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Show Fos the Herald. (.ULLIVES RED1V1VUS. The peculiar way in which Ye Lock 01 b.-hiwed from time to time, led to suspicions sus-picions of his having a heterogeneous being. This the Ktuaictes were the first to imagine. The Kxusiotea lived Iamorg the mountains bordering the inland sea, and dug in the earth for ! gold. They were a hardy, simple, 'generous people, fojd of getting down 'and working io the darkuess for gold, j which they no sooner got than they scattered very promiscuously. Tbe iKrusiotes were immigrants from ali .lands, having only the one sympathy fordigiug in the earth common to (them all. Tney could not get too deep down in the interior of the globe, jseldomlookmg very high upward, le-LockiH, le-LockiH, the giant of one eye and one I ear, aimed to make himself the patron and favoritd of tho Kxusiotes, olten patting them with his huge hand, calling them pet names, exhibiting to them more emphatically his fondness fond-ness for slinging dirt, because bo supposed sup-posed such a trick would please the Krusiotes, whose habit it was to die in the earth for gold. Tbe coast of the inland sea, aud the valleys leading lead-ing downward to it from the mountains, moun-tains, being inhabited, as I have said, by the straugo people whose waj-s were odd, and the mountains themselves having been appropriated by the Kmsiotes, the two races lived separately, and it was the selfish aim of Ye-Lock-cl to separate them in feeling. But the real interests of the two people being common, he found it not easy to make them hate one another. And it was tbe unnatural antics, the low wheedling ways and tho mere grossnessof his talk, without a note of spirituality that first begot in the Krusiotes the suspicion that his nature was merely material; and this suspicion became certainty when with sprawling fury, on a certain cer-tain occasion, tearing up the ground and scattering handfuls of it around as if to exhibit bis prowess, two extra limbs were accidentally protruded to their sight, aa it were, betraying that he was a quadruped. Then tbe Krusiotes Kru-siotes understood bis lack of devotion, : of speech and deportment, aud his low down coarseness of thought, and felt that his aflectation of sympathy sym-pathy for them was an insult. Tnere was no race more manly than the Krusiotes, and any lack of manliness, any approach to brutiahness Bhocked them and alienated them. The territory marked and mirrored by the inland sea, was a dependency, de-pendency, aud governed by a ruler seut Irom the great chiet nf the whole country. Tnere were nlso ministers of justice, and various executive agents who had mi-sions to fulfil iu this secluded interior region ; aud these together formed a third class of people, wielding authority as the representatives representa-tives of law and power; but though with patriotic intentions and unques tunable claims withal evidently now jto their places, as all could see, even J those who desired to honor them for the sake of the authority they wielded. Ye-L )ck."l however, his conspicuously inferior nature making him jealous snl carping because it was his nature jaud calling, set himself against the 'whole pr:e.orian class, especially the! chief of tho praetors, and becoming! rash, yielding lo his blind unrulin!S)i I of feeling, forgetting his cunning ! ; reserve lashed his sides with! ian appendage ha had hitherto i kept carefully concealed. Tbis wai a fatal accident, aud yet the several J classes of the inhabitants were relieved to know the truth, and understand the inward and outward nature of Ye-Lockel. The strange people, 'and the Krusiotes, and the Praitors I all now looked with astonishment and pitiful forbearance on the antics of; Ye-Lock el, and tolerated him 6iip-l 'posing the power that made him 1 must have iutended him a place somewhere. |