hedge-sparrows and suskius twittered in the
underwood below, chnttinches futtered
across the path, and now and then o hare
stole along the edge of the thicket, or O
ruddy squirrel boldly sprang from tree TO
tree, and suddenly sat still with his tail
curled over his head. in the grass, close to
some huge ant-hills, violets and lilies of the
valley bloomed beneath the shade OF deli.
cate ferns; saxifrage, cotton-grass, aud red
agaric stood all around and the tiny lawns
amid the bushes were criinsoned by straw
berries. And Ehat shade was there in the
wood! In the very noontide's heat 1t was
actual night ~there-night with it's stiffness,
and 'ruVrmcv aad f~re-nuess.
] had formerly spent many n joyous noun
In that wood, aud it was not, l must admit,
without a feeling OF melancholy that l now
rode under the too wel-known trees. The
destructive snowless winter of lSie had not
spared my old friends the oaks and ashes.
Dry and bare, but colored here and there
with Q hectic green, they sadly reared
themselves above the young underground
which crept around their feet. Some of
them, still foliaged below, seemed to stretch
out their stuntei and ~lifeless arms with a
gesture of rsproach aud despair, others
waved aloft their dry dead branches high
above the already thickish though not lux
uriant underground; some had already lost
their bark, others had at last fallen, aud now,
like corpses, my rotting on the ground. Who
could ever have believed it? Here in this
very wood no shade was TO be found.
You may well feel sad and ashamed"
thought l, as l gazed ut tue dying trees. In
Voluntarily l thought OF koltsoIf = lines;
"Ah, where are now
Thy LOFTY speech,
~! proud strength,
Thy royal couragef"
"Ah, where is now
Thy leafy mightI"
"How comes this, Ardalion 2" ! began.
why wernt these trees telled the next
year, You won't get u tenth part now of
the price that they would have fetched
then"
He shrugged his shoulders. You should
have asked my aunt that. There was no lack
of bidders who offered a good price, and
WIN were hu4lOus 10 bSI NOOu.
Goo heavens " cried Won der Kolk at
every step " what q shame what a shame!"
WHAT most of all excited his pity was the
sight of the oaks which were lying on the
ground; and, no doubt, any miller would
have paid handsomely for them. Archip, the
baiit, preserved an impenetnble compo-
sure, aud uttered no plant he even jumped
eeross them with an ar of satisfaction, and
strlkinO at them with his whIp.
We m IN 49,
wood was being felled, suddenly we heard
the crash of q falling tree, and ilim ediately
afterwards q confused sound IF voices and
cries. A few moment Inter q young peasant
came tearing out of the thickets, with n
pale face and streaming hair.
What's the matter ? Where are you run
ains ?" asked Ardslion.
He stopped short.
'Ah, little father! Ardalion Mic hazel
Wit, b." he cried " such a misfortune ="
"whlt is it2"
maxim has been smashed by a tree, mas
Ter :"
what Maxim the foreman"
'Yes, master. We were telling an ash,
and he stood looking on. he stood there
q lite while, and then he weni away to the
well he was thirsty, ! suppose. All at once
the ash trembled, and bent his way. We
called to him: Run, run, run He should
run aalce, Dut he run straight on
frightened, maybe. So he cam just under
he top branches of tue ash. Heaven only
knows why it fell SO quickly. 1t must have
been rotten at tine core"
Well, it struck him down ?"
Eyes, master"
rs he dead?"
No, little father, he is still alive but
bis arms AMI legs are smashed. was iUsI
running for the surgeon"
Ardahon told the bailiH to GALLON 10 the
Village for the surgeon, and he himself rode
asst on TO where u e wood was being cut. /
followed him. We found poor Maxim win
on the ground Some ten peasants stood
round him. We got oil our horses, tn
wounded man scarcely uttered a single moan.
Now and then he opened his eyes and looked
'ound him, as IL astonished, and occasionally
he bit his ivid lips. His chin twitched con-
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