The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-02-12

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rible cruel y. n...., ~.2 ss:a.
Skipper George safe thoughtful . mo-
mcnt, and then began again.
i" At Port gal Cove" he continued,
looking over the water, ''they didn' know
about c'.r punt, an no more they
didn' at Broad Cove, nor Holly Rood; for
We staid three days, an walked an
sarchcd all over. An 80, a Thursday
morn agen VIC coined back home;-'twas
cold, but still. So when We coined round
Pcterport Point, CHATS it over at the
outside O Blszun Head, yonder,) every
| man, Almost, looked over his shoulder.
thinkun mubbe they'd got in; but 'twasn
so. They hadn' come, nor they hadn'
been hard from. So my mistress an
Milley, an George, al I, an this maid
knecied down after told 'cm how twas,
and prayed TO the good Lord. .
"An' 40 We waited, an didn' hear from
the four poor boys, not for good many
days" .g.. ..t..t ............, .,..
Skipper George stopped here again for
while. -+. ei $780,. .....
/" Awcll, sir, then there coined word
over that some men had abin found at
Brosd Cove lit WASH known who they
were:--but We knowed. So they got
Mr.. Worner's boat, and a crew Of EN-
went round, aud Skipper Emery Resslc,
and Skipper Izik Resslc, that was Mil
ly's father, and Skipper lzik Marchant,
Che wasn' Skipper then, however, but
a many friends coed in her-l couldn
60 that time sir.
"'Twas about sun -go-down she coined
in. Never a word nor a sound She
looked black seemunly; and no colors
nor flag. Twas they. Sure enough,
twas they.
"a man had seen a punt all covered
wi ice and hauled her up; and when he
coined to clear awav the ice, there was a
man, seemunly in the for'ard part He
called the neighbors, and sure enough
there e was, and another one along wi
un; and both secmunly a-kneelun and
leanuu over the for'sri th'art. They
were the two brothers, John and little
George, frozen stiff. and two arms locked
together. They died pr'yun, sir, most
50 Id sccIiCu. 1Hcy was Eoou
lads. sir, and they knowed their God
$50, then, they thought there wash
no more"
The fisherman here made a longer
pause, and getting up from his seat,
said, I'll be back after a bit, sir" and
walking away from Mr.. 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. Tn.
moonlight CLOSED her rich black hair,
glanced from her white cap, and gave
/ grace to her bended 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, aud on
| his steady eys-the moonlight fell beau
! tifully. Mr. Debree rose, also to wait
! for him.
Skipper George came back and took up
! his broken story.
| '.Bumbye, sir, when they coined to
the after part of the boat, there they
found young man lyun in the starn-
sheets, wi no coat, and his--and his
| his poor, lovun arm under his brother $
neck;---and the tother had the jacket
rolled up for pillow under his head,
and suppose he died there, seepun up
on the jacket, that his brother rolled up
for un
The voice of the father was very ten,
der and touching; but he did not give
way to tears.
| $50, sir, that young man had done
his part and sculled 'em safe right along
vi the tarribie cruel gale, aw'y over a
twenty miles or more, to safe cove, and
his hard wrists were all worn aw'y wi
workun at the oar;--but he never thought
of cruel gate Of ice right afore the
cove; and SO we made doubt when he
found that, in dark night, and found he
could n get through, nor he could n
walk over, then he gave hisself up to
God, and laid down, and put his tired
arm round his brother; and so there they
were, sir, in short after that, Git could II
ha' been long,) there was four dead men
in their boat, awaitun, outside o Broad
Cove, tull some one 'culd come and take
their poor bodies, and strip aw'y the
ice from en- and put EN- in the ground
that comes more nat'ral, in a manner
sir
"They did n find eser an oaI, whatev
er bccomed of 'em, but they found thei
poor guns, and the two orphans had their
names cut, John Barbury, and George
Barbury,' and one of 'em had Pet,
for Peterport, and could n cut no more
for cold and death.
"There was three guns cut; and on,
had james Barb that poor Maunsel
must ha' cut, poor fellow, afore the dead
ly cold k.llun. SO the kind people tha
found the poor boys, they thought Jane
was a respectable young man, and whel
they come TO lay 'cm out, in the schoo
house, (they were proper kind, SIR the,
put ruffle shirt on him o linnen.
$50, sir, the Minister coined over an,
buried the dead. -Four collins were lai,
along the aisle, wi white sheet owe
| every ono, because we had n pals
; James and MaunseIl, of George, an
| John and little George, Of Izik; and W
, put two brothers in one grave, and tw
r brothers in another, side by side, an
} covered them.
, "There was two thousand at the fu
r neral; aud when the minister could II
. help cryun, so | think Almost every on
cryed, as eff twas their own; and so W
T ha,d that people that lived on Kelley
0 Island, hard singun goan by in the darl
c like chantun we have in church, The