The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-16
A SEAL STORY.

A while ago, thirty or forty years may be, there
was a man OF Sbuio who wished 10 get by ght
from that island across the irth TO SandO, so he
got ito his boat, us the weather was goo T. ana
rowed himself over. When he WAS almost across
he came 10 Il bit Of a sandy holm that WAS there,
rot far iIom the lai d, and he "a 4 in the moon.
light for il was 1T the full, lot Of people on the
holm. Well, it struck him as range, because
no ole lIyed on the holm, and no one lives there
now; but he thought hc would inst see what
they were doing. He was a bold young fellow
whose heart never failed him, and beside he h vi
d head on hi shoulders As lie pulled hIs boat
up lie saw ever So manN seuskins lying on the
shore, aud as he went he ri kcd up one and held
il in bis hand, sCa'tely HI owing why.
AZ soon a. be got uCar 10 the folk he saw they
were all women, and some oI them gOOd-0oking,
too; lui ju as he wss going 10 sp,ak TO them
they al Tn off Gown TO the beach. He wa no.
slow in following them, but they were fIs,er
than he was; mHytC TIC was tiC by the long
row. But as be looked after hem he could &C lrcc
Leieye his eyes when be sua them each tarIw a
sCalshin Over rh,ir shOuldtr,, aud 10 IN a trice
they we're turned into seals, and dashed and
Fplusleu into The wat r. all bat one, the best
lOcl Ing Cf all, who STOOD there weeping or tue
shore, hl cause shr could 1 get her sealSkn
WIZ n be rCac-Cd her she heEgtd and prayed So
pIL.tilJ and IN !uCh E1,d rrUese. for her scat
lin, Il a Lc bad iplt mind tn give Il 10 her 4;
lat the ore hc lo". ID at her the more hc lled
Etrj so th, tnl Cf was, IA! tied n. st .lskin
t'sh about Ills lCGy, and par the IaSs,e in'O his
boat AID TuwCd back hon with her.
.Nes, all TIC way bach, 10: h. wanted to show
bis triGc 10 hs II uti,r. W,iI, she liked there
wiz !tlm FRA little viii lor all the world like
a. CtLvI Wt man, an when tn Y wanted 10 hlv,
h,r b'Itz { she said shg had been baptized hy
thC.T own par, IA in the sea. s. they hal her
cor fined instead aGd The end of It wls l., m axe
a CI st,Iy short, the nlIn m rgei her a1l sac
lived very happily with him. rney ha chi dren
three OF tonr, and folk began to forget altogether
The strange way in which she had come among
tltm. At last il happened one day,
maybe just about this time of the year,
the man was in his barey- field, which had
lipened nicely that year, for a wonder, and he
was Teapng il, and his wife was in the house
close down at the waters edge In SkufO, as all
our houses are, and the bairns were playing
about, running in and ont OF the barn. At last
one Of them lifted up the lid of an old chest that
was there and dyed into il with its little hand.
ard pulled out an old moth-eaten bit OF fur. on
IL ran % is nanny 10 show her what II had go,.
See, mother, what / have found in the barn" /"
But IL WAS the wires sealskin; and as soon she
saw IL all her old love OF the sea came back on
her, and she ran down with IL 10 the beach, hut
before she went she gave lch bairn kiss. Just
then the husband was coming home 10 dinner,
and when he saw his wife running down like a
mad thing 70 the water he ran after her, for he
thought one OF the children must have tumbled
into the water.
But however fast no ran, bis wife ran faster
still, and he only got 70 the strand in time 70 ses
her draw the old sealskin over her shoulders and
| jump into the sea and become q seal, Then he
saw how Il all Was, aud called after her and up
braided her for leaving her husband and children
10 80 back % the seals, Of whom he saw two
swimming on with her. But they say a man
never can get the last word with his wife, and 50
q was even then, for, as she swan of she TUNED
| her head round on her shoulders, and looked AZ
/ him with her bright black eye, aud said d:-"Ah
but had a seal husband IN the sea before you
/ stole my sealskin aud carried me on, and here
/ he is, and here he has been ever since, waiting
/ for me AN could lind my senlskin aud now i
am going home with him 1 my tirst family, and
my children on land for my sake. - Fortnight
! n Farce.