Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
CHAPTER III.

All EaStport was astir next morning u see
the Ann Mary Ann of. Ea,tport'S single
loug wharf was crowded with relatives and
friends Of thoSr departing-rrlatiyeS i the
most proper term, Tor this was a long settled
community. dating its first planting but
twenty wears after the landing at Plymouth.
The name of the first settlers were sill the
prydominant ones. both in our village AMI
the towns" Us We called the exclusively
agricultural yillt ErS y lew miles back in tn
country. E&Stport was the h!rbor for th'se
their commercial city on a very small scale.
Every Old family could trace so:nc degree 81
c~on>auguinitE more or les remote with
every other family through marriage. per-
hapS. in this century or the one preceding.
K was no die thr"ug upon that wharf, at
tractcd by mere earnestly. There We're fathers
and mothers, sisters and brothers, auntS aud
LnclrS. first. second and third cousins. grand
fathers and gTandmotheTS. SwcethrdrtS and
wives. The sailing Of q whaler with q score
Of town>people on board va, no new thlng,
but the mission Of thos' leaving in this case
was different. ami the seventy on board rep
resented. a to life and enterprise, the very
elite ut the place. myself excepted.
| had shipped before tn" mast, and coming
on board about nine in the morning, dressed
in my last. hal been immediately pounced
upOn by Mr.. Pell. our second mate, and Or
drrcei 10 take off them dudS aud turn 10 IN
nv working toggcry.' SO | buried my broad
cloth suit in my chest. babe it adleu, AMI.
making my appearance Un deck III white duck
trousers and a flaming red flannel shirt, was
ordered b Mr.. Peli 70 catch the ships pis,
roaming thea ut will about decks, and clap
him in his pen
Mr.. Pei! was n tall. Gaunt, tough, hard
ened man. wiki one eye, ard q hand and arm
tanned by exposure 80 tropic suns I" the
color OF mahogany. He sccluel al bones
working bones, and the OH" Impossible thing
for Mr.. Pell to do. while awake. was 10 sit
still and the next impoa>ibihty with him was
to allow othcr, To sit still, II it was III his
power 10 prevent them.
Mr.. Pcll belonged 10 one Of our second
class families. There We're first and second
class families in AMI about EaStport. and a
certain unnamed, untalkci distinction al
ways existed between them. and had 50 done
for generations. Nor, than one of the Older
families could produce well a~ltc>yel evidences
oi lineage with the ariStOcraCy of the mother
land. and no change of fortune or station
could ever rid them Oi a certain bearing say
oring of blood and pedigree. They might 90
before the mast. serve rs boat S~teererS, learn
the trade of cooper, the principal mechanical
calling of the place, but the manner ever
chung 10 them.
Now Mr.. Pell was rot one Of theSe, He
prided himself on being a common mana
very common man. Anything in the least
degree beSpeaking putin on airs" as Mr..
Pell expressed il, was very r~epugnant to him.
The PellS had always lived il AZ unpaintei
frame house ON the back. street" and in
their sandy hack yard pig weed seemed to
gov more luxuriantly than elsewhere. The
shore Pelk fished and dug clans for a living.
The SEA PelS would rise To the position Of
second mate, seldom any higher. As bows
the PellS learned almost in tEeir infancy 10
chew tobacco. At the district school they
received the hardest whippings with the
most u%ncOnccTn.
This was sam Pel. second mate Of the Ann
Mary Ann. and | was one OF the ancient
house Of Holders, scampering under his
orders after an obstinate pig, and all this in
tulI view Of various members Of the proud
Holder family-aDl not only the Holders.
but the TalmadgeS. the OSborneS. the WcSter-
bees, the Hillyers, the Carys. the Wickhams
AMI the Ry~GnS, caught the brute at last
by the hind lcsS which he worked 10 and fro