The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-02


TO eastward. each instant growing bright
er. though It was a FIRE famed by
gigantic bellows. simultaneously pink
vapors, floating In the zenith. coll them
selves into roof OF rose, and sanguine
/ clouds begin to move in steady files. like
the trained hattalicns OF al army. At
j last throbhing splendor pushes up lis
/ rim above the distant heights. and a sud-
cen lark begins to sing The world be-
comes wonder and Joy. and the silent
/ watcher hnda himself a mute spectator
/ Of the birth throes OF creation.
Barfora is town by courtesy, VII
! lage In reality, but with many pleasant
/ features OF the English hamlet yet dis
! tiuguishabie. The houses crowd together
| in the high street. with some vague par-
! pose OF municipal cohesion. but beyond 1t
/ Trey eihow one another In q growing dis
sanee in the frankest scorn of uniformity.
! Life passes slowly in these parts: a few
/ thoughts suffice the wisest. a few joys
! the happiest. There is no confusion OF
| impression. no sharpening of perception
| into morbid subtiesy. Yet the primitive
! elements OF all human tragedy are not
| wanting for love sits beside the hearth.
| and sorrow weeps among the graves. and
! the stream that eddies under Barford
| bridge sings song as ancient as tie CEN
! turIes''
Then come personal touches Of Dexter,
| the worst man in the place, whose bad
! ness was Of a quite Incompatible order.
! so that when the various misdeeds Of
| other Barford sinners were touched upon
| in pious conversation Dexter was left out
| az standing In a class by himself.
| He Dug graves. and dug them in 4 BAG
| chanaiian spirit, and many a girl hurry
| ing past the churchyard wall ''in the dark
! trembled at the sound OF that dreadful
! voice. singing and laughing from the deep
| pit Of death in drunken ecstasy" Dexter
| kept all his bad deeds for the public and
| his better deeds for his home. The one
| uncorrnpsed spot in his heart was the love
| Of his children.
| Il wonder YOU don't keep straight for
| the sake Of your children" said Rickett
| 10 him severely one day.
oh. Mister Rickett,' he replied, with
| a. grin, you amt got no childer. Lor.
| you don't know what little deevils chill
der can be-
Rlckett went away sadly with the con-
viction that Dexter was an incorrigibie
brute. But perversity was one of Dex-
ters chief pleasures, and, having attain
Il Il character of supreme wickedness
not without considerable exertion, he did
not wish 10 throw 1t away lightly. 1t
Pleased him 10 know that he had added
another wilful and quite false element to
his evil reputation. which would further
establish him in his bad pre-eminence as
the worst man In Barford. In his way
Dexter was an artist. He knew how TO
live UP to his part
The scenes Of the nineteen stories in the
volume are al laid in the English village
and set forth the romances and tragedies
that may exist under the quiet exterior
OF such provincial community. DR.
Dawson knows how to draw a humorous
or pathetic picture with a few clear
strokes. "Thro Lattice Windows Is a
/ book full Of humanity quaint humor, and
deep sentiment.
| BIRD NEiGHBORS. BY Nellie Blan-
chan. with Introduction by John Bur-
r0ughs. Doubleday & Mcclure Com
pany. publishers
Past masters IN oruithology viii net
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