Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 14, Number 11, Vincennes, Knox County, 12 April 1823 — Page 4

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SCOTCH AIR. BY THOMAS MOORE, KSQ. Oft in the stilly night. Ere slumber's chain has bound mr, Fond memory brings the light t Of other days around me. The smiles, the tears of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken.

JTleyesth it shone, how dimm'd and gone,

The cheerful hearts now broken !

1TP

thcr.

When I remember all,

1 he tnends so linked tor

I've seen around me fall.

Like leaves in wintry weather ; I feel like one who treat's alone S ime b inoutt hall deserted.

Wlioe lights are fled, whose u land's dead,

And all but him departed. MISCELLANY. INTEH EATING STORY. " r fractrd frun the "Pomrrrfi."

Elizabeth and Louisa "procee

ded along the margin ol the pre

cipiee. matching occasional glimp

ses of the placid Otsego, or pans

ing to listen to the tattling of

wheels and the hounds of ham

mers that rose from the alley, to

nfingle the signs of men with the

to the color of death, and her fin-1 leap. When the panther lighted fact the Pioneer!) rushed by her,

ger pointing upward, with a sort on the shoulders of the mastiff, and he called aloud

of flickering convulsed motion which was its constant aim olds Huome m, Hector, come in,

The quick eye of Elizabeth glan-j Brave, though torn with her ta ! you old fool: 'tis a hard living anced in the direction indicated by ! Ions, and stained with his own imal. and may jump again."

her friend, where she saw the blood, that already flowed from a 1 Natty maintained his position fierce front and glaring eyes of a dozen wounds, would shake off in front of the maidens most fear-

female panther fixed on them in ! his furious loe like a feather, and . lessly, notwithstanding the viohorrid malignity and threatning ' rearing on his hind legs rush to! lent bounds and thieatning asinstant destruction. I the fray again, with his jaws dis- pect of the wounded panther.

which gave several indications of returning strength and ferocity, until his rifle was again loaded; when he stepping up to the enraged animal, and placing the nuzzle close to its head, every spatk of life was extinguished by the discharge.

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kk Let us fly !" Exclaimed Eli tended, and a dauntless eye.

zaheth, grasping the arm of Lou- But age, and his pampered life.

ia. whose form yielded like melt ! greatly disqualified the noble ing snow, and sunk lifeless to the ! mastiff for such a struggle In

eartn.

There was not a single feeling

in the temperament of Elizabeth

.i i. i

every thing nm courage ne was only the vestige of what he once

; had been. A higher hound than

Temple, that could prompt her ever raised the wary and furious

to desert a companion in such an beast far beyond the dog. who

extremity; and she lell on her was mawing a ocsperaic ntn nun

knees by the side of the inani mate ,ouisa, tearing from the person of her friend, with an instinctive readiness, such parts of her dress as might obstruct her

good

scenes of nature, when E izabeth her own tones heginning to trem-

EOWenly started andexclaimed: hc; "courage, courage,

I iis en ' t ipi'P a.if mi erips ni t. v

a child on this m ntntain ! Is there a clearing near us! Or t some

less dash at her. from which she

alighted in a favorable position on the hack of her aged foe For a single moment only could the panther remain there, the great

respiiation, and encouraging their i strength of the dog returning with

only safeguard, the dog. at the a convulsive eflort. But Ehza

same time, by the sounds ot her voice

"Courage. Brave!1' she cried,

liave.

A quarter-grown cub, that had

hitherto been unseen, now appear-

little one have strayed from its ' cn dropping from the branches of patents r" a sapling, that, grew under the Such tilings frequently hap : shade of the beech which held its pen," returned Louisa -Let us dam. This ignorant, but vicious follow toe sound-; it may be a creature approached near to the wanderer starving on the hill" dog. imitating the actions and U'ged by this consideration the sounds of its parent, but exhibit females put sued the low. mourn- lVr a strange mixture of the play ful s.nmd that proceeded from the fulness of a kitten, with the feroforet. with a quick and impatient city of its race. Standing on its step. More than on e the ardent bind legs it would rend the bark Elizabeth wa on the point of an- of a tree with its forepawt,. and

nounciog that she saw the suffer- play all the antics of a cat, lor a er. when Louisa caught her by moment; and then, by lashing it Vjthe a.m. and pointing behind self with it tail, growling and bthem. cticd : scratching the earth, it would at- ) -L uiK at the dog!" tempt the manifestations of anger Itravr. ha I been their compan- that rendered its parent so terrific ion. from the time the voice of All this time Brave stood firm bis young mistie lured him from and undaunted, his short tail bis kennel, tot te present moment erect, his b uly drawn backward His advanced age had long befoie on its haunches, and his eyes foldeprived him of his activity, lowing the movements of both When his companions stopped to dum and cub. At every gambol view the scenery, or to add to played by the latter, it approach their bouquets, the mastiff would ed still higher to the dog: the lay his huge frame on the ground, growling of the three became and await their movement, with m ne horrid at each moment, till bis eyes closed, and a listlesne-s the young beast, overleaping its in his air that ill accorded with intended behind, fell directly brthe eh.u-acter of a protector. B it foi e the mastiff There was a mowhen aroused by this cry from ment of fearful eric? and stni"-

ljouisa. Mbs I emple turned, she gles; but they ended almost as

saw i he dog with hi eyes keenly soon as commenced, by the cub set mi some distant object, with ; appearing in the air, hurled from

the jaws ot Brave with a violence

that sent it against a tree so forci

bly, as to render it completely senseless.

