Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-11-01

Slcep, LoTu lONe ueT.
Says the woman,-"The doctor says she
may l think as you do"
And doctor, he was right. One day she
proved him so.
They came to tell me and felt sorry,
not glad; for she was coming back to
trouble. | went to her, and she knew me
and spoke to me-"
Get your vessel ready, Captain" she
said "I'm going with you"
MY vessel ?" says |, not knowing what
to say.
Yes says she. Tom is waiting for
u.s."
"Wanderlngp' says the doctor.
mo-" says she, mot wandering. Oh,
Captain, don't think me crazy. I've been
to Tom" ....
81 knowed it," says I, ITO Heaven,
lase?"
NO" says she, "on earth. 1 saw him
touched him. He is on an island--a
little island--all rocks but one spot where
grass grows, and there are three trees like
palms in shape | asked him if | might
stay. He said no; bring the captain.
Where shall tell him TO come? said I;
and he told me this"
And then that lass, that knowed no
more of navigation than her own babby,
gave me latitude and longitude, and all
the bearings of an island that if it did ex-
ist, must not be far from the West Indies.
and near the same spot where we were
wrecked.
Says the doctor again, --"She is wan,
dering. I'm afraid of her brain" But
went down and got my chart, aud there
found the spot, and, marked on it. what
made me know that dangerous rocks and
, maybe, some bits of islands, not worth
j, naming lay thercabouts
I went back to her.
Lass" says |, "they may call 20,
crazy and me fool, but we'll 60 togethe
as soon as yo're able, and look for Tom
Maybe God gives you knowledge We hav,
2 not got.
r Well. they did think us both mad, bu
! a week from that time had taken my in
c surancc, and bought new ship. | name
5 it the Hope" and Kitty left her bah
t out at nurse and went with me.
e She vas very weak and frail, all he
lovely color gone, but oh how beautiful
t and she used to stand hour after hou
c looking in the very same direction that
c told her the island she had dreamt I
must be.
:. And it was strange v'y'ge.
i The wind was fair. the sky clear all tn
e way, just as if the angels kept watch owe
}, the ship,
It At last we came to the place. Latitud
IS and longitude she new nothing of, and
It never had told her. There were danger
/ Gus shoals about, and bits of islands tha
d may be no other ship had come near te
years.
s. All of a sudden Kitty cried out
e There! there there? The trees-tf
ic trees"
is And sure enough, where she pointed
rock rose out of the sea, and at the to
le three trees, | never saw their like, bl
t. they looked bit like palms.
N Says she, its the island dreamed
and my Tom is here"
g said nothing but | knew there W;
u neither food nor drink to keep man ALI
I'd a week in that spot and, messmates, it
er only in stories written by womenfoll
at ashore, that shipwrecked men have ba
ee rels of crackers, and ale, and stewpan
and guns and ammunition, foated ashor
le to them exactly in the nick Of time, alor
r with seeds aud plants to stock a mark
rs garden. | turned sick for if Tom W
rt there he'd never know US.
r. Well, we let down the boat, and 81
Cd went with US. 1t was hard work to 6
on the island, and she was so weak | HI
s. to carry her in my arms. But she d
climb up the rock. at last, and wander
a over it, she looking and calling:
10 "Iom Tom Where are you, Tom
ty At last put her down on the grass u
der the trees.
,r, "Oh, Captain" she sobbed, "this
the island and the trees, but where
Tom p and just then she gave a cry al
gu started to her feet, and fell down upon b
knees again, for under the trees she spi
to something.
There were only blcached bones Il
now. but some of them lay upon sailol
t's Jacket, and among them something 81
er tered
Ter picked it up--it was Kitty's o'
er minatre that Tom had carried aw
of next bis heart. l.....f..
er AIe,smates, I've lived good while sin
en- then, but it's fresh this moment as If
happened yesterday.
ne | sat down on the grass and to
Kitty in my arms. 1t was no trar
to that was creeping over her then. 81
he that.
OIL She had been dying all the v'y'ge a
he now death had come at last, She OIL
a.