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Ho has gone back to the wilderness now, as I these old hunters almost invariably do, on ! one pretext or another. They cannot endure civilization for very long, its noise and racket 1 and the omnipresence of broadclothod hu i inanity proving more trying to their nerves j than the dangers of the desert. I think that j they feel lonely here, for it is a fact that is j too little understood, though it has often j been stated, that there is no loneliness like tho i loneliness of crowds, especially to those who : are unaccustomed to them. “What is there in the world,” old Quater main would say, “so desolate as to stand in tho streets of a great city and listen to the footsteps falling, falling, multitudinous as , tho rain, and wateh the white line of faces ! as they hurry past, you know not whence, j i you know not. whither. They come and go, their eyes meet yours with a cold stare, for a moment their features are writtenon your mind, and then they arc gone forever. You ! will never sec them again, they will never I see you again: they come up out of the. un known, and presently they once more van ish into tho unknown, taking their secrets with them. Yes, that is loneliness pure and undofilcd; but to one who knows and loves it, the wilderness is not lonely, because the | spirit of nature is ever there to keep the , wanderer company. Ho finds companions in i the winds—the sunny streams bubble like i nature's children at his feet; high above him, in tho purple sunset, are dome's and minarets and palaces such as no mortal man hath built, in and out of whose flaming doors ■ the glorious angels of tho sun seem to move 1 continually. And there, too, is the wild game following its feeding grounds in great ; armies, with the springbok .thrown out be fore for skirmishers, then rank upon rank of long faced blcsbuck marching and wheeling i like infantry, and last, tho shining tr< \ <■ quagga and the fierce eyed, shaggy vihler I i bf .. !,e to take the place of tho Cossack l:o. L 1 that hangs upon an army's flanks. : “Oh, no,” ho would say, “the wilderness is ! j not lonely, for, my boy. remember that th'? ! I further you get from man the nearer you 1 | grow to God,” and, though this is a saying | \ that might well bo disputed, it is one I am I sure that anybody will easily understand who has wateht 1 tho sun rise and s-_: on tho j limitless, deserted plains, and seen the than j der chariots of tho clouds roll in majesty 1 across the depths of unfathomable sky. i Well, at any rato he went back again, and 1 now for many months I have heard nothing j at all of him, and, to bo frank, I greatly I doubt if anybody will ev- r bear of him again I fear that tho wilderness that has for so ! many year:, been a mother to him will now ' also prove his grave and tho grave of those I übo accompanied him, for the quest upon ■ which he and they started is a wild one in . deed. | But while he was in England for those I years or so between his return from the suc cessful discovery of tho wise king's buried ; treasures and the death of his only son, I saw a great deal of old Allan Quatermain. I had known him years before in Africa, and after b ■ camo home, whenever I had nothing bet ter to do, I used to run up to Yorkshire and stay with him, and in this way I at one time and another,'irai.. ... ....j of the incidents -d bis and most curious some of them were. No one can pass all those years following tho rough existence of an elephant hunter without mooting with many strange adven tures, and one way and another old Quater main has certainly sc r n his share. Well, the story that I am going to tell : - yt u is one of the later of those ad j ventures, though 1 forget tho exact year which it happened. At any rate I know that it was the only one of his trips upon which I bo t ook his son Harry (who is since dead) with him, and that Harry was then about 1-1. And i.o-.y for the story, which I will repeat os nearly os I can in the words in which Hunter Quatermain told it to me one night in tho old oak paneled vestibule of his house in Yorkshire. W e were talking about gold mining. “Gild mining!” ho broke in. “Ah, yes; 1 once went gold mining at Pilgrim’s Kost in the Tiansvaal, and it. was before that that wo had business about Jim-Jim and the lions. Do you know it? Well it is—or was— one of the queerest little places you oversaw Th » t< wn it... If was pitched in a stony valley with mountains all about it, and in tho mid dle < f such scenery as one does not often get tho ' banco of seeing. Many and many is tho tim-' that I have thrown down my pick and shovel in disgust, clambered out of my claim and walked a couple of miles or so to tho top of some hill. Then I would lie down in the. grass and look out over tho glorious stretch of country—tho smiling valleys, tho great mountains touched with gold—real gold of th? sunset, and clothed in sweeping robe., of bush, and stare into tho deuths of tho perfect sky above; yes, and ihank* heaven I had g< t av/ay from tho cursing and th eoarco j kes of the mind’s, and the voices of tho. Do cu Kafirs as they toiled in tho sun, the memory of which is with mo yet. Well, for eomo months I dug patiently at my claim till tho I very sight of a pick er of a wash.ng trorc-h » day I lamented my own folly in havi: •. vested £BO3, which was about all that I wn' worth nt tho time, in this g<-LI mining. Bui, I like other better people before me, I L ' 1 I ccn | bitten by the gold bug. and now had 1 t.i'.. : the consequences. I had bought a < la! ■. ■ I of which a man laid made a fortune—3.’s.