The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-04-27

euiuh No you re geJtlhS IhUO tIouDle 70
sail after YOU
Thank you, Captain
Dick said his mother, " cam you
lot the lobster-pots COP
Couldn't possibly smiled the boy.
" Could you have the heart to ask me?
VIII you castme of, mother?'' he called
a second later.
. Wait a minute exclaimed Mrs
Swing. Fetch your boat close up. /
want to speak to you, Dick"
The boat received the necessary inn
pctus, and touched the side of the pier.
Mrs. Swing had seated herself on the
topmost layer of logs forming the wharf,
and leaned over as though to speak CON
fidentially to her son.
Dick" said his mother, hold FAST
L IA coming and into the boat she
dropped before either Captain Rose on
the dock or Captain Richard in the boat
had knowledge Of her intention.
What under the sun, mother" cried
the boy, +" do You meanP'
I'm going with you, Dick, to keep
you from tumbling overheard when you
haul in" and she seated herself in the
stern, calling back as the tide flOated the
boat out: - We depend on you. Captain
Rose, TO send after us if we-if it gets
too rough" she gasped, with a dash of
spray in her face.
Aye, ayel'' cried the Captain, and he
took off his hat and swung it, he scarce
" knew why.
Of all the women in Dell Haven, from
the eldest 10 the youngest, Mrs Swing
most feared the sea. To live beside it,
to watch its every mood delighted her,
but to venture on it for pleasure she was
never known to do.
A moments peace she never knew
when Richard, her only son, was ex-
posed to the treachery Of the waters, but
rather than mar his wiki delight in wind
and waves this unsellisb mother con-
ccaled as much rs possible her anxiety
| for him.
Richard was not selfish, and had he
imagined what his mother was at that
moment suffering would have put the
j boat about and tied it forever at the
stake rather tlran cause her this agony.
just rs the boat got well into the toll
1 of the waves the sun arose shedding such
+ brilliance on the waters that Mrs. Swing,
I who sat facing it, was dazzled and well
nigh failed to see in time a gill net into
/ which the boat was running
g See any boat ahead, mother?" queS-
/ toned Richard, You must keep n good
I lookout for me. pve got my ranges
4 right and can fetch the lobster grounds
/ every time"
. is it far?'' questioned the mother,
/ shudderingly.
g Not very; Just outside Dull Head. /
4 reckon we Il fetch it, said the lad, dip
ping his oars for full stroke and then
/ letting The boat slide up to the summit
of rolling wave, trick he had caught
/ from Captain Hezekiah Danforth, the
master bOatman of Dell Haven.
The wind grew stronger and stronger
I and the waves every moment increased
in size. Even Richard glanced sideways
more than once with ill-concealed anXi-
ETY. as the long pillows came tumbling
on. and just then getting glimpse of
his mothers face beheld it so blanched
with terror of the sea that it seemed to
! him his mother was no longer in the boat
| with him.
Dick, " she gasped, as his oar missed
stroke and sent the spray over the boat,
/ s'Dick, / m afraid to 60 on"
Dick glanced backward. He had
pulled about mile from shore and was
midway between the two headlands
Familiarity spoken of as the Horns. Dull
Head was surrounded by an even accu-
mulating mass of breakers, and Bright
Head caught the sea on its precipitous
sides, sending it backward in fountains
Of foam, and all the four miles that lay
between the two points were rolling
miles of pillows.
Sitting with his face landward Rich
ard had not fully felt the danger.
Now the lad could not repress a shud-
! der as he said: . l don't believe [ could
] ind the buoys in such a sea, and nobody
could haul in the pots. 1 believe I'll
! put about
90, do! O, Richard, there comes an
awful oner' and Mrs. Swing slipped
down from her seat into the bottom of
the boat and hid her face from the on
coming wave.
Richard gave q mighty pull at the
oars to keep the boat head on, and it
rode that wave i'm safety only to meet
new ones, into whose depths the tiny
shell rolled, to be completely hidden
from the sight of two men who were
standing out ON the Dell Haven pier.
One was Hezekiah Danforth, the 9th
er was Captain Rose.
q If there was only tug in sight to
help Them" groaned Captain Rose.
.. Why didn't you dun a little com
mon sense into the woman if she didn't
take any naturally" scolded Captain
Danforth, or shut her and the boy uT
somewheres.
Il told her, but ! declare when was
young / could have brought down then
oars in half the time it takes Jim tC
fetch 'em. l say, Kiah Danforth, aim
that boat trying to put abOut?'
- 1t acts like it, John, but it will get
swamped Just as sure as guns if-nO, it
going ON. There's nothing else to do
/ never i'm all my life saw time wher
there WASH t a sail in sight.
The boats gone! No! There it comes
UP againr'
Suddenly a cry for helping hant
was raised among the bystanders, anC
willing hearts went forth from the land
Every. second tells. It's race foI
life!" called ont Captain Danforth
" jim you'd better get in. Your,
strong; if one of us fuckers out you car
= take hold.'
All. ready lay the boat, a dark greer
surf boat, n boat that could stand heavy
seas, and the two men and boy who haC
nobly Volunteered were not long il
starting off.
q Success to You. Fetch 'em bacl
alive" called out Captain Rose.
All ut once the pier at Dell Hav0l
seemed thronged with people. Tn
news had spread that Mrs, Swing an,
Richard were out alone on the sea.
As they watched the dim, dark specl
now rising upon the swelling waters an,
Z rs quickly vanishing from sight, not on
of the little throng but knew the DANCE
/ of the tiny boat. With breathless eager
f ness they watched the surf boat as it
two rowers stood at the oar urging j
: onward.
! It's down the harbornow. They'r
catching it, It's an awful wind TO
Z June DO YOU think they're gaining oil
5 'em? That mite of boat viii neve
live till they get there were some o