The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-03-20

an haulun, workun along. An there was &
cry COED up,-ike the cry of baby, twas an
/ thowt mubbe twas somethun had got upor
one o. they islands but said, agen, How coulc
| 2 an one John Harris said Q thowt twas [
bird Then another man (Muffis els name was
started off wi what they calls gait, CTS some
thun like short boat-hook } over the bows, an
run; an we sid un strike, an strike, an We
heard it 20 wump! wump! an the cry goun
up so tarrible feelun, seemed as eft 9 was muir
derun some poor wild linden child 'ad a found
(ony mubbe e. would n do SO bad as that but
there We a-been tarrible bloody, cruel work wi
| Indeos in my time, an then e coined back wi
white coal over e's shoulder an the pool
thing was n dead, but cried an soughed like
any poor little baby
The young wife was very restless at this point
and though she did not look up,l saw her tears
The stout fisherman smoothed out the net &
ittle upon his knee, and drew it IN closer. and
heaved great sigh he did not look at his hear
ers
when e throwed it down, it walloped, an
cried, an soughed, an its poor eyes blinded
wi blood Gee sees, Sir, said the planter, By
way Of excusing his tenderness, they swlles
were friends to |, after.) Dear, Oh, dear
could n stand it; for . might ha killed nm, an
SO e goes for quart O rum, fog fetchun first
swile, an put the poor think out O. pain. did
n want to look at they beautiful islands no
more, sumehow. Bumby it coined on thick an
then snow,
Mex day swiles hawlunT every way, poor
things! Il knowed their voice, now,) but twas
bIowun gale O. wind, all we under bare poles,
an snow comen agen, so fast as ever 1t could
come but out the men ould go, all mad like
an my watch COED, an so / mus go. Il did n
think what was goun to y The skipper never
said no but to keep near the schooner, an
fetch in fest be could, close by an keep near
the schooner.
so we got aboard, an the men that was wi
me Ies' began to knock right left twas heart
less to see an hear it. They laved two old uns
an g Young whelp to me, as they ruined by.
The mother did cry like a Chrsten, in man
ner, an the big tears 'ould run down, an they
'euld both be so brave for the poer whelp that
'ould cuddle up an cry :; an the mother looked
this way an that way, wi big, pooty, black
ewes, to see what vas the manun of it, when
they d never doned any harm IN God world
that d made, an would n, even eff you killed
EN-; only the poor mother basic ketched my
gaf, that l was goun to strike wi, betwixt her
teeth, an | could n get it away. twas n IKE
fshun! e was weak-hearted like L s'pose
twas wi what WAS comun that did n know. J
Then coined II hail. all of sudden, from the
schooner; 1--WE had r. been gone moran i've
minutes, IF twas so much,-no, no more'n
three y but l was glad to hear it com then, how
ever an 80 every man ran, one afore s ether
There the schooner was, tearun through allan
we runnun for dear life. l failed among the
sIob. X and got out agen. Twas another man
pushun agen me doned it. ! could n clip my
self from goun in, an when l got out | was
astaru of all, an there was the schooner carryun
on, right through the clear water! So, hold of
q blight o. line, or anything an they swung up
in over bows an sides an swash y! she struck
The water an was out O sight n a minute, an
the snow drivun as eff t would bury her, an
man iaved behind on pan of ice, an the great
black say two iathom ahead, an she storm wind
blowun i'm into it
The planter stopped speaking. We had all
zone along SO with the story, that the stout sea
barer, as he wrought the whole scene up about
us. seemed instinctively TO lean back and brace
his ieet against the ground, and clutch his net.
The Young woman looked up, this time; and
the cold snow blast seemed to howl through
that still summers noon, and the terrific ice
nelds and hills to be crushing against the solid
earth that we sat upon, and all things round
changed to the tar-of stormy ocean and bound
less frozen waters.
The planter began to speak again.
SO I failed right down upon tn, ice, sayun,
Lard help me Lard, help me an erawlun
away, wi The snow in my face, Il was afeard,
a most to stand, Lard, help me! Lard, help
mel
Twas n all hard ice, but many places lolly;+
an once COED right down WI my hand wriStes
an my armes in cold water, part ways to the
bottom o. tn ocean an a most head first into
un, as I'd abeen in wi my legs afore but,
thanks be TO God E helped me out OF un, but
colder an wetter agen.
In course wanted to folly the schooner so
l ruined up along, a little ways from the edge,
an then | ruined down along; but twas all
great black ocean outside, an she gone miles
an miles away an by two hours time, even
eff she d come to, itself, an all clear weather,
could u never see her {; an ef she could come
back, she could N never tind me, more n could
find any one O. they fakes o snow. The schoon-
er was gone, an | was lnved out O. the world
'Bumby, when got Oil the big field agen, l
stood up on my feet, an / sid that way my snip
She had n e'er sail, an she had n e'er spar,
an she had n s'er a compass, an she had
e'er q hem an she had II no hold, an she had
n no cabin. | could n sail her, nor could n
anchor her, nor bring her to, but she would go,
wind or calm, an she d never come to port, but
out in tn ocean she d go to pieces | sid 7
was so, an | must take it, an do my best vi
it, IT was Jest a great, white, frozen raft, drift
un bodily away, WI storm blowun over, an cur
thick, an poor Christen layed all alone wi it.
t would drift as long as anything was Of it, an
t was n ikel- there ID be any life in the poor
man by time tn ice COED to nawthun an the
swiles 'ould swim back agen up to the NOthe !!
i was tn only one, seemunly, to be cast out
q i've, An wi the dearest maid In the world $50
I thought) waitun for NE. l pose zee might
ha knowed somethun better, Sir; but l was
n larned, an l ran SO fas. as ever l could up
the way thowt home was, an ! groaned, an
groaned an shook my handles,a AN then thewt,
sMubbe l may be goun wrong way. So
groaned to the Lard to stop the snow. Then
on ran this way an that way, an groaned for
snow to knock oft l knowed We was driftun
mubbe twenty leagues q day, and anyways
wanted to be doun what l could keepuR up
over tn Ice so well as I could, Newfoundland
ways. an I might come to someth UNTO a
SCHOONER or sumethuu; anyways l d go up so
near as | could. Sc looked for lee. | S pose
ee a ha' knowcd better what to do, Sir said
the planter, here again appealing to me, and
showing by his question that he understood me-
III spite of my pea Jacket.
| had been so carried along with his story that
I had felt as if l we're the man on the Ice, my
self and assured him, that, though l could get
along pretty we'll on land, and could eUen do
something at netting, l should have been very
awkward in his place.
'Wun, Sir, looked for lee ct would n
ha' been 80 cold to say cold eff it had n a-bow-
so tarribls hard.) First step, l stumbled upon
somethun in the snow, seemed soft like body
Then / coined all together, bopun an tearun
an all together. Down coed upon my knees
to IN, an l smoothed away the snow, all
tremblun, an there WAS moan as Ell was
a-liyun.
20 Lard said 1, who S this Be this one Of
our men2
But how could it? So l scraped the snow
away, but { was easy to see t was smaller than
man. There was n no man on that dreadtu
place but me Wull, sir, t was poor swlle
wi blood runnun all under; an | got my cuttsS
an sleeves all red vi it. 1t looked like u tel
ow-creature blood, most, an was los
man, left to die away out there in tn Ice, ano
1 said, Poor thing poor thing + an did II
mind about the wind, or tn ice, or the schoone
goun away from me afore gale, Il loOutd n
mind about em) an a poor lost Christsn may
show good turn to hurt thing, eff t was on
haste. So smoothed away the snow WI m.
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