Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-12-05
Mistellaneous.
My Aunt'S Story,

= Stll hCi Otduty must nave btGtl sOinetitHl
wonderfully distracting. She was once
the belle of famous and quaint old sea.
town, full of fortunes made in foreign
trade, prize-money, and kinds of traffic
thought honorable enough years ago, but
now held in such reprobation, that pre-.
fer not to mention them.
My aunt was very little. When was
/ ten years old was the tallcst Well
might be, for man could span her waist
with his two hands, and she was more like
a marvellous doll or stray fairy, than a
mortal woman. Her feet and ankles were
past all comprehension for littlcncss and
elegance. Perhaps she did not wear nice
shoes aud stockings, and maybe she did
not hold 40 her black brocade daintily on
the slightest provoeation All ! but her
hands how small, aud white, and deli.
cate. they were, with rosy-tipped, taper.
Ing fingers. She looked all the more pc.
tlte and wonderful in her delicate beauty,
for always dressing in black, which brought
out her pale, hly-like beauty, and blonde
hair with great distinctncss. Her deer
blue eyes seemed to look through thing,
and people. All this made me a little ii
awe of aunt CAlsta, though | loved her
with the romantic, reyerential love oi
boyhood, as if she were lovely princess
enchanted or otherwise.
\ childless widow, my aunt Calista haC
lived with us since could remember
She was older than my mother; bat NJ
one could have told her age from hel
looks, for hrr singular beauty seemed t,
have in it no element of decay. We lly
ed inland among the hills, and all ! knew
OF the ocean was from my books Of eeog
raphy, and the pictures ana voyages in
aunt Calistas rooms, and Robinson Cru.
soc. Bat dreamed much Of the sea
built mimic sips, and waited with inPa
tlence until | should be old enough to rur
away ike the aforesaid Robinson Crusoc
who has, perhaps, done more to help Brit
, tl:una TO rule the waves, than All hcl
brakes ard Nelson's.
f6r.Jt-thcye WIS another source o
information, better than all the rest. Ny
aunt G.usta hai beea born III : ght OF TIA
sca. Sac had seen the great sa.ps sail ii
aud out o. the harbor OF her native town
Saa had piaael up beautiful shyits an.
prbgr,l, on the b.tca. and sometimes 81,
heaeel M to sail my little s9nalroas OF
our daya pend, and tod me many =.
,t8rg she h4zI heard or read
Aunt Gttista, said |, one day, whe'
W wefe sitting under the willows ~ th'
watar-,jle, watching my last achievement
ia paytl afeaiteetgre, As II danced over
th. blilows-thn blliewH OF the dl'N p2n
-"8erc yaa ever on the great blGe 81
will ua.y tn Ky anI clouds above ynA
au1 tae water all around, out OF sI-at o
Ilnl-notdjug bat the ship IN the matdi'
OF the son -
\ shasl9w passed over her pa.e an
+. lovely face, a. She sad with s2't te'ie'
ucss
- es' dear L nave oten at SEA "aeE'
the ship was the oh'y human una y
SiEat' and tue centre o, 'ne e'''' e''e''
Iot the hoTA m where the Dios sHy anu
the blue ocean m'nale on every Sl'e'
- Oh, how grand - exclaimed, will
INV boyi,h enthusiasm. "Do, deares
aunt. tell me all about your voyage
She dia not answer for a moment, anl
vonl, what could be the matter witt
mv cyer.cAeerrul aunt Calista. Bat til,
sadness passed away, and She slid
Yes. | will tell YOU all about it
Your Grandfather was merchant, ant
owned many ships He sent them 10 tn,
We,t Indies. East Indies, and sometime.
IN Chi,, loved tn, sea and the ships
Ne father used to allow me to - o,
hoard with HIM. when they were about to
.,iI or had come in from lon. voyage.
/ sometimes took such little presents OF
L,,r1 as sailors like. AMI they said that
won,l Give them 4 lucky voyage. The,
tI;l nat lors..t me. and b. on, 1t me many
g, niee nr,.,eot from bcyond the seas.
90, J,,.-we v;.itel new shin. ant
G.n,l anew CAPTAIN, whom had ncvet
.,an bsfo,e. | thought him very hand
some bat yoanr for such trust but
e,n,l he NJ, rood aud honorable. II,
had beep in the navy. A great mislor.
time to his family had made it necessary
nr him 70 le,ve the service aud accept tn,
b;,ber rnayof 4 merchantmen. After ouC
or two VOYAGES we became acquainted
and he came to love me better than a
the world.
:. Rnt nv father did not love him $,
I'll =. a,,o,bar nnrson dil-at least, h,