The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-02-13
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I've fcea that same facc cf hcrs
scores Of times sinec, aDi though II
makes me shudder, and nips n,c 10 the
heart, always 40 aud have good long
earnest look IL it, and come away .
better man. You man see that face
ypursclf---as much Ike as ir Il had
been taken from her sad, auxious looks
--you may see it-ss the picture shop
windows, and it's of woman tying q
handkerchief round mans arm, aud
she looks up at him pi,iraily, aud it'.
called Tho IIsgueaot. fhats like
the lrok, aud the face that gamd up
into mine after che 4 told mo what /
know Now was the lrailg and l~-ye,
I'm allno.t ashamed 70 ewa i'll Hung
her away from me. aud acnidn believe
9hat she sald There was a tear upon
each check and the bright drops were
trimming in her eycs. aud ready 10 fall.
Bot Wa bard aud bitter. aud whis.
pcFcd 20 myself .hat they we're false
tesrr put on 20 cheat me. and | ran
ou, % lhe house, swearing that I'd ca.
scf y agaiH 10 mote.
u wasn't large hoaae, that house Il
ours, but II il had been palscu don I
think !, could have besn a happier
home than 4 hsd been for years: aud oi
course ksow iha. that's foolish way
of talking, for harpiacss isatA thius,
% be touad 10 palaces, any mofc than
10 the smailcst of coliagea. 1t rccms
70 me that real happiuass grows, as il
were, out Of the true faith aud srus,
that man and his wife have IN one
another; While tho strength og two
working together the same way gives
them help forward ID the world tha,
aothiue can resist
Speaking as fisherman, and one who
was broaght np with the soand Of The
sea always 10 BIS cars, / may Say We
royed well together 10 the saine boat
Mary ard ! lhad goag FIGHT of Il
bclore | could pcrsaade her that I.
would be best tof her future that she
should take ms iosepllot and not Harry
PeucliyH, hut ] did psrsaade hct al
last, and VIC we're ilarFied down &C The
litile hshcrnaus church At che head oi
the cove.
Four years of as happy \ life then
fell TO NY lot ~ coald fsll % that Of
any man 10 tiiss life, believe. Nv
ways were rough and hers were not
ihosc " i lady, but they suited our
stations N life, and what more wonl1
yon haycy Living tho Iife | do now,
busy here about this great city fish.
market look back npon that bright
biz Of life ~ il was some dream; aud
though ! can't settle 10 90 back Is tho
old place ] cling 10 the fish, and look
upon those days when a west country
boat comes 10, as days worth rerolIcct.
ing; for they bring the blood iD one's
cheek, aud biz Of light in ones eye.
can soc il MI now as plain as eau
be; the littlo Gshing village pndcr the
cliff the stout granite pier running out
so as % form harbor Tor The fishing
boats; and the blue sea, stretching
away Ear as the eyc could reach Down
by is edge too, the wccd-iripged rocks
piled high ID places, with the sea foam
ing among the crcyices, and again
forming little rock-pools where The
bright sea growths fIourished; and Is
the tide canic in, with is fresh cooliua
waters, you saw the lifnpcts and Sol
flowers wakeuiug again to life, whil,
many spider.crab and sheIliish cYept
out OF the nook or crark, where il had
hidden from the warm sun. cin sec
Il all now at any time, though / am
growing grey, and a Score of years have
passed since then;v but brighter than
al seem to stand out those two mourn.
ful eyes, with the same fearful lool,
they gave me as ilung out OF the docl
and sawsthem for the last time; 20,
whom lncxt looked upon that face III,
eyes were fast closed, and could liay,
opened them the lustrc would hay,
Igone. A
a west country fisherman i life ison.
which takes him deal from home
for sometimes we 20 of for perhaps
three mouths 81 tune "a The nortl