Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
A WICKLOW STORY.

Many years ago two beings dwclt in the
valley Of Glendalough-i. G., the valley of
the two lakes. One was in his sixteenth
summer. The other hid scarcely seen her
thirteenth spring They were the children
Of two well to do peasants, neighbors in
that peaceful valley, aud their young lives
had hitherto passed way as drcauily as
the sound OF the waterfall beside their
doors. They We're ever together Their
parents looked on their intimacy and
smiled. And day by day as they wan
dered out into the fields to gather flowers,
threading the may pathways of the woods
or scaling, like young mountain chamois,
the giddy cliff around, they became more
woven into each others being until, even
in their early youth, they were like two
tendrils-iuter twned with each other.
And so Jost phi and Agnes grew up. One
morning in the latter part of autumn they
met at the old spring under the hillside,
and set out to gather wild flowers for the
coming festival-for the valley in those
days was not sparse of vegetation as it
is today. The day was bright with autumn
glory. All down the valley and high up
over the blue face Of heaven was glow
like that which prophets tell us hangs
over the golden landscape of paradise.
Leaf, tree and lake We're STEPPED N e1iul-
gence, while the wind nurmurcd low and
TREMENDOUSLY.
Let US 20 to I.ugngquilla, said Joseph.
''for there are the choicest flowers, and the
day is so beautiful we can 90 and return
before uightIdll.'
Lugnaquilla is the highest mountain in
Wicklow. Agnes heaitalcd moment,
and then said, I'VE shall lose sight of the
mountain soon as We enter the woods
but know the way, let us co. and hand
in hand they wended their way. So full of
thoughtless happiness were they that they
had wandered from flower to flower until
the sun was at the noon, without remem-
berng that they ought long since to have
been at the mountain of LuSnaquilla. All
. at once however, in the midst Of heir mirth,
, this reflection came across them like a
dark shadow on the bosom Of some sunny
lake
They paused iuvoluntarily, and Agnes,
gazing up into Joseph's face with a look Of
mingled inquiry and alarm, said, Joseph,
where are we, and where is the mountain
of Lugnaquilla;"
IL surely don't know the way" an
swered the boy, and this seems like and
yet unlike it. Ali here is the road-no, it
cannot be''-and he paused, bewildered.
I'VE are not lost, are we, Joseph?' said
closer tn her comnanion's side
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