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THE GREAT STONE FACE.
45
" Like ! why, I call it Old Blood-and-Thunder him-
self, in a monstrous looking-glass !" cried a third.
And why not ? He's the greatest man of this or any
other age, beyond a doubt."
And then all three of the speakers gave a great shout,
which communicated electricity to the crowd, and called
forth a roar from a thousand voices, that went reverber-
ating for miles among the mountains, until you might
have supposed that the Great Stone Face had poured its
thunder-breath into the cry. All these comments, and
this vast enthusiasm, served the more to interest our
friend; nor did he think of questioning that now, at
length, the mountain-visage had found its human coun-
terpart. It is true, Ernest had imagined that this long-
looked-for personage would appear in the character of
a man of peace, uttering wisdom, and doing good, and
making people happy. But, taking an habitual breadth
of view, with all his simplicity, he contended that Provi-
dence should choose its own method of blessing man-
kind, and could conceive that this great end might be
effected even by a warrior and a bloody sword, should
inscrutable wisdom see fit to order matters SO.
The general ! the general! was now the cry.
Hush ! silence ! Old Blood-and-Thunder's going to
make a speech."
Even SO ; for, the cloth being removed, the general's
health had been drunk amid shouts of applause, and he
now stood upon his feet to thank the company. Ernest
saw him. There he was, over the shoulders of the crowd,
from the two glittering epaulets and embroidered col-
lar upward, beneath the arch of green boughs with in-
tertwined laurel, and the banner drooping as if to shade
his brow ! And there, too, visible in the same glance,
through the vista of the forest, appeared the Great Stone
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