The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-05-24

heard Squire Greene say; one man 7:
should think could hardly row a9ainst
IT, Ny lQsbead didn't answer. I Guess
he, like me, was thinking of our little
boy out alone in tho current. e. ~ .se,ss.,
80 We went q ioc somo time. was
too worn out to think; / only was con-
scious that my feet and limbs were get
ting almost numb with cold. There
seemed to be water in the boat. and the
two men spoke anxiously together in low
tones. Pull harder, Wilson; she'll last
if We hurry" heard Squire Greene say
and they rowed faster and faster. 6ud-
denly the boat bumped against some
thing in the dark. Ny husband held up
the lantern and.exclaimed: Thank God,
he's safev / reused myself, opened my
eyes, and saw beside us our boat, and in
the bottom Of it my Ned, fast asleep. IL,
"But I should think it would have boen
farther down by that time if %i t.iwas
sadrift. y H.. - $50 e..z:. 81 -.
z 20 Yes, butt said drs. Wilson, it was
stopped, and by what do you thinke
Why, . good many years before that
there'd been little vessel wrecked in the
inlet. I'll tell you, it was that very
wreck the Captain was telling you about
the other night, the time Of that great
storm of 1856. Well, it all broke up, but
part of the hull was washed in past the
flats, and when the water went down it
stuck in the mud out in the middle of the
river. It was covered at high water, but
at low water couple of beams stood up
out of the water.
It was always great bother to the cap
tain, as it was in the main channel, the
folks around here often talked of getting
it away somehow, but they never did, and
it's always seemed to me since, that it was
just put there by Providence to save our
child. For, would you believe, the boat
had drifted down onto it and lodged be-
tween the two beams, not FAST but just
kept there till we came up against it, and
it was the Lords guiding that brought US
to it, for they had been trying to keep
away from where they thoug ght the wreck
was.
NOW, says the Captain, as soon as
he found our boat was all sound, we
must get right into our boat. Quick,
Mary he says to me, there's not a mo.
ment to lose; this ones leaking fast; in
q "AAuI0 onO II ~ uO"A'
II didn't realize till afterward the new
danger we'd just escaped; but they hur-
ried to bring the boats alongside and in
the dark almost lifted me from one to the
other. Then Ned woke up, wondering
what it was all about, and had my boy
in my arms and my husband rowing
toward home.
1--WE left the old boat there in the
river, and soon through the fog we saw
freight. Squire Greene shouted all
right! and there from the shore q real
hearty cheer in answer. In another min
ute we'd landed beside a great bon fire,
and the neighbors were all round us.
When we got home it was twelve o'clock,
and if ever I was glad to be in this old
kitchen, it was then.
"I've never been in boat since, even
in the day time; and misty evening
always brings to my mind that night in
the fog
On going to my room that night, I
looked from my window, hoping to
catch glimpse of the river. But the
moon had hidden behind a cloud, and a
thick, white fog was spread, like clam
| my shroud, over river, sea and land.
In the dark cedar wood a tree-toad
crooked predictions of coming rain.
And l kew that at the Inlet the bank
scdge was shivering in the rising east
wind, while the water flowed silently
through the darkness out to sea, where
float the wrecks of vessels lost on foggy