FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 259 



L. 



AT last Polyphemus is here ; the great 

 one-eyed monster that has taken possession 

 of our highway, and bound it with iron 

 bars. An authority tells us that Polyphe 

 mus &quot; fed upon human flesh, and kept his 

 flocks upon the coasts of Sicily.&quot; We 

 might have known as much. The other 

 Sicilians were here a month ago, as I re 

 marked at the time, and alas ! we be very 

 much afeared that the monster s appetite is 

 still unsated, and that human flesh will yet 

 have to be sacrificed to him. But Galatea 

 shall be secluded, if it be possible. 



What a terror that glaring eye will be for 

 many a day to man and woman and beast, 

 as the car speeds its way through the night 

 along the common highway. With a rattle 

 and a whizz and a rush ; with the sulphu 

 rous looking sparks flying from overhead 

 as the revolving trolley makes and breaks 

 connections, the heavy vehicle bowls away, 

 bearing its human freight through the dark 

 ness along the dusty road, stirring the damp 



