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

Fresh Water Cove for a lark; bat Griggs 5
was obstinate as a mule; he kept all hands !
lblard, aud mad as hornets
We had neighbOrs plenty by 8 o clock
but none too many. There's always ship
ping enough runs in for a nights lodging
to Gloucester; always was, even in those
days. Griggs brought the old lady up to
see the lights Of the harbOr-by which we
meant the town there, same as we mean
it now-and the twinkle of the shipping,
red as blood and green as grass, to star
board aud to port, while sailing in /; and
the pale fame color Of the lanterns swing
ing on the anchored craft But the old
lady only said She rather her son would
take her into Boston, aud she was afraid
her daughters children would sit up late
for her, and that was very bad for chill
dren with the whooping cough.
1t was about midnight that the blow
stood up-about midnight between the
Saturday aud Sunday Of the l4th and 10th
days of December, 1889. From that
until Tuesday morning there was no rest
in the heavens above, nor the earth be-
meath, nor the waters under the earth, for
the soul or body Of any Of them that 60
out on ships and down into the sea along
this Massachusetts coast; and though say
it that shouldn't, being good citizen, and
voting the straight republican ticket year
In aud year out, it's the awfulest, cruel
est, coolest coast | ever trusted to the
mercy of, or the honor Of or the fellow
feeling of, from the time | first set foot on
ship-board to this day.
If you look over the eastern light there
you'll see how it must have struck that
sheer wall of rock on the fresh water side.
1t struck as straight as an arrow from
the SOU east. And as sharp. 1t was
more the sharpness than the heft at the be-
ginning. 1t showed little, too, in a
sleety way, that's the worry of IA gale.
I'd rather it would rain deuge.
Howsoevcr, bring at anchor, and in port,
we thought 10 more of it than to own the
skipper knew his business as well as We
did, aud to chafi Ben Bumper on that lit.
tie remark Of his concerning the old lady,
at spare minntes, until the morning.
All the solemn, roaring, binding night
. the ships came scudding in from open sea
i. for shelter. | watched them, being alof
q to secure the top. gallant sail against i
A wrench Of any kind, with serious feeling
in my. mind couldn't have found reason
), to explain. They were so still about it
aud so many it occurred TO my thought
toward morning that they were unusua
:. many, and the blood-red lanterns that hav
! struck your fancy SO, sir smoking off tn
. rocks by my house of quiet evening
gave me "a notion that was most surprisin
about wounded creatures that the rocks ha
Al gOred.
r. When the Sunday morning lifted, tn
" masts were thick as musketocs at lighte
9 window, all up and down the harbor. Th
to sky was dull as death. Off over the poin
n along by Niles woods there, little pals
* streak lay, of a sort Of salmon color, an
in with an unpleasant twitch across it, like
Id winking man. On account Of the swim,
We ing OF the schooner, and the swinging
6. our neigbbors, and the slope Of the swe
before the eyes, all Gloucester shor'
he seemed waltziug in horrid waltz; an
IS what was curious about it, was to see the
is waltzing to the time beat by the Suada
". churchbels. They rang at half past .
he the harbor, and | could see folks, iii
he specks, stir through the icy stray to go
We meeting couldn't help wondering tn
we morning if any of them said their praye
nv for folks at sea. Not that we looked
nd any mischief at that hour, and who ev
me thought to pray for folks in port?
nm 1t blew all the morning and it blew
IN. the afternoon. The skipper came
TO about dinner time, and says the mate
of wish | had the old lady ashore to-day"
me But we could have got to China as e.
old as we could have got ashore--some thl
or four boats length-op to the awt
e.t rocks of Fresh Water cove that Sund
on noon.
the Yes, sir, it looks still enough over th
nan now, and green and soft, and kindly
was the eye; and the foam against the ro
we falls and rises in pleasant manner, mi
lied like the muslin curtain, often think, t
her hangs in our big parlor window. See
as Halfway rock looms to-day And
,out purple color that hangs on Norma
,ht; Woe? Y ou should have walked up
see down Niles beach and looked at Norm
/ to Woe on that Sunday noon, the l5d
,ket December, 1889. They said it loo
,out like the mouth Of the bottomless pit;
Ia hot iha snrau rolled nn Ike smoke