Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-08-26
RIBS OF DEATH"

pnths before I was born my
bat went down in a sudden
6in sight of home and OF my
10, with the rest OF the fish
1es, awaited the landing of
1eet.
this was the reason / had
6stinctive horror and dread
i even while it fascinated
|me to it in it's stormiest
! was a queer feeling that
|me. When away from the
bound of the breakers | was
b unquiet, near them I was
melancholy, but some crav-
|aature was satisfied, and |
|aratiyely calm. l believe
h, people, who are intensely
Jus, looked upon me as
consequence OF this. "The
b swallows what it gets a
hey said among themselves
pwful fatahsm. We can
lp beng superstitions and
Re who are born and reared
euth. Nature is so stern in
and so cruel in her way Of
them.
Iiord, our Wears daughter,
IS with me for saying things
Hit | cannot help thinking
She feels them to be true
during the long and stormy
b this northeast coast of
is very kind and good, and
ways busy working among
that helps her through.
who taught me how to
put sentences together so
E this story ineligible, and
who wished me to write it.
mot know. When / told it
| hardly expected her to
but she did and helped me
le bad time which | had aft
at must bide until / come
,uth is only a cluster of cot
nd a little harbor, with a
feboat house below. About
DE north is the ugly sharp
cks which bears the signifi-
of ribs o. Death" Many
|el has struck and ground
5 to matchwood, many a
|ng life has been washed off
RIBS. They do say that in
nes many q ship was lured
! destruction too; but I can
eve the grandfathers of our
|ws, who lived by and on
just as now, could be inhu-
u 10 trade upon the danger
3 OF fellow-mariners. Only
/ that even yet, while any of
you'd risk his life without
vice about it to save anoth-
dent have any very def
on the laws OF salvage.
4 a comedy lass in the es-
II the village critics. In fact
\ my little white face, with
K eyes, in the dim old look
'hich hung over the mantel-
Il front room, and compar-
that of Bell Carr, our biggest
boxing girl, | used to feel
and Insignificant. She was
err lass, tall and strongly
b a swim sing walk and saucy
a ready word for every one
simple. The artists who
sometimes to pain us in our
site blue fiannels always
r. and passed me over. l
type and she was, they
was glad OF it, for Willie
lave liked me to act as a
my want of beauty, ] had
anne counting me, and Willie
the ons i favored. Edam
arr was too much of nv
n for me. too gloomy; Nv
lim, had the same sort
4 him that / had of the sea,
ps a little of the same idea
'lble power over me.
lie, with his bonnie yellow
bis blue eyes, and his sunny
ut girl could have resisted
brought his brightness into
nd it seemed to 60 out like
eneath a cloud on the day
In the Rcwepa, bound for
the East Indies, from the
aost energetic and enterpris-
men become sailors if they do
tisfed to become fishermen
theirs before them. 1t never
inter- into any of their heads
> are other means of liveli-
> these two callings. They
ar themselves away from
together, however they may
They inhale its salt breeze
earliest breaths, its foam
7 beat on them, until it be-
It of them, AS 1t were, and
as much creatures of the
he fishes that swim beneath
Is that float above. So it
When Willie grew discomfort
J earnings as a fisherman, he
'ea to make more money in
Il wedding me the sooner.
'ot strong enough for a fish
ife," he said, "and he hoped
Ne to keep me like a lady"
cared
was small / was not deli
could, and indeed did, car
81 as well as the best OF
y my mother married
when she died there were
J mouths TO fill, and no one
do it; for their father was
lnken good-for-nothing, who
be cliff one night when he
3 home from the cold Ship
did no good after. Lucky
md for me, though it sounds
az IT, he did not live long
den; but we had some hard
and then, when the weather
ind there was no fish to
! for the BARNS j would
housemaid at the vicarage,
Miss Ashford had had me
esore mother died, but l
! more money doing as the
I'D look after the little ones
ne time.
! favored me in the matter
:ause they thought / had n
] to climb, and | will say
dy was kinder than Edam
elieve he was really fond OF
often approached myself
Id not help shrinking from
| was not alone III that
They called him "Black
= a aickaame, because be
grim and dour. None ofthe
anged greetings with him
stalked along past their
roups; nor did any OF the
and joke with Kim. With
1t he was left alone.
on see, here was a bond of