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building, and with nothing but the boards of the room 
above to shelter them, through which the rain forced its 
way. 
At Langley Park, the residence of Mr. CRICHTON, the 
canes suffered severely, and the greater part of the 
sugar works, and other buildings were thrown down, 
but no lives were lost. Though it was truly melancholy 
to observe the various appearances of desolation around, 
yet it was impossible to resist a smile at the droll ap- 
pearance which the peaked roofs of the manager's and 
overseer's houses presented ; the one was lifted like a 
cap from the head and perched knowingly on the right 
side, the other leaning in the opposite dire6tion, as if 
two dandies had recognized and were saluting each 
other across the Park with their hats fashionablv stuck 
on one side of their heads. Here an old woman, the 
conductress of the little vine gang (children who gather 
vines for the pigs), shewed great presence of mind as 
well as judgment. They were employed near the skirts 
of the forest in their usual occupation, at some distance 
from their homes, when the hurricane came on with its 
greatest fury. Perceiving the danger to which they 
were exposed by remaining so near the fallen branches, 
and that which likewise threatened them of being blown 
away if they attempted to return across the open plain, 
she very prudently determined to take them a little dis- 
tance from the wood into a pasture where there 
were many shrubs and bushes growing. Here she 
ordered them to form a compact circle, and each to lie 
down on the ground and take hold of one of the bushes> 
in which position she compelled them to remain until the 
hurricane was over, when they returned home, dripping 
