The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-07-11
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Captain CroTtand His Mother,
4Well, Inevor saw anythinglikc
that Captain Crufts round that old
lady in all my life. He's dancing
attendance from morning till night,
land sakes d liyel If be isn't tying
on her sun,bOnnet for her Wen, i
fneyerI Wonder what 'twould seem
like to have my Billy grown TO be
as attentive as thatP and the voice,
half scornful at first, took on a loug,
ling, yearning expression, suggest,
iyeof tearfulseyes, at the mention
Of my Billy"
The speaker, Mrs. Bowles, lived
in Seaport, usually spoken Of as a
fshingsgillage owing to the fact
that many fishermen haa lived
there ii years gone by; but thy
townsa olaIoae ma possess.
Ing gsoaI natut ATTRACTIONS, and
being a suburban town, many fine
residences now graced its winding
avenues.
About two years before, a wealth,
erbeaten, Sun-burned man, unmis.
takably a sailor, had bought a taste.
ful little cottage near the beach,
This he had fitted up, beautilled
and ombellished, until Mrs. Harris
declared it to bea perfect pink Of
aplace,"
Over this pretty house Cap'n
Sam, as the boys had learned to
Gull the GENIAL man, had installed
his white.haired mother as mist.
tress and chief, and a more attent.
i've, loving son, it would appear
had never lived.
Ina small barn NJ the rear of the
cottage was kept a fine, steady
horse, anda low basket carriage,
and every fair day the Captain and
his mother "went Abroad" as Mrs.
Bowles expressed it, on long, plea.
SAINT drives.
As we have hinted, Cap'n Sam
was u great favori!e among the
boys of the place. Who else would
harness up the sturdy horse into q
big wagon, and give them such
grand drives upon occasion2 Then
the great hickory and chestnut
trees ut the foot Of his lot were free
for the boys To visit as often as they
liked, only they must never dam.
age in any waythc fne old branch.
eS; but when it came to spinning n
yarn, ah, thenl who SO beguiling,
nays operlectly bs@itchipg, as the
soa-bFonzed,mttn
fthad long ago'Dceonc "a subjact
for harmless bantering among the
boys, and rather rolished than 9th.
erwiSo by the Captain, that be was
gallant and INCREASINGLY attentive
to his sweetheart "My fair old
sweetheart" he had once 10 their
hearing called his mother and they
Of course, lively little wretches that
they were, would never forget it.
Butone day the boys, quite a little
crowd Of them, found theirold Cap.
tain Sam on the rocks at the beach.
There were breakers that afternoon
and particularly at such times it
was a favorite diversion with the
soafaring man to sit high on the
rocky beach and watch his second
love, the sounding sea.
II was at times like these the
boys delighted to find their old
friend, and coax him for one Of
their hearts delights, which he
well knew meant IL story of ten.
peStuous seas or foreign lands.
Button this afternoon the Captain
was broOding sOmberly, u habit ho
often had when by himself, and
this time he couldn't throw off the
mood, even at the approach Of the
boys,
In vain the better feared Of them
bauterod, declaring "he had a jill.
ing, but never mind, they expect
ed to be Tilted themselves in time
to Gomez" while the less mannerly
Billy Bowles guessed "there'd been
acaudle lecture at home"
AT length, partly emerging from
his brown study, the Captain said,
soberly: Boys, do you know what
I've been trying to do every day
for the last two years2
"oh, why, for certain they knew
all about it, they-tho merry
youngsters Of the town.
"Beon a.courtin', chiefly" Jim.
my Hollis observed, while Freddie
Hollis remarked, she'd worn him.
self all out pettin' his sweet.
heart"