Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-15

slippery. Only me and Scotty went ur
;. cause Scotty said Ned must stay %
answer our hail SO we could find .the
way back, cause, you know, there wan t
no street lights there, and one part
looked pretty much like another in the
dark. We'd seen where the birds had
lighted, and we scrambled up to them
afore it got pitch dark, and no difficult
ty in catching 'em. We each got a
couple, and then we started down again,
shOutin' out to Ned once in while so
that we might not lose our way.
| don't think, sir, you'd make very
hearty meal off of them raw sea gulls,
If you had 'em here tonight, but if
you'd a been four-and-twenty hours
without food, and knocked about as we'd
been, you'd be glad of anything. They
was pretty strong and fishy, there's no
denyin' it, but we felt heap right bet
ter arter we'd done supper than we did
before. ls-.-.
aft only had pull at pipe now,"
said Ned, @I wouldn't change places
with the Emperor of Rushy." As he
couldn't by no means get smoke, he
was safe in sayin' so. Howsoeyer we
euddled down close together and thank
ed God twas no worse, and went off to
sleep. 1 was woke up sometime in the
night by the old berg beginning to
thump on the bottom, and the other
chaps was woke up about the same
time. 1 don't know how long we had
slept, but the wind had piped on and
it was blOwin' hard gale, and the sea
had got up to that extent that each
wave would strike the bottom with q
shock that would make everything
tremble.
"Blowed If I amt afeard this here
craft will go to pieces" says Ned.
"Never you be afeard of that, ship
mate" said Scotty; "this old berg has
Travelled many q hundred mile, and
stood many a gale of wind afore now,
and she amt goin' to pieces yet, not if
I knows anything about iee."
just then there came the most tre-
mendous shock we'd had yet, and it
seemed as if one of the highest peaks
had toppled over and come crashing
down; and then all of sudden the
wind seemed to moderate, although the
sea kept up and the thumps on the bot
tom still continued.
My lads" says Scotty, 81 think that
there squall was the last furry of the
souwester, and the winds gone in to
nor west, we'l have fine weather to-
morrow"
eyes, fine, but mighty cold," said
Ned.
"We're in luck agin, boys" said Scot
ty, cause our house here's under the
lee; we'd freeze if it was on the other
side of the island"
Says 1, "did either of you hear any
thing singler when that big crash came ?
Seemed to me 1 heard above all the |
crashin' something like shout; but of
course it couldn't be-"
Well, now you mention it, says
Scotty, 81 heerd that too, but of course
it was only the wind, cause there's no
one here to shout except us three, and
we was still enough"
swell, we got used to the thumps, as
we did not feel the wind and was pretty
comfortable We soon dropped off to
sleep again, and slept don't know how
long. ! was walked by shout from
Scotty: 'Turn out there, lads, for I'm
blowed il we amt shut in.'
The cave was still dark, but Scotty's
voice seemed to come from the entrance.
1 groped my way along, and presently
I got to where he was and could see a
small chink of light through the icy
wall which had formed through the
night across the entrance of the cave.
"It's all clear now," said Scotty.
3That crash we heard in the night was
this bowlder tumbling down, and when
we thought the wind had shifted it was
only that we couldn't hear it on ac-
count of bein' shut up. Pm more'n
ever of mind now," said he, @that we
took off from here, cause if we hadn't
a been a goin' to be we'd been crushed
last night. Now, see here how COM
plete this here is. Last night we had
house all complete except that the doors
wasn't hung, and the wind comes in in
large numbers; down comes this chunk
Of ice and our house is complete and
ship shape" d -as
"Howare you goin' to get out?" says
Ned. H- 1855.
"Cut ourselves out" says Scotty.
So we took out our sheath knives and
went to work. 1t was q long job, for
we had to cut through about ten feet of
Ice; but the ice was not hard, and at
last, after some hours hard work, we
got out. The first thing we did was to
look for our boat. We went over to the
other side of the berg where we had
left her, but no trace of her was to be
seen. In fact, the whole formation of
the berg was changed, and it appeared
rs ii on this side also one of the peaks
had toppled down and fallen on the ,
ledge where we had left our boat.
that was so, or whether she
had washed away by the sea, We never .
knew; sic was gone and we never saw
her afterward.
"We're in for it now," said Ned, "and
may make up our minds to spend the +.
rest of our lives on this blasted ice
berg"
aThat be blowed for yarn" says =.
Scotty; 'we'll be took off; we're right
in the track of ships, and some of 'em .
will see us; don't you give up yet, my ,
says he to Ned.
81 amt givin' up" says Ned, shut !
what the blazes is that down on the edge I
Of the ice there? 1t looks like barrel'
"We all three scrambled down, and
there, wedged into cleft in the ice,
was a barrel, and on its head was h
won't forget it In hur- 1
& Young; best pilot |
bread.' About three or four feet from ,
this there was piece of a settee, such |
rs ships usually carried on their poop
leck for passengers to sit on. And
this was all.
"Boys," said Scotty, "this is mighty
poor show; this here barrel Of pilot
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