Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-05-22
Gitrrarp Selections.
TWOPICTURES FROM KINGS
LEY.
FISHING VILLAGE AND ITS SCHOOL
MISTRESS.

MISTRESS. r
Beneath us, to the left hand, is the c
ouay-pool, now lying dry, in which a &
dozen trawlers are looping over on their
ddes, their red sails drying in the sun, the
als of the travis hauled up to the top
mast heads; while the more handy of
,beir owners are getting on board by lad
aers. to pack away the said red sails; for
= will blow tonight. In the long burrows
which their keels have left, and in the
shallow muddy pools, lie innumerable
f-acments of exenterated maids, (not hu-
man ones, pitifL reader, but belonging to
tbe order Pisces, and the family Raia,)
and some tweuty non-exenterated ray
dogs and picked dogs, (Anglice dog-fsh,)
togsber with a fine basking shark, at
least nine feet long, out of which the
tOeeEng Mr.. George Thomas, clothed in
raOt cloth patches Of every hue-bright
scarlet. blue and brown, (not to mention
large square of white canvas which |
Ia, been let into that part Of his trousers
which is now uppermost) is dissecting
the liver for the purpose of greasing his
@sheayes" with the fragrant oil thereof.
The pools in general are bedded with
black mud, and creamed over with oily
fakes, which may proceed from the tar
on the vessels sides, and may also from
adecomposing animal NATTER as we eu-
ghemize it nowadays. The hot peb-
bIes, at high-tide mark-crowned with a
long black row of herring and mackerel
boats, laid up in ordinary for the present
are beautifully variegated with mack
erels' heads, gurnets' fins, old bag, lob
worm, and raussel bats, and the inwards
Of whole archaeological museum; save
at one spot where the Cloaea maxima
and Port Esquiline of Aberalva town
(smail enough, considering the place holds
fifteen hundred souls) murmurs from be-
aeath gray store arch toward the sea,
not unfraught with dead rats and cats,
who, their ancient feud forgotten, COM
bine lovingly at last in increasing the
health Of the ue-trousered urchins who
are sailing upon that Acherontic stream
bits of board with feather stuck in it.
or Of their tiny sisters, who are dancing
about in the di1tiest pool among the traw-
iers in way which (if your respectable
black coat be seen upon the pier) will
elicit from one Of the balconied windows
above, decked with reeking shirts and
linen, some such shrek as
patience Penberthy, Patience Pen
berthy-a! You nasty, dirty, little on
decent hussy-al What be playing il
the quay-pool fora! A pulling VI
your petticoats before the quality-a!' J
Each exclamation being followed will
that droning grunt, with which the West
country folk, after having screamed thei
lungs emyty through their noses, recoye
their breath for fresh burst.
Never mind; it is no nosegay, certain
y, as whole but did you ever see stur
der, roster, nobler looking children
Founder faces, raven hair, bright gra
eyes, full of fun and tenderness? As fo
the dirt, that cannot harm them; poe
peoples children must be dirty-why not
Look on fifty yards to the left. Betwee
two ridges of hig pebble bank, som
twenty yards apart, comes Alva rive
rushing to the sea. On the opposi
ridge, low white house, with three
four canvas-coyered boats, and fla
staff with sloping cross-yard, betokel
the cOast-guard station. Beyond it ri
black jagged cliffs; mile after mile
iron-bound wall; and here and there,
the glens' mouths, great banks and den
Of shifting sand. In front of it, upc
the beach, are half-a-dozen great gre'
and gray heaps of Welsh limestone; b
hind it, at the cliff foot, is the hme-kl
with its white dusty heaps, and brow
dusty men, its quivering mirage of b
ar, its strings of patient hay-nibbli
Sonkeys, which look as if they had aw
kened out of -four bin. Above, a gre
down stretches up to bright yellow fur
crofts far aloft. Behind, reedy mari
covered with red cattle, paves the vail
uAlt closes in; the steep sides of the hi
are clothed in oak and ash covert,
winch, three months ago, you could ha
sho' more cocks in one day than J
would IN Berkshire in year. Pleas;
H'lle giimpses there are, too, Of @
'one farm-houses, nesting among sy
piore and beech; bright green meade
sner-tringed squares of rich red fallc
Heid' parted by lines of golden furze;
cut out with peculiar blackness Z
eearness, soft and tender withal, VIII
pstOkens a climate s,1ycbarged with re