Part 32 (1/2)
”Pe-ter”
”What is _that_?” (pointing to a dog)
”Bo”
”What are you?”
”Wild man”
”Where were you found?”
”Hanover”
”Who found you?”
”King George”
About the year 1746 he ran away, and, entering Scotland, was arrested as an English spy His captors endeavored to force fro, not even an answer, and it was so of a puzzle to them to determine exactly what they had captured
They at last resolved to inflict punishment upon hinized him and disclosed his history
In his latter years he made himself useful to the farmer hom he lived, but he required constant watchfulness, else he wouldanecdote is told of hiswhen left to hiuardian, to fill a cart with co filled the cart in the usual way, and finding himself out of eain, and when the farmer returned the cart was empty
But poor Peter, with all his dulness, possessed so of arm, and wonderfully swift of foot, and his senses were acute His ifts wereway, the notes of a tune that he had heard but once,--a thing that ht have baffled an amateur
He also had a lively sense of the beautiful and the sublih transfixed by the splendors blazing above His whole being was thrilled with joy on the approach of spring He would sing all the day as the at his ed about seventy years
CHAPTER XIII
THE BELLS OF THE RHINE
LEGENDS OF THE BELLS OF BASEL AND SPEYER--STORY OF THE HARMONY CHIME--THE BELL-FOUNDER OF BRESLAU
One evening, after the story-telling entertainreat bell of Cologne which has been cast from the French cannon captured in the last war
”It seeuns of war should beout the notes of peace”
”There is one subject that we did not treat at our s,” said Charlie Leland,--”the bells of the Rhine”
”True,” said Mr Beal ”A voluht be written on the subject
Alend, andevents of history The raftmen, as they drift down the river on the Sabbath, associate almost every bell they hear with a story The bells of Basle (Basel), Strasburg, Speyer, Heidelberg, Wor out ato the German student that the ordinary traveller does not comprehend Bell land is one of mystery