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THE PEOPLE’S HOME JOURNAL.
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they did pot think of my escaping, and yielded
0 1:
ag I waa alone I arose and dress
myself, took some food which, anticipating
some such emergency, I had secreted in my
road for ee Tce 8 te 2
@ men from the neighboring farme goin:
nt the fore 0 cut ood. This te me
outa little below where you found me, ai ere,
fairly wor it, I had fain myself down to ai
careless of what might become of me so ¢
escaped those two bos ‘id not expect,
James, that it would b ”
‘ou——’
“ Bark, hark, Ma ary | ‘ebat wae that?”
“Tr hear agin ; What was it like? Are they
j they are but two, and I
could deal with tli m. It is wolves; I have heard
them, at a distance a Jong 4 ye 2, e, but it hoped they
ww, I perceive, they
are rapidly yap aching.’
“But are thoy dsogetous 2” asked Mary, turn-
ing very palo. They 0 often have come about
our house, and I us be very much srighte
ened, but they never did lany barm, and at last
T hardly cared for them.”
«We will hope for the best and make as good
speed. ant we can,” ee a calmly, but. lashing my
horee to his utmos
id no more peat Talso rei emained silent,
bitterly cursing in my heart the folly
had been guilty in wasting hours.
read have ‘assured our Lives, for so engrossed
had I been after encounteri
own emotions and with her story, ean ‘ my ‘hors
ite motionless, or loitere:
along at a walk, until the first distant sounds of
the outlying ‘farma, and had even threatened
travelers in the broad daylight.
had been warned not to ‘be out after dusk,
used even
‘or myself I should have cared little. Thed
nat for several years valued life puficiontly to
in much danger of losing it, and ee
that alone ti could eithor evade or conquer the
ithout dit ‘ffieulty 5 bat m;
fhreatening her;
hag J38t e2ca ped from depen worse than
appiness, in my
wumption offered to protect { from a Learehiy evil
Mary; poor fragile child, wi t with terror
and With suffering, how was she “fitted to, mest
the danger gatherin
I lashed my horse furiously. He leaped for-
ward, stumbied, fell, and rose limping. I urged
him on; he was dead lame.
from the lei igh I cut the traces and
ma ere we still stood, ond avoi
tthe eye of man, pursued
P ey
walang “they are gone now, but they
will be back rectly. Hark! Did you pear
i t was the death ye of th
mn
, horse ey fastened up im. We
limb one these trees—itis our only hope,
Mary, ouse reels dearest! Oh, my God!
los'
For M Stary bad fapatea in my arms as [lifted
her from the s
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THE EVENING OF THE YEAR.
Come walk with me along the forest ways
A Aarne gay. ote hat peace is in the air f
in is wondrous fa ir,
ae far sit bey are ‘unt ta parple haze,
ont
rod I! up ‘toren in air,
And seuriet woodbine igi the woodiatia ways,
The birds sit slient by thelr empty n
be air is dromay with a spell of dreaing
Al
We look away into the goldeu west,
And while the year’s pale twilight round her
Earth site with folded hands, her work all done,
—Bben EB. b, Rexford,
A Terrible Retribu-
tion.
BY EMERSON BENNETT.
™o you think Tam too
rus
my mind that it seems as if it were
but yoster rda
My father was a farmer by the
Brooke. I was his
only son, and named Walter after a
er neighbor and friend. of my
father, Walter Johns
Mr. Johneon had threo children the « eldest,
William, being 8 about my own age. had
OWN U posetber, and were the Wonmest
riende, af I sup)
Now, different petiods we had been vexed
and al nove ed by the loss of lambs, pigs and
poultry, ich ad beon earried off by a couple
ot Plange eagles, nd oth William and i at last
eagles id ourselves of the cau:
“Xbout two miles distant from our homes there
was a mountain, upon one side of which was a
Precipice several hundred feo!
at eagles invariably select the most
ingoooni le places for their tarted
morning to find and deste roy. ‘hen host, if
not the birds themselt ves.
x an hour or two of laborious climbing we
discovered the nest about fifty feet below the
summit of the > mornt o‘e.on the side of the preci-
pice.
As both dagles weru-=Way at the time we de-
termined to destroy their nest ani
~~Yhe-eniy-way-to roach
let gown from tho top of the moan!
repared for that kind ‘of work, and
bed Sroughe with us Blot long stout rope, and also
some fagots dipped in melted rosin and brim-
Johnson was a lerge and very strong man,
Thad vo fear of trusting him to lower me over
the abyss.
With, the rope securely fastened around m:
found ie Projection, and rum:
ning ack from it a smal are sods ix feet
8 mares where I effected i
f you cannot get close to the ea’ 8 | erie, ot one
mode of destruction is to ket
ping some infamipablo substance into the neat,
and this was the ass to be mada of my fagot
8 light I was
nearly jerked from wy Position y the sudden
*%
eayen, Willem | what have you
done? ” t exclaimed.
“Oh, my Lord!” I heard bim call back; “I
have allowed the rope to slip from my bands !”
- “And wl me nor, yw 27 Tcried.
“ How can I ever g re?
