Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-02
Miscellany
Prom the Hearth aud Home.
A Sailors Yarn,
NJ ELIEABEIH STEWART FHELFs.

L NEVER set out here to the mouth OF
the harbor, anchored or becalmed (your
lines taul, sir9, or similarly or other
wise at my leisure TO take fair squint
inwards at the town, but | wonder what
it may be to 90 stark, staring mad, Ii
you'll haul in a mite faster now, it'll be
better for you. aud just as well for the
fish. That's about it.
I've noticed it about our cod, they
know when take gentlemen out as well
as know myself. They'll take the ad-
vantage Of you, it they can, most any
day. Maybe it's professional preference,
on a political, I'm sure couldn't say. I'd
be willing to grant Gloucester cod his
choice OF either, aud then admit that he
might have u mixed motive TO the bottom
Of it. Its natural enough, brought up as
they are from infancy on the fishery ques-
tion, with views more or less decided and
distinct.
A little blue you are about the mouth,
sir. I'd lay down if was you It's bet
ter for you and quite as well for the fish,
as | said before, and I'm quite used to it,
bless you When lis too rough for a
gentleman outside, and it very often is, |
always say q" Just lay down and take it
easy, and leave the cod to me-" He takes
as many pound home to his wife come
night, | reckon, and nobody the wiser for
it, and who'll ask questions? Not me, nor
yet the cod. How does that 60? There !!
When there's might less embarrassment
between yourself, Sir, and your stomach,
I'll explain to you the feeling had occa-
sion to mention about the harbor mouth,
aud looking inwards at the town.
Well, and yet it amt so easy to explain
Most thugs ant. I've tod il times enough
and vet not the whole Of it either. There
are folks, you know, you can talk to, ant
again there's folks you can't There are
boarders in the little hall chamber, not Il
mention names, | wouldn't tell Jim Hanc
ur kos story to, not for weeks board out
right but pleasant way, sir, and al
honest as between man and man, and III
complaining of the coffee, and not staviui
the dorles in regardless, because they an
YOUR own, and kind OF forethought 70
cabbages if the garden lays between go
and the bathing,house, why, that's Il dill
fercnt thing.
ts You remember Of hearing of the grea
gale of 1889? No! You don't say 1t
surprising thing to me how igot
rant folks are in the country. There al
some smart men come from the countr,
too. We were booked for Boston whe
the great gale of '39 came up, 1t WI
the last voyage took to Boston. Fact i
may as well own it was the last voyaG
took anywhere. | wasn't born with
reef knot between my fingers, never boar'
ed fishing smack that didn't feel I'd
lelf's be boarding my coffin, and that ga
made land lubber Of me once for a
We cleared from Wiscasset, along abo
the week, if | recolect, the first week
December, in the schooner Pausie, with
cargo of lath and piles. We had abol
fifty thousand feet Of lath aboard. Orig
was our capn. He belonged in Wisca
sett. lie had his mother aboard. >
was au old lady, over seventy years oil
He was taking her to Boston to spend tt
winter with her daughter.
The old lady enjoys it. having the
fair blows" says he one day to Hanci
Jib Hancko was mate.
"Wen, don't know" "says the cap
81 have" says |. And SO | h;
But she wasn't aboard the Pansie IL
trip thank heaven! and it wasn't nect
sary to specify where she was as l
marked to Jib when he made the lnquI
She went to the B anks with me OF
along with her father, who was skipper
the smack. You won't believe TO see
turning over griddlc cake or crul
now. what sailor she was. She hau
a catch as big as mine right along a
day the only thing She failed on was
king out the vitals 1t was while |
to work on the virals Of her mackerel
spare her tender eyes that first began
think of her. She was down to Cali
visiting u cousin Of ers, when L t
that trip to Boston. Tn skipper's mo
er was ind Of cute old lady to
round. She sat on deck most every di
mcndin' up Griggs's shirts. She set
world by Griggs. She used to stop
most every time happened round,
say My sons taking me to Bos'
to spend the winter with my daugh
He said it shouldn't cost menothing.
daughters children have got the whooT