Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-05-22


vood behind another, till the great brown
moor which backs it all seems to rise out
f the empty air. For thousand feet ii
'anges up, in huge sheets of brown heath
II, and gray cairns and screes of granite,
III sharp and black-edged, against the pale
blue sky; and all suddenly cut off above
by one long, horizontal line of dark gray
cloud, which seems to hang there mo-
tionless, and yet is growing to windward,
and dying to leeward, forever rushing oat |
Of the invisible into sight, and into the
invisible again, at railroad speed. Out
Of nothing the moor rises, and into moth
ing it ascends-a great dark phantom
between earth and sky, boding rain and
bowling tempest, and, perhaps, fearful
wreck-for the ground swell means and
thunders on the beach behind us, louder
and louder every moment.
Let US go on, and up the street, after
we have scrambled through the usual
labyrinth of timber-balks, rusty anchors,
boats which have been dragged, for the
purpose of mending and tarring, into the
very middle of the road, and old spars
slowed under walls, in the vain hope that
they may be of some use for something
some day; and have stood the stares and
welcomes of the lazy giants who are sit
ting about upon them-black locked,
black bearded, with ruddy, wholesome
faces, and eyes as bright as diamonds i;
men who are on their own sacred ground,
and know it; who will not touch their
caps to you, or pull the short, black pipe
from between their lips as you pass but
expect you to prove yourselfa gentleman,
by speaking respectfully to them; which,
if you do, you will find them as hearty,
intelligent, brave fellows as ever walked
this earth, capable of anything, from
working the naval brigade guns at Sevas-
topol, down to running up to
a hundred miles in cockle-shell lugger
to forestall the early mackerel Market
| God be with you, my brave lads, and
with your children after you; for as Ions
as you are what have known you, ole
England will rule the seas, and many ;
land beside!
i But in going up Aberalva-street, yol
remark several things: first, that tn
! houses were all whitewashed yesterday
except where the snowy white is picke'
out by buttresses of pink and blue; next
that they all have bright green paling
in front, and bright green window-sill
J and frames next that they are all ROOT
ed with shining gray slate, and the spac
between the window and the pales fac
ged with the same; next, that wher
such space is not tagged, it is full {
, flowers and shrubs which stand the win
ter only in our greenhouses. The fu;
. chias are ten feet high, laden with rip
} purple berries running over, (for ther
are no birds to pick them off, and ther
r in the front of the coast-guard lieuter
r ants house, is CobRa Scdade71s, covere
with purple claret glasses, as it has bee
ever since Christmas for Aberaly
knows no winter and there are grow
mp men in it who never put On a skate, {
= made a SNOWFALL in their lives. A mo
r. cleanly, bright colored, foreign lookir
~ street, is that long, struggling one whiC
> runs up the hill towards PenalYa Cour
>, only remark, that this cleanliness is gai
. ed by making the gutter in the midd
- street the common sewer of the tow
te and tread clear of cabbage-leaVes, p
~ chared bones, ct i'd genus 0mne. F
o. Aberalva is, like Paris, (if the answer
rs a celebrated sanitary reformer to the el
So peror be truly reported,) " fair withol
&c but foul within"
at However, the wind is blowing dull a
es hollow from southwest the clouds g
IN rolling faster and faster up from the 1
en- lantic /; the sky to westward is bras
e- green; the glass is falling fast; and the
In, will be wind and rain enough to night
vn sweep even Aberalva clean for the nt
,ot week.
NO Grace Harvey sees the coming stor
"a as She goes slowly homeward, dismissi
en- her little flock and she fingers long g
ze sadly outside her cottage door, look
sh, out over the first blackening sea, and
ey tening to the hollow thunder of
Ills ground swell, against the back of the Pc
in which shelters Aberalva Cove.
we Far away on the horizon, the mast:
-ou stately ships stand out against the s
ant driving fast TO the eastward, with sh'
,ay ened sail. They, too, know what is c'
ca ing; and Grace prays for them as
ws, stands, in her wild way, with haif-outs
W. ken words.