Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-08
In the Harbor,
BY GEORGE R. SINS.

90 for sail this mornIn' ?-This way, vel
honor, please.
Weather about? Lol' bless YOU only pleaa.
Ny boats thai there Ia the harbor, and the man
abOard's my mate
Jump in and l'll row you out, sir; that's her,
tile Crxzy Kate.
Queer name for boat. you fancy, we'll. SO it Is.
mry he,
But Crazy kste and her story's the talk o. the
place. you see;
And me and my pardner knowed her. knowed
We Was both on US asked to the weddin' when
she Was made wife.
Her as our boats named arler was famous far
For years in sli winds and weathers she haunted
the harbor side.
With her great wild eyes a-starin' and a-struin-
IN across the waves,
Waltin' for what can't happen till tue dead come
Olt o. their graves.
She was married to young Ned CARING, a big
brown d. her-lsd;
One week u bride, aud the next one O sailor's a
WldOw-Rnd mat.
They we've Innrried one fearful winter as Wild
owed many Wife,
He'd emile Tor all the lssses; but she'd Lowell
him all her life.
A roliickin' gay young fellow. we thought her
He'd been u bit wild xnd careless-but married
all taut and trim,
shouSh! as ne u mend his manners when he
Won the village prize,
And Carried her OF III triumph before many u
rivals eyes.
With the fisher fleet
With the men who must brave the tempest that
the women and BARNS may eat
It's rough long Lille o. partin's is the life o. the
fisher folk,
And there's never u win!er passes but ssme good
wlfe's heart ID blOke.
We've sayin' among us sea folk MS few on us
dies in bed
Walk through our little churchyard and read the
lais Of our dead
L. mostly tie BARNS and the..w omen as is restln'
under tile turf,
For half o. the men sleep yonder under the
Tue night Kate lost her husband Was the night o.
Tie fearful gale
one u stOOu on tue shore that m0rnn' And hnd
watched the tiny all
As II is'ied away in the distance-bound for the
coast Ol France ~
And the fierce " ind bore IL swiftly awsv from
her anxious glance.
The boats that had sailed that morniu' with the
neet were half ecore,
Ana never u soul among 'em came back 10 the
Engllsh shore.
There was wrinyin' o. hands and moan,u'. and
When they spoke o. the dead
FOR many long day after the women's eyes
were red.
hate heard it as soon as any-the fate of b.r
hsh r-iaJ-
But her eyes were wild and fearless; she went
slowly ami surely mad.
lie isn't drowned. bhe would murmur: ..he
Will coine again some day.
ND ner lips shaped the self-same story US the
long years crept away. :
'pring. amt summer. and autumn-in the ficrc-
est winter gale,
Would Crazy Kate stand watchin' TOR the CLINT
u
bands nuIne- $3.50
FOR twenty yea,s she watched there ,or the bo,t
that never CAME.
'ne counted the years ~ nothin'-:he shock that
had sent her u.n,I
isd ieit her love i"r.vcr II brave. young, hand
soIne la,i.
he said goOd-by,
Shen ne ieapt in his boat ani vanished, where
the walters tOucheti 0ie sky,
'he Was but lass when 1t happened-the last
time saw her there,
ne nfet iaint streaks u silver had come in her
jet black hair;
And then miracle happened-,,er ,n.d ,vs;-d
words Came right,
Cor the Usher ia'l caine ashore sir, one wild and
stormy night.
We were all oil us watchin', waitin' for at dusk
we'd heard :. cry,
lar. II cry. round the headland. and strained
'tfained through the deep. NM darkness. and n
,,, boat WAS ready tO nian-
heh AL of sudden. woman down to the
suri-line ran.
Twas Crazy Kate. In q moment, befora what
W, she meant Was known,
lne DOat W.S Out III the TEN uest-and sh. u,s IN
II alone. '0 :"
She was out Of sight in second-but over the
- SEA Came n sound
lie Voice 0t \ woman cryin' that her lonp-lost
love WIS lOunu.
miracle. sir; for the woman came back
through tlie raEin' Storm
AMI ther. Ia the boat beside her wus lyin, n
lIIeless form
Ae i:.ps Yae to .ns r.; beach and STAGGERED cryin.
As the light Of our lifted Lanterns flashed on the
lace o. the dead ~
was him as had sailed away, sir-a miracle
, sure 1t seemed.
We looked at the Lad and knOwed him. and finn
cieu We must ha' dreamed
was twenty years since we'd seen him-sInce
D.. hate, poor soul. went mad,
'ut 'iefs III The boat that evenin' lay the same
blown handsome lad.
ientiy we took her from him-for she moaned
that he was deal
We carried him to u cottage and W., latl him nj,
u bed; ~ "
SUIT Kate came pushn' her way through, and
shr clusped the liieless CLAW
Ahu We hadn't the heart tu hurt her. 40 we
coulun' lear ner away.
he news OF the miracle travelled, and folks
came far and near
A"o 'he women talked Of spectres-it hud given
'em quite skeer
md the parsOn he came with the doctor dor, ,,,
. the cottage quick
'hey Thought rs u. sea-folks' fancy had played
our eyes trick.
'u' 'ile parson. who'd known Kate's husband.
", US had married 'em in the church,
quite sudden lurch. e"
A"o nls Iace was NJ white as linen-for mo-
ment il struck him dumb-
was come.
-, 'ull give up its dead; S.''
"a' eise meant those unchanged features
though twenty years hast sped?
=
mad woman died. '
IN" nere @ m our village churchy ard we buried