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

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eion Re r.is dead weighii sms :,
s-eansi - the hfeslesi sou,e drilsi 81
to sea ;sdnJ ef'cm Just went down q
their anchors With the lights Of ,hs isur
10 lbeir rce.. Or suamrci beiore sifikis,
the rocks fifiy crails went to pieces u
in that iarbor. aud City men Eout 10 ih'
bottom before the blow was over.
Tie harbor Jas solid sheet of foam
that day from eBl to end. From its haF.
Ing such a white and shining look il made
me think about the Sea Of Glass VIC read
Of, sir. | thought Of il when | saw them
drag the bodies uP, aud the poor fellows
faces turned up on the snow. And won.
derei iftheir ghosts we're walking up and
down The channel in the winter morning,
playing harps. II seemed such freezing
work All along the coast, and in Boston
bay, and eff Cape Cod, it was an awful
blow. But Gloucester got the knuekles
of it
The old lady came ashore that morning
We hauled her up and carried her into a
little she'd there was about there. and
covered her over with bed-quilt before
the skipper saw her.
We never found Ben Bumper.
The mate came to ABOUT dawn; that is
to say, as much as Jim HarcSo will ever
come to, this side of the place where the
young woman from Squam had gone TO
flor which, If Id been a pious man. | /
should have thanked the God of sea anil
shOre) Ii wouldn't have been a pleasant
job for her riding over in the wind four
miles that morning, TO see the cuts he had
about the head, and the look. You see
the jam was all about the head. We
warmed him up, and rubbed him up, and
and cheered him up, and Griggs paid the ,
doctor seventy-fye cents for feeling ofhis
pulse; but it was no mortal use. He sat {.
as crazy as loon in the kitchen G
If the house we took him to, chat. d
ering about that old lady, and saying $
low he'd held on, until [ wished for one n
led gone to the bottom with her himself g
t seemed to me that would have been an
much more agreeable to the f.,
Dung woman from Squam-ifshe has her ?
references in her existing residence.- ~
han the present
Not but what Briggs has paid his board o .,
ute regularly, and been to inquire about pr
i'm at the asylum twice year then and
YER since. they say, and spends his time =
whiting little 6gure-heads for ships. y
It'll the name of Pansie underneath. in Sc
lrpIe ink, done with a fine steel pen. So,
We didn't mean him to get into that as
led that morning, but he got in somehow W.
ok us all by surprise, and at our wits
I'd for him. 1t was dreadfully bleak
Tile openlshed, and the old lady looked Sta
lcOmmon'y cold even considering the
'cnmStances. Griggs was sitting by her San
tn his hat jammcd on his eyes Two or
zee OF US were about, standing in the inat
". Hancko walks in with his head in said said
bandages, white and bloody, straight to srr
Eggs. P pcS,
'Well, Griggs," says he, II held onto en- ant {
old lady" sam
= SO you did, Jib"said Griggs staring. m viov
I'm glad she looks so comfortable, " if u,
S Jib, smiling round the shed. "But
lnk You'd better take her where it is Stat
title warmer, Cap'n, when she can be OF
we'd. told you I'd hold on, Griggs!" e. Gil p
'oihS say he sits saying that now, TO e eySg
very day, 81 held on, Cap'n Griggs to! ton
'ld you I'd hold on" over and over 70 VI
SELF and always smiling round q !
when am lying off here at persc
harbor's throat on quiet day, won. week week
whether it is not better 10 be ,Jib f that
IL he
'cko--in mad house-holding on and " B fSe
ling round, than it is to be me or YOU
or the most of folks that I'm acauaint. w
With When l am out here by myself Y
the great sea calm below me, and +
great still sky above me, sometime,
1t is, sir | think it with all INV The
t. But when | get home to my wife Ing as
sit down of an evening, [ am not 50 On Az a.
and so it goes. e.