Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-04-13

almost any day YOU could see them 90
ing across the flats for clans, or setting
of on DAYS fishing cruise in their
boat, or earring up n load of seaweed
for the garden. and wherever Won see
Hi YOU was pretty sure 10 scef Cap'n
Pelcg, too. Iii was nice-lookinr boy,
full OF life and fun. and n great favor
ite all over the yillape. "Twas n pitv
things cohldn't have staid so rfrht
along. But when Iii got h little older
there began to be trouble.
."He wanted first TO 20 TO sea, but tho
old man said No, and he meant it. So
after while Hi gave in. He had to.
There was no peace to be had with
Cap'n Pelcg unless you'd do Just ms he
said. But tho trouble was that Hi was
much the same way, and they'd dis
agree on one thing and then on anoth-
er, though il always ended by HIS giv-
ing in. ,.t.,.'
''But at last IL came to point where
he couldn't give in. They had great
dispute, and IL hung on week in and
week out, and they didn't 90 round
together so much as usual. They never
told any one what IL was. but this /
know, that there was one family in the
Village, Cap'n Cyrenus Baxter family.
and chat Cap'n Peleg had always had a
grudge against them3no matter about
the reason now, but he distrusted them
all, root and branch. Now Cap'n Cy-
renus had family of nice smart girls,
and as things would turn out, Hi had to
take to going there to call evenings,
and twas about the time the old man
found out which way the wind Inv that
he began to make trouble. But he'd
got his hands more'n full that time.
And the more they disagreed, the more
Hi seemed to look like him, with his
Black eyes and eyebrows and set mouth.
And he Knew only too we'll that his
father ncyerwould Weld on that point.
'Twasno use thinking of such n thing.
And / guess for several DAYS they hard
ly spoke to each other. a.,
"Well, things couldn't last so long,
and one morning when Cap'n Peleg got
up Hiwas nowhere to be found. First,
the Cap'n thought he'd gone off to be
married, and he was terribly angry,
Cap'n Pcleg was, and said he'd never
speak to his boy again. But after q
while he met man from the wharves
Ethattoldy him he'd seen Hi. =
sWhereaboutsp' SAYS the Cap'n.
:" Setting sail with Cap'n Norris on
the Leading Breeze, saws he. 6N
t"Cap'f Norrisp' saws the old man;
why, ,he, s. goingoff whalin,, on % three
years cruise. WHY, I know Hi too well
to believe he'd go off that way, without
saying word to his father Y a
y ~ But he has says the man, Il was
down on the wharf when the wind
sprung up, towards morning, and thoy,
was getting ready to start, and / see Hi
come along through the fog and go
aboard! Il guess he'd talked with the
Cap'n before, for he went rieht to work.
They got up their sails and Weighed an
chor, and he came onto the wharf to
cast off. So he lust shook hands with
two or three of ,us that was standing
there, and said "Good-by,' sort Of
quiet, and then jumped aboard, and off
they went, and / guess you can see the
vessel how'f YOU go up on the hill 1f-
So up on the hill Cap'n Peleg went
Andhe thought he saw the Leading
Breeze, but it was foggy, and he wasn't
sure, He often. said afterwards that he
did wish the fog could have lifted, for o
few minutes, Just then ~.
az can't tell what passed. in the old
mans mind those three years. He
seemed the most unhappy man I ever
saw, but don't believe in all that time
he'everfonce changed his mind. He got
q letter from Hi from some foreign port
where they'd put III, jtist;saying he was
well, and they WAS having good luck
And byiand by he got another, And
when two years had gone by, and there
was some reasonable hope of their COM
ing home-if the. whaiers have good
luck they often make a shorter trip than
they expected began to get nervous
and irritable, and he spent a good deal
of time on the hill Just above the
house here. And very early. mornings,
before he got there / used to see some
one else there, too. NV house is the
only one where you can see folks up
there where they look off, and never
told any one about her being there. 1t
was,easy watching then, because there
was no reason to be anxious if they
didn't come. But when the third year
went by, and then the months began to
creep along, and creep along, one after
another, it was trying times. BY and
by 1t was four years. The old mans
halr was fast getting white then, and he
had to take cane when he went up on
the hill, but he kept his spirits, and he
was dreadful hard to get along with.
Aunt Nabby kept house for him then,
and she said he couldn't sit still min
ute, or think or talk about anything but
Hi and the Leading Breeze. IT,
"Ihen it got to be four years and a
half, and then five years. Most OF the
crew on the whaler had been from other
parts, SO there weren't many others on
the lookout, and what there was lost
an ne"r'-aii pue TWO; ana they never
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uI 'ne oiu man was lailtns laSb.
IN. Ene uty' a,ter ne came aown lfom tne
tnii,,ne .o9h eo ms pea, ana ne SEM ID
fo tor me me anu sot me 70 keep iookou!
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