The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-07
An Heiress and q Fisherman's Son.

The great topic of conversation ut
the hotels at Rye Beach this week is
the eDgag ement of Miss Sarah brown,
beautiful young Pennsylvania and
an heiress as well, to Mr.. Robert G.
Miller, the son of a Rye Beach fisher
man, and himself nothing more than a
skipper of one of the hotel yachts
which are rented for excursions by
hotel guests. Miss Brown was one of
q party that made several trips on the
yacht which young Robert "skip-
pered," and Robert saw great deal
of her, and went dead in love with her,
though of course, mindful of the great
disparity of their social positions, he
kept the secret of his love to himself,
contenting himself with paying her ex-
traordinary attentions during her trips
on his boat. As for Sarah, she was ex-
tremely courteous to him. That was
all. Well, the catastrophe that led to
the engagement happened like this:
They are great hands for fish chow
der down along the New England
coast. Instead Of serving a small plate
of soup at the hotels, they set before
each guest about a bucketful of Goldfish
chowder, and, strange to say, the guests
like it, Miss Brown is passionately
fond of fish chowder and eats fabulous
ly large quantities of it, and sometimes
eats It SO rapidly that she gets her
mouth full of Goldfish vertebre before
she knows it. About two weeks ago
she did worse. She got a very large
piece of the backbone of a Goldfish down
her throat, and was utterly unable to
either swallow it or get it out. She
was terribly frightened, and so were
her friends, who decided at once that
doctor must be brought from Ports
. mouth, ten miles away. Robert Miller
CHANGED to be in the hotel Office when
the order was given for horseman to
be dispatched to Portsmouth, and,
learning what the trouble was, insisted
on being the man. So very swift
stecd was saddled, and q second later
Robert disappeared in a cloud of dust.
In a couple of hours the Portsmouth
doctor arrived, his horse white with
foam and breathing fire from his nos
triis, and the doctor, being a skillful
fellow, soon extracted the bone. Give
minutes later,' he remarked, "and 1
should have been too late. If THAI
messenger had not been a hero, l
should never have seen my patient
alive"
"a heror' exclaimed the ladies.
"What do you mean? 1t was only
Robert, the skipper"
"What his name was, ladies, know
not; but repeat it, he showed himself
hero, and he saved this young woman's
life by his heroism."
Explain yourself, )" cried the excited
women.
So the doctor explained how Robert
had fallen from his horse when about
half way to town, dislocating one ankle
and breaking an arm; but notwith-
standing his injuries he had again
mounted the horse and tied himself into
the saddle, and driven on faster than
before to make up for lost time.
"Why, when he reached my Office, {"
said the doctor, che had just strength
to deliver his message, and then he
tainted dead away with pain and ex-
haustion. left him in charge of my
students and came on, for knew that
there was case of life and death
here"
Well, when Miss Brown recovered
her senses, being Of very romantic
turn of mind, she lost them again, and
fell in love with the man who saved her
life, and she is to marry him as soon
as he RECEIVERS sufficiently from his in
iuries. Beach IN. H.) Cor. N. Y.
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