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

smashed to srliniers just above US here.
She was from Mt Desert; | forgot the
name. An old man aud his three boys
went down. | could see them dropping
off Ike flies. You see the rigging irOze
50, aud everything you touched glazed
over and slipped up. 1t blew all the al
ternoon, and it blew all the evening
A little to the fore Of midnight, the
skipper sent Haneko below after the old
lady, Jib brought her up, and they tied
her to the main.mast with a tippet she
was knitting for her daughters children,
and almost broke her heart. Griggs
would have her on deck aud handy. Heav-
en- nor earth couldn't tell, he said. what
would come next.
Good God (" says he "ifthis goes on,
We shall 90 down at anchor like baby's
raltr
To say that that tow-hnndrcd-and-f fifty
touner just swashed like the chips you're
throwing in this minute, amt to say any
thing about it. To say that we couldn't
tell one minute from another, whether We
stood on oul kneel or our mainmast, ant
to give you an idea. To say how the gale
put arms under us, and clutched US in
aud then stepped back an awful step or
Two, over Eastern Point, and down with
its head, and hunted at us, and up with
its shoulders and h'isted us along, dead
against the rock, ant to express nor TO
imply it. To say at midnight Of that
Sunday night, all hell opened under
Gloucester harbor is to draw upon your
imagination, sir; but it's the bJst | can do
Five minutes after II, the cry came up
We've slipped our anchor! !" Five min
- utes more and we were on the rocks. "li
we don't swamp before we've time tC
break, cries the skipper, "theres chance
for rope. Volunteers for a rope, my
ladsm
For folks were upon shore from TIE vii
= lage, and the cries came up, and every
time the sound cut through the thunder
l. and Pansie leaped as if she would answe
&c to it, and rammed herself between tn
e teeth of the breakers like wedge.
T. We looked at oac another, but no ma
y stirred.
Said Ben Bumper, "D--n rope !!
t, Said Jib l1ancko, slowly, II guess T.
"a go." But the skipper turLed round o
fl him; says he; I'D go myself it it WASH
a for the old lady. Anyhow, | wont sen
lg you, Jib. Who'll hold ont the old lad
MS if don't get acrost 2" "l'll hold on
it, the old lady," said Jib Hancko, slow /
It's ever; "but I'd rather go myself, Cap
al Griggs.'
We "Hold syour tOngue!" roars Grig:
he through the below ofthe blast. 81 won
g send you if nobody goes, Jib Hancko!
ng | don't get acrost, you hold ont the o
ad lady, will you Jib?" "Ay, ay, sir" sa
Jib. "Apd if do get acrost you'll ho
he ont the old lady, will you Jib? She is
ed come over first you understandable 20
he Jib?" Ay,. ay, sir" says Jib.
Mt, With that the skipper steps up al
ish kisses the old lady, before us all, once
nd one cheek once on the other. Good b
{ a mother! !" says he. But the old lady or
ng- wrung her hands and said, they'd spoil
of Charles Henry's tippet, and she was We
'ell cold.
res Well, so Griggs set off with the rol
nd it was an ugly job. Twice we thoug
em he'd gone. and three times we thoug
ay he'd gone, aud once the mate struck
at two fists together so the blood come fir
ike his knuckles. The ropes parted !"
to cried.
hat But the next minute through the b
1ers lish noise we heard the skippcr's vol
for and saw, through the thin and brob
ver shine Of lanterns that folks held on sh
that the rope lay over, safe and sound
all Now, would you believe it, sir, that
up ter that that old creature wouldn't bu,
81 an inch !? Ideclare it makes me feel
/" to think of it to this day. Come me
Easy err" says Jib Hancko, hurrying her "
lree gentle way, for VIC were terribly stri
vfu ed and mangled, and no time to lose
day she sat and wrung her hands, and wr
her hands - quite crazed by cold
here fright, and crying out "My sous cal
v to ing me to Boston to spend the winter v
ocks my daughter He said it shouldn't
,uch me nothing My daughters children h
that got the whooping cough"
how Do our best we couldn't stir her,
the or hair Lord Almighty J" said
nan's Hauko. But after that he held his ton
and He went and sat down by the oil Ii
naa's and united her tippet from her, and
til Of his arms around her. The cargo le;
oked and struck at them, IN plunging ovel
and saw blood upon his head and face.
wiped it off with his lee elbow, SO the