(;J i |or £O,OOO at least—os I thought, v» ry ti■ .p, ; that is, I Lad given him £*>C.‘ down fur i it was p.ll that I had made by a rough year’s elephant hunting beyond the Zam : besi, and I sighed deeply and propheti | cally when I saw my successful friend, who ! was a Yankee, swot p up the roll < f Standard .•Lank notes with t: lordly air of u. who i.i•. j- Lis ft i ..me a id cram t'.i i i into hi-; bn- -•!« - pockets. • Well,’ 1 said t . ! tL- happy vendor—‘it is a magnificent ;: < - I erty, and I only hope that my lut k will 1■; . good as yours has been.’ Hci.milcd: to my excited nerves it seemed that he sinih I om inously, as ho answered me in it peculiar Yankee drawl: ‘I guess, stranger, as I ain't the one to make a man quarrel with Lis food, more especial when there ain’t no more go ing of tho rounds; and as for that thero claim, well, she's been a good nigger to me; i but between you and me, stranger, speaking J man to man, now that there ain’t any filthy ! luccr between us to obsculate the feathe rs of ■ the truth, I guess she's about work 'd out!’ “I gasped; the fellow’s effrontery took my j breath out of me.’ Only five minutes before I he had been swearing by all bis gods—and { they appeared to bo numerous and mixed— , that there were half a dozen fortunes left in I the claim, and that ho was only giving it up j because lie was downright weary of shovcl i ing tho gold out. ! “ ‘Don’t look so vexed, stronger,’ went on i my tormentor, ‘perhaps there is some rhino i in tho old girl yet; any way you arc a down ; right good fellow, you are; therefore you i will, I guess, have a real Al, old jam, plate glass opportunity of working on the fecliugi I of Fortuno. Any way it will l iing the I muscle up on your arm, for tho s’uii is mi i common stiff, and what is more, you will i. ; the course of a year earn a sight more tha: I $2,000 in value of experience? I ! “And he went just in time, Pu* in another minute I should have gone for him, and 1 saw his face no more. “Well, I set to work on tho old claim with 1 my boy Harry and half a do; n ITa fir. : tc help me, which, seeing that I ha-j pu: nvacly ali my worldly wealth into it. \as th 1 : j I could do. And wo worked, mv •. ~d r did work—early and Into wo mint a at ■ never a bit of gold did we s?c; no, not even a nugget large enough to ? n scsri ; ; out of. The American g. nth .'imi h-d c> i cured it all and left us th- sv» e» >;gr. I “For three months this went on, till at last I paid avzay all, or very near all, that was loft of our little capital in wages and f' A'dforthe Kafirs and ourselves. When I ! tell you that Bcm r meal was sometimes as ; hi; h as £4 a l ag, you will understand that it did not take long to run through our bank i ing account. “-kt last the crisis camo. On Saturday night I had paid tho men as usual, and bought a nniid of incalio meal at 60s. for them to fid themselves with, and then I went with my boy Harry and sat on tho edge of ; tho great hole that wo had dug in the hill . ' side, anti vh? h wo had in bitter mockery . named Eldorado. There we sat in the moon- ; I light with our foi t ban.', ing over the edge of i tho claim, and were melancholy enough for I anything. Presently I pulled out my purse. ! and emptied its contents into my hand, j ; There was a half s-overeign, two florins, nine- : I pence in silver, no coppers—for copper prac- I tie-ally does not circulate in South Africa, ; which is one of tho things that make living ; so dear there—in all exactly fourteen and I nincponco. “ ‘There, Harry my boy!’ I said, ‘that is tho sum total of our world!y wealth; that : holo has swallowed all tho rest.’ “ ‘By George,’ said Master Harry. 1 say, father, you and I shall have to let ourselves i out to work with tho Kafirs and live on mealic pap,’ and he sniggered at his unpleas ; ant little joke. “Du I was in no mood for jokng, for it is not a merry thing to dig like anything for months and be completely ruined in tho pro cess, especially if you happen to dislike dig ging, and consequently 1 resented Harry’s lightheartedness. “‘Be quiet, boy I’l said, raising my hand as though to give him a cuff, with tho result that the half sovereign slipped out of it and fell into the gulf below. “ ‘Oh, bother,’ said I, ‘it’s gone.’ “‘There, dad,’ said Harry, ‘that’s what comes of letting your angry passions rise: now wo are down to four and nine.’ “I made no answer to’ these words of wis donf, but scrambled down the deep sides of ;ho claim, followed by Harry, to hunt for my little all. Well, we hunted and we hunt ed, but the moonlight is an uncertain thing io look half scverc’gns by, and there som ? loose :.«;il about it, for the Kafirs had knocked off working at tho very spot a j couple of hours before. I took a pick and rak 1 av.r-y the clods of earth with it, in the hope of finding tho coin, but all in vain. At Lt<, in sl’.ccr annoyance, I struck tho sharp pickax down into the soil, which was of a very hard nature. To my astonishment it sunk in right up to the heft. “‘Why, Harry,’l said, ‘this ground must have been disturbed!’ “ ‘I don’t think so, father,’ he answered, but we will soon see,’ and he began to shovel out tho soil with his hands. ‘Oh!’ ho said presently, ‘it’s Qiily some old stones; tho pick Las gone down between them. Look!’ And ho began to pull at one of tho stones. “ ‘I say, dad,’ ho said presently, almost in a whisper, ‘it’s precious heavy; feel it;’ and ho rose and gave me a round, brownish lump about the size of a very largo apple, which no was holding in both his hands. I took it curiously and held it up to the light. It was very heavy. Tho moonlight fell upon its rough and filth encrusted surface, and as I looked curious little thrills of excitement began to pass through me. But I could not bo sure. “ ‘Give me your knife, Harry,’ I said. “He did so; and resting the brown stono on my knee I scratched at its surface. Great heavens, it was soft! “Another second and the secret was out; we bad. found a great nugget of pure gold, four pounds cf it or more. ‘lt's gold, lad,’ I said, ‘it’s gold, lad, or I’m a Dutchman.’ “Harry, with his eyes starting out of his head, glared down at the long gleaming yel low scratch that I had made upon the virgin metal, and then burst out into yell upon yell of exultation, that went ringing away across | th • silent claims like the shrieks of somebody being murdered. “ ‘Bo quiet,’ I said, ‘do you want every thief on the field after you?’ “Scarcely were the words out of my month when I heard a si -althy footstep approach ing. I promptly put the big nugget down and sat on it, and uncommonly hard it was, and as I did co I saw a lean, dark face poked over tho edgo of tho claim and a pair of beady eyes searching us out. I knew the face. It beloin;; dto a man of very bad char acter known a:; Handspike Tom, who had, I understood, been so named at the diamond fields because he had murdered his mate with a handspike. He was now, no doubt, prowl- ! ing about like a human hyena to see what he I could steal. “ ‘ls that you, ’untcr Quatermain?’ he said. ' “ ‘Yes, it's I, Mi*. Tom,’ I answered po litely. I “ ‘And what might ali that there yelling J be?' he ashed. ‘I was walking along, n-tak- ' ing of th.' evening air an ! r.-thinking on the stars, when I 'cars ’owl after ’owl.’ “•Well. Mr. Tom,’ I answered, ‘that is not to be wondered, at, r: < hig that, like voursclf, they are nocturnal birds.’ “‘’Owl after ’owl!' he repeated sternly, taking no notice of my mt -rpretation, ‘and 1 .. .nd I I stena again and thinks, “No, it ain't; that’owl is j tho ’owl h eul i; om one’s I i and got Lis fingers into a gummy yelk rpot, I'll | swear, and off is’cad in tho sucking of them.” Now, ’untcr Quatermain, is I j right? Is it nuggets? ()h, lor’’ and ho smacked his lips audibly—‘gr.-at big yellow | t . • >ys—is it them that you hav just been and . ‘ tumbled across f “ ‘No,’ said I boldly, ‘it isn’t’—the cruel j gleam in his black eyes altogether ovcrcom- I ing my aversion to tho untruAh, for I knew I that if he once found out what it was that I J was sitting on—and, by the way, I have heard of rolling in gold being spoken of as a pleasant procc-s, l ut I certainly do not rec ommend anybody who value-; comfort to try sitting on it—l should run a very good chance of being ‘handspiked' before tho night v.a; over. “ ‘if you want to know what it was, Mr. Tom,’ I went on, with politest air, although in ng iy from the nugget underneath—for I hold it al ways best to be polite to a man who is eu !■ :dy wi-'.’i a 1 and piho—hny boy and I , La- ' i . I a slight dincrenco of opinion, and I wn.; eal<ircing my view of tho matter upon him: that was all? “ ‘Yes, Mr. Tom,’ putin Harry, beginning to v.\ t’/., fc.r Hurry was a smart boy, and saw the difficulty we were in, ‘that was it—l hal loed because father beat- me? “‘Well, now, did yer, my dear boy; did yer? Well, all I coji say is that a played out eld claim is a wonderfully queer sort of piaco to come to for to argifyat 10o’clock of night, and what’s more, my sweet youth, if ever 1 should ’avo the argifying of yer’—and hf leered unpleasantly at Harry—‘yer won’t ’oil r in such a jolly sort o’way. And now I'll be saying good night, for I don’t like dis turbing of a family party’,. No, I ain't that sort of a man, I ain’t. Good night to yer, | 'untcr Quatermain; good night to yer, my ; c.rgili -d young one,’ and Mr. Tom turned - .• way disappointed, and prowled off else- i wk like a Luman jackal, to see what he ; could 11;- vo or kill. “ -Thank goodness!’ I said, as I slipped of? j p of gold. ‘N >w, tl en, do you get , up, Harry, and see if that consummate vil- | lain Im : gone? Harry did so, and reported ; that ho had vanished toward Pilgrims’ Rest, i and th-‘ii wo set to work, and very carefully, I but trembling with excitement, with our | lia.r Is hollowed out all tho space of grounc ' into which Iliad struck the pick. Yes, as 1 had hoix-d, there was a regular nest of nug- | gets, twelve in all. running from the size of i a hazelnut to that of a lien’s egg, though of course the fir.