The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-02-18

and old Mr. Williamson, the clerk that is now
SIR, made prayer over US before we laypd. -
When We came 10 pat OF, they left me stan
dun !; | make no doubt but Jesse named TO spar
me but ! called un back for said, why shoult
be settun wi my hands folded, or walking a
bout, lookup out over the water, and ma,
Jnst as well be DOM somethun like father fol
my Sons an for my brothers. orphans
eve. made for Broad Cove for so We
thenshl the wind would ha' driven the poor
young fellows a-Thursday bat we coudn
get into Broad Cove. for the slob an cakes o.
ice. The shore looked tarfible cruel -
! Skipper George safe thoughtful a moment.
and then began again.
'At Podgai Cove he continued, boxing
over the water ''tbey didn know about e'er a
punt, an no more they didn' at Broad Cove,
nor Hollywood for we siaid three days, an
sarched ali over. An 50, a Thursday morn
ag+n We coined back home ST was cold, but
still. So when We coined round Petefport
Point, CHATS il over at the outside o. Blazun
Head, ,aader,) every man, almost. looked over
his shoulder, thinkun mubbe they'd got 10 !;
but 'twasn' s.. They hadn' come, nor they
fadn' been bard from. So my mistress, an'
Milly, an Gtorse, an I; an this maid kneel-
ed down after Id told 'em how twas, and
prayed to the good Lord.
''An' 50 we waitpd, an didn' heaI from the
poor boys, not for good many days"
Skipper George stopped here again for
Will.
sAwell, sir, then there coined over that
some men had a5ln lonnd at Broad Cove III
wasn' known whothey were but we knowh.
So they got Mr. Woyner's boat, and a crew of
a ID
and Skipper Izik Rpssle, ttbat was MlIy's Ia
Iher,) and Skipper Izik Marcbant, he WASH
Skipper then, hnwer,) bat many friends COED
IN her--I couldn' go hattime sir.
"fwas about suu-go-doNn she coined in
Never word nor sound She looked black
seemualy; and no colors nor flag. Twas they
Sure enough, I was they
GA man had sid punt all covered wi ice
and hau!ei her up and when he coined to
clear away the itr, there was man, Seemnnly,
IN the lor'ard part He called the neighbours
and sure enough, ihere'e was, and another one
along VII IN; andiboh seemuuly a-kneelun
and eanun over the io lard lil'art. They were
the swo bfoiheps Jahn ana liftls f.,,of.e flozar
sim, and two arms locked together They
died pr'yun, sir, most likely ; 50 il seem,,d.--
They was good lads, sir, am they knowed
their God
$50, then, they thought there WASH no
more"
The fisherman here made long panse, and
getting up from his seat, said, ''l'I be bacl; al
ter bit, sin and walking away from Med
brre and his daughter, stood for little while
with his back toward them and III, head bare.
The maiden bent her gentle face upon her
knee within her two hands The moonlight
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white cap, aud gave grace to her bended neck
At the first motion OF her father 10 turn about,
she rose 10 brI feet and awaited him. Irpon
bin too-ou his head, barred of its hair, above,
on bis broad. manly front and on his Steady eye
the moonlight fell beautifully. Mr.. Debfee
rose, also 10 wait for him.
Skipper George came back and took Up his
broken story.
''Bumbye, sir, when they coined 10 the after
part OF the boat, here they found young man
lyun in the s!arn-sheets, wi no coat, and his
his poor, lovnn ann under his bIotner's neck
and the tothrr had thr iackrt rolled up for a
pillow under bis head, and suppose he did
there, siefPGn upon the jacket, that his brother
rolled up for Un.'
The voice ofthe father was vary tender and
touching bat he did not give way to tears.
$50, sir, that young man lad done his part
and sculrd 'cm safe right along wi, the tarrible
cruel gale, a'wy over twenty miles or more,
TO safe cove, aud his hand-wrsts were all
worn aw'y VII workun at the oar but he
never thought of a cruel gate OF ice right aiore
the cove; end 50 we made no douot when he
fonnd that, in dark night, and found he couldn'
get through, nor he conld n walk over, then
he yayr hiSSet up 10 his Cod, and laid dou>a.
and put his tired arm round hls brother: and so
there they were, in short after that, III could ~
ha' been long,l there WAS fonr dead men in
their boat, awailun, outside o. Broad Cove, toll
some ane 'ould come and take their poor bo-
dies, and strip aw'y the ice from 'em and put
'rm IN the ground, that comes more nal'ral, IN a
manner, sir
'eFh,y d id'n End e'er an oar, wha' ever be-
coined OF EN-; but they found their POOR guns,
and the two orphans bad their names cut, John
BaIbury,' and George Barbury, and one of 'em
had Pet for PrlerpoFt, and couldn' cut no
more, for cold and death.
''Ihere was three guns cut and one had
James Barb that poor Maunsel must ha
cut, poor fellow. aiore the deadly cold killed
un. So the kind people that found the poor
boys, they thought James was a respectable
young man, and when they come to lay 'em
out, in The schooI-house, 0hey were proper kind,
sir,) they put ruiile shirt on him o. linen.
$50, sir, the Minister coined over and buried
the dea |. -Four cofinS were laid along the
aisle, WI white sheet over everv one, because
We bad n pals James and Maunsel, of
George, and John and little George, of Izik !;
and we put two brothers in one grave, and two
brothers, side by side. and covered them
s'There was two thousand at the funeral !;
and when the minister conldn't help cryun, so
think Almost every one cryed, as eff 7 was