Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-09-07
THE MAID & b CHER B b Z.

SynIy enc more E0ya Each eIss
Oh, but coffin ships, Harry The
4 word haunts mel'
But only one more raln, my benny
Bird Just 10 Aberdeen IN ballast. an
back again TO HarWich with granite be.
fore we know we've heenout. Then we
shan't have To start life ii debt, lass; ev-
cry penny u the share in Georges boat
be paid up; an the little craft from that
time for'ard shall keep d good thick
thatch over our heads, an aside o'hacon
ia the Kitchen, an a pig in the stya
raaI Barkshire, my pretty one IS 4ss s sss
The ring Of solid comfort ia this last
atssasion anon sntarily displaces all grue-;
D sofaae thoaie hts The rosiest pair Of lips
in Gherbury are put up trustfully, to be
kissed with d Vigor which only d young
sailor, due aboard his sIli |, within two
fleeing hours. is pabl I'm parting to
the saiHtation After tails there is a. de-
y ligatfu pause, 81 lille the 4 ugust fitering
its way between the messy plies Of Cher
bury jetty, beneath which the lovers
stand, snrrounds their figures with a
golden halo. -@s1z II D.. =
Whats that they tell me about
Farmer Gordon hayln' been SO often up
at your mothers while was away, last
8 YoSafge?" suddenly demanded the sailor.
ssfseourse there's nowt in it, sweet
hears: but don't like to hear. as did
I the other night, the NAMES o Tom Cor
don an Rachel Cheal bein' coupled to-
getaar SO free-and- easy like although
Tom is old enough to be your iather."
= For a moment Rachel gazes into her
lovers face i in bewilderment; then.
! elasping his hand in both of hers, leans
back a ,ainst a weather beaten bulkhead, ,
il while musical laughter ripples from her
rosy lips. 49,.
:, EsOh! but where have your eyes been,
Harry, nay lnan2" she asks, as soon as
she IS able TO speak; then she continues,
very aeuarely, AS thou sayest, lad, he
lis often up at mothers: an he is Old
enough, ante spare, to be my father:
AM" ~ 80, :. - H.
>Les him bide, nay lass; let him bide.
can trust thee with any man Of 'e1n ali, !"
Interrupts her lover impetuouEly, as be
hu%rjedly Chances off to the foot of the
lane which leads down to Cherbury
Cove Here be George, an little Jim,
and yonr uncIe Humphrey; an thai
means it's dead low water, an I must
slip OF at once # I'm to make Harwich
this Tod. God bless thee, my pretty
one!" And he holds herto his heart in
q clinging embrace, while q stentorian
eed!" awakens the echoes of the cove.
AYE, aye, George! aye, ayew cries
Harry in response. Then the TIVE lovers
emerge from the seclusion of the lefty,
and join the group on the foreshore;
and, after hurried greeting, Harry
puts off with George AID little Jim in
the boat to which hopeful allusion has
been already made, and slips away be-
fore q gentle breeze from the nort!lward
in the direction Of Harwich Harbor. It
ia not until the little craft has rounded
Cherbury Point, and is lost to view, that
Kacheps kerchief ceases to futter in
the air, and Rachel herself consents to
turn and retrace her steps with her
uncle to the village.
The @Chea,s are g. family of which
lherbury has occasion tc feel proud.
Humphrey, veteran of Her Maiesty's
Coast Guard, is q nam who, holding his
own life cheap, has again and again vol
UNFAIRLY encountered deadly peril at hui
manity's call, and is known and re-
spected throughout the whole county.
Enough noWsclose upon sixty years of
age, he still hold the onerous post Of
coxsw ain sof the liIeboat; and if the
blessings are due, it is then on his good
cray head that they should descend in
showers, for many have been called
down by the wives whom he has saved
from Widowhocd. Slowed away in 8
locker in his trim little cottage on the
North Down, land only visible on cereno-
mai occasions, are two ssmedals-the HUI
name Soclety's and the Albert; and 9TH
or decorations would be his beside. were
1t not that he is as modest as he is brave
and holds that saving felloW-creature's
life is q duty, and not, to use his own
words, an affair to go and make a fuss
about.
Humphrey Cheal has two sons-George
the elder, Harry Reeds bosom friend
and partner, a stalwart young fellow on
whom the honorable society of the eld-
er brethren of Trinity House have al
ready conferred the certificate for pilot
age duty in the Estuary; and little Jim,
the younger, blue-eyed urchin of four
teen, whe can handle oar or tiller with
any lad Of lis own age and weight In the
village. It has been a somewhat tender
point with Humphrey, in his earlier life.
that his family had no daughter, but this
deficiency had since been supplied, h;a
sister-in-law Rachel, who, in due course
, had grown to De the very apple OF h 1
uncie>s eye. 10 her, the most lovable
maid in all Cherbury, the gentle reader
has already been introduced under the
lefty: -,
lis a cruel, cruel task, is partlngE'
she a1ghs, as she wends her way up the
4 .ane ny Humphrey5 s'ae; ana .tWoulu
'naeah aay near rt, nnc'e III snls voyage YVES
sio ~. !, -. last!
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