The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-08
CAPT. MARyIN'S WOOING.

CAlls MAhfI] NUUlNU.
From the New York Sun.
The curious mindedused some years
ago to search for the quaint in
scription that could be traced upon q
mouldy stone in the ancient burying
ground in old Lyme Regis, known in
these later years as Lyme. Themelm-
orial, when found, couldbe deeiphered
thus:
This Deacon, aged 6S. 1sfreed on earth from
serving;
May for d crown no longer wait; Lyme's
Captain Renold Marvin.
Yet, according to the tale that
mothers told daughters for many
years more than a hundred, Capt.
Marvin found a crown whose gentle,
blue-eyed carer ruled him and his
imperious will with the peaceful
sceptre of love; and this is the tradi-
ton:
There were the sounds Of breaking
branches and the tread OF feet that
seemed heavily weighted, one after
noon Of early September in the year
177OO. These noises seemed to be caused
by some one laboring severely iustwith-
in The wilderness THAI stretched far
back into Connecticut coionyfrom the
shore OF the Sound. The man who
heard these ominous sounds peeped
cautiously around for aninstant, and
then stared with wonder upon what
was revealed to him. He saw coming
from the woods another man, half
carrying on his shoulders, half-drag-
ging, and straining at every muscle
with the weight, q great black thing
that seemed the full size OF q we'll
grown OK.
otis Remodel said the man, and
he hath O bear" Then he went up to
the hunter.
"a bear. The bear, Renold. The
brute that has given us SO much con
Germ. TITS q monster"
The hunter loosed his hold, and
painting with his exertion, seated him
self upon a stone. He was q young
man, and though the blood OF the
beast had stained his face so that the
color almost masked his countenance,
yet the dark and resoiute eyes, the
frm-set jaw, and the defiant manner
OF the man, exhausted as he was,
causedthe other to look with admira-
ton upon him rather than upon his
prize.
e'Tis a monster, Renold. You did
not tight it all alone9!
aWhy not? Shall a strong mar
with blunderbuss and knife fear q
bvute?"
MANY an armed man has been kill
ed by such as this one"
"Bahi None but babes and suck
lings. There, | am rested now. "Twa!
more difficult to fetch him here thar
to kill him. You stay here with HIM
Here, here, my gun and knife. ! to e
for help to bring him to the settle
ment."
"Ah, but, Renold, perhaps hi
cart fearful Of a dead brute2 Yet
slew him alone. Truly l did. l Ii
NOT
II know you do not lie. Your com
~nfunication Is always yea, yea, ant
nay. nay"
aFear nothing, for ] will soon b
back"
The young man, without anothe
word, went quickly downt the highway
q mile perhaps, until he stopped be
fore q clumsy, rough-barred gate SO
in the stone wall. .Thens he .strod
across a meadow, heavy with safter
math, until he reached a well. SveeI
whose bucket swung high in'S.ttA ell
With the strength of one sinewt wrist
he poured the water, cool as q white
spring, upon his head, and with -th
other hand most theoretically bathe'
his neck and face till the skin was al
most as ruddy as the stains his lat
slaughter left upon him.
There" said he at length; "wate
for strong men, milk for babies, an,
rumforthe weak and foolish Then
as he was about to start again, h
stopped in listening attitude.
Whats that / hear? ThumI
thump. All. It's Betty at her loon
I'll speak to her.
He went over the slope whereon tn
well was and just beyond came upo
q farm house whose l~ean-to roof wa
pitched against the little hill, so tina
in comingdown he might have wake
right up the roof to the ridge piec.
He turned aside, however, and stoo
upon the Kitchen door sill, and the
AZ he saw the maid at her loom, thong
she saw him not. 1t seemed to pleas
this strong man to look upon her, {
upon her quick and graceful motto
j at the loom, though her face was hit
den from him. Then, too, he saw
and wondered why he nevertook hee
Of them before-that two long an
truly braided braids Of hair hung fl
below her waist, so that, as she Sc
there at the loom, the ends OF the
seemed to rest upon the floor. Tht
sight pleased him too.
Soon he spoke, but the shuttle ar
the loom made q louder noise than h
so he advanced and touched iier. 81
was not startled, thinking some j
mate Of the house had summoned he
But when she saw this strong ms
looking down upon her she was co
fused an instant, with q pleasing co
fusion, and then she rose and greett
him.
Rsnold, you spoke not. 'rITwas n,
seernly thus to startle mo"