-1 one was much larger than j that. How they all camo there nobody can ! say: it was one of those extraordinary} freaks, with ft Ties of which, at any rate, all I • -op! H<-<r..- v. ‘ ‘i mmvial gold mining . will bo famlt turned out afterward 1 £ tbo • ri'-an v? ;•» had sold me theclaii . ln:l in tho :mmc- v y made his pile—a much lar:r-r tm ■ th a •»’:!’/. by the way—out cf a v.i.ho.r, color, after which he (■;.? “At any rate, there the nugeyts were, to tho value, as it turned out afterward, of about £1,250, so that after all I took out cf that bole £450 mere than I put into it. AVe got them all out and wrapped them up in a handkerchief, and then fearing to carry home so much treasure, especially as we ; knew that Handspike Tom was on tho f.rowl made up our minds to pass the night where wo were—a necessity which, disagreeable as it was, was wonderfully sweetened by th* presence of that handkerchief full of virgin gold, which reffresented the interest of my I lost half sovereign. “Slowly the night wore away, for with.the fear of Handspike Tom before my eyes I did not dare to go to sleep, and at last tho dawn came blushing down the somber ways of night. I got up and watched its ] crfect ; growth, till it opened like a vast celestial flower upon the eastern sky, and th.-' sun beams began to spring in splendor from mountain top to mountaintop. I watched it, and as I did so it flashed upon me, with a ; complete conviction that I had notf.lt be fore, that I had had enough gold mining to last me the rest of my natural life, and I then and there made up my mind to clc .r out of Pilgrims’ Rest and go and shoot buf falo toward Delagoa bay. Then I turncsl, took tho pick and shovel, and, although it i was a Sunday morning, woke up Harry and set to work to see if there were any r;oro nuggets about. As I expected, there wai none. What we had got had lain to gather ; in a little pocket filled with soil that felt I quite different from tho stiff stuff round and outside the pocket. Thero was not i another trace of gold. Os com se, it i possi- | bio that there were more pockets somewhere : about, but all I havo to say is I made up my mind that, whoever found them, I should not; and, as a matter of fact, I havo since heard that that claim has been tho ruin of Iwo or t hree people, as it very nearly was the ruin of me. “ ‘Harry,’ I said presently, ‘I am going away this week toward Delagoa to shoot buf falo. Shall I take yoU with me or send you down to Durban?' “‘Oh, take mo with you, father,’ begged Harry, ‘I want to kill a buffalo? “ ‘And supposing that tho buffalo kills you instead?’ I asked. •‘ ‘Oh, never mind.’ ho said, gayly, ‘there are lots more where I camo from? “I rebuked him for his flippancy, but in tho cud I consented to take him.” CHAPTER 11. “Something over a fortnight had passed since tho night when I lost half jx sow reign and found £1,250 in looking for it, and in stead of that horrid holo, for which, after all, El Dorado was scarcely a misuomer, a very different scene stretched away before r.s clad in the silver robe of the moonlight. We were camped—Harry and I, two Kafirs, a ; -retch cart and six oxen—on the swelling fid.? cf a great wave of bush clad land. Just where we made our camp, however, tho bush was very sparse and only grow about in (.lumps, while here and there were single flat topped mimosa trees. To our right a little st ream, which had cut a deep channel for itself in tho bosom of the slope, flowed musically on be tween banks green with maidenhair, wild asparagus and many beautiful grasst ;. Tha bed rock ht ro was red granite, and i i the j course of centuries of patient wash: ; tho ; water had hollowed out some of tl: Inigo i slabs in it.s path into great troughs an i cups, ; and these we used for bathing placeNo • Roman lady, with her baths of porphyry er alabaster, could have had a more <!• .<-ioiu spot to lave herself than we had within fifty yards of our skerm’or rough inclo: ::i’e of mimosa thorn that wo bad dragged together round our cart to protect us from the:.. uicks of lions. Thero were several of these about, as I knew from their spoor, though v■? had neither heard nor seen them, “It was a little nook where tho eddy of tho stream had washed away a mass of sc 1, and on the edge of it there grow a most be . Jiful old mimosa thorn. Beneath the thorn was a large smooth slab of granite friny; I all round with maidenhair and other fern that sloped gently down to a pool of tho cl?':rest sparkling water, which lay in a bowl of granite about ten feet wide by five feet deep in the center. Hero to this slab we went every morning to bathe, and that delightful bath is among the most pleasant of my limit ing reminiscences, as it is also for reasons that will presently appear among th? most painful. j “It was a lovely night and Harry mid I • sat thero to tho windward of the fro, at j which tho two Kafirs were busily employed I in cooking some impala steaks off r buck which Harry, to his groat joy, had sir 1 that ! morning, and were as perfectly contented with ourselves and the world at large two | people could possibly bo. The night wasbeau ! tiful; it would require somebody with more ! words on tho tip of their tongue than I havo . to properly describe tho chastened