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


II tell you, Susan Swing" said Cap
tain Rose, '1herc amt a man that lives
between the Two Horns as would let
his boy not bigger than your'n go out
i'm boat to-day. DON'T You do it,.
Tain no Kind OF weather for that slip
of lad togo foOlin' with them big bill
lows as sweeps around old Dull Head.
Why look yourself, woman. You can
see them more n four miles away dash
ing and lashing The shore"
AS Captain Rose spoke he pointed
with his right hand i'm the direction of
one of the two headlands between which
Dell Haven lay.
And no dory in the liarbor," he con-
tinued, could weather Bright Head
poihting toward the headland at the
1eft) not if Cap1n Hezekiah himself was
n row'n' of it.. You'd better take them
row-locks out and hide the oars if he
won mind without you dom it,
e can't bear to do it, said Mrs.
Swing. Richard will be 50 disappoint-
ed. lie set his lobster-pots yesterday,
and he hasn't slept any all night in his
eagerness. to go out early and haul
them. Don't you see, Captain Rose,
Its Saturday, and two whole coaches
full of the summer boarders came last
might to the Bright Head House, and
he can get big price for his Holsters
to-day. My poor Dick has worked so
hard making the lobster-pots himself,
and it seems like cutting off the boy $
reward TO say you shan't 60 to him. .
" S'pose you DO feel weakish bout it,
Susan; but you dom t want that ere boat
10 be picked up adrift and no boy in it,
do YEP"
} ''You know I don't Captain Rose, :"
she said. ''If | hadn't loved him do
you think I'd get mp before daylight to
come down here tosee the lad oti?'
Hush, - said the Captain. Here he
comes, and he's fastening his straw hat
10 his buttons. lie secs there is wind
enough ahead" & - @
1t was n morning in June, and the
sun was not yet risen; but the glory of
his coming was in the east and on the
AS he came down the pier, the oars on
his shoulder, and securing his straw hat
by string to his Jacket, the old Cap
tain said: "He'sa fine lad. Dick is, and
well worth the saving 1881
Hes all the world to me, " thought
Mrs. Swing, although her lips uttered
no world -s
= Good morning, Captain Rose, called
out Richard. GOOD for HOLSTERS, do
you tlrinkP'' E
Better for Holsters than It's for
boys" calculated the Captain, removing
his broad brown hstnds from his pockets
and laying one of them on the lads
shoulder as soon rs the latter came
within touching distance. T say, Dick
Swing, that YOU are not going out in
that cockle-shell of yourn this morn
ing he announced
Il certainly am, Captain Rose, re
5urned the boy" It's a little rough
but like as not the wind win come RICH
around before / get halfway 20 th,
aedgc, and I should think You woulC
know better than to scare my httl,
mother here half to death. See
mother," he said, gayly, Il have IN
extra oar and one thole-pin, yes, two a
them, in case u row-lock gives way, anC
I've got lot OF extra courage about mC
that I can exactly show YOU unless yOI
come with me
This he said looking ont to sea, forth,
did not feel like looking either at hi
mother O. Captain Rose.
Dick. said Mrs. Swing. approach
dng the pier S edge as the owner Of th'
1ittle boat proceeded TO bestow hi
lunch-basket and extras under the bow
We'll, mother returned Richard
=. wish YOU would not go" she said
her tones full of beseeching.
"Whv, mother? Do YOU want IN,
seven new lobster-pots to he carried OF
10 sea?" he asked. :" How could yor
Shave the heart 10 ask me2 If this win,
keeps ON blowing ! shall lose them ever.
one rEr4t
That's true. calculated Captail
Rose. ~ never Thought of that. tt
Just right, this wind is, to drag then
of, but You never can haul them Il
alone You'll be sure to be dragge'
overheard.
No, / shan't. Come along with m
if you want to help laughed Richard
"Humph! ! should sink that craft be
fore we got out of the harbor," said tn
Captain; " though if | WASH so heav.
] would GO Captain Rose weighed
trifie less than three hundred pounds
and had left the sea after fifty years 0
faithful service
Not another person was in sight.
"Ill tell you what tn do, said tn