The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-04-01
MisteIlaneolts.
From Harpcr's New Monthly Magazine.
THE CRUISE OF THE TWO DEACONS
A TALE IN EIGHT CHAPTERS.
CHAPTER III.
Tile rMn nEtrnNs.

THE TWO DEAcOSs.
To 90 back little. The fishing party who
came up To Muskeogue, as Lish had said, with
their own smack, but wanting somebody else's
gumptiOn.' were three junior partners of sep
arate stores in Warren and Pine streets, bound
ON vacation cruise. For blue-tish ostensibly
Providence and the land-wnd flyoring-for
fun anyhow. II any people of Muskeoguc
had gone up tew York. they would probably
have known even more of that locality than
these New Workers did OF theirs but what
they didn't know would have been considered
rs much more authentic ground for considering
them green than the ignorance of the Gotham
ties was accounted by the Muskeogians for inn
puling that hue to them. Accordingly, strange
rs il may seem, the barbaric people OF the Long
Island tishing-port received them with decent
urbanity, and instead of laughing at them for
not possessing the requisite information upon
the best bluefsh authorities, kindly helped them
to il. Aiter making fast to the wharf, Mr.. Ar
thur Reeve was deputed to 20 ashore and bring
down 10 the EsmerGlid, pOst-haste and at any
expense imaginable by a junior partner, the
very most eligible native to be found, who com
bined the accomplishments of fisherman, sailor
and pilot ON the Cape Cod coast, whittier the
yacationcrs would steer.
lie had been gone about fifteen minutes when,
notwithstanding the possession of two hun
lred dollar chronometer, by which he might
have asccrtained the time to a decimal certain
ty, Mr.. Frank Hodge began to labor under the
impression, natural in gentlemen making u
business of pleasure, that the envoy had de-
parted n little less than year previous Ac-
cordngly he said TO Mr.. Augustus Peavey,
(who did not fud time hanging so heavy on his
hands, having Gambler clay pipe to attend
10 with some very damp tobacco in il. ms he
lay along the taifrail in pair of exaggerated
blue flannel breeches. whose pattern, with
much disappointment, he had looked for in
vain on the decks of all the oyster-sloops the
Esnerdldd had met since getting out OF New
York; that he thought he would go up and
help Reeve. il he, Peavey, would consider il his
| watch while he was gOnc. Having delivered
himself of this nautical expression with an old
tarish ease which he considered quite his own.
Mr. Hodge stepped upon the wharf and began
steering tor town, rolling as he went. 10 imply
the idea that he had followed a seaflring life
since early childhood, and TO exhibit to the best
advantage pair of pantaloons similar to Mr..
Peavcy's.
To return TO Mr.. Reeve. The first person he
had met when oystcr-shclls began to give way
to humanity in the less thiuly settled portion OF
Muskeogue was a small boy, sitting on the keel
of wrecked clam boat eating cold fish ball
IL is important to recollect hereafter what
went 20 the .Ner School Meetin'.
Sonny said Mr.. Reeve, at the same time
approaching him on the weak side by means Of
dime, can you tell me who knows most about
the fishing round these parts!
The small boy looked at the pantaloous like
Mr.. Peayey's, swallowed the rest of the fish.
ball, shut his fst ON the dime, and vouchsafed
the brief reply. Deacon Allen
Can you tell me where I'll find himi'
'You hain't got another un o. them. hev ye!'
said the small boy.
Them what.' said Mr.. Reeve.
Dimes said the small boy, laconically.
'Well-yes,' replied Mr.. Reeve, smilngly !;
tell me what want TO know. and perhaps I'll
give il to you.'
Let's see it, said the small boy.
There IL is, you little gouge and Mr.. Reeve
chucked 1t to him.
He's up tew the street, tew the store, 1
guess
II this be thought sharp Of the small boy, il
IS IS TO DC recollectel that Muskeogue was all set
years. '
Mr.. Reeve rolled on in another pair of panta-
looms similar to Mr.. Pcavey's, and after some
hunting, found Deacon Allen on the steps of
.ho s'ore talking with his SON. As before de-
talie9. nc engaged him summarily and started
Oh with him to the Esasraida. Arriving thero