Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-02-21
A TALE OF THREE LIONS.
BIZ H. RIDER HAGaARp.

tEkhAhA1S1 WIZ Wa OifS VI t.i- paw tAAe NA0-
covered King Solomon's mines some little
time ago, and who afterward came to live in
England near his friend, Sir Henry Curtis.
He has zone back to the wilderness now, as
these old hunters airnoes invariably DO. on
one prete1-t or another. They canno. endure
civilization for very long, its noise and racket
and the omnipresence Of broadclo.hed hu
mainly proving more trying to their nerves
than the dangers Of the desert think taat
they feel lonely here, for it is fact tsEat is
too little understood. though it has oltea
been stated, that there Is no loneliness like the
loneliness Of crowds, especially 10 those who
are unaccustomed TO them
''What is there in the world" old Qnater-
main would sey, go desolate as to stand in
the streets of great city and listen to the
footsteps falling, falling, multitudinous IS
the rain, and watch the white line OF faces
a. they hurry aast, you know not whence,
you know not whittier. They come and 30,
their eyes meet yours with d cold stare, for
a moment their features are written Oh your
mind, and then they are gone forever. You
viii never See them again, they VIII never
see you again: they come up out Of the I'M
known and presently they once more veIi-
ISL into the unknown, taking their secrets
undefiled; hut to one who knows and loves
IL, the wilderness Is not lonely, because the
spirit Of nature Is ever there TO keep the
wanderer company. He finds companions in
the winds-the sunny streams babble ike
natures children at his feet; high above
him, in the purple sunset, are domes and
minarets and palaces such as no mortal man
bath built, in and out Of whose flaming doors
the glorious angels Of the sun seem 10 move
continually. And there, too, is the wild
game following its feeding grounds in great
armies with the springbok thrown out be-
fore for skirmishers, then rank upon rank of
long faced blesbuck marching and wheeling
like infantry, and last, the shining troops of
quagga and tho fierce eyed, shaggy wilder
beeste TO take the place Of the Cossack host
that hangs upon an army's tanks.
"Oh, no. he would say ''the wilderness is
not lonely, for, my boy, remember that the
further you get from man the nearer you
grow to God, /" and, though this is a saying
that might well be disputed. it is one AIN
sure that anybody will easily understand
who has watched the sun rise and set on the
limitless, deserted plains, and seen the thun
der chariots Of the clouds roll in ma esty
across the depths Of unfathomable sky,
Well, at any rate he went back again and
row for many months have heard nothing
at all Of him, and, to be frank, ! greatly
doubt if anybody will ever hear of him agar
[ fear that the wilderness that has for so
many years been mother TO him will now
also prove his grave and the grave of those
who accompanied him, for the quest upon
which he and they started is u wild one in
deed.
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oltteh oF t"' i"iu Dug, ana now hau 10 take
inc c"hseq"''' os, haa oous h' claim out
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caiiy when ! saw my successful Trend VINO
was ha'k''. sweep up me ron Oh standard
who made his fortune and cram them into
his brooches pockets. Well | said to him
the happy vendor-'it is a magnificent prop
erty and only hope that my luck will he as
good us yours has been He smiled, to my
excited nerves it seemed that he smiled ON
inously, as he answered me in peculiar
Yankee drawl Il guess, stranger, as | amt
the one to make man quarrel with his food,
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