niaje- ty of those moonlit wilds. Away forever an i for evcr, away to the mysterious north, roll’d the great bush ocean over which the rilenco brooded. There beneath us, a mile cr moro to the right, ran tho wide Oliphant and mirror like flashed back tho moon, whoso silver sjx?ars were shivered on its breas t and then tossed in twisted lines of light far i and wide about tho mountains and the ; lain, i Down upon the river banks grew great tim ber trees that, throhgh the stillness, f einted | solemnly to heaven, and the beauty « f tho I night lay upon them like a cloud. Ilvcry | where was silence—silence in tho s' arred ! depths, silence on the fair bosom of thoslccp ! ing earth. Now, if ever, great thoughts . m jht rise in a man’s mind, and for a spaca he might loose his littleness in the scn:;«' that he partook of the pure immensity abor.L him. j Almost might he seem to see the spirit of tho heavens, girdled round with stai*s, ; arming down in the dead quiet to look, now tt tho night hod covered up her sins, upon th? loop ing face of l.is lost bride, the earth Almost might he hoar tho echoes of angelic voices, as th- 1 spirits poisQjlon bent and rushing pinions swept onward fdbm universe to universe; •ind dis 4 i-.iy ’ish/no white fingers of the wind playing in the tresses of tho trees. “Hark! what was that?” “Fro:n far away down by tho river there come.; a mighty rolling sound, then another and another. It is tho lion seeking his meat. “I saw Ilarry shiver and turn a little pale. He was a plucky boy enough, but tho roar of a lion for the first time in the solemn bush veldt at night is apt to shake the nerves of any lad. “‘Lions, my boy,’l said; ‘they afe hunt ing down by tho river there; but I don’t think that you need make yourself uneasy. Wo havo been here three nights now and if they wero going to pay us a visit I: ’.ould think that they would have dono so Ixifore this. However, we will make up the fir?.’ ‘“Here, Pharaoh, do you and Jim-Jim get soma moro wood before we go to sleep, else tho cats will bo purring round before morn ing? “Pharaoh, a great brawny Swazi, who ! had boon working for me nt Pilgrim’s Rest, laughed, rose and stretched himself, and then calling to Jim-Jim to bring tho ax ! and a rcim, started off in tho moonlight I toward a clump of sugar bush, where wo cut ‘ our fuel from some dead trees. He was a fine fellow in his way, was Pharaoh, end 1 i think that he had been named Pharaoh be- ■ cause lie had an Egyptian cast of counten | ancc and a l oyal sort of swagger about him. | But his way w.- s a somewhat peculiar way, : on account of the uncertainty of his temper, and very few people could get on with him; ; also, if he could get it, ho would drink like . a fish, and when be drank he became shock ingly bloodthirsty. These wero his bad ' points: his good ones were that, like most people of the Zulu blood, he became exooed j ingly attached to one if he took to you at all; ho was a hard working and intelligent man, and about as dare devil and plucky a fi flow ■ at a pinch rs 1 have ever had to do with. H- was :ibo’it five and thirty years of ago or so, but not a ‘kcshla’ or ringed man. I V c ‘* 1 e that l:c got in’ . troubl •in some way in J-' ’.-.':i id. • - I th aut’iorit ivs of his tribe v. ’ u ♦ all .*? him to assume tho ring, and 11. t j. why he came to work at tho gold field-. ” :licr man, orraUserlad, Jim-Jim, v.ws a Jispoch Kafir, or Enobnpsc, and even in tho light of subsequent events I fear that I cannot speak very veil of him. He was an idle and careless young rascal, and only that very morning I had to tell Pharaoh to give him a beating for letting the oxen stray, which ho did with the greatest gusto, al though ho was, by the way, very fond of Jim-Jim. Indeed, I saw him consoling Jim- Jim afterwards with a pinch of snuff from his own ear box whilst he explained to him that tho next time it came in the way of duty to flog him he meant to thrash him with the other band, so as to cross the old cuts and make ‘a pretty pattern on his buck.’ : “Well, off they went, though Jim-Jim did not at a\l like leaving tho camp at that hour, even when the moonlight was so bright, and in due course returned safely enough with a great bundle of wood. I laughed at Jim-Jim and asked him if ho had seen anything, mi l ho said yes, he had; ho had seen two large, yellow eyes staring nt him from behind a bush and hoard something snore. j “As, however, on further investigation, the yellow eyes and tho snore appeared to have existed only in Jim-Jim’s lively imagination, I was not greatly disturbed by this alarming report, but, having seen to tho making up of tho fire, got into the skerm and went quietly to sleep with Harry by my side. “Some hours afterwards I woke up with a start. I don’t know what woke mo. The moon had gone down, or at least was almost hidden behind the soft horizon of bush, only her red rim being visible. Also a wind had sprung up and was driving long hurrying lines of cloud across the starry sky, and alto gether a great change had come over the , mood of tho night. By the look of the sky I judged we must bo about two hours from daybreak. “Tho oxen, which were ns usual tied to the disselboom of the Scotch cart, wero restless— they kept snufi’mg and blowing and rising up and lying down again, so 1 at once sus spected that they must wind something. Presently 1 know what it was that they winded, for within fifty yards of us a lion roared, not very loud, but quite loud enough I to make my heart come into my mouth. j “Pharaoh was sleeping on the other side of 1 the eart, and beneath it I saw him raise his j head and listen. I “ ‘Lion, Inkoos,’ ho whispered, ‘lion.’ “Jim-Jim also jumped up, and by the faint light I could see that he was in a very great fright indeed. “Thinking that it was as well to be pre pared for emergencies, I told Pharaoh to throw wood upon the fire, and Woke up Harry, who I verily believe was capable of I sleeping happily through the crack of doom. ; lie was a little soared at first, but presently ■ the excitement of the position came home to ■ him, and he became quite anxious to see his . majesty face to face. I got my rifle handy I and gave Harry his—a AVestly Richards fall- j ing block, which is a very useful gun for a ■ youth, being light and yet a good killing I rifle—and then wo waited. I “For a long time nothing happened, and I I began to think that tho best thing that wo [ could do would be to go to sleep again, when ' suddenly I heard a sound more like a cough than a rear within about twenty yards of the ! skerm. Wo all looked out, but could see ! nothing; and then followed another period 'of suspense. It was very trying to the nerve , this waiting for an attack that might i be developed from any quarter, or might not i be developed at all; and (.hough I was an old ! band at this sort of business, I was anxious ■ about Harry, for it is wonderful how the [ presence of anybody to wh m one is attached i unnerves a man in moments of danger, and I that, made me nervous. I know, although it i was now chilly enough, I could feel the pcr i spiral ion running down my nose, and in order I to relieve the strain on my attention, em ployed my ‘lf in watching a beetle which ap pcared to lie attracted by the firelight, and was sitting before it thoughtfully rubbing his antenna* against each other. “Sudd-'idy the beetle gave such a jump ■ that In- i-e.tr’.y pitched headlong into the fire, and so did we all—gave jumps, I mean, and no wonder, for from right under the skerm fence there came a most frightful roar—a roar that literally made the. Scotch curt shake and shake ajid took the breath out of me. “Harry made an exclamation, Jim-Jim howled outright, while the poor oxen, who wero terrified almost out of their hides, shiv ered and lowed piteously. “The night was almost entirely dark now, for the moon had quite set and tho clouds had covered up the stars, so that the only light that we had came from the fire, which by this time was burning up brightly again. But, as you know, firelight is absolutely use less to shoot by, it is so uncertain, and besides it penetrates but a very Ettlo way into the darkness, although if one is in tho dark out side one can see it from so far away. “Presently the oxen, after standing still for a moment, suddenly winded tho lion and did what I feared they would—began tc ‘skrek,’ that is, to try and break loose from the trektow to which they were tied, and rush oil madly into tho wilderness. Lions know of this habit on tho part of oxen, whicl arc, I do believe, the most foolish animals un der the sun, a sheep being aver.; Solomon compared to them, and it is by no means un common for a Ton to get in such a position that a herd or span of oxen may wir.d him, skrek, break their reins and rush off into the bush. Os course, once they are there they are hcb’l .xu in tho dark; and then the Eon chooses the one that lie loves best and eats him at his leisure. “Yfell, round and round went our six poor oxen, nearly trampling us to death in their mad rush; indeed, had we not hastily tum bled out of tho way wo should have been t rampled to death, or at the least seriously injured. As it was, Harry was run over, and poor Jim-Jim being caught by tho trek tow somewhere beneath the arm, was hurled right across the skerm, landing by my side only some paces off. “Snap went tho disselboom of the cart be ; neath the transverse strain put upon it. Ila 1 it not broken tho cart would have overset; ns it was, in another minute, oxen, cart, trek tow, icims, broken disselboom, and every thing were soon tied in one vast heaving, i plunging, bellowing and seemingly inextrica ble knot. “For a moment or two this state of affairs took my att< ntion off from the Eon that had caused it, but while 1 was wondering what on earth was to be done next, and what wo should do if tho cattle broke loose into the bush and wero lost, for cattle frightened in this manner will go right away like mad things, it was suddenly recalled in a very painful fashion. “For at that moment I jierccived by the light of tho fire a kind of gleam of yellow traveling through the air toward us. (Continued next week.) Thebldest convict, and ths third oldest convict as to the length oi time served in the Tennessee pent tentiary have just been released Eli Bidding who entered th? prison June 3, 1867 under a life sentence for murder. His sentence was com muted by Gov. 