The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-06-03

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for daddy on the wild, wild seas?'
and how I'd fix their hands,
and how we four would kneel down and
say Our Father and feel sure that the
Lord knew what we were asking for and
would answer our prayer Didn't Tom
ever know how / must have counted
days, then weeks, then months, and at
last years, wanting him, waiting, watch
ing for him, ever true in word and
thought? Couldn't he tell you that he
guessed loved all sailors for his sake,
and that pitied lonely ones that came
to port here and who made friends with
me d? For I've gone to them and I've
said: Cheer up, my lads I'm Tom Bol'
livaPs wife, and he's on the briny deep.
Let me help you all can; if you're
sick or lonesome or want little jobs oi
woman's work done for you, why, come
to me. I'm Tom Bollivar's wife and he's
on the briny deepP And how often
and often has this room been crowded
with sailor menl And how they've
kissed the children, in case they'd
pass Toms ship, they said, and
would seem to take the kisses
to him; or they'd kiss 'em be.
cause they had little ones of their owl
far away who must be looking out to sec
and thinking of their daddies. And I've
helped 'em all could-indeed, indeed
have; and me and the children, why,
we've gone down to see their ships off,
and I've made the children wave then
hands and say 'Good-byeP ? right loud,
and the men have called, Three cheers
and q tiger for Tom Bollivar's wife
and God care for the babies = An6
I've done all this for love O Tom
And you don't say that he ever though,
of that, only that I didn't care for him
If he didn't know me without words.
then he didn't love me as l always
U
thought he did"
And she wiped her eyes on the frocB
she was mending. The man looked al
her for minute, seemed to hold back
something he was about to say, put his
hands nervously in his pockets and
went on:
"Well, lass, yes he knowed it. He
thought he knowed it for truth, but
and now comes the all-fredest awfu
part O. this here gospel-truth yarn"
Yes, sailor.
"Well-now don't ye cry out, an don
ye flop down-but Tom Bolivar HI
won't never, never come home no more.
She smiled up in his face.
"Why?" she simply asked.
Because-he'd drownded dead" b.
replied,
81 don't believeit sailor"
"But 1 was wi him all the time,
orter know"
"Then why wasn't you drowned, too
If you thought so much of him as yo'
say, why didn'tyou drown trying to say
him, if nothing else?
CT well, 1 was washed ashore. Blu
poor Tom oh, lor' poor Tom, he
went"
ooh, dear ifthats the case. Nigh
as well make up my mind to be
widow"
81 rather think so. Well-why don
ye get illustrated, Widder Bolivar ?
cried the man, aghast; aye promise
that, anyways"
"Tll get that way after awhile
sailor"
But / tell ye, Tom Bolivar ain
no more; he's drowned dead, him tha
was your husband"
"Well, 1 can't help it, can II
didn't drown him, did II I'm widow
amt L? Now I'll tell you what 1 thin
about it. You see, sailor, I can't liv
here all alone, now, can I%
"What do ye mean, Widder Bollivari
"That's it-thats right-Im Wido'
Bolivar, But l mustn't be Widow Bo
liyar all my life, so must get married
married. My God woman, yor
husband he amt cold yet"
81 can't wait until I'm cold becaus
you say he amt quite cold yet, can p
1 "Do ye mean to say ye don't 10y
g him%
ut would be foolish to love q dea
! man and yet marry a live one."
! Who-who'll haveye for wife wht
they knows all knows2 Widder, L
/ tell the whole town, I'll tell the who
' world, I'll put ye in the log i me'
the papers"
"Bosh, sailor - that's nonsens
Who'll have me? Why, you will, sail'
! know you will"
"Git out o my way, Tom Bolivar
wife. Me have your Lord I thoug
;. I'd find you crazy mad at the idee
him bein' dead and layin' rollin' arour
Q wi the sharks an sich in Davy Jones
Q locker. An now to hear YEP O
Q woman, woman, ye don't know VIII
!, we've done I'll go back to my shil
o I'll hate all women for your sake; l
t never tell who /"
Il Sailor, you shall have me now'"
o "Let me out O this here b. house
d "Sailor, I'll lock the door. You shf
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