“ at you can Possibly remain Chere youare, I
Sy ty for anot er rope and help,” he replied.
0, , for Heaven’s sake, and lose no
na Koop up your spirits, my dear friend, and all
cats soon be well!” were the last words I beard
im utter
Tvaited in great anxiety until it began to grow
DO Signe of of assistance. What
gould it mean? Had my friend
cident? He could not ava lost bas way, for bi
familiar wit 8 Local erciful
Heaven! could he have purposely et the rop
slip? Nol impossible! for he ed friend. I
bh suse hone Doh d bim, much
im to
wing dark ; and te ‘ere was I, impri
oned as it were etween heaven and earth, with
no means of esca}
One of the eagles now returned and sought its
nest, ond I became rmed.
what moment it might discover
y position it t might t be-
come & serious matter to defend m:
and attack m
Darkness set in, and I crouched down and
hour went past, and
still no one appe:
At last, notwithstanding my lonely situation,
Wearied nature asserted her claim and I fell
asi
Iwas awakened by # sense of pain and a hor-
nid ery, and found myself attacked bya monster
nes was ras just light enough to see dimly, for day
ready
Guenes ‘8 loud yell, I drew my bunting knife
and planged i it into the breast of the bird.
It atrack me some heavy blows with ite win,
as it cl yout and iben went screeching } s
wn the side of the Presi pie
my Core I hed failed to withdra:
ra, stielan Hv Ss
Scarcely was it out of “sight when the other
cage attacked me,
ot knowing how better to defend myself, z
drew back‘as ‘feras Tcould, and when it c
darting toward me I struck it with theend on the
rope,
Wh i vo ‘days after my liberation, and while I was
come? Wae I Stk 1, ‘be "ete dose fat wa going to @ peighboring, village, with 8 dog for
my companion, ABS
long, awfal night? ys ran and kept ap euch ® barkin
To make my weapon more effective, I tied to
the end a emall stone which I found loose in the
**Ntior that fortune favored me—for striking at
ig over its nec!
8!
and shouted for help, r
pecond night was one of misery bordering on
“On the third day my Shroat grew hoarse from
shouting, an and lips became
parched from hired.
iringly I called and waited all through
that awful day, bu
On the fourth aay T awoke nearly doad with
thirst, and to my unspeakable
yainiig. Al quench ing my thi
sil a a means of con’
collect enough, rain in the hollow of the rock to
laa ane for a day or two.
ae fe ora ytarving I began to feed on the
lead
eal
At the ond of a week I found that the water
was all gone, and my eagle was all eaten ; an
up to that time I bed not seen or heard a Hving
being besides my: sel
used all the means in m;
so Tiaid down to wait
come sooner or later,
enly I was startled by the report of a
power ¢ escap
for the end which must
ny | sprang up with a wild gleam of hope.
Some one was near me. Could I make: my po-
sition known.
could not see anybody; but I {dodged from
the sound that the gan had’ been fired from
I took of my coat and tied it to the end of the
rope and waved it outside of the cave, and kep| rt
up & continuous shoutin; ith all my might.
For at least two long bi Sura I waved that coat
and shouted, and e1 experienced the fraptio des
the sto by peel sailor when he seo
by passing vessel.
a human voice call out:
back. “ Where are you?”
“Tam on the top of the mountain,” was the
“ W here are you?”
ben ay lown on my back and looked up,
boing afraid to trust myself in a stan
ure, and saw the head of a pan looking. oon.
Ttold him how I had got there, and how long
I had been left in that borrid situation
aid in return that he had means of
reach 2g » Te would hasten to geta
and assistance. If I wonld keep & @ stout heart
he would soon have me brelea: ie
n he was gone I began again to despair.
Perbapa he woul a pover come again. ttle
ile seemed 50
what was thet? There itis agein! They
ing
isl tad and Beard a welcome answer. I was
to bet eave d at
I poaroely k iow what followed till I found my-
self standin; jountain, eur-
od bless you, my boy rf he tad. “with t
uloue emotion. @ have found you at Tastl"
They had brow, at food
r
nd some brandy with
them, and afte
had partaken of both I re-
hang him myself!”
After quiet ba bad been restored, I was informed
jam had returned bome and then had
fone. direct to my house to inquire if 1 had come
When told that J bad bot he had seomed
friond of mine, he had said, in conclusion,
@ had come directly to my hous
apology tom bis hasty w:
ad not ‘eran that night eearch was be-
gun early the next day and continued for sev-
ral deve, but of course reeulted in not finding
any trace of me, William Johnson was fore:
mostin ‘ail searches and eeemed terribly grieved.
ime passed and no tidings of a
obtained, it was thought that I was dead.
bi as not dead, no thanks were due to my
intended murderer; and when I now arrive:
friends, all of them were deter-
villain.
But be was vot to be found
He had stolen
Is on at his fath-
ad leaving a note
oul back,
e only theory that I have for his vile con~
I wer the same
young lay, who in the course of tim 0
Johnson Y ying th
body badly swollen. He bad been bitten b
rattlesnake, and had died in misery, wi
ear. Truly a terrible “retribution had
come upon him for his wickedn
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