Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-02

lady shouldn't SEQ il. He sat crouched
up little to keep the timber of from her
take il, with bis head and shoulders
out-sO.
Well, We went aud left them, sir.
Whist else could we dot Ben Bumper
was the first. Halfway over he cried
out and dropped. What he did We never
he was struck, or slipped,
or iroze, or what il was. Some Of the
lads said it was for damuiug the old lady.
But don't know. All know is he just
cried out sud dropped. Yes. we left 'em
him and the old lady, sitting side by side.
| felt mean as Luciier | called out
good by to him, aud how mean | felt.
But the blast blew his answer the other
way. | saw his lips move, but | lost the
words, heard the old lady though, as /
swung of. You could have heard her In
in purgatory, if you'd been so far She
pipsd up like Il weasel My sons carry
ing me to Boston He said it shouldn't
cost me nothing-----"
heard her until got ashore Griggs
didn't, himself lie was chilled or frozen
or something of that kind, and in a sort
of faint, they said. was mighty glad Of
it, must say. The old creature did pipe
up so /! We stood on the rocks aud watched
as we'll as We could see them through the
beating Of the blow. l had feeling as
if my eyes were beaten in my head. I
put both hands up to hold 'em in. saw
Hancko trying to tie a life preserver on
to the old lady. The other boys didn't.
But did. He tried to tie it on, and she
sat and wruLg her hands. l don't sup
pose heard her, but I'd have sworn l
did, a.piping up "He said it shouldn't
cost me nothing!"
Hancko stood up. l saw that. He
stood looking straight ahead. l thought
, he had grand look, being at distance
, where you missed the squirting of his eye.
And he stood so tall sir, on that wreck, as
tall as stand to-day which is six foot
: three in my stockings
y | suppose when mans counting his wife
he thinks more of such things quite natu.
r raj; but [ couldn't help thinking, when I
e saw Jib Hancko standing there. Of that
young woman down to Squam. If she'd
n been down to Calais visiting cousin now
it wruld have seemed a pity. And l
y wondered if he thought Of it, how he and
Il the Pansie were going down together by
n themselves.
t Next minute there came the awfulest,
d longest, horridest cry ] ever listened to
Y on land or sea. Whether it was the old
t lady as she struck the water or whether
rs it was the skipper coming to and seeing
u the Pausie's headlight out or whether it
was the devils below or the angels above,
IS couldn't tell you to this day.
Il don't think you could understand, sir,
If unless you'd been through it yourself,
Id what feelingit gives man to fall and
VS. slip, slip and fall, clutch and cling, and
Id drop plumb down wall of rock like that
to all ice beneath you and about you
Ii, and squeeze your feet into little ledgC
you know of. and jamb your fingers into
nd a little crack above your head, to save I
on human creature if so be it washes uI
". against you, and see the lath and pile
,lv come laundering in. To see 'em rear anc
cd strike, and topplc over, and splinter W
nv like teacups, and suck under and slip of
10 hear the noise they made in hitting
no and to mistake EN- for human legs an,
,ht arms, and grab at them, and lose you
j i balance and duck your head as they COM
his crashing up. Nor yet TO dodge bundl.
or of lath carried shoulders over on one aufu
he wave and find you'd lodged humal
body, sir, and it was banging up agains
e- the cliff like sea-wced. before you
ee very eyes. Well, dodged him just tha
zen way then sprang on him. then | lo'
ore him then | had him, | couldn't tell 20
how-by the hair by the leg, by the co
af- lar, all ways, no ways; he was very sliI
Ice perry. 1t was very slippery feeling
had had, what with him and the ice
,th- Yes Oh yes. They got us up. | wasn
0 in much hurt myself. don't know how
lin happened abvut Hancko He lay such
But dead weight, suppose. There was
ung hole there in the rock You could see
and five were nigh enough. None TOO b
rry- for mans body. They had to pull hi
With through. Twice they had him, and
cost slipped. He was awfully jammed.
ave Well, the Monday morning came at la
| had feeling all the nightas if the S
hide would never rise again. But Mond
Jib morning come ike other Monday mol
que. ings, and folks hung out their washing
ady, along tho Shore But it was the awful
put Monday moroing, sir, that ever Glouces