The Grange advance., 1876-01-26

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" .:Whp, f,my young; Giendsu have 7read
TIE !s9!rGfYfal atgrX f q }s :EqGeh H AfdaP,: :;
English 1poet!! Ieis! The story of a. mar,
who went to sea;learing1 behind!a sweet
young wife and a little daughter. He
was cast away oon desert island, where
he remained several years! when he was
discoyered and taken off tby a., passing
vessel, # Coming b,ek to; his, native town,
he found his Wife married to an old play.
mate--:a good man, ~!rich and hohored,
with whom she was living hapnie'.: me
poor man, unwilling to c:uSEe tE 9er Ra!flana Rst
m known to her ma lived and died alone.
The noem Las reminded ME ofr a very
s;1,sils I sf5ry of:nIy QWn. New England
ne;a nborhood, which have often heard,
and which, I will try to tell, not in. poetry,
like Alfred Tennyson's but in my own
poor prose. l can assure my readers
:tthat, Units main particulars, tits a true
tale:
i: One bright summer morning, more than
three score years ago, David Matson, with
his young wife and his two healthy, bare.
footed; boys, STOOD Oh <1tfle bank Of the
river near their dwelling. They were
waiting there for Pelatiah Curtis to come
round the point with his wherry' and take
the husband and father to the port few
miles below. The Lively Turtle was
.S f5S9t to "n Et 70 Pn r%aa and
stood there in the level, morning sun.
shine talking cheerity, but had you been
near enough you could have seen tears in
Anna Matsen's blue eyes; f,r she loved
her husband and knew there was always
danger on the sea. And David's bluff,
CHEEKY voice trembled a little now and
then, for the honest sailor loved his snug
home on the Merrimack, with the dear
wife and her pretty boys. But presently
the wherry came alongside, and David
was just stepping into it when he turned
back to kiss his wife and children once
more. ..-
"In with you, man.. said Pelatiah Cur
tis. :*There's no time for kissing and
such foo!eries when the tide serves
And so they parted. Anna aud: the
boys went back to their home. and David
to the port, whence he sailed off in the
Lively Turtle. And months passed;
autumn followed summer, and winter the
autumn; and then spring. came, anon, it
was summer on the. river side, and he
did not come back. And another year
passed, and then the old sailors and fish.
ermen shook their heads solemnly, and
said the Lively Turtle was lost ship,and
would never come back to port. And
poor Anna had her bombazine gown dyed
in black her, straw. bonnet trimmed in
mourning ribbons, and hepceforth she
was known as the Widow Matson.
And how wasi all this time with David
himself? ~. . *'.::'
Now you must know that the Moham-
medan peaple Of Algiers or Tripoli, and
Magadore and Sallee, on: the Barbary
coast, had for a long time been in the
habit Of fitting out galleys and armed
boats to seize upon merchant vessels of
Christian nations, and make slaves of
fttf51 ard passengers, just as men
calling themselves Christians in America
zYelte. YelEte sending vessels to Africa to catch
Lively Turfleso soE }c1tlh their e: plantations. The
Of these rowing ,xahhers- and the cfs$ ff@s
was taken to Algiers and sold in the mar.
ket place as slaves, poor David Matson
among the rest. :: ..
When a boy he had learned the trade
Of shipcarpenter WITH his fathers, on the
Merrimack, and now he was set at work
in the dock yards, His master, who was
naturally a kind man, d,d. not overwork
him. lie had daily his three loaves, Of
bread, and when his clothing was worn
out, its place was supplied by the coarse
cloth of wool and camel's hair, vowed by
the Berher women. Three hours before
sunset he was released from work.: and
Friday, which is the Mohammed Sabbath
is d day of entire rest. :..- '-.';'.':'>
Once a year, at the season called Ram
aden, he was left at leisure for whole
week: So time went on-days, weeks,
mouths, and years. His dark hair. be-
came gray. he still dreamed Of his old
home on the Merrimack, and of his good
Anna and the boys. He wondered
whether they yet lived, what they were
doing. The hope Of ever seeing them
again grew fainter and fainter, and at last
nearly died out; and he resigned himself
to his fate as slave for life. =
But one day handsome. middle-aged
gentleman, in the dress of one of our own
teeaRtRymen, attended BY a~-great officer