The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-08-13

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ing up the chimney like young cataract.
You must take of your great>coat, Mr.,
French said Mrs. Gray, cor you won't
feel it when you SO OUT
The old gentleman slowly unbuttoned
the coat, and Mrs. Gray helped him off
with the sleeves, and Debby took it, and
laid it away, and put back the hat and
staff; aud presently the tall form of the
visitor was comfortably seated in the large L
arm chair by the side of Captain Gray
He had not yet uttered word since he
came into the house, but now, drawing
his pipe from his mouth, and blowing out .
long puff Of smoke, and looking straight
into the FIRE, he delivered one Of those /
senten,ious speeches. SO full of pith and /
meaning, which gave peculiar stamp TO /
his character.
Gold night,' said the old gentleman, re-
turning The pipe to his mouth, and rub- !
bing his hands together.
This was sufficien opening for Cap
tain Gray, to talk half an hour. Indeed,
! he was so much the counterpart Of old Mr..
! French, that he could talk half an hour
upon any thing. He had been a farmer in
| early life, and then for several years fol
lowed tho sea, in which time lie had risen
to the command of A sloop coaster--and
aow, with the honorable tile Of captain,
and few hundred dollars in his pccket,
had relired again to farm. Luckily lie
had pitched on a farm adjoining that Of
I'D Mr.. French, for he beIpg great talk
er, while Mr.. French was a capital llste
ner--they set their horses very well to
gether, were fond of each others society,
could borrow aud lend without diff Guilty,
and never qnarre!ed. Before the captain
had fairly launched out upon the sea o.
conversation some half Joze Ell young folks,
who were sitting round the hre, when old
Mr., French came in, had unaccountably
disappeared. The truth was, the a,rn al
of the old gentleman was in an instant
hailed by the young folks as joy lul signal
, for gathe ring at Mr.. French's, aud the
wink having passed from one to another
round among them, they slipped out, one
after another, and were all flying up The
road like as team Of chalk
Yes, pretty cold night, said the cap
4: tain, in reply to the above discourse OF
I farmer French, but nothing at all; mere
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e times at this Time of year, coming on the
d coast, When a orwester was whlstilng
down upon us, heavy enough TO tear young
, mountains up by the roots, and the spray
was fl hying over us mast high, and every
o drop that touched the rigging froze, till
h an inch rope was big round as my arm
and tue bowsprit increased to the size OF
a backlog, aud when you couldn't speak
SD as to be understood, unless You turned
p Your mouth to the leew ard, and used short
words for The first end of long word
n would be froze stiff before you could get
q the last sy liable out,-thats what cal
! culd weather, neighbor French, said the
captain, rising to light his pipe, which he
had been rather mechanically filing dur
,f ing the foregoing remarks.
YES, that's cold weather. said Mr.
). French, looking steadily into the fire
i, and , as if in some degree inspired by the
i, eloquence of the captain, lie added re-
, matkable continuation Of hts discourse as
i follows: Bad time for cows, always dry
), up amazingly in such cold weather.
DRY up!' said the captain, 'why, in suct
y weather as I've seen, coming on the coas
this time of year, COW would all dry uI
,t 10 fifteen minutes, 50 there would be noth-
!, ing left Of her but lump of ice. Why
(, ne ghbor French, the time | was speak
ing Of, the upper side Of cod S head froze
), as hard as "a horn while the cook was fry
;, ing the under side over hot FIRE. That ';
. what call cold weather.
Ii Yes, that's cold weather. said Mr
FreHch. .s21 s IS, ie }oa
a sWhy, neighbour resumed the captain
}, 'lhe time | was speaking of, when th'
d blow was little over, we tell In with an
i other sloop, that as laying to in rathe
II strange condition, and we hailed her, bu
e got no answer. We could see one maj
g stanoing at the helm, and we hailed hin
e but got no answer. Then we down boat
and went aboard; and there was sight /.
I be RENE n bered, neIghbor--a sight 10 b.
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!, helm W as froze stone dead, and hard as
!, solid column OF ice. We cut away rouL'
the cabin door, Tor the spray had froze sew
s eral inches thick; and when we 6
e into the cabin, there was the captain am
mate. froze to death, sitting by The tai bIt
where they had been eating dinner. The
mate had piece of frozen potstoe in his
mouth, and the captain had a piece OF
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