Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-10

e next mOrnin' instead o stayin' for week
II fshin' as they'd given out they would Tn
Is boys had allowed to make n good bit out
r them for odd jobs, but Mabelle AMI ker
t our own counsel.
r "Mabelle and her father went home i
! November. and little while after, Mis-
t Deacon Price told me they had gone t
t France"
t "The fall of 1910 was harl one 70
folks as got their livin' by the sea. On
: gale beat close upon another, and more thai
- one boat from the Island went to pieces
4 Winter came, at last, and it was comfor
To have the maekerel Schooners all in, an,
t settle down n little. Comfort, leastwise t,
some. more than TO me. for Zebedee wa
away somewhere in the north seas, ant
manva gusty night used to lay and nevei
shut my eyes till daybreak.''
: christmas Eve came. All day the ISLAND
/ had been choked in a cold mist Away t.
the northeast the gray bank of fog broke {
little as the sun went down, and showed Q
pile OF cloud black as midnight"
jock d been Stayin' with me ever since
summer. lie didn't seem like himselS that
night, 50 restless and uneasy-like, and 70
see II couldn't pacify him, | got my Bible
and began to read Just where it opened,
which happened to be at the eighteenth
Palm. lie threw himself down and listen
ed, but he had such a queer, wild look. that
| shut the Bible after little, and told him
to 20 upstairs to bed. lie started docile
enough, hut at the chambcr-door he stopped
50 long that | spoke to him again:
"'Go on, now, Jock-that's my good
boy He gave such start that was
scared for minute, then he put up his
hand. and said, quite loud.
Its COMM Tonight"
Then he went up stairs. -
Somehow | couldn't 20 to bed. felt as
ilsomething was goin to happen. The very
air wasn't natural. Before knew it. I'd
be sayin' over to myself, It's comin'-to-
night Twas no use tryin' to seold my
self ont of my fecln's' and so, at last,
Just Topped down on the lounge with my
clothes on. y laid there. could hear
the wind ri-in and the surf pound on the
rocks oatside of the har. | heard the clock
strike ten, and eleven, and then must "A
gone into a heavy sleep, for when | woke
/ up all of a sudden, the last spark of fire was
oat and the room cold rs grave. The
candle was hurnt down into the stick, till
here was hardly a CLEAN of light left. |
got up. for was shiyerin like an ague-
chill. and Is | walked across the floor, felt
the old house tremble in the gale. and the
roar of the sea was ike one long roll of
thunder. Then. all to oncc-it'- dreadful
sound. ma am. in night ike that heard
gun. and in n minute more. another. and
| fell down on my knees and prayed for the
poor wrctche, perishin' out there in the
storm. couldn't abear to stay alone. 50
put something ABOUND me and ran over
through the dark to 'Biah Portcr's They
were all up. and 'Binh and Tom had lust
come up from the shore. They couldn't
make ont ANYTHING. they said, and the sen
run So that there was nothin' to do but
wait for light
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..,if.r, -...ii.,I howl , noise behind
me- ike some Zone runnin;. and the crowd
rlrrel every vav. Turned around. and
ior au instant ma ann. thought the sel'd /.
civ. ,ir ih- dead il swalogcd two and /.
twenty v.ars a-one Wasn't it Cap'n T.
NYiIlict.ri that stood there. with black eye~ I
Da-bip' and the salt srrav frozen into his /.
Iair3 A dozen women screamed. and old /
Nj. Pri,c fell down like dead
...Jockr called ont then. for diln'c
know w,a, wa. .lvip'-.O jock +, it .
comc2'''
.Ie didn't answer. doubt if he heard .
or saw me at ali. He stood -tarin' out to
sea with such a face As Ineyer saw ON nor .
t,1 man All IN once his voice. that u.ed 10 /
n. .so VOL Ikea cbild's run- ont ,tron,
and ,lo,r n. n trn,ret
...IIe bowed the heavens. also. and came
down and darknes. was under his feet.
Ami b. roic u,,on n cberub and did ny
w., he iij fix nnon the WINS of the wind. /
Ills pavilion round about hlm We're dark .
water. and thick cloud.o OF the skies. ''
Ill SENT from above. he took me. he
,lrc,r me ont of many waters.
...Tbou viii LIGHT INV candle; the Lord
INV God viii cnligbten INV darkness. For
wto +. God save the Lord. and who is a
rock save orr God?'"
The fog lifted up in the east. and the
clear Light touched his head \ minute
more and the wreck was in fall view. jock
turned ike a flash and wre nchcd the glass
out of Skipper Gihson'S hand. He looked
for an instant. then he dashed it down on
the sand. and ran for the bout-houSe. The
men looked at each other. Nobody seemed
70 breathe. Skipper Gibson was the first
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