The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-08-16

ia fato ai BOSSES anj failures her pres
a ual mad d iis haae far mere
lf sbt years
Tile hAt VISITED iar Antauys son,
Adae mla ills usrl had dropped
anchor iHal uauns o. Gle Amste. 81
terra s.x months voyage Sailors wives
anI mothers knos villa. makes red
ia3a day iu ttsr calender Dame
simler ha.t uas large enough 10 care
to SO ba children. but her thoIshts
oese most eHh tie Boy Who bfayed the
r1H 0ftae deep Size knew too, that
het lott aas returned. a did BIS mess
mst S. aho used na,urodly 10 wa-
gf tba Auke FIRST question to the
l0t would be r. my mother well He
bad bea seven years at sea, ever since
ha aa di,eeu His earnings had been
tae support Of Gle family Tie bad
climbed through oery grade Of sea
mauahp, from fscdug the foresal 10
na.hug ihe quarterback. md as he
uov eutere1 tao puioG shaking bands
ula the seniors. shutting each Of his
sisters md tie grand aunt with kiss,
aua basl.ia.ly greeting tie pretty neigh
bor Bis long ana hearty embrace Was
gifeu rs Ills mother
!lis Gods meal tonight, my boy
sa.d lAe yrow, her hand IN both Of bis
aed hef blne eyes beautiful ia their ez-
/ preston Of matroniy pride and love-
/ You have not forgotten'
Mltlakin Dear Nftherkinl replied
the boy raising her hand to bis lips
Iapd hendug bis head to hers, | have
ueyef forgotten. not once, that Gods
work phys snre wages
Auko was stll boy 10 her, whom be
adlressedb by hat tcnderestname, NTH
crkn word for which we have no
! synonym; but hs bronze face and stur.
Iy frame gave him almost the look Of
I middle age AS he sat there in bis sal
/ Tors dress Of canvass with his Danish
PIPE in full play, he might baye passed
for one Of those old time soamcn from
whom Skipper Lane had been named.
Ibcro was a time when Karl Hooilt
had speculated on a match between bis
partners son and his own and only
daughter, and the young folk did not
think that event even impossible yet
But Karl was thinking Otherwise
Auko made good wages to be sure. He
was temperate and Industrious. fit
was not for his fathers large family be
might lay by something, but rs it was
ho would never be worth a silver Joan
must DO better than that was the con
elusion 70 which be was coming, when
the news Anke was telling his mother
over the beer turned his musings to an
other channel
The captain and ownerof the Zuyder
( Hee, in which craft Auke had always
sailed, was Jacob Steyanson, who by
carrying cheese and gin to the Baltic
towns, and salt fish back to Amsterdam
had realized sufficient gains to open a
trade with England It's late King had
been a maket for ten aud Chinese silks,
Of which Amsterdam was the e'porium
But the Zuyder Zee would not suit the
English traae,and he had offered to sell
/ her 10 Anke,to be paid for in yearly in
sediments, with interest at FIVE per
cent
Take her said Karl, and l will use all
my interest with the Scheidaus and
cheese buyers TO get up the FIRST cargo.
But Size is a slow sailor aud rougb in
the rigging, replied Ankle, skilfnlly talk
ing the cautious side
Shellgo well enough before the vino
won't she 2 and sic ladies' better than
any craft III the river You had better
close the baFgin Jacob. give her coat
Of paint aud caIl her Zimmerman Van
Harderbold, after our East India Di-
rector III 90 the FIRST trip with you,
AuRe
That's ail very well, replied Auke, I'll
take the Ziyler Z5e aud paint her, and
you Mypheer KarI.may freight her But
she is my ship, and as long as sail her
size goes only BY QUO name, and that is
the Frisiou Wow, hon my mother
Tor many weeks Auke and Karl the
one At tbo shp and the other at the
cargo we're busy getting ready Every
thing aled Ncighbors furnished ven
,ufa q linen Country folks brought
.u tlu rheas Sehnapps in bottles,
Holland in dcf. AMI gin Is barrels apd
lassi.as. asro carefully stored away
ia ile good auips bold Her bottom
aas 3 3pqered. pca hsu,t.head,
pte>ead ty Jason keet foi good lock,
t aae,aiI ubaer ber bow ana she
tera % mtae letters 81 her stern. Frs.
Wow ng .l.a middle Of Jolly Size
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