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I s ' T-’v-l’C Y(>r want to sell Real Estate ; of any kind ? Place in our hands and w<- : will mlvi'itisf ft. sale, no pay, and | then only a small commission. ' YOP wa.nt to buy? Rend the I I fol lowing dtacripl ions of‘.Property wo c i have for sale, on limo to good parties. 1 . I Highly aeres, 1’ , miles from Summ- r ' villi ; l.‘seres c-pcii, i ulnm-e well timber . < d wi-h While Oak, Hickory, Pine, etc. ('ood spring <»u ii ; good i'-r farming pur -3 ' roses. 1'• . mile from church and *-:'booL t; 1 t J . i Niuoly Four erfr.-qfioout of) ai-ras open, . , in good e mdiibm. 2*‘» acres first class ' m bottom <m CmiP.oogn river. b-v-l, re- | '■ ’ mnir.der l-r Eon. Weil watered, good ! 1 dw- li'mr with two tomint houses and 1 good i m-: beu-es, oreb.nrd of choice p< ach '■ t , ami apple tr.u-s. (I miles from l-uminer- | 1 - j ville, 1 mil's from church mid schools. : ' Town proiu rly '• Pi, the sub- : iirhs of Hummcrvir.c. I.<vcl; a most I desoaid si’o fop residence; good small s I dwelling with out houso, well and i.-'primr rdt’ording an ahu'id.inec of the ~ , v.. t..-r;<-rcb.ir*.l .:f choice , 1 freif .-•< ■ • I number ol i i o ra r e vinc *- | ( II ) a, 1 Eight v :•■■■■ 1 in* rll: within the t. rem.uii'i- r weii 0:u»'<■>••••!; :'•> ceres icvei, I balamm 1.-roko--, •_ go<>fi - lay I-m mint ion: n in <-<>od (io. Fine 1- rming purposes i ami also welt local cd ho- re nimofs; also 0 | comm: . :■ C iron ■, j Town J?'.? . rt;,' 3 lots Site 120, 2 front is I ing on street, one fronting on y | Church :’ r. <•!. lav< 1; good wagon and h i blacksmith shop on corn.-r lot. Most | , I suitnbl * place* in town for business *? house; also desirable locality fordwell- | ! ing. ‘ c j Bost farm in th;- county for its inches ; ’. ami price. 2CO acres; 100 open, other well ] timbered with pine, oak, wainiH. etc., on | 11 Chattooga river. EG a ere a first class hot d' tom; well watered and in every wav | ;o | suitable for stock farm; about ‘ 3 level,; n ' the ol h r rolling; clay foundal ion and in l( j g< od Ii?;. Two comfortable small dwell .. ings, 3 tenant Imuses, with good out. ( , 2 Imuses; also large quantities of rich iron J o”e on portions of it. Eicht miles from Summerville. n ’ I’arm—lo2 acres; .’0 acres lino creek n bottom. I pland fine tor cotton and i, .vheat, and in high state of cultivation, •j (n every way suitabb- for stock farm, y Two good new framed dwellings; free n stone wat< r in abundance; < hurchti. schools and post office near. r Farm IGO acres; n<l and gray soil, 20 r acres first class branch bottom, 70 acres i- clcaredr well fenced and in good state ot n cultivation. Balance heavily timber. I. v Thousands of lim* tan bark; 2 1 I well, 2 framed houses ami 3 tenant J houses, all in good fix. Select, orchard ami vineyard. 8 miles from Summer ville; 2 milt s from postolliee,.schools and e churches. I Town property— 1 lots 00x120: 2 front ,s ing on Slain street; 2 rear lots, level; good small dwelling, framed, new, 2 f good brick chimneys, good garden,patch etc. Also one of the most suitable spes b for business houses in Summerville i- Terms easy and exceedingly low price. , Farm 1-0 acres red loam and gray soil; Gil acres open,well fenced. Rcmain ■v dvr well timbered ami w< 11 watered. 0 < total 5 room dwellinir, with pood burn, ' etc., on I.nFr.yetto mx'l Blue Pond road, a 1 mile from Alpine, Ga. cl Farm—llß acres, just across the Ala., line, red ami gray soil; well watered, G 5 e acres < ; ?n, other covered with finest v quality *-f timber, afiording great quan tities of tanbark, inexhaustaole limo quarrv; also supposed qualities of other xaluahle minerals. Goon orchard.grapes etc; good b room dwelling, tenant house, , barns, etc, l.< iug mar Lot-kout is suita- Ide and c< nv« nient for stock raising. 1 q- j mile from Menlo, Ga. L ; Farm—l€G acres, rod, gray and sandy •. soil; fine siork farm; well watered; 80 acres cleared, 20 acres first class creek II | bottom; largo <iuantities of fine timber; good -Iroom log d weiling,2 tenant houses, ‘ . stables, etc.. 1 mile from Foster’s Store. '.I Farm of IGO acres in Floyd county II . ! miles from Rome. 2 miles from R. A 1». J i R. R.; red and gray soil, well watered: <s aero:; cleared; (•onlains thousand of i fine- timber,also rich deposits of iron ore 1 Town property, about two acres, in I ] suburbs of Summerville, good small , ” framed dwelling, with two rooms am! L kitchen; good garden, patches, etc. Farm of IGO acres on Sand mountain,! tv-0 and a half miles from Kartah, ,: ' \ < pen ami in high state <•!* cuhivatmn, 1 balance hcavilv timbered. A*lapte<’. to d growing an vrhing rtfst 1 in (his county , f j especialh I'ruiis, clc. dwelling, 21 “ ’ tenant houses,out houses, etc. Improve-! -r ! meats m-w and in good rendition; 2j u ! good orchards, 2 gi.orl f-priiigsjoT free-; | stone water; < h’:r« i.es, . chums, and j posiodice eon veiiien t: 2>. Town propc-’.’tv 11,’E Arres on sub n.rl)s of Fummcrville. level, well fenced < and in good state of cultivation, good voting orchard apple v.nd peach, good I‘framed six rooi»-ed dwc-ling not. quite complete, pretti<-st location M Summer ville for residences. 29 Town property lot 4 in hi ck li> with good well upon it. Healthy ‘Jiid-. desirable location tor dwelling. 