The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-02-18
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Rsjnione its thoug hTlsss gee
That Tiras has wings SO feet,
TU rUTinG In,g -. s,ren sp..o vosss sssrsy .ry
How swiftiy flashes rgh the mind
What would my mother say
How often too in after years.
And all our esAr'st mem ries cling
Round days thst are no more;
The eoul atsacd ny sBa1ss and s'rifes
To vrong. but for that old nsme thought:
What would my mother sayi
What would sbe Say, whose teachings breathsd
Of all things pure and nigh
To knoT her holy influence
Wheneer the tIisd and tempted hsArt
d Grows weak meath evil away,
"A Nav some good angel wake tho thought:
What would my mother say
ADVENTURES OF BLUE MONDAY.
One Monday morning, peculiar kiud of
schooner rigged craft landed on the beech
at L., and from it Il ere scrambled four men,
who, after tying their boat to IA large stone,
gAuntered up the street Of the village until
they came to the public house ; they we're
entire strangers to the landlord, but When
he found they had money to spend he sup
piled them literally with the liqnor for
which they called. They were not seafar-
ing mep, but mechanics, and were keeping
as they said, blue Eonddy. Now blue
Monday is day that follows badly spent
Sunday, and those four men had evidently
been drinking all the previous day, for they
were quite intoxicated when they landed,
and became still more after they had
been drinking awhile at the village tavern.
Soon after the men had left the boat, it
was spied by Fred Stephens and Willie
Smith, who Immediately climbed on board
and examined every thing. Fred and Willie
were boys who seldom went to school (;
their fathers were both away for months at
q time with the fishing hosts aud their
mothers quarrele6, and each accused the
other of having the w"ret h"yin the village,
Z Iay bT1 w l4 ha
cause he associated with the other.
As for the boys, they were not really
wicked, but fuli OF mischief, and very ven.
turesome; they objected strongly to work,
but, on the whole, they were perhaps as
/ good as could be expected from their edu-
cation and the example set them.
After Willie aud Fred bad looked about
the boat to their hearts content, they went
up to the public house where the men Were
drinking, and watched them in their carou.
sails for awhile, then they started to so
home for their dinner. Whether it was
Fred or Willie that fret proposed that they
should take the strangers boat for sail,
will probably never be known, but which.
ever one suggested it, the other was only
too willing to join in the expedition in
their generosity, they invited several boys
and girls to accompany them, and they
were on the point of doing So, when the
boys told them they intended sailing to
Sun Down Island; this was 80 far that they
could not get homo by the time their
mothers would be expecting them, so Annie
Jones and her eister Mary, and little
Jimmy Smith and his sister, ran along the
beach, shouting and laughing as tho strange
craft sailed under fOresail and jib, while
Fred was doing his best to get the maiBsail
up; the boat went too fast for the little
ones, and soon left them far behind, so they
gave up the chase, and when they reached
O rocky point waved their hats aGd hand
kerchiefs to Fred and Willie, who were
rapidly disappearing from view.
About two o'clock the four men came
reeling from the public house, aud singing
and shouting, they walked slowly towards
the place where they had left their craft, |
but when they reached the beach, nothing
was to be seen of the beat the men walked
along the shore thinking they had not tied
her securely, and che had drifted away. |
Soon they met little Jimmy Smith, who
told them that the hnys had taken their
boat for q sail on tie bay.
The men immediately set about hunting
mp boat to 60 in pursuit of the runawaye; |
at last they found one, and it's owner, old
Paul, seated near by, hard at work mend |
ing bis fishing nets.
The four men, all talking at once, made |
known their wish that Paul would take |
them in search of their bat. Paul heard |
them quietly for awhile, then pointing to a |
little cloud far in the distaecc, sad,
"There's going to be a egnall, aud calca !
late heavy ore, too; you'd better wait
until it blows over before you venture ont"
Bnt the men were not in condition to
be reasonable, and insisted upon goiug ar
once.
al don't CO." said Paul. "and you cao't
have that boat some of you would be |
drowned, certain there's q row boat, if ynu !
must go she will be much safer for Enu, it |
you won't take my advice and stay ashore"
The men would not listen ia Paul, hnt tnw |
bed into the small boat, and, pushing her
ont, began rowing in very unsalor'tke
way in the direction they supposed the |
boys had taken. !
Soon the black clouds began to increase, !
the wind freshened. and the squal that old |
Paul had predicted came upon them i'll
great fury the rain fell in torrents, and the
vivid lightning and tho dreadful peais of
thunder made those sbuddoT whose loved
ones were exposed to tho violence of the
fearful storm. In the midst of the-dTench
ing the mothers of Fred and Willie came
hurryng to the beach, for little Jituuuy
Smith had run tell them where their boys
had gone rs soon as the owners of the boat
had started in pursuit of them. Each
woman blamed the other as usual and aaid