Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1859-02-12

,OOhS oNoi VIC "dtci, IHey Ului
know about e'er punt, an no NOR
they didn' at Broad Cove, nor Holly
Rood; for we staid three DAYS. al
walked an sarched all over. An SO,
Thursday morn agen we coined bac
home twas cold, but still. So whe
we coined round Peterport Poin1
CHATS it over at the outside O Bluzu
Head yonder,) every man, almost lool
ed over his shoulder, thinkun mubb
they had got in; but 'twasn' so. The
hadn' came, nor they hadn' been har
from. So my mistress, an Mily, ar
George, an ], an this maid kneele
down after I'd told 'em how twas, an;
prayed to the good Lord. .-...
can SO we waited, an didn' hea
from the four poor boys, not for goo,
many days.
Skipper George stopped here agai
for while.
"Awell, sir, then there. comed wore
over that some men had abin found a
Broad Cove lit WASH known wht
they Were;-but we knowed. SO the
got Mr.. Warmers boat, and crew o
'em went round, and Skipper 'Ener,
Ressle, and Skipper Izil Russle, (tha
was Aiilly's father,) and Skipper Iii
Marchant, (he wasn' Skipper then
however,) but many friends coed il
her-I couldn' go that time sir.
COT was about sun-go-down she com
ed III. Never word nor sound =
She looked black seemunly; and no col
ors nor flag. II was they! Sure en-
ough, It was they!
"a man had sid Il punt all covered
WI ice and hauled her up; and when hE
coined to clear away the ice, there wa
a man, seemunly, III the for'ard part
He called the neighbors; and sure
enough, there e was, and another one
along WI un; and both seemunly a
kneelun and leanun over the for'arG
th'art. They were the two brothers
John and little George, frozen stiff, an6
two arms locked together! They dice
pr'yun, sir, most likely; 50 it seemed
They was good lads, sir, aud 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, ''1'll be back after a bit, sir; ,
and walking away from Mr.. Debree
and his daughter, stood for a little
while with his back toward them and
his head bare.
The maiden bent her gentle face up
on her knee within her two hands,
The moonlight CLOSED her rich black
hair, glanced from her white cap, and
gave grace to her bended neck. Al
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
mani y front, and on his steady eye
the moonlight fell beautifully. Mir
Debree rose, also to wait for him.
Skipper George came back and took
mp his broken story.
"Bnmbye, sir, when they coined tc
the after part of the boat, there they
found young man lynn in the starn
sheets, WI no coat, and his-and his
his poor, lovun arm under his brothers
neck;-and the tother had the JACKIE,
rolled up for pillow under his head
and [ suppose he died there, sleepun
upon the Jacket, that his brother rolled
up for un.''
The voice Of the father was very ten.
der and touching; bat he did not give
way to tears.
$50, Sir, that young man had done
his part and seulled 'em safe right along
wi the terrible cruel gale, aw'y over a
twenty miles or more, to a safe cove.
and his hanG-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 no doubt
when he found that, in dark night and
found he couldn' get through, nor he
couldn' walk over, then he gave hissel1
up to his God, and laid down, and put
his tired arm round his brother; and SC
there they were, sir, in short after that
Gt couldn' ha' been long,) there was
four dead men in their boat, awaitun
outside O Broad Cove, tulI some one
'ould come and take their poor bodies,
and strip aw'y the ice from 'em and put
'em in the ground, that comes more
nat'ral, in manner, sir!
''They didn' find e'er an oar, what
ever becomed OF 'em, but they found
their poor guns, and the two orphan:
had their names cut, sJohn Barbury,
and George Barbury,' and one Of 'en
had Pet for Peterport, and coraldn
cut DO more, for cold and death.
"There was three guns cut; and one
had James Barb" that poor Maun
sell must 'ha cat, poor fellow, afore the
deadly cold killed un. So the kind
people that found the poor boys, the,
thnucht Iarrles was resnect hla rn1,nr {