Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-17

| NO INA am. he said. Il expect the
sea has brought me all it ever will. Ned
was drowned and Dan hasn't been
heard from for five years: the other
boys are dead. Middle-aged men when
they went. And Rose, you don't know
Rose. ma'am. No, no. nor Nellie my
wife. But aS | sit here watching the
sea, it seems only little while since l
was young sea-faring fellow, coming
home from my long voyages with birds
and shells and cOmical foreign things
for her. Coming home 70 marry her ~
last, and live here, just here by this
shore, with babies one after the other
climbing my knee, and turned fisher
man and stayed at home.
"But it all comes back as talk. I've
had good luck along the shore, and
bought this home, and think I'm a.
happy man a. lives, with such a wife
and boys like those, and a home for
them and no fear of poverty: hut one
after the other they sailed away. this
one to the East, this one 10 the North
Ned is dead, and we don't know whether
Dan is living or not; and there are
only the wife and me and little Rose
Rose was Ned's child; we've taken her
~ IS, years and years age. Years
and years-then | was a man with 4
gray beard. and Nell was an elderly |
woman: and we'd sit and talk over the |
boyS-and Rose was our great comfort. |
Oh, but she was pretty-pretty and
sweet and good.
And 50 she grew up. We had her |
taught and we dressed her well. We
were rich enough 10 do that for Ned's /
girl-poOr Ned's little girl-and she
loved us, and we thought, a. she grew
older. that may be she'd marry. as one
might say, above her station; for there |
was the minister's son, fine young |
man. in love with her; and he to he a /
minister himself one day: and his |
parents willing. because our girl was
a. sweet and as fine as any lady i'm the
land. and well taught, too; and
for her good we rather laid command 1
WI tii' 'hii' w N''N ~ Nh'h NV VIZ
asked.
Il wish we hadn't. wish we hadn't.
Nav he she might have told us more of
what went on.
lit was no harm At first, only young
fellow who came to fish by the sea, and
spoke to Rose, asking the way some
where, and that's the way they got
acquainted. But she, having said yes
to the minister's son, was afraid of
being ScOlded, and she met the Young
man without our knowledge; and the
young heart is hard to train. and if love
and duty do not go together, God help
my girl. How he did il we never knew:
but one day we could not find Rose.
We thought some terrible accident had
happened to her. and we searched the
country through. aud all who knew US
helped us, but i'm vain; for i'm a few
days there came a boy, who said lady
had given him letter for us; and it
was from Rose.
GRANDFATHER AND Grandmother
pEAk~. - slit NIOit VI uOllt
wrong thing-I've gone off 10 he mar
ried. was engaged to Mr.. Glenn, |
know, but did not love him. and do
love Arthur. When come back you'll
have to forgive me. for thereIl be no
help. and Mr.. Glenn will have another I
wife better than |. He is cold and stern ,
with me. | never pleased him; and
YOU will like Arthur. He says his
II IL.
at her house. And oh. yOu
ways loves you {
THAT i what she wrote 10 us. {
''The grandmother cried and said:
- Perhaps il would all be well. hut E
| knew men better than she.
81 did not expect the girl back as she
did, and | was right. Days passed and '
weeks and years. She never came.
Nellie hoped for a long time; when she ;
gave up hoping, her heart broke. She I
died. and | was alone. The boys were
far away or dead. sat by the house {
door, as | do now, an old man, with {
white hair, whose work was over, but
| watched the sea. 1t seemed TO me l
that il would bring me something one
day, and so it did.
"Over there, ma am, where you see {
black rise, like the back of I
great dolphin above the water. are I
dreadful rocks, ON which many 1
good ship has gone to pieces. I've seen {
more than one wrecked thare in my I
time; and there, one, night. great
French steamer, in such plight, that 4
every sailer knew there was no hope j
for her. Perhaps some of the poor
souls on board her could be saved. but :
no one could tell certainly. There was :
4 terrible storm and very few boats {.
could live in such sea. However. as i
[ said. they did the best they could {
all through that terrible storm, and |
when day broke they had saved some /: {
but many dead body lay along the l
beach, and walked there, looking at 7
Them, and thinking of Ned and Dan
both drowned as these poor sailors were,
when | came upon woman's body
wing on its side.
sit was young woman, and her hair
was long and black, and somehow her I
hands were folded together under her !
cheek as if she had been sleeping. / a
looked and looked, aud the more i
looked the more felt that the face was
like one I knew; and suddenly it all l'