Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-04-14
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"There was none. My fingers became
sore i'll busying themselves with the
harsh and inhospitablG stones My feet
slipped from the smooth and Shiny ma
sonry beneath the water, feld several
times my face came in rude contact
with the wall, when my foothold gave
way on the instant that l seemed to
have found some diminutive rocky cleat
upon which could stay myself.
Sir, did you ever see Il rat drowned
in a half tisHd hogshead, how Ire swims
.Jund and re-. d and round, and after
vainly trying the sides again and again
with his paws fixes his eyes upon the
upper rim as if he would look himself
out of his watery prison?
81 thought of the miserable vcrmin,
thought oFhim as / had often watched
thus his dying agonles, when cruel
urchin of s or 10. Boys are horribly
cruel, sir; Logs, women and savages,
All childliko things are cruel-cruel
from want Of thought and from per-
verse ingenuity, although by instinct
each of these is so tender. You may not
have observed it, but savage is as
tender to its own young as a boy is to .
favorite puppy-the same boy that "
torture kitten out of existence. \
thought then, say, of rat drowning
in half filled cask of water and lifting
his gaze ont OF the vessel as be grew
more and moro desperate, and flung
myself on my back, and floating thus
O. Il I,of T., ,ft Ln
"The moon is we'll enough in her
way, however you may look at her. bat
her appearance is, to say the least o. t.,
peculiar to Il man floating On his bacl;
in the center Of o stOno tank, with "a
dead wall Of some Is or 20 feet risin,,
squarely on every side Of him!'
The young man smiled Utterly as be
said this and shudderod once CT twice
before be went on musingly:
"The last time | had noted the planet
with any emotion she was Oh the wane.
Mary was with NE. l had brought hex
out here one morning to look at the
view from the top Of the reservoir. She
said little Ct the scene, but as we talked
of our old childish loves | saw that it,:
fresh features were Incorporating them
selves with tender memories of the
past, and I was content.
"Thero was Il rich golden haze upon
the landscape, and as my own spirit:
rose amid tho voluptuous atmosphere
she pointed to the waning planet, Gis-
cernible like faint cash i'll the welkin,
and wondered how long it would be be-
fore the leaves wouliklll. Strange girl!
Did she mean to ,cJuko my joyous
mood, as if we had no ! light to be happy
while nature whitening, in her pomp
and the siclly moon wasting in the
blaze of noontide were there to remind
us of 'tle gone forever
"They will all renew themselves,
dear Mary said / eucouragingly, aud
there is one that will ever keep tr,st
alike with thee and nature through all
seasons if thou wilt be true to one of
us, and remain as now child Ct ma
| ture.
GA tear sprang to her eye, and thcn
searching her pocket for h(r CardraHc
she remembered an engagement to be
present at Miss -Lawsun'a opening Of
fall bonnets at 2 o'clock.
"And yet, dear, wild, hayward
Mary thought of her now. You have
probably outlivcd this sort Of thing sir,
but l. looking at the moon, as tioated
there upturnod to her yellow light,
thought Of the loved being whose tears
| knew would flow when she heard of
my singular fate, at once so grotesque.
yet mechanically to awtulness.
"And how often we have talked, TOO,
of that Carian shepherd who spent hi.
damp nights upon the hills, gazing as
| do on the lustrous planet. Who viii
revel with her amid those old tup1rStl-
tions: who from Our own unlegeudcd
woods will evoke their yet undctocted
haunting spirits: Who peer with her il
prying scrutiny into natures laws anc
challenge the whispers of poetry from
the vOicelVss threat of matter: Nh(
laugh merrily over the stupid guessworl
of uedunts that mover mingled with Tho
infintulA Of nature, Through love eN
hausting and all embracing, as we have
Poor girl, she will be pani0ulessl
"Alas. companionlcss forever, save
in the exciting stages ct some Drlsl
Irritation, She will live hereafter by
feeding otbcr hearts with loves lCrt
she has learned from me, ard then
Pygmuli0nliKe, grow fond Of the images
she has herself endowed with aonlulanct
Of divinity, Until they seem to broath'
back the mystery the soul can truly
catch from only one. How anxious she
will be lest the coroner shall have dis
covered any Of her notes i'll my pocket
81 felt chilly rs this last reflector
crossed my mind, partly at Thought G
the coroner partly at the idea of Mar,
being uuWillingly compelled to Wca
mourning fer me, in case IT such dis
closure Of our engagement. 1t is pro
voking thing for girl of 10 to have tt
90 into mourning for a deceased love
at the beginning Of her second white
in the metropolis.
1.-The water, though, with MY mo
tionless position, must have had some
thing to do with my chillincss. | soc
sir, you think that tell ny story will
great levity, hut indeed, indeed l shoul'
grow dolriuus did | venture TO bolt
steadily 10 the awfulness of my feeling
the greater Part Of that night think
indeed, must havo been most Of th
time hystcrical with horror, for tn
vibrating emotions / have recapitulate
did pass through my brain even as
have detailed them.
"But as | now became calm i
thought I summoned up again some res