A STORM, 75 
approaching a clear steam, they gladly observed 
a habitation on the opposite side. It proved 
to be a tavern, which they reached by crossing 
in a canoe. There they resolved to spend the 
night, and as they were much fatigued, arranged 
with their host to be conveyed in a Jersey wagon 
some hundred miles. further. The rising of 
the moon was to be the moment for departure. 
“That orbed maiden with white fire laden,” soon, 
spread her silvery light over the woods. Their 
conductor, then armed a long twig of hickory, 
took a foremost seat in the wagon. Off went 
the travellers at a round trot, to be hurried 
fearlessly over tree trunks, stumps, and ruts 
which lined the road, till they danced in the 
vehicle like pease in a sieve! <A bright dawn 
seemed the herald of fair weather; but soon 
thé cheerful tenor of their way was interrupted 
by a change. Rain fell in torrents, thunder 
roared, and lightning flamed, till night set in 
black and dismal. Cold and wet, with little 
disposition now to loquacity or mirth, the wan- 
derers were compelled to pursue their course, 
with no better prospect than braving the still 
threatening elements throughout the night, as 
they had done, in the open cart. To stop was 
plainly to seal such adoom. Onward they went, 
till, on a sudden, a curve in the course of their 
‘march brought the glimmer of a light, appar- 
