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THE GREAT STONE FACE.
43
Thus, Mr. Gathergold being discredited and thrown into
the shade, the man of prophecy was yet to come.
It SO happened that a native-born son of the valley,
many years before, had enlisted as a soldier, and, after
a great deal of hard fighting, had now become an illus-
trious commander. Whatever he may be called in his-
tory, he was known in camps and on the battle-field
under the nickname of Old Blood-and-Thunder. This
war-worn veteran, being now infirm with age and
wounds, and weary of the turmoil of a military life,
and of the roll of the drum and the clangor of the
trumpet, that had SO long been ringing in his ears,
had lately signified a purpose of returning to his na-
tive valley, hoping to find repose where he remembered
to have left it. The inhabitants, his old neighbors and
their grown-up children, were resolved to welcome the
renowned warrior with a salute of cannon and a public
dinner; and all the more enthusiastically, it being af-
firmed that now, at last, the likeness of the Great
Stone Face had actually appeared. An aid-de-camp of
Old Blood-and-Thunder, travelling through the valley,
was said to have been struck with the resemblance.
Moreover the schoolmates and early acquaintances of
the general were ready to testify, on oath, that, to the
best of their recollection, the aforesaid general had been
exceedingly like the majestic image, even when a boy,
only that the idea had never occurred to them at that
period. Great, therefore, was the excitement through-
out the valley; and many people, who had never once
thought of glancing at the Great Stone Face for years
before, now spent their time in gazing at it, for the sake
of knowing exactly how General Blood-and-Thunder
looked.
On the day of the great festival, Ernest, with all the
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