The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-13

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off on days fishing cruise IN their
boat, or carting up load of seaWeed
for the garden, and wherever you see
Hi you was pretty sure to see Cap'n
Peleg, too Hi was nice-looking boy,
full of life and fun, and q great favor
i tie all over the village. Twas pity
things couldn't have staid SO right
along. But when Hi got little older
there began to be trouble.
"He wanted first to 90 to sea, but the
old man said No, and he meant it.. Sc
after while HI gave in. He had to.
There was no peace to be had with
Cap'n Peleg unless you'd do Just as he
said. But the trouble was that Hi was
much the same way, and they'd dis
agree on one thing and then on anoth-
er, though it always ended by His Civ
ing in.
"But at last it came to point where
he couldn't give in. They had a great
| dispute, and it hung on week in and
week out, and they didn't 90 round
together SO much as usual. They never
told any one what it was, but this ]
know, that there was one family In the
village, Cap'n Cyrenus Baxter family,
and that Cap'n Peleg had always had a
4 grudge against them no 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 lay 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 setmouth.
And he knew only too well that his
father never would yield on that point.
Twas no use thinking of such thing.
And | guess fol-. several days they hard
ly spoke to each other. ~ n = 10
"Well, things couldn't last 50 long,
and one morning when Cap Peleg got
up, Hi was nowhere to be found First,
the Cap'n thought he'd gone off to be
married, and he was Terribly angry,
Cap'n Peleg was, and said he'd never
speak to his boy again. But after a
while he met man from the wharves
that told him he'd seen Hi. aff s.sgs
"fWhereabouts?' says the Cap'n. &
"'Setting sail with Cap'n Norris on
the Leading Breeze, says he. M
"sCap'n NorrisP' says the old man;
why, he's going off whalin', on a three
years cruise. Why, I know Hi too well
to believe he'd 90 off that way, without
saying a word to his father
SO GR1t ba hoa,s3 e,x-, J. :, .4,cx. -
down on the wharf when the wind
sprung up, towards morning, and they
was getting ready to start, and I see Hi
come along through the fog and GO
aboard. i guess he'd talked with the
Cap'n before, for he went right to work.
They got up their sails and weighed an
Choir, and he came onto the wharf to
cast off. So he just shook hands with
two or three of us that, was standing
there, and said "Good-by'' sort Of
quiet and then jumped aboard, and of
they went, and / guess you can see the
vessel now'f you 60 up on the hill. g.
$50 up on the hill Cap'n Peleg went.
And he 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 a
few minutes, just then .
81 can't tell what passed in the old
mans mind those three years. He
seemed the most unhappy man l ever
saw, but | don't believe in all that time
he ever once changed his mind He col
a letter from Hi from some foreign port
where they'd put in, just saying he was
well, and they was having good luck.
And by and by he got another. And
when two years had gone by, and there
was some reasonable hope of their com
ing home-if the whalers have gooc
luck they often make shorter trip thar
they expected he began to get nervous
and irritable, and he spent good dea
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. Ny house is The
only one where you can see folks ur
there where they look off, and / never
told any one about her being there. II
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 tt
creep along, and creep along, one after
another, it was trying times. BY and
by it was four years. The old mans
hair was fast getting white then, and h,
had to take cane when he went up OF
the hill, but he kept his spirits, and h,
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, bu
Hi and the Leading Breeze. l@ III
Then it got to be four years and I;
half, and then five years. Most of tn,
crew on the whaler had been from othel
parts, so there weren't many others OF
the lookout, and what there was los
all heart-all but two; and they neve
met bFEM
!" But the old man was failing fast
One day, after he came down from tn,
hill, he took to his bed, and he sent il
for me and got me to keep a lookou
for him, and he said that if he SHOULD
hear the Leading Breeze was coming
into the harbor, he knew he could ge
right up and go down to the wharves t,
meet his boy. But it didn't come, AM
hS SoO Wodh6I anu Wedk0T.
Zone evening he sent for me to COM
in. And when got there, he couldn'
seem to make up his mind to tell mi
what he wanted. But at last / guessed
what it was, and | went to Cap'n eyre
nus and told Abby what / thought tn,
old man wanted. She was real sensi
BILE, nice girl, and she puton her thing
and come right down. And she an,
the old man had long talk. ] dom
know what he said, but when she CAM
out, | saw she'd been crying, but sh,
tried to smile, and told me she wa
coming down the next morning. ant
she guessed p'raps she'd better sta,
awhile and look after him, and try t,
cheer him up some. aa
Il took her home, and when cam
back Cap'n Peleg seemed good dea
softened down, and he told me he wa
feeling considerable better, and said h
had more confidence in seeing Hi 500
than he'd felt for long time, and h
meant to have His clothes brought dow
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