Litchfield enquirer., 1875-07-08
WHOLE NO. 2561.

aHuA db bu0 OOOEs WuSu phemia was ready I opened the door and took her out.
 'sYou go dress yourself" said the board CT. ''I'n hold her here until you come back. D @4ssaAs.ysys,,. -.
 I left her and found my clothes (which, chair and all, had tumbled against the foot of the bed and so had not gone into the water), and soon re-appeared on deck. The wind was blowing strongly, but it did not now seem to be very cold. The deck reminded me of the gang-plank of Har- lem steamboat at low tide. It was inclined at an angle of more than forty-fve de- grees, am sure. There was light enough for us to see about us, but the scene and all the dreadful circumstances made me feel the most intense desire to wake up and find it all dream. There was no doubt, however, about the boarder being wide awake.
 "Now then," said he, take hold of her on that side and we'll help her over here. l You scramble down on that nde; it's all l dry just there. The boats turned over toward the water, and I'll lower her down to you. I've let 8 rope over the sides. You can hold on to that as you go down" got over the bulwarks and let myself down to the ground. Then the boarder got Euphemia up and slipped her over the side, holding to her hands, and letting her gently down until I could reach her. She sad never a word, but screamed at times. I carried her little way up the shore and set her down. wanted to take her up to house near by, where we bought our milk, but she declined to go until we had saved Pomona.
 So went back to the boat, having care fully wrapped up Euphemia, to endeavor to save the girl. found that the board CT had so arranged the gang-plank that it l was possible, without a very great exer- else of agility, to pass from the shore to the boat. When saw him, on reaching the shelving deck, he was staggering up the stairs with d1ning-room chair and | large framed engraving of Rapbael's Dante -an ugly picture, but full of true feeling; at least so Euphemia always declared, though I am not quite sure that know | what she meant.
 "Where is Pomona?' said, endeavor- | ing to stand on the hillside of the deck.
 'I don't know," said he, "but we must get the things out. The tides rising and the winds getting up. The boat will go over before we know it.
 ''But we must find the girl," said. 'She can't be left to drown"
 'I don't think it would matter much," said he, getting over the side of the boat with his awkward load. ''She would be of about as much use drowned as any oth- CT way If it hadn't been for that hole she cut in the side of the boat, this would never have happened"
 "You don't think it was that p said, holding the picture and the chair while he let himself down to the gang-plank.
 "Yes, it was. he replied. "The tides very high, and the water got over that hole and rushed in. The water and the wind will finish this old craft before very long,"
 And then he took his load from me and dashed down the gang-plank. I went be- low to look for Pomona. The lantern still hung on the nail, and took it down and went into the kitchen. There was Pomo- na, dressed, and with her hat on, quietly packing some things in basket. | "Come, hurry out of this," I cried. l Don't you know that this house-this boat. l mean, is a wreck?"@
 ''Yes, ma'am-sir, I mean-I know it, l and l suppose We shall soon be at the mer- l cy of the waves"
 "Well, then, go as quickly as you can. What are you putting in that basket?"
 Food" she said. "We may need it." | I took her by the shoulder and hurried 1 her on deck, over the bulwark, down the gang plank, and so on to the place where Ihad left Euphemia.
 | I found the dear girl there, quiet and collected, all mp in little bunch, to shield herself from the wind. wasted no time, but hurried the two women over to the house of our milk merchant. There, with some difficulty, Iroused the good woman, and after seeing Euphemia and Pomona l al i,1A Aho I1ek L- Lon IL tale, and hurried back to the boat.
 The boarder was working like Trojan. He had already pile of our furniture on the beach.
 I set about helping him, and for an hour we labored at this nasty and toilsome moving. I was indeed toilsome busi- ness. The f1oors were shelving, the stairs l leaned over sideways, ever so far, and the gang-plank was desperately short and steep.
 Still, we saved quite number of house. hold articles. Some things we broke and some we forgot, and some things were too big to move in this way; but we did very well, considering the circumstances. The wind roared, the tide rose, and the boat groaned and creaked. We were in ] the kitchen, trying to take the stove apart l (the boarder was sure we could we could carry it up, If we could get the pipe out and the legs and doors off), when we heard crash. We rushed on deck and found that the garden had fallen in Making our way as we'll as we could toward the gaping rent in the deck, we saw that the | turAip-bed had gone down bodily into the boarder's room. He did not hesitate. but scrambled down his narrowstairs. | followed him. He struck Q match that he had in his pocket, and lighted q little lantern that hung under the stairs. His room was perfect rubbish heap. The floor, bed, chairs, pitcher, basin everything was covered or filled with gar den mold and turnips. Never did be- hold such scene. He stood in the midst | of it. holding his lantern high above his head. At length he spoke. eff we had time, he said, ''we might come down here and plck out a lot of tur- nips."
 ''But, how about your furniture?" I ex- claimed.
 ''Oh, that's ruined p he replied. So we did not attempt to save any of it, but we got hold of his trunk and carried that on shore. When we returned, found that the water was pouring through his partition, making the room laKe of mud And, as the water was rising rapidly below, and the boat was keeling over more and more, we thought it was time to leave, and we left.
 It would not do to go far away from our possessions, which were piled mp in q sad looking heap oh the shore; and so, after had gone over to the milk woman's to assure Euphemia of our safety, the boarder and I passed the rest of the night --there was not much of it left--in walk ing up and down the beach smoking some cigars which he fortunately had in his pocket.
 In the morning took Euphemia to the hotel, about mile away-and arranged for the storage of our furniture there, un- til we could find another habitation. This habitation. we determined, was to be in substantial house, or part of q house, which should not be affected by the tides. Hfs
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