The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-10-21
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aud the great variety about Cape God 81
Holsters weighing exactly ninety pounds
Sir Isaac Coffin, a British Admiral and
a member Of the family which held fp-
nous reunion at Nantucket, August l6,
was born at Boston, and when a child
lived for some years on Cape God. Sin
Isaac came to this country soon after the
war of 1872, and during the voyage lac
stated to the officers Of his flagship that
when they reached Cape Cod he would
show them Holsters that weighed ninety
pounds The rules Of quarter deck do
not permit you to fatty contradict an
Admiral but still some doubt and dis
trust was visible on the countenances Of
tie Captnin aud Iieutenants Who stood
around. Well, said Sir Isaac, "if
You doubt it, / will make Nou a wager
that when we reach Cape Cod ! will
produce lobster that weighs ninety
pounds. The wager was made under
the gracious permission Of the Admiral,
and when they arrived there Sir isaac
secured the Cape, but he conld not find
any lob ter that weighed ninety pounds,
50 ic said Well, they don't happen
to be here just now, but | will obtain
the ailidayits Of the old fishermen TO
prove that there are such loheters
And he produced pile Of ailidavits,
showing that when there wera fishermen
III carly times Holsters that weighed
ninety pounds were as common ms
hucklcbeilies on the Cape, Then il was
left to an umpire TO decide, which had
lost and which had won, aud by him so
concise n Judgment was given that if
now living it would cntitlc him 70 the
yaeput .Irdge,hip in the Massachusetts
supreme Court. ii all his decisions were
equally good, His decisions was tint
nflidnvits are not Holsters
The distinguished member OF the Col-
lin family, writing to his friend Commo-
dore Isaac Hull, in 1916, says Many
thanks for your kind exerhons send
the ninety pound lobster when you can.
NV reputation will lie saved, although
my money is gone, - and i'll another let
ter now lying before me the Admiral re-
marks "The lobster you committed
to Capt Tracy arrived in good condition,
and is considered a marvellous one here
Still my friend Sir Joseph Banks longs
for one Of ninety pounds Whether
Hull succeeded in saving Sir Isaac
pound lobster very much regret | am
unable to state, but a venerable tilonees-
ter fisherman whom the writer consulted
on the subject said "Thcrc amt been
no sich Holsters seen on Cape Ann durin'
the last sixty years, an ] don't believe
any sich were ever caught on Cape Cod "
Aunt Snsans Suggestions 10 Fretful
Wife.
Hester" exclaimed Aunt Susan,
ceasing her rocking and knitting, and
sitting unpright Do you know what
your husband will do when you are
dead 2"
What do you mean 2" was the start
led reply.
+" He will marry the sweetest-tempered
girl he can find.
"Oh, auntie !" Hester began.
"Don't interrupt me until I've fin
ished, said Aunt Susan, leaning back
and taking up her knitting. "She may
not be as good housekeeper as you are !;
I in fact, l think not, but shew Will be good
natured. She may not evcn love hm as
well as you do, but she will be good-na-
tured.
Why, auntie"
"That isn't all, continued Aunt Su-
san. every day you live you are max
ing your husband more and more in
love with that good-natured woman, who
may take your place some day. After
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison left You the
other night, the only remark he made
about them was : She is a sweet wom-
an. ?"
"Oh, auntie--"
"That isn't all" composedly conhn-
ued Aunt Susan. "To-day your hus-
band was half way across the kitchen
floor, bringing you the first ripe peach
es, and all you did was to look on and
say There, Will, just see your tracks
on my clean floor ] won't have my
floor all tracked up. Some men would
have thrown the peaches out Of the win.
dow. To-day you screwed up your face
when he kissed you, because his mus
taehe was damp and said, never wan
You to kiss me meagain. When he emptiei
anything You tell him not TO spill it
when he Lifts anything you tell him no
to break it, From morning until nigh
your sharp voice is heard complaining
and fault-fnding. And last winter
when you were sick, you scolded hin
about his allowing the pump to freeze
and took no notice when he said. wa
so anxious about You that ! did no
think of the pump"
"But, auntie-"
Hearken, child. The strongest an
most intelligent Of them all care NOR
for woman's tenderness than for any
thing else in the world, and without thi
the cleverest and most perfect house
keeper is sure to lose her husbands a
fection in time. There may he fe'
more men like villas gentle, as loy
ing, as chivalrous, as forgetfnl OF sell
and 80 satisfied with loving that the
affections will die long, strugglin
death but in most cases il takes but
few years of fretfulness and fault-findn
to turn husbands love into irritate
indifference.
"But, auntie-"
Eyes, well you are not dead yet, an
that sweet-natured woman has not bee
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