Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-21
A TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT.
Tied Fast to Tree Within Reach OF
Rayeuous Birds Sharp Beak.

Tied Fast to Tree Within Reach OF q
Ravenous Birds Sharp Beak.
He was placed at the foot of the tree, and
bound to it in sitting posture with ropes
which surrounded his body and the trunk of
the tree. Eis left arm was bound 10 his side,
not too tightly, SO that it should be nUmoed,
but still securely, SO that it might not be
moved When they had tied him firmly, and
fixed his feet the attendant who had followed
Snar-Inin-yuen approached and uncovered
that which he carried, and wtL.SSch Norris now
saw to be rough cage with white bird Of
large size inside One of the priests bent and
assisted the man. and together they hound the
bird .Jy the chain around its leg. So they
left him thus. with the bird at hisf feet: and
Norris gradually returned to life-to exist
through these hours which were the most ter
rihle Of ALTO live through that night, God
knows how, and 10 greet the dawn in the
Inocizery of his soul, and still TO wait for tho
time to come.
Thus il was with him on the morning when
Vanscombe End Chir-clin-v.a set ont for the
temple Of Confucius: and as they We're near
ing the gates a dEll. leaden stup0r descended
upon the man who only waited, alone in that
courtyard, with the bird chained at his feet,
uni the last moment of his agony should
come At last it came. for the bird, i'm
PEELED by hunger, bent down a: length and
caught the iiesh of Norris toe in his beak.
hair wondering, perhaps, il this was food TO
cat The mans shr!eks rose through Tic air,
and tie bird q second time, and more greed
lily, bent forward to taste lis blood: and as its
overlapping beak met in bis flesh q last great
c:y came from him. and again, as YVES SO
il darkness.
AZ tina. moment the temple door opened,
and CEiD-oki!-wa looked down upon the
scene. TIE strong mans heart filled with
o%oly-a pain, which only tie st.cna heart,
s.ich as his, can feel in its fulness, ard this
agony dwelling IL him vet stilicd him, for 20
had now 10 act; bat i burst from lin ut a
l-GlE time, when all was over, and then he
answered Eansconbe as one who scarcely
heard, IS one who had passed OUT OF terri
bic dreaIn-''i do not know" Now he drove
il back. aid, Lcunding forward, seized the
white bird IN his right hand, crushing the
life OFT Of it as he tore il from the c,lai.. and
casting it from him IS a dead thing, killed by
the grasp OF his powerful hand. Then he
called aloud TO the priests who had followed
hll, and who now stood aghast some
way behind, cowed by an anger that is sell
dom known ii :. man. And he commanded
them to undo the bonds and release Ike poor
feet, one Of which was dripping blood They
oDeyed him silently. He had come to them
bearing the command from Shan-miri-yuen-
Permit and give honor to Chin-chin-wa."
And for what else should he come but in
connection with the prisoner who was now
to be unbound? Chin-chin-wa took him in
his arms, and thus bearing him, passed out
Of the court and through the temples until
lie reached tho outcr gate, and there he left
the priests and went out free: for they had
SEGA his AMER, and Were afraid-''A Swal-
lows Wing" by Charles Hannel