The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-10-08

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he says: II charge you by the kinds of
the field" Their sntlers jutted from
the long grass as they lay down. No
hunter who has been long in John
Browns tract" will wonder that in the
Bible they were elassed among clean
animals, for the dews, the showers
the lakes washed them as clean as the
sky. When Isaac, the patriarch,
longed for venison, Essu shot and
brougat home a roe buck. Isaiah COM
pares the sprightliness Of the restored
cripple Of the millennial times TO the
long and quick jump Of the stag, say
ing. THE lame shall leap as the hart"
Solomon expressed his disgust at a
hunter who, having shot q deer, is too
lazy TO cook it. saying, THE slothful
nan roasteth not that which he took
in hunting"
But one day David, while far from
the home from which he had been
driven. and sitting near the mouth of
q lonely cav where he had lodged, and
on the banks Of a pond or river. hears
a pack Of hounds in swift pursuit Be
cause Of the previous silence Of the
forest the clangor startled him, and he
says 10 himself: ~ wonder what those
dogs are after" Then there is q crack
ling in the brushwood, and the loud
breathing Of some rushing wonder of
the woods and the Antlers Of a deer
rend the leaves Of the thicket and by
an instinct which all hunters reeog-
nize the creature plunges into q pool
or lake or river 10 cool its thirst, and
ut the same time by its capacity for
swifter and longer swimming TO get
away from the foaming harrierA
David said 70 himself: "Aha, that Is
myself! Saul after me, Absolom after
me, snemiss without number after me;
j am chased; their bloody muzzles at
my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my body, barking sfer
my soul o. the hounds, the hounds!
But look there" says David TO himself;
that reindeer has splashed the water.
II puts Its hot lips and nostrils into the
cool wave that washes its lathered
TANKS, and II swims away from the
fiery CANNES, and II is free at last o,
that ! might find in the deep, wide lake
Of Gods mercy and consolation escape
FROM my p~ursuers! o, for the waters
Of life and rescued As the hart pant
eth after the Hster brooks, 30 panteth
my soul after thee. o God"
My friends, that is Ons reason why /
like the Bible so much is sllpsions
are SO true 70 nature. Its partridFes
are real partridges, It's ostriches real
OstFiches, and It's reindeer real rein
deer. do not wonder that this
antlered glory Of the text makes the
hunters eye sparkle and his cheek
glow and his respiration quicken. To
say nothing Of its usefulness although
u is the most useful Of all game, is
heAk delicious, It's skin turned into hu,
mar apparel, It's sinews fashioned into
bow-stringh, It's antlers putting
handles on cutlery. and the shavings
Of ita horn used as Q pungent restora-
tive, the name taken from the hart
aud called hartshorn. But putting
aside its usefulness, this enchanting
creature seems made out Of graceful.
ness and elasticity. What On eye,
with a liquid brightness As II gathered
up from a hundred lakes at suEssti
The horns, q coronal branching into
every possible curve, and after IL
seems complete ascending into other
projections Of exquisiteness, q tree Of
polished bone, uplifted In pride, or
SWING down for awful combat The
hart Is velocity embodied. Timidity i'm
personatsd The enehantment Of the
woods lts eye lustrous 10 LIE and pa
thetie in death. The splepdid animal
a complete rhythm OF muscle and
bone, and color, and attitude. aud To-
eomotion, whether ciouched In the
grass among the shadows, or u living
bolt shot through the forest or turn.
Nc Rt bay 10 attack the hounds, or
rearing for its last fall under the buck
shot OF the trapper. II is 4 splendid
appearance that the painters pencil
fails 10 sketch and 0aly .. buffers