Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-14

caught the dory, and wbirled II away rs
dead leaf Is blown over the plains. The
horror stricken people who rushed out OF
the cottages, and gathered upon the
more sheltered outlooks gave Dan up for
lost as he was soon swept beyond their
sight.
Two or three sympathizing neighbors
drew the sobbing Nabby away with them,
and the storm drove even the men to the
shelter of their homes, all the sooner per-
haps that Dams family lived upon the
main land. The attraction of Nabby
Varney's pretty face had led him to cast
his lot in with the Shoalers.
What of DAM Driven and tossed over
that whirling and tossing sea, he gave
himself up for lost. Still a strong man
will struggle for life even when the strug-
gle is hopeless. And above the tupult,
and roar and terror, sounded ever in his
ears a cry, and that cry nerved him to
effort when strength and courage failed.
The oars had been torn from his grasp.
II he had had them they would have been
useless Alone in a little boat on the
angry sea. he set himself to the task-no
easy or certain one-of keeping the dory
afioat and right side up. Tying himself
with loose rope that was aboard so that
he could not be tossed out he bailed for
dear life. II was all he could do. All
that terrible night, driven he knew not
where-drenched with every wave
tossed from billow to billow-he endured
and bailed.
The thick darkness gave no sign of
rock or shore, the bowling wind drowned
all roar of breakers; he might be rushing
A.. n h.a, ,,tsrht h.a Hx-inn nttt
to sea, TO toss for days of misery out of
the track of ships, at last to die linger-
ing death of starvation and exposure.
But that agonized cry of girlish voice
still rang in his ears, and still he bailed,
and still the waves washed in-and still
he bailed.
The blacklist night ends at last in
morning, and TO the involuntary voyager
the sun came up, and the wind went
down, and there before him the early sun
light was gliding the steeples of his native
town OF York, on the coast Of Maine.
Dan Kicker, drenched and haggard,
walked into his fathers house in time
for breakfast.
Hungry
The Kicker family just stood around,
with open and empty mouths while the
mother piled Dams plate again and
again. The home folks devoured his tale
that day, and Dan made away with the
breakfast.
This world fares on in a prosaic fashion
after ALL and people must go the way Of
the world. The morning train rolling
through York took up Dan, dressed in dry
clothes and showing no signs Of his terri
BILE experience, and dropped him at the
station in Portsmouth. The steamer
Appledore going out ON the morning trip
with the daily crowd of excursiOnists
landed him at Star by dinner time.
Somehow real life is not SO romantic as
the story teller would have us to believe.
II would be more artistic" TO overturn
the dory, and break Nabby's heart, and
depict a heartrending scene when a
ghastly corpse was washed upon the
beach. There were two strong objections
TO such finis. Sunburnt Nabby, strong
and 1.-THE, was far too tough to kill
easily, and strange as it may seem, the
/ true ending really pleased her.
She was very well satisfied when Dan
strobe into Her fathers cottage followed
by half the ast6nished villagers, who well
coined him as one risen from the bottom
of the sea.
! And Dan appeared to be satisfied too
I il sounded as il he was.-Annis Wayne
Bowen in The Household