Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-10-11
Vol. 66.-3301. No. 81.

The circus was wonderful more than won-
derlu to the young eyes gazing at H. The
riding was daring the sawdust fresh the
ladies' dresses shoue, the clowns we're laugh
ably amusing. Amidst the spectators sat
Mrs Sand, enjoying il as much as anybody
evidently there was no fear in her heart Al
the way home, after the drums and trumpets
played US out, the children, in rapture Of
delight could talk Of nothing but the per.
lormance. Alex made just one other re.
mark that the wind was choppng round
Al the window, 10 the old place, sat Mrs
Whitnnll. watching still in the dusky night
| wished TO my heart that Robert would
make his appearance, aud put an end to the
suspenses
Oh, mamma cried they, bursting into
the parlor. you should have come You
never saw anything so good. What a thing
Tor papa to have missed 1t :"
With the next morning the wind had
81 chopped entirely round, aud blew direct
/ jushoro.
They'll be in to-day" said Mrs Sand,
noddIug 10 US as she went by the window to
market, small basket ou her arm, and her
golden hair tucked into a net behind
But that day passed ike the rest and they
did not come.
As il to mock US for what had been, the
calmest and most charming weather possible
set in. The sky aud the sea were alike blue
and still the tide came ripping up with a
low murmur that soothed the ear aud lulled
the senses to peace Gazing at the sheet OF
blue glass, in which the vessels at rest reflect.
ed themselves one could scarcely believe it
to be the same turbulent and dangerous sea
Of some three or four days before
Where could the yacht be? Even Mrs.
Sand began to ask the question aud swept
the horizon to look for IL with the captain,
powerful glass.
llo has often been away as long as this,
said She to Mrs Whinall. " Tiresome thing
they are, those men They've not bit Vi
thought once they get clear away from US
sailors especially"
But Robert Whiinall was no sailor, aud
his wife knew that he at least possessed a full
share Of thougbtiuluess.
And still the Margaret Ann did not CONT
in
There had been talk in the place Of {
small fishing boat that had been out durin,
the storm, aud, like Capt Sands yacht, ha,
not made ITS appearance yet. The fishermen
gathered on the shore at all times Of the dag
oegan to say to one another that she had no
4 " lived" out the gale. An old man name,
Crump had been in her, aud his nephew Tom
, the latter boy aud an orphan.
, Going out for our mornings turn on tn
sands, the younger children with their spade
aud little tubs, and Mrs. Whitnall staying be
hind as usual for she had neither heart no
life for anything now--we saw a crowd col
I Iected some way of on the beach. Peopl
$ we're running thither also from the towi
talking as they went. or course, our boy
I. started of at once but | would not let h
e girls 60.
" Look there They are moving"
| Kate spoke Of the crowd Of people The
50 were moving, as she said coming toward
, us. Quite procession, it looked ike; som,
thing carried in its midst
t Come down, children, come down" sal
!, hastily. " Don't stay until it passes BY"
S But no; full Of curiosity, their feet wei
as if glued to the road
la minute Dot" said Gorty, Alex
t coming to US"
Alex and Fred were running along at II
+. top OF their speed The boys looked sud, b'
II excited.
: " Who do you think it Is, Dorothy z You
.. never guess, you girls. lt's that poor bo
!. lom Crump."
IS " Did you see him y eagerly asked the girl
= " No they had covered hun up before v
], got there lie was such nice, civil fello'
TOO
y But Is he really drowned - cried lit
y. Ethel.
ll Alex nodded. The tide washed him
lie this morning. Poor old Crump aud his bo
are both lost Tor certain the men are sayi
!. there's no hope for them now.
wonder how II happened y
h. " why IN the storm that night, OF course
I'd The throng came on aud the children we
s' hXtures Alex and Fred hatly said III
n would not move; the girls upheld by tn
- 'tayed with them. Ethel stole TO my Sit
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