Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-01-01
CAPT. MARVIN'S WOOING.

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From the New York Sun. ":.~
The curious minded used 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. The men,
orial, when found, could be deciphered
thus: 49,.
This Deacon, aged 6s, Is freed on earth from
serving; ~. 'tt%.
May for crown no longer wait; Lyme's
Captain Renold Marvin. 49, 80
Yet, according to the tale that
mothers told daughters for many
years more than q hundred, Capt.
Marvin found q crown whose gentle,
blue-eycd wearer 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
100. These noises seemed to be caused
by some one laboring severely justwith-
in the wilderness that stretched. far
back into Connecticut colony from the
shore of the Sound. The man who
heard these ominous sounds peeped
cautiously around for an instant, and
then stared with wonder upon what
was revealed to him. He saw coming
from the woods another man, hall
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 u we'll
grown OK.
"Tis Renold,' said the man, land
he hath IL 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 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 resotute eyes, the
firm-set jaw, and the defiant manner
OF the man, exhausted as he was,
caused the other to look with admira.
ton upon him rather than, upon his
prize. =.
"Tis a monster, Renold. You did
not fight it all alone?'
"Why not? Shall strong man
with blunderbuss and knife fear a.
brute?" ..
"Many an armed man has been kill
ed by such as this one"
bah! None but babes and suck
lings. There, am rested now. Twas
more difficult to fetch him here than
to kill him. You stay here with him
Here, here, my gun and knife, to go
for help to bring him to the settle
ment."
"Ah, but, Renold, perhaps his
mate"
"Art fearful of dead brute? Yet
slew him alone. Truly did. lie
not"
II knowyou do not lie. Your COM
municotlon is always yea, yea, and
nay, nay
''Fear nothing, for I will soon be
. back"
The young man, without another
word, went quickly down the highway,
a mile perhaps, until he stopped be.
fore a clumsy, rough barred gate set
in the stone wall Then he strobe
across q meadow, heavy with after
math, until he reached g. we'll sweep,
whose bucket swung high in the air
With the strength OF one sinewy wrist,
he poured the water, cool as winter
spring, upon his head, and with the
other hand most enersetically bathed
his neck and face till the skin was al
most as rudy as the stains his late
slaughter left upon him. =: -.
There" said he at length; "water
for strong men, milk for babies, and
rumfor the weak and foolish" Then,
as he was about to start again, he
stopped in listening attitude. ..gg
whats that / hear? Thump,
l thump. All, tits Betty at her loom.
I'll speak to her. l,gs..5. e.. nj.
Hewent over the slope wherein the
well was and Just beyond came upon
a farm house whose lean-to roof was
pitched against the little hill, so that
. in coming down he might have walked
right up the roof to the ridge piece.
He turned aside, however, and stood
upon the kitchen door sill, and then
5she saw the maid at her loom, though
she saw him not. It seemed to please
this strong mant Q look upon her, or
upon her quick and graceful motion
q ut the loom, though her face was hid.
den from him. Then, too, he saw 8
and wondered why he never took heed
8of them before that two long and.
truly braided braids OF hair hung far
below her waist, 50 that, as she sat
there At the loom, the ends of them.
i seemed to rest upon the floor. That
]. sight pleased him too.
Soon he spoke, but the shuttle aud
J the loom made q louder noise than he,
SO he advanced and touched her. She
was not startled, thinking some In
mate of the house had summoned her.
But when she saw this strong man
n booking down upon her she WAS con-
fused an instarst, with q pleasing con-;
fusion, and then she rose and greeted
him, 5ssls
Renold yon1 oke not was not.
esnly thus tc startle me.