, 1870-08-28
LITTLE BEN.
NJ HsFnIET rnEscorT sPorFoRp.

" bleatne II, all tuanncr OF sweet emells fror
| ;ne WOODS coming TO mo when tho land breez
ploMa, aho sometimes the eoutheast swecpip
~ tne bay with tie sa1t vigor on its wet win;
mat essf'es mo Lack to the happy days who'
used TO riakc MI the lights in Lost IL bay =
once. can zee them now, ~ l used to .ist
tnem then, twenty miles out, tho whol'
nine or them. sparkling up in that Erca
oafk h'1'7on III their .uddtn and mEstcrfon
way, the Iso.tou Light, 1h4tchcr's Island aur
Bakers Island Lights, the Highland wAdinl
OUT 10 sea, far on on one hand tho plymouth
j.49hts. far OF On tie 0thcr tho Eastnru Point
and Minot's Ledge xwingipg its lantern ovHl
tho watets..n ring Of besuties. I've heart
many m old salt ray, tired Of his rolling
| We'll, there sre lights hero on the Chesa-
PeRRe; and 1 suppose ihsre AFa men; to whom
they etand for all the othera did to me
but theyr no moro like my old lights thkn
the fare Of this smoky pitclrpine knot Ia like
the tail OF a meteor; and sometimes thinI
my ecow could oply 1oat sately up tht
hve hundreu miles Of coast that lie between,
and in some night Of STILL etxr]it, sunms,
Heathcr could see the lights suddenly aut
1 silently ~ spirits spring up all about me once
again, why, I'd lie down IN tie boat and dit
content.
Not that Tse any idea Of dying-folks dom
do that down hero on tho Eastern Shore
Healthy believe you. Just look at me.
wonder whether the branch that ruu,, besi3,
! my door doesn't t.ieklo out OF the fouuta;n q
everlasting youth. At any rate, Two 3 faoc,
that my island il one Of the outlying suburb
of the Garden OF Eden.
| Aa garden run wild Stself, I dom
know who ovns it. don't. I put u1
cabin here, and pnt old Milly aud her MAJ
John in 1t: there Isn't another human soul t
bc had TIL yon ccme 10 the mainland The
birds build in tho caves, snd in tie aods, ani
a11 around eserywheze; tho deer como aui
E1F5 IL NJ kt.s = = &T4 ~
there in the rceds. See the ducks with fhei1
backs green aud gold ia tho sun! They mind
me,no more than il were that old stump
and aunetimcs the Wild pigeons perch On nv
shoulder A lnxu may five like lord here,
too. with The yams in the ground, the plums
J the berries, sle royal grapes. the fresh eaiads
With the crabs you sec scuttlng through the
cle1r wnter with the oyster-btd yonder that .
| king would cuyet. I come home every night
| loaded RiA My H1Ue, Ftais3u rich With al the
Juices Of the woods, IiIds tl2t have iced
themselves OIL tho s''' celery But, for I'll
that Tie c-aek Ct my ride is never heard on
! this side of the island the Ere4t lavai hoors
! OF the snowy dogwopd bouEl,s in their season
stretch away into the forest uns:irred Ly tho
i plunge Of anything hing FROM me, tie mag
Ioli1 shakes down i.a ecents through no ruds
| motion OF m1ne, and the ringuorcs sit On the
low cedar branches and COO 2s though i were
! notbipg hut q juniper myself.
| Well. that1 all very well for once In way:
the gentlemen who come over hero bunting,
| 81 use lne for guide. think itn tho nickrsi
| pl*ce OF the eearth: hut take It louely, day
after day, and Year After year. and you find
| II + not peop|e4 lon find that ,t's enough to
| make man SO melancholy mad. When it
gets beyond endurance, take my tout and
| 60 pokinE up tie creeks mud inlets aud cur
1etts. and in among the eApAls aud Swallows
Ind find tho measure Of this and sound the
eelsth OF that, and set it all down in my
nd rtytf,nr nf.. r
lought in Hslt,moye. and hy The time
tile Chart done shall have served whAt7l BE-
IS good L. a seven yoa1s' apprenticeship, and
be ready, il I want il, for 3 commission 4s
full pilot Of the Chesapeake. It's hard on 4
man to hive 10 scryo two appTenticeehlpa to
tLD ssIne trrde, but It's my own fault.
reckon.
! had As July service once, though, tuu-
bling ruund BOSTON bay, fair Weather and foul,
H ever Auv one had to rstnanber his natne by.
long years wl.iio went from boy to boit-
keeper. aud from boat-Eeeper to Captain, but
Lappy Is they wers l.ng. L,ttle / cared for
danger tlen. 4 vet jacket al my de-
figAt. ali my ambition 10 run nv boat
hiunkeldo Of European steamer. In =
Sc. too soash for boarding. and bring
her np to the wlatf ahsu everything else ia
tisa hasl,ar was holding Tor dear lite on it's ca
t'ie. Sill. there was rleu,s Of sport ashoro,
oG nights "he, We ctuisel ssQud by the thea
uts, " lbur aud /. aud dArr. too down al che
farm where hate Lived and When We all went
plcking wild Strawberries lu tho leld togeth-
er, and Wilbur and gew maddez with love
for Kate over every lerry We drop2e1 in le1
basket. You wouldn't have wondered at that
either, il you'd eves seau her; for aba WAS
nulhinE Int + sunbeam. Such roBy face.
al~ayr blusfunG> always smiling. slniies aud
bushes aud dluiples Que after another .hete,
ND nd all !, together; Sssna.. and and ,syea as
yellow rs the Light. clustering j.
little rings around the White forehead; ;; size
wasn't made to stay here auy longer thin tho
morning light IL made to stay, and she went
away aloue IN her long journey the year after
ehe married Wilbur: For You sso / stood no
chance At all beside hitn-hs. tall, proud,
bacdsouo fellow, with : way with hiui1 TO via
Q woman's heart It the asking, quick to mike
the most u his chzucns and ho had her aud
was married to her, and hid broken her
hcast, ana hurled les, before 1-.low aud
StuE i'd always as an 0Hl in The dAy time-fair.
