Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-12-20
PEMBRoKgs sECoND-sIGHT.
A True Story Of the Incrplicabls.

such things happenin' myself more
than onet. Why remember, rs wells
e 'twant no longer than Yesterday. the
curious thing that happened the Wy ge
first sailed captain, and took my
brother Pembroke along with me. He
yarn't no more than lad, Pembroke
warn't; II year old, or Whereabouts.
snd dvin OF quick consumption; not
the old-fashioned kind, that racks ye
soul and body for fifty or sixty wears.
hat the sort that strikes with chill, and
takes We off in no time. So | says,
mother wen try sea v'y'ge. So we
shipped together in the barque Pauliny,
about three hundred and ninety tons
burden. bound for the Chincha Islands,
up on South American coast. We had
quick passage out with favorin' winds,
and We never see anybody so dreadtully
tickled with common thinoS rs Penn
broke was: he was always talking about
sea-birds and the sharks, and the por-
posses. and once when lie see whale
blow, off to the starboard, he was as
Pleased as baby.
when we struck the Islands and be-
gan to load noticed change IN him.
They were putting guano IN the hold,
and Pembroke couldn't seem to stand
the noise and the outlandish cries of the
coolies. and he d stay below out of the
fresh air: then he lost his appetite and
by the time we left the Cninchas he
was worse of than when we left home.
"He began not 10 sleep, and his hands
was so tam sc could see daylight right
through 'rm Seems as if never closed
my eyes t0cm nights. as We went down
aloug tre coast, but just lay in m bunk
lsienu- totDe bow coughin', coughin',
conrmu', uil we'd think he'd part soul
and body in -unders.
"Hc took to thinkin y sight Of home,
Pembroke dil, and me Gala as to what
taey'd r au bow TWAS milEln time
Aa v, and
he hcerd the bells ringin' for meetin';
and he sickened so for mother and home
that my mind misgive me TO think that
ever took him away
wal, one day-it was Sunday and
wod rounded the Horn-Pembroke was
lyin in his bunk with his great eyes
wide open and starin'; he lay that way
for hours, just rs if he was lookin' into
another world. All of sudden he says
TO me, says he: Why, Jason, saws he,
mothers married aganl She was mar
ried over to the Head this morning, and
now they are all comm over home in u
cat-rigged boatn
"Of course | thought he was getting
light in his head and wanderin', and |
knew what be said was the onlikeliest
thing to happen in all creation, mother
being well to do and 60 years old if she
was day besides our sister Maria being
so set against her marrying agin. How
ever, ! knowed that sick folks has to
be humored, so just to please the boy l
says:
Who's comm in the boat
They're landin' now, Says Penn
broke. There's mother and Maria, and
girl about as old rs me, going on two
crutches, and there's the man that has
married mothern
How does he look?' says /.
Very tall and thin says the ladi
'and his hair is long and red,and he has
had the smallpox.
''At that | laughed, and said that
guessed that mother didn't marry the
man for his beauty, anyhow; and then
Pembroke fell asleep. and | thought no
more about it. About Il week later |
heard the lad on deck. well remem-
Der that day, because it was the last
time that he ever came on deck till the
day he lay there in his weighted canvas,
poor lad, waiting to be shot from the
plank.
ale grew more fretful toward the
last, and everything 'peared to wrong
him; so he called out to me in com
plainin' sort of way: He is spoilin' ev
erything, says he, he is changin ev-
ervthing all round. I'm glad now that
] shall not 1--we to get home, for |
shouldn't know the old place, he's spoil
in it,
What's he a-doin' on?' says l.
" WHY says Pembroke, he's been
an moved the big barn clean over to
the other side of the orchard, an he's
cut down the big ellum by the well, an
now he's a-paintn' of the house star
in yellow, with white trimmings. 1t
isn't home no longer Mara is sot agin
it all, but mother gives in to every
thing; and the lame girl, she sets on
the front door stone and knits all the
time.
'.Of course, / thought the boy was
wanderin' as | had before, so | just hui
I0Orcu HlOlt anu dltcL Il lhAu otpPl1CA
talkin' about it altogether. He grew
worse so fast after that, that it warn't
many days that the poor lad talked
about anything. lie died and was bur-
led off the coast of Brazil, near Cape
st. Rogue, and don't know to this day
whether | done right or wrong in takin'
of him away from home
For some moments the old captain
meditated seriously, with his knife rest
ing idly on one knee.
Boston was our port. ~ continued the
captain, land after | was FREQ of the
barque, had to 60 to Bath to see about
chance was hopin' to getto goto Liy-
erpool and Calcutta, so altogether it was
late in October before | sighted Harp
swell Neck. Mothers house wasn't on
the main road, but the stage left me at
the lane, and / walked in to the farm,
leaving my chest by the stone wall. to
be fetched up by wheelbarrow after
supper II was one of tho still sort of