The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1879-08-02
A Nights Experience In the Forests
OF Canada.
East of Dunraven in the Nineteenth
Century,

down, and all was perfectly still.
There was not tho slightest sound of
anything moving in the forest except
that of tho unfrequent flight Of q
moose bird close By. And 90 l sat
watching that most glorious trans>
formation scene-the change Of day
into night cav the great sun sink
slowly down behind the pine trees;
saw tho few clouds that hovered me~
tionless above mo blaze into tho color
Of bright FURNISHED gold saw tho
whole atmosphere become glorious
With a soft yellow light, gradually
dying out 40 the night crept on, till
only in the western sky there lioger.
ed . faint glow, fading into . pale
cold apple green, against which the
pines stood ont "a black 40 midnight
and a. sharply defined az though cot
out Of steel. A the darkness deep
ed . young crescent moon shone 6ut
pale and clear, with q glitteriog star
q little bel"w tho lower horo, and
above her another star Of lesser mag
nituds. 1t linked % though . On.
perDsturaral jewel-a heavenly pend
ant, two great diamond solitaires aud
q diamond crescent -wero hanging
10 tho western sty. After . while
the moon, to, sank behind the trees,
and darkness fell upou the earth.
l know Of nothing more enchanting
than . perfectly calm and silent au-
tumnal su0set in tho woods unless it
lie the sunrise, which to my mind ia
mote lovely still. Sunset IL beauti.
fol, bat sad; sunrise IL equally beau.
,ifu! and full Of life, happiness and
hope. l love to watch tho stars BE-.
gin to fade, to see the fret faint white
light clear up tho darkness Of the
eastern sty, aud gradually deepen
into tie glorious coloripg that heralds
the approaching sun. l love to Gee
nature awake, shuddering, a. che 81.
ways does, and arouse herself into
active, buoy life; to oote the insects,
birds and beasts shake of slumber
and eet aboat their daily tasks.
Still the suuset ia inexpressibly
lovely, and I do not envy the condi.
tion aud frame Of miod ola man who
cannot be 40 nearlp happy ~ man
can be, when he is lying comfortably
on . luxurious and soft couch, gazing
IN perfect peace on the glorious scene
around hin, rejoicing al bis senses,
aud saturating himself with the
wonderful beauties of q Northern
sunset.
80 sat quietly below, while the
Indian called from the tsee.top. Not
a sound answered to tho three or four
long. drawn-out notes with which he
hoped to lure the bull after . long
iDte' val be called again, bot the
same perfect utter silence reigued 10
the woods, silence broken only by
tho melancholy hootiog Of 40 owl, Q,
tho imaginary noises that filled my
head. Il 10 extraordinary how email
noises become magni6ed whom the
car 10 kept ct . great tension for aoy
length Of time, aud bow tho head
becomes filed With oil kinds Of 6cti.
tious soands; aud It 10 very remarka.
bic also how utterly impossibls it il
to distinguish between Z loud noise
uttered at . distance and y scarcely
audible sound close BY. After list.
ening very iotentIy amid tho pro.
found silence Of . quiet night 10 the
forest for 40 hour or 90 the head be.
comes 90 surchargel with blood,
owing, l presume, to oil the facultie,
beipg concentrated % . sisgie sense,
that ono SCENE to hear distant Voices,
tho ringing Of belle and Oh kinds Of
strange aud impossible noises. A
man becomes 20 nelvously alive "a
tho slightest disturbance Of the d.
most awful silence Of . still night ia
!! tho Woods that the faintest sound
the crackliog Of . minute twig or The
fall VI aleaf, even Ut . great distaace
will make him almost jump out o.
bic skin. He 10 alec apt to make The
most ludicrous mistakes. Toward
morning, about dAybeeak, I have