The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-06-24

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Wed had dry line weeks all along
and father said he'd knosn ws shoulc
have ius, such a season. because lhg
gooss breast-boue was 50 white huN
81 Valentine day the weather broke
broke 10 chain oi storms that the
September gale was a whisper to.--
All. Il was dreadful winter that
You've surely heard Of il. Il made
forty widows in our town. OF ihe
dead that we're found On Prince Ed.
wards Islands shores there were four
corpses ia the hexi house yonder, and
two 10 the one behind. Aud what
waiting and watching and cruel sus.
pense for them that couldn't have ev-
en- the peace OF certainty And ] was
one Of those.
Tie days crepi on, ! say, and got
bright again 10 june days ever
stretched themselves 70 half such
length there was perfect stiffness in
Z tie house. il seemed 10 me that coun-
ted every tick cf tie clock. In the
evenings the neighbors USED 70 drop in
and sit mufabling over their fearful
7 memories I'm the 6esh crawled on my
bones. Father. then, be wanted cheer,
/ and he'd get me 70 singing Caller
1 Herrin Once Ia sung the first part
but Is reached the lines,
When Sc Wcfc sisepia' on your pillows,
Dreamt yc angH o our pulr follows
paraHn' a. they face the blilows,
Il 70 fill our woven pillows"
Is reached those lines, my voice
tremblcd SOS to shake the tears out of
my eyes, and Jim Jerdan took il up
himself and sung il through for me TO
words Of lis own invention. He was
always kindly fellow, and be knew
little how tie land lay between me
and Dan.
when ! was down IN the Geor-
ges. said Jim Jerdan
You? When Was you down there Z
asked father
Well,--once was. There's worse
places.
Can't ten me nothing about the
Georges said father. II ant the
rivers Of Damascus exactly, but it
amt the Marlstrom neither
Ever ben there, Cap'nY
"A few. Spent more nights under
cover roundapouts than Georgie'llh have
white hairs in her head. for all she's
washing the color ont Of her eyes now
You see, father knew ] set BY my
hair, for in those days rolled it as
thick as a cable, almost as long, black
as that c;u S back, and he thought he'd
touch mr. no a little.
Wash Tic red from her cheek and
the light from her look, and she'll still
have tie qacen's tread, said jim.
ii Loisy Currier'd heern that,
you'd wish your cake was dough- says
father.
IN resk it, says Jim. LoiSy
knows who's second choice, as well as
if you'd told her.
Bot what about the Georges, Jim Z
! asked for though | hated TO hear,
/ could listen to nothing else.
Georges? Oh, not much. Just
Ike amy other place.
Bot what do you do down there r
'Do2 Why, we fish, in the pleas
ant weather.
And when lis not pleasant
oh hen we make things tant,
hoist forest, clap the heilum into the
lee beckett, and 20 below and amuse
ourselves.
How z ] asked, as If ] hadn't
heard it All u hundred times.
One way n another. Pipes, and
mugs, and poker, if it ant too rough
and It it i, we just bunk in and
snooze till il gets smooth
Why jim, how do you know when
that i, Z
oven, you can jedge, If the pipe
falls out Of your pocket and don't light
on the ceiling.
And who's on deck !?
There's no one on deck. There's
no danger, uo trouble, no nothing
Can't drive ashore if you was 10 Try
hundred miles of, in the first place.
flatehes are closed she's light a cork,
rolls over aud over just like any other
log in tie water, and there. can't a
drop get into Ter, ii she turns bottom
side up.
But she can never right herselfr
Cant sIe. You just Try her.
Why, l've known EN- 10 keel over
and rake bottom and bring up the
weed on the lopmast, Itell you now
there was one time we knowed she'd
turned somerset, pretty well. Why
Because, when il cleared and we come
up, there we're her two masts broke |
short oa!'
And jim went lone thinking bed |
given ne a nights sleep. But IT was
cold comforts the Georges seemed 10
me vorse than the Hellgate And
mother she kept mnrmuring,-' He |
layelh the beams OF His chamber in
lie waters, His pavilion round about
Him Is dark waters and thick clouds
Of the skies And ! knew by that
she ti,ought il pretty bad.
So tie days went in cloud and wind.
The owners oi tie Feather d been
looking for her a month and more, and
there we're strange rumors ahoat aud
nobody mentioned Dams name, unless