Elizabeth witnessed this short

struggle, and her blood was war

ming with the triumph of the dog.

beth saw, as Brave fastened hi teeth in the s de of his enemy, that the collar of brass around his neck, which had been glittering

throughout the fray, was of the

color ot blood, and directly that his frame was sinking to the eat th

wheie it soon lay prostrate and

helpless. Several mighty efforts

of the animal, to extricate hersell from the jaws of the dog, follow

ed: but thev wprp fruitless unfit

the mastiff turned on hi. back, his ; fl('sl! miK,Jt be delicate and tender,

DUELLING. Extract from a icork entitled Modem Chivalry tvriffea In the late facetious II II Bnckenride of Pe.nsylvania. kI have two objections to this dirty matter; The one is. lest I should butt yu; and the other is, lest you should hurt me. I do not see any good it would do me to put a bullet through any part of your body. I could make no use of you when dead for any culinary purpose, as I would a rabbit or a turkey. I am no cannibal to feed on the flesh of men. Why then shoot down a human creature, of which I could make no use? A huflab-c weuld be

better meat. For though your

lips collapsed, and his teeth loos- j

ened; when the short convulsions and stillness that succeeded announced the death of poor Brave Elizabeth mw lav wholly at the mercy of the beast There i-

said to be something in the front

of the image of the Maker, that

daunts the hearts of the inferior

beings of his creation: and it

7 would seem that some such p w

er. in tne present instance, stispen

ded the threatened blow. The ev es of the monster and the kneel

ing maiden met. for an instant, when the former stooped to ex amine her fallen foe next to scent her luckless cub From 'he lat ter examination, v turned, hou r ver, with its eyes apparently emitting Hashes ot fne. its tail" lash ing its sides furiously, and its

bis head bent near the ground.

and his hair actually tising on his body, either through frignt or angerk It was most probably the Utter for he was growling in a low key, and occasionally show ing his teeth in a manner that

would have tenitied his mistress. I when she saw the form of the old

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u.iu ir iuu so wen Known nis

goon quaimt

vet it wants that firmness and

consistency which takes and retains salt At any rate it would not be fit for long voyages. You might make a good barbacue, it i- true, being of the nature of a racoon or an oppossum; but people are not in the habit of barbaming any thing human now. As to your hide, it is not worth taking off, being little better than that of a year old colt. As to myself 1 dont't like much to stand in the w ay of any thing that is naimful lam under apprehen sioos you might bit me. That being the case. I think it most advisable to tay at a distance If ou w ant to try your pistols take some object, a tree or a barndoor, about my dimensions If you hit that send me word, ard I

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claws projecting for inches from ; snau .acunou at it 1 had

its broad leet. vtvu m inc same Pace,you might

also have hit me.

ave !" she

; panther in the air, springing 20

leet trom the branch ot the beech said, "be quiet, to the back of the ma-tiff

B; a e ! w hat do ynu see. fellow?'' ; No words of ours can describe At the sound of her voice, the 1 the fury of the conflict that folrage of the mastiff instead of be-! lowed it was a confused strug ing at all diminished w as wry ' gle on the dried leaves, accomsensibly increased. He stalked panied bv loud and terrible ci ies. in front of the ladies, and seated J barks and grow Is. Miss Temple hinwl! at the feet of hi mi-tress. ! continued on her knres. hr-mlmo-

growling louder than before, and occasionally giving vent to his ire bv a s m)i t. surly barkiog. V Mt does he see!" Said Eli zaheth; ' there must be some ani lii.il i i ight , "Ileari g no answer from her companion. Miss Temple turned b'' head and beheld Louisa. Standing with her face whitened

over the form of Louisa, her etv-s fixed on the animals with an inteiest o horrid, and vet so in tense, that she almost forgot her own stake in the result. So rap id and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the IViest that its active frame seemed constantly itt the air. wbi-e the dog nobly laced his foe, at each successive

Miss Temple did not or could not move. Her hands were clas

j)ed in the attitude of prayer, but tier eyes were still draw n to her

terrible enemy; her cheeks w ere blanched to the whiteness oi snow, and her hps were slighth sepa-at d with horror. The mo ment seemed now to have arrived for the fatal termination and the beautiful figure of Elizabeth was bow ing met kly to the stroke, when a rustling ol the leaves from behind, which seemed rather to mock the organs, than to meet the

ears -Hist ! r said a low voice; stoop lower, girl; your bonnet hir.es Hie. c: eat ore's head." It was rather the yielding of nature, than compliance with this unexpected order, that caused (he head of our hetone to sink on

her bosom; w hen she heard the report of the rifle, the whizzing of the bullet, and the enraged cries of the beast, who was rolling over on the earth, biting its ouHles! and tearing the twigs and bran ches within its reach At he next instant the form of Leather Mocking an old hunter and in habitant ot the soil Ion' before

the battlement was formed, and in

ANECDOTE. A Scotchman and an Irishman falling in company as they were travelling, continued together about two days journey. The former being quite bald headed, the latter frequently diverted himseh by jeering him on that account. They put up together at a tavern for the night, near the place whcie they were to part, and while the Irishman was as

leep, the Scotchman got a razor

and shaved the hair offa.l the upi . . . .

per pan oi his head, and then called for his horse and started

on his journey. The Itishman had previously requested the landloid to waken him betimes, and this being done, he was about to adju-t his cravat before alaige looking glass; when discovering his bald head, he exclaimed -lJy the powers! I told yon to waken me, but instead of that you was after calling up the Scotchman Tm never to be chated in this way, faith." So saying he went to bed aSai BLANK DEEDS for sale at this office.