1S knew whether tho world Mss upside down
or not
Perhaps had loved hor the better OF The
tro,-I don't know. We we're neither OF US
full pilo,e yet, aud Wilbcr himself couidn't
hare anotdod to m7rry but for tho rent Of
kate's little farm that her mother left her.
But that n4a1e 10 odds 10 hicl :; llo never fslt
nearer to any b.4iy for tho favpfa doua him:
he wss the sort tllzt o4rea fer M:tle bur = psee-
y fnce, anil tires soon of that aud. nogfec:-
hsS her ill her son1 Wss sorc, il be didn't pos
lllsely 4b1;sc llEr aitcrward; ; yet tho shrink.
irg thing. all alive to any touch, took carelzes
E5rrs aud unklnI onet from him. ]ike bloxs
aud when her Child was Do:n ehe had no heart
10 live Ally longer, aud 80 slipped out Of lite.
A. for nc. hsdn't loved Klte after that
fssbion. Al any rate; II ! had znasHel her.
lo.ucly and awkward and uncouth III might
lave lscen. IA tsAve died but I'd have mado
her happy. Dai I never had told her or bud
Lintcu to her. that cared for hor, though
Wilbur knew it well enough; fnr had contid-
cd in linn, aud hc had said nothing, but had
jutt stepped IN before me. It wouldn't have
made any difference though, il he hadn't;
Hale never could have carc,l fer mo. But /
ncrcr sAw her from the day heard nhe wns
10 inatEt him I'LL tho daJ went to look at her
lying III her colin, tho little white, pinehcd
I s9 90 ssS aS saa rss s,sse s ys; ySus xs nd
our eSca met, aud he know hated him. -
killed her" WAS what Ills guilty, eyea eail;
land ! mean to kill you, nust ha1e bean
So we uacl. werlt back to our lifein the boas,
day by day and night b4 night, aide by side, ~
chad been for cart; Nlnur always mean
ing TO be transferred. hut Always delaying
nbnut it, full of Ell indistiuct notion, As Two
turn. going ashore bat little, and seldom trust
ing lin,a.lf aloue with me whcu he could help
it. For my part, never no,iccl that; aftor
tl,at frat y,huE / 1,3l 10 idea Of any fe-
vcugc upon him. kate had loved him, how
could na17n him 1 used to euvy hin, to
| c,,vy and to Nordcr 1T him, thinking Of tue
! clsild'a veirD Heard crying thAt last time l
looked on hes face, remembering that it was
llcrs, that he had it to 80 home to and ncvcr
did. One day can't Say Whist made mo,
! I'm sure didn't think OF it till found mysslf
| on tho spot stole mp tina. way. and weut in
to sce that haly myself.-a great blue.eSed,
happy boz he was, who held up hts month like
| bud aud came to nus On tho niI!ute and my
heart closed roand him. all 1t once, the way
n,y arms had dope-
| l don't know as you'll believe me, but, rs
! mach az l cared for Kate, from that day be-
gan 10 care for this CHILD more, AMI, Iuu,h ~
once longed to make hor miue. | 1onged now
| to get 1,ovscseiou OF the child. 1t seemed to
! nc that Wilbur Get no value on him: and
! began to torment myself with tho thought
might or not wanted him, and the want Gos
| hold Of ME hko m insanity, and that's fact.
! After \ while, when I nude sure thas Wilbur
| never went, uaea to 60 and sec him whsu-
| ever was On shore, and carry toys to hiE,
| ftst, and toys and sweetmeats attorwatl,
and hzibes to tho nurac where ha was hoazd-
| ed out in GAsket Lane, a woman who rosoot-
cd 1is fathers lack Of feeling for him like
al, insult to heree1l, Tcsl.ap. it was wrong,
lut, riEht or wrong, meant the child should
love ME: rerhaps bocsuse know Fell that
no one else in all the world ever would, for
now I should never msrry, suA there was not
soul alive in vln,se veins 1ny blood ran.
never conla tell why cared 10 much abous
hin, il might hhve eeen freak at tirst, and
then the affection" grew With the indulgence
it might have t,ecn because he Was part oi
her, because could MT rculczal.e- Nilbur't
share in linn hat care did. aud every tine
saw him felt lir ii::la grasp tighter
round my t.etrt=srinse. Before hls iirs
year was out ha knew mo. aud woulI
crow and dance whom he ssw ma coming, ant
babllo my name, and hold out his chubby ar=u
to bo taken and Kissed and dAnllcl; and Tn
telling the truth when say that by that tint
he wss dearcr to me- than my llfeblood.
So the days west on, ono like another. ant