Litchfield enquirer., 1859-02-17


 into Broad Cove, for the slob all cakes of ice The shore looked tarrible cruel p
 Skipper George sate thoughtful moment and then began again. ....
 At Portugal Cove" he continued, looking over the water, " they ddn' know about e'el punt, an no more they didn' at Broad Cove nor Holly-Rood for we staid three days, an walked an sarched all over An so a Thurs day morn agen we comed back home 'twas cold, but still. So when we comed round Pe terport Point, Chats it over at the outside O Blazun Head, yonder,) every man, almost, looked over his shoulder, thinkun mubbe they d got in but 'twasn' so. They hadn' come, nol they hadn' been heard from. So my mistress, an Milly, an George an I, an this maid kneeled down after I'd told lem how twas, and prayed to the good Lord.
 "An' so we waited, an didn' hear from the four boys, not for good many days"
 Skipper Gvorge stopped here again for a while.
 "Awell, sir, then there comed word over it wasn' known who they were but we know ed. So they got Mr. Worner's boat and a crew of lem went round, and Skipper Emery Rcssle, and Skipper Izrk Bessie, (that was Milly's father,} and Skipper Izk Marchant, Che wasr' skipper then, however, but many friends goed ill her-I couldn' go that time, sir.
 "'Twas about sun-go-down she comed in. Never word nor sound She looked black seemunly, in the for'ard part He called the neighbors :; and sure enounh, there e was, and another one along wi un /; and both seemunly a-kneelun and leanun over the for'ard th'art. They were the two brothers, John and little George, frozen stiff, and two arms locked to- gether They died pr'yun, sir, most likely {; so it seemed. They was good lads, sir, and they knowed their God
 "So, then, they thought there wasn' no more"
 The fisherman here made a longer pause. and getting up from his seat, said, ."l'll be back after bit, sir :" and walking away from Mir. Debree and his daughter, stood for little while with his back toward them and his head bare.
 The maiden bent her gentle face upon her knee within her two hands. The moonlight glossed her rich black hair, glanced from her white cap, and gave grace to her pended neck. At the first motion of her father to turn about, she rose to her feet and awaited him. Upon him too-on his head, barred of its hair, above, on his broad, manly front, and on his steady eye-the moonlight fell beautifully. MT. De- bree rose, also to wait for him.
 Skipper George came back and took up his broken story.
 Bumbye, sir, when they comed to the after part of the boat, there they found young man I.f fhn cf,,r, cbn fc xryi1y o,,l and his-his poor, lovun arm under his brolh- CTS neck /; and the tother had the jacket rolled up for pillow under his head, and I suppose he died there, sleepun upun the jacket, that his brother rolled up for un."
 The voice of the father was very tender and touching but he did not give way to tears
 "So, sir, that young man had done his part and sculled lem safe right along with the tar rible cruel gale, aw'y over twenty miles or more, to safe cove, and his hand wrists were all worn aw'y wi workun at the oar but he never thought of a cruel gate of ice right afore the cove and so we made no doubt when he found that, in dark night, and found he couldn' get through, nor he couldn' walk over, then he gave hisself up to his God, and laid down, and put his tired arm round his brother and so there they were, sir, in short after that, (t couldn' ha' been long,) there was four dead men in their boat, awaitun, outside O Broad Cove, tull some one 'ould come and take their poor bodies, and stri ip aw'y the ice from lem and put lem in the ground, that comes nat'ral, in a manner, sir ! ..... .....
 They didn' find Ger an oar, whatever be- comed of 'em, but they found their poor guns, and the two orphans had their names cut, John Barbury,' and George Barbury,' and one of lem had 'Pet-,' for Peterport, and couldn' cut no more, for cold and death.
 "There was three guns cut and one had flames 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 respectable young man, and when they come to lay lem out, in the school-house, (they were proper kind, sir, they put ruff1e shirt on him O linen. s ts @s
 "So, sir, the Minister comed over ann buried the dead. Four collins were laid along the aisle, wi white sheet over every one, because we hadn' pals James and Maunsell, of George, and John and little George, of lzik ; and we put two brothers in one grave, and two brothers in another, side by side, and covered them
 "There was two thousand at the funeral ; and when the minister couldn' help cryun, so think almost every one cryed, as eff twas their own and so we hard that people that lived on .KeIley's Island, hard singun goun by in the dark, like chantun we have in church. They said twas beautiful, comun up an dyun .aw'y wi the wind It's very like, sir, as Paul and Silas sang in prison, so they sang in storm! {
 "Then Milly, poor thing, that never goei back to her fathers house, took cold at the funeral, seemunly, and she died in James bed three weeks after She was out of hel mind, too, poor thing l"
 After another silence, after which Skipper George gazed upon the restless deep, ne sald brought home wi me the best stick iron 1 tha tinahar and laued the rest and DO one eye