30 For sale or rent, farm of 480 acres,- 4 miles from Summerville; 200 acres cleared, 35 acres good creek bottom; well wr.tercd, good dwelling, out houses, etc. Will sell all or a portion as desired. 31. - Farm 213 acres 2’E miles from- Summerville, Ga.; 50 acre s red mulatto balance gray. 125 cleared and well fenced, in high state of cultivation, splendid framed house with six rooms, 5 good’tenant houses, ami good barns and other out houses; healthy location; contains large depo.sits of iron ores, with largo (quantities of various ami line timbers. 32. Farm 2G acres, well improved, first-class bottom on (‘b;ittonga river, 1 mile from Summerville; good 4-room house, stables, etc; well, orchard, Ac. 33. Farm 80 acres 2 miles from Sum merville; n d mulatto soil, level,6o acres open; well fenced ami in high state pf cultivation, balance heavily timbered, good substantial improvements; 5-room house, barn, stables, orchard etc. 34. For sale or sent, splendid tanyard fed directly from a spring; all necessary I fixtures ami tools for tanning; good two story tan shop; about ten acre's gooc level land 6 acres cleared. Very cheap and terms easy. 35. Farm, 160 acres, gray and red mu latto soil: 5o acres open, balance heavily timbered. Good dwelling, tenant house stables, well, etc. Cheap, and on ex cot (lingly easy terms. 36. Farm, 500 acres, red mulatto and gray soil; 125 open and in high stale of cultivation, balance heavily timbered; about GO acres first-class bottom on Chat tooga river, well watered and in every way suitable to stock raising. Four good dwelling with good and convenient barns out houses, etc. Supposed to con tain large deposits of iron and other val uable minerals. 3 miles from Summer ville, Ga. 37. Town property, 12’■■ lots, 4 lots 60x150, balance 50x120, ail in one body; in the In al!hi( st and most desirable part of Summerville. Can be divided into several beautiful building sites. Good two-story building, six rooms, neatly and comfortly finished; a good barn and good water. Price low and terms easy. 38. One half int('rest in a corn grist ■ mill on Teloga creek, 6 miles from Sum i mervillc, Ga., 7 1-2 foot fall, giving an •average of 12 horse power. 3 acres of I land, good milland gin house, good four j room dwelling and out houses, in good i neighborhood, convenient to schools, j cot. Price low and terms easy. ■ Farm—l6o acres. 30 acres open, th© I remainder covered with finest timber the county affords, consisting of pi no . and all varieties of oak,especially moun tain oak; good tenant house, stable, etc; good well; also contains large deposits of tho richest quality of magnetic iron ore. 4 miles from Summerville: conve nient to elm relies and schools. 2s acres, mostly level, just outside tho corporate limits of Summerville; 17 open ana in high state of cultivation, other well timbered. Red and gray soil; good spring. Fiuj- farming land and well adapted to fruit raising, etc. Best vineyard in the county, 4,060 select bearing vim s. in good condition; also first class orchard of select apple and peach. I mile east of Trion Factory. SO acres, 40 open and well fenced,balance well timbered; about half level; all suit able for agricultural purposes, and es pecially tor fruit growing. Good spring and fine freestone well. 2 good small houses. A Iso contains largo deposits of rich iron ore. Cheapest farm North Ga. Farm 100 acres, mostly broken, 15 cleared, balance well timbered. t*:ray and red soil; good five-room framed dwelling with outhouses. School and churches convenient. Farm—2oo acres, IGO open; well fenced and in good state of cultivation. V.'ell watered. 35 acres fine crook bottom, red and gray soil, good dwelling, 4 rooms, barn, fish-pond, ( rchard, etc. Situated cast of Taylor’s Ridge. Farm—B2 acres, 70 open, well fenced, and in high state of cultivation; t>o line creek bottom, wi ll watered; good dwell ing, 5 rooms, stable, etc; also good gin house, and tenant house. Located in Dirttown valley. * Farm, 300 acres, mostly level, 115 open; in good state of cultivation; remainder very heavily timbered. Dark mulatto and gray soil; well improved; good 8 room dwelling, 2 tenement houses, barn, stables, etc. Well watered; 4 miles from Summerville. Town property for sale or rent. Good framed 4 room* dwelling. Situated in the healthiest, most desirable locality in Summerville. Ample garden, etc. Town property for sale or rent. Neat framed * store-house, ample and v/ell furnished, fronting on main street. Stock farm 319 acres, 130 open in good cultivation and well fenced. Contains a great quantity of timber of all varieties, . dark gray and red mulatto soil, running water on all parts of the j-laec; tine . poach and apple orchard that never fails to hit; house and other improvements ' good. Farm, 21 acres, 1 mile from Summer j ville, mostly level, red mulatto soil. ; about half first class creek bottom, well ■ watered, 12 acres cleared and fenced, i balance well timbered; good building ! sites. I I Farm 156 acres: ICO first-class river boitoin, (i 5 open, balance well timbered. 3-room framed dwelling, good For further particulars as to descrip . lien ami terms, call upon or address i Chattooga 1’ ’i.-. n •Estate < ‘c., Plumerville. Ga