Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-03

looking over tho cage or tho Gill, ex-
claimed: "See,.see Humphrey, we have
caught the whole tabernacle of the Lord
In net at last. There they are prais-
ing God among the stones Of the river
Mouss. ThoSs are tho Garland craigs.
By my soule salvation, q noble cathe-
drall'
Filing tho lying sentinel over the
cliffs. Hero is canting Covenanter for
you, deceiving honest soldiers on the
very Sabbath day. Over with him-out
Of the gallery into the pit" But the
shepherd had vanished like shadow,
and mixing with the tall green broom
and bushes was making his unseen way
toward wood "Satan has saved his
servant, but come, my lads-follow me-
know the way down into the bed Of
the stream and the steps up to Wallace's
cave. They are called the 'Kittle Nine
Stances The hunts up. Well be oil
in at the death. Halloo-my boys
halloov'
The soldiers dashed down o less pre-
cipitous part of the wooded banks lit
tie below the "craigs" and hurried up
the channel. But when they reached
the altar where the old gray haired min
lister had been seen standing, and the
rocks that had been covered with people,
all was silent and soiitary-not o crear
ture was to be seen.
"Heres Biblo dropped by some Of
them,n cried soldier, and with his foot
he spun it away into the pool. IA bon
meta bonnet" cried another, now for
the pretty sanctifed face that rolled Its
demure eyes below it" But after few
tests and oaths the soldiers stood still,
ewing with kind of mysterious dread
the black and silent walls Of the rock
that hemmed them in, and hearing only
the small voice of the stream that sent o
profounder stiffness through the heart Of
that majestic solitude.
course these cowardly Covenantersl
What if they tumble down upon our
heads pieces of rock from their hiding
place? Advance? Or retreats" There
was no reply, for slight fear was upon
every man. Musket or bayonet could be
Of little use to men obliged to Chamber
up rocks along slender paths leading
they knew not where, and they were
aware that armed men nowadays wor-
shiped God-men of iron hearts, who
feared not the glitter of the soldiers
arms, neither barrel nor bayonet-men
of long stride, firm step md broad chest,
who on the open field would have over
thrown the marshaled line and gone
first and foremost If city had to be
taken by storm
AS the soldiers were standing together
irresolute, noise came upon their ears
like distant thunder, but even moro ap-
palling, and o light current Of air, as if
propelled by 1t, passed whispering along
the sweetbriers, and tho broom, and the
tresses Of the birch trees. 1t came deep
ening and rolling and roaring on, and
the very Garland craigs shook to their
foundation as if in an earthquake.
."The Lord have mercy upon us-what
Is this?" And down fell many of the
miserable wretches on their knees and
some on their faces upon the sharp point
ed rocks Now, 1t was like the sound Of
many myriads Of chariots rolling on
their iron axles down the stony channel
of the torrent. The old gray haired
J minister issued from the mouth of Wal
lace's cave and said. with loud voice.
THE Lord God terrible reigneth.
A watcrspout had burst up among the
moorlands, and the river in its power
was ut hand. There it camo-tumbling
along into that long reach of cliffs, and
in moment filed it with one mass of
waves. Huge, agitated clouds of foam
| rode on the surface of blood red tor
rent. AN army must have been swept
| off by that food. The soldiers persisted
In momenrbut high up in the cliffs,
above the sweepgof destruction, were
the Covenanters-men women and chill
dren uttering prayers TO God. unheard
by themselves, in that raging thunder
From flights and Shadows of Scottish
Life