The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-02-12


the wind would ha' driven the poor youbE
fellows h-Thursdny, but We couldn't rel iH,6
Broad Cove for the sob and eakes of ies
The shore looked tarrible cruel"
Skipper nenIga Ga.e -thaughtfal a sassssHl
ard hen began sgsn.
AT Portugal Cove" he continued. looking
over the water. "t'isS eidnt know sbo@ ser
2 pHnt AUD no more they didn't at Bread
Cove nor Holly Rood. for we staid three
days, and walked aud sarehsd all over. Ara
30, n-Thuraday moA n ngen We coined round
PelepoYl Point Chats Il over at the outside
o. Dlaiun Head yapdrr) every man, a'molt.
looked over his shoulder thinkun mubbs
they'd got in, bot twatnt 90. They hadn't
come nor they hadn't been hard trom. So
my mistress and MilIy and George and /. and
this maid kneeled down hfteT ia told them
how 'twss and prayed 10 the good Lord.
And 80 We waited and didn't hear from ths
foot pooS boys, not tor go6d many daysa
Skipper George stepped here again for
while.
"Awel. Air, then there coined word over
That Some men had abin found At Broad
cove-it wasn't known Who they wsrs-but
We knoWed. So they got Mr.. Wornsr's boat
and a crew Of em went round, and Skippsf
Emery Ressie, and Skipper Irih Rsssie, (th,l
was Millys father and Skipper llik Mar
chant (he wasn't Skipper thea. however, but
amany friends coed ia hsr--i couldn't 20
that time sir.
Twas about sun-go-down she coined IN,
Never a word nor a sound. She looked
black teemunly, and no eolora nor Gag.
Twas they. Sure enough. twas they.
A man had aid punt all covered wi Ice
and hauled her up mud when he coined to
clear away the ice there was man seemuniy
Ia the.foF'ard part lie called the aeighbaTs.
and sure enough there e was and another
one along wi un, and both seemunly akne,l-
un and leanun over the for'ard thArt. They
we're the two brothers, John and little George
frozen stiff and the two arms locked together.
They died pray un air, most likely so it seem.
ed. They was good lads Dir, and they knou'
ed their uot.
So then, they thought there wAsnt no
more"
The fisherman here made longer pause.
and getting mp from his seat said, "I1l be
back after a bit sir" aud walking away fron
Mr. Debree and his daughter, stood for lii.
tie while with his back toward them md his
head sars.
The maiden bent hcr gentle face upon her
knee within her two handA. The moonlight
glossed her rich black hair, glanced from her
white cap, and gave Craze Ia her bended
neck. Al The frst motion Of her father to
turn about she rose 10 her feet and awaited
him. Upon him too--on his head, barred Of
It's hair above, on his broad, manly MOTT
and on hfs steady ett-the moonlight cell
beautifully. Mr., Debree rose also to wsir-
for him.
Skipper George came back and took up
his broken GotS
"Bumbys sir, when they coined to The an
ter part OF the boat, there they found young
man lyun IN the starn sheets, with no coat.
and his-and, his his poor lovun arm under,
his brothers ncck--and the tother had the
jacket rolled up for pillow under his head.
and suppose he died there, sleepun uPon
the jacket that his brother had rolled up for
an"
The Yoire Of the father wa, very tender
and touching, but he did not give way to
tears.
$50 sir, that young man had done his part
and sculled them safe right along wi the tar
riblc cruel gale, away over a twenty miles OF
more TO safe cove, and his hand wrists were
all worn away with worhun 1t the oar,---but
he never thought Of a cruel gate Of ice fight
| afore the cove, and 80 we made no doubt
when he found that, in dark night, and found
he couldn't get through, nor he couldn't
walk over then he katt hisself up to his God
and laid down and put his tired arm round
his brother and 80 there they were sir, in
short after that Gt. couldn't ha been long)
there was -four dead men in their boat await
un outside of Broad Cove tull some one
wohld come and take their poor bodies and
strip away the ice from them and put them
in the ground that comes more natral in y
manner sir.
They didn't find e'er an oar, whatever be-
coined of 'rm, but they found their poor guns
and the two orphans mad their names cut.
John Barbury.' and George Barbury,' and
one of them had Pot for Peterpor,, aud
couldn't cut no more for cold and death,
There wes three guns cut, and one had
James Barb that poor Maunsell must ha'
cut, poor fellow afore the deadly cold killed
un. So the kind people that found the poor
boys they thought James was a respectable
voting man, and when they come to luy them
odt IN the school house uhey were proper
kind sir) they put a rufIle shirt on him O. lin.
en-.
SO sir, the minister coined over and bur
led the dead. -Four coilins we're laid along
the aisle with n white sheet over every one.