Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-01-03
OFFICE IN PETERS BLOCK.


were covered with hairy goat skin gar
ments. and on his head was a featiery cap,
once belonging to an Indian cacique. AM
, other wore enormous but dilapidated trunk
hose and Spanish sombrero, bat his shirt
was mere fragment a third had a wide
leaved grass hat and remnant of the Den's
, black velvet breeeltes the fourth, though
/ o oferwise well clothed and with the only
stockings in the boats crew. trusted for the
protection of his head to the matted sun-
burned locks. But these were the cviden-
ces that they were veritable voyagers. all
solutely the mariners of the west; and
Mark could have sazed at them for hours
+ with veneration had not Sir Walter laid
hand Oh his shoulder, saying. Come. Mas
ter Lynch. if you would see our boats
crew in fairer trim you mus wait till We
/, deck ourselves for the courtly eyes ut
Greenwich
!, Better worth this than thousands of
made-up shew at Greenwich said Mark.
in his almost gruff voice. This is the real
!, stuff
Raleigh laughed by no means displeased:
though he it observed, he was point derice
in his own apparel, the we'll plated ruff.
the dark brown dress slashed with green
silk, the pearls in his ears, the knitted silk
hose, the well made shoes, and even their
green roses were more like courtier going
to feast than sea captain just of a long
voyage. The essential Inanlness and
bravery of Rale!gh's whole bearing. how
ever, took off from any sense of foppish-
ness in his appearance and though in any
one else Mark Lynch would have dcrided
the daintiness or aspect, yet in Sir Walter
he could only believe it the right thing.
Ardently as the youth longed tn ask
questions in the voyage that seemed to him
al unspcakable honor, his bashfulness ED
! him tongne tied. and Raleigh seemed to
have forgotten his presence in gazing at the
scene around as the boat made its way in
to Plymouth Sound. The day was beau
tilul. the water still, clear and green, re-
hecting St. Nicholas Island like mirror,
and seepily kissing the green shores Of
softly rising Edgec0mbe, where the sun
beams lay on the fresh TURF or c,st long
shadows from the shapely trees that scat
tered it. Long, but sleepy heavings Of the
water. CLASSIFY green. gently upbore the
boat. and then seemed to slide away be-
meath it. On they went, the rndder in
Marks chargA, around the steep cliffs.
then innocent of Notifications, with little
BVvsand nest NJ benea h item; past
scattered rocks. on which dark corino~ants
stretched their wings to dry, looking like
spread ea les. and between which lay deep
cayerns. where the advancing tide foamed
and r0ared like thunder one large island
rock guarding as it We're the entrance to-
the estuary into which the boat had turn
ed and whence there branc!led creek
wooded heights ON either side. sheltering
Il village OF white washed houses among
orchards. above whi.h s. high square
church tower with ii pinnacle at each cor
ner.
Before the boat lay the expanse of the
hny. so closed il by woods and rising fields,
and so smooth, that it might have seemed
a lake ; and above and beyond rose in dim
distance field aud meadow, wooded, ir-
regular line tracing to accustomed eyes
like those Of Mark, the course of the Lea.
my, until far away the purple gray and
blownish yel,oH OF meorand became
strangely, softly blended, and then crown
ed by the gray. rocky, castle like Torr of
/ DartmOor.
Mark saw that Sir Walters eyes were
fixed in the same direction as his own, and
1 presently veatured to say, 'Ay. yondcr lies
Fardel.
Sir Walter gave smile and nod OF
acquiescencc, but did not break silence till
The Doat a0'dHetilo idithe' up the river had
interposed the nearer heights between her
passengers and the more distant Landscape:
then, with ~ sigh of satisfaction and tbe
poets dreamy 10 k still upon his face ba
said. .Ah ,ou, hour there woul,, bn wor,h
tbn vovacc.
MI, oS,o,o1 his oros viii, .r1 p.,.
,,,,rta1 o. ,hnt shnr, ri Sn
,a"s ~ ,;,>, - .''"' 'aa.s" oi h's
e'"'u." nv . o'Y "a "iN soitcheu
''oo" II '"'"'i 1''0"u'"eeu MS young coun-
tf!han % speak out OIL SIR 1t cannot
he that You prefer tins dull. homclv spot
and bare gray moor to the glorious golden
y islcs!'
Poor boy. he hath the coata ion mut-
tered Raci III; then more directly address.
ing Mark; he added. Is there no way for
any of lis to learn the worth of home save
; putting seas between us?
Nay, sil :! exclaimed Mark, ssureIy yo,f
at least would speak 20 me in a djtf,.rens
strain from that which has weariel aud
sickcned me so long. You who are so no
, table an example Of the bliss and honor to
be won by doing and daringn
Bliss. repeated Sir W alter, and there
= paused.
! Many years were to pass ere the hand
r that was to be cold Oh the morrow. was to
give the lie to ALI the fair shows of th,.
world the bol |. anbili0us, cunning heart
+ vas to rush forward into many another ey.
p perience, ere years of cantiyity and cruei
= persecution shcul have Thoroughly
tAoaeht how bitter were the dregs of the
cnu of vanity wnich now in the nri,na or