The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-10-09


that are tresher, if not cleaner and still
all in the family, as you may say ?"
The reasoning was clear, though i
never took shape in words, and the con
clusi0n of it was a determination to ''g,
in,' though the wet kelp on Briggs
beach was as swarmlng with kelpes a
with sand teas, and Brmmers Flower
bed should bloom with nothing but snaI
dragon and devil-in- the bush. The san(
hill so named was tlanked by loose bould
ers and flat jumpers, while sharp serge
grass and stunted beach plum trees an
chored the drifting sand of the dune, ant
held 1t steep as the house roof The sea
front was naked sand; the landwar(
slope was fringed at its base by feath-
er-llke vegetation, not a foot high, whcl
swaTned more than a foot deep viii
mosquitoes and woodticks, and the gen
uine race of the "Wicked flea" enough
to empty the veins and pick the bones o
a tipsy sleeper, before he could rouse
enough to enquire for the missing en-
yelope.
! If the vulgar imagination was right II
making this the haunt of suUernutura
beings who carried a smell of matches in
their invisible pockets, they must have
felt quite at home in the discomlorts o
| the place, On this eventtui night Of the
9th of September, loll-jf this Ne the
| true date-though we rather incline tC
! the other, fer reasons which shall Ire set
| forth at large. in the fifth volume Of uur
unwritten "liiStory of Memorabilia OF
Saugonnot - the sky was curtancd with
! white lace clouds which hung in lovely
folds about the horizon and over the wa
ters, their edges triDgcd with a subdued
| mouse color. There was moon nearly
life size, who put her rounded face
through loop in the curtains, now and
then; as if to see that all was quiet, but
soon withdrew, and 1T length forgot to
look, when she supposed every body was
asleep. II was a mistaken Suppositlon.
for III ana ST and XII where never so
very wide awake.
Had the moon kept up her watch they
might have been seen truIginy across the
pastures, with Shorels, picks ana crow
bans on their shoulders, ana \ tWo-quart
jug Of New England run in bag tor a
chest protector, now stumbling over a
sleeping OK in an angle of the walls. now
fiji rlIilt"ning themselves with the rest. as
they raised clamor from an acre Of
geese in the shelter Of the bogs; aGd,
again rousing a huge gobbler. wh0
squatting turkey fashion in his serallio,
pelemptOrily told them 60 ''Qnit and
they quilted, looking both ways at ouce
ior more trighiful goblin, with manners
even more pereaptory They ''mjght
have been seen, but they We're not so,
While they stumble on toward The sea,
you shall have their do@gery types by
the instantaneous process.
BY favor Of an elegant hinocular strab-
isnus, 81 ElboWer was Admiralty adapt
ed to Oblque watching, tol while his left
eye was set q little east by north, with a
horizontal bend sinister. the right eve
was elevated at am angle Of forty. south
southeast: and his nose. which he could
never follow and take he benefit Of eth
er eye, wound with a half-spiral to the
left. But failing as guide. il still shone
as a beacon, for the fires OF many q dis
tillery burned purple in It's tUrIet none
OF your flashing, Intermittent or lev0lv-
ing lights, but ready at all hours. like
dinner at an Irish restaurant. Had he
ever studied Latin, You might think him
a painful example Of suspended develop
ment, stuck in the rudimcnts. he was 50
often calculating his chic, hic." hut never
a 'hujus," While he would not decline IL
drink in any language. Perhaps his
mind, like perpetuated puppy, had
been dwalfed on burnt rum.
His brother Iii prded himself upon his
courage rather than his good looks Red
eyed, low-browed, with coarse. shaggy
locks, and It black and-tm stubble a
quarter OF an inch long, over most of his
face, through which, down he delta of his
chin, meandered yellow rilIs from some
Nile of tobacco uico. whose source was
lost in some unexplained, savage wilds-
he was, wthal, not quite a beauty. Sc
cure his confidence with glass of grog,
and he would frankly confess that he was
mot afraid of the devil - he had reach
ed that point III their mutual relations
which 'casteth out all fear" If His Sd
preme Ugliness, coming upon l[l in the
twilight, could have reciprocatcd the
boast, there would have been a brave
couple Of them, that's all.
The third man XII tbonoh adorned
with q friuhtful net name was mild tom
pered. smooth- headed and even a triHn
slv. after conrtimg the "itfle brown
maidenn He early fonl5 an adinose firm
GREW round and hnloinr her and fbrra
and acoiiired nnw name nv the vtv of