Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-03-03

new HOtnln' ter do with the cTitter He
caught him once, as the story goes, but
when ne see what he'd got holt of,
ne let him drop powerful sudden, an
there's the mark or his fingers where
ne grabbed him, ter this day, plain ez
Ken be. Pr'aps you'd like to hear about
my hndin' the merrage stif'kit o. Bob
Haley's father an mother. It sounds
ike regular sailors yarn, what folks
call fish story, but IT'S true every
word on 1t; eff You don't b'lieve it, you
can ask Bob Haley himself eff faint
Jest as | tell it. He's a goin ter put up
at the hotel back there in the village,
fur quite spell yit. Them summer
! gentlemen that | told it to this mornin'
seemed ter be real tickled with it. One
on 'em, m real eddicated gentleman
he is, slick an smooth ez minister.
had knowed ov greenback bein' found
In the stomach of ced, somewhares
down Cape Cod way. M Bob Haley,
be was standin' by all the time 1 was
tellin' on it, m he sez:
Gentlemen, Uncle Joel amt a
spinin' no yarn; the truth is sometimes
stranger than felton,"
l said that should like to hear it
above all things. 1t was just the time
for story, such still, dreamy after
noon, with nothing about to disturb
ones full enjoyment Of it,
Its just the time for sail, TOO;
the breeze has got into q notion o.
comm up. towards sunset, these days,
m don't die down till pretty we'll into
the evenin'. What dye say to tryin'
| tho ,,aru bota ,,,;Ccs Che ba;,,t rvot No.
name, yit, but marin m run on an
idee that we'd call her DelIv'rance,
since she seems TO be deliv'rin' on US
out of all our troubles fur ye see, when
] git ter be too old m used up ter run
her, we kin sell her fur enough to keep
me N marm middlln' chirk, till we git
through. Lysarnder's wife, she thought
of 1t fust, poor soul, fur she's got beau
tlful learnin', as well as a pious mind. !"
l accepted the invitation to sail, with
| delight. The sun was low in the west
| and the air becoming deliiously cool.
The sky, overhead, was OF the tender
est azure, and the sea stretched away,
ripping into various lovely hueS which
shifted and melted into each other. 1t
was deep purple in the shadowy cove, a
| soft blue under the broad sunshine, and
in some far away places streaked with
/ silver, almost like the touch of moon
light.
The old man assisted me on board the
craft with great gallantry, and was
anxious to display all her fine points,
before hosting the anchor and setting
his sails.
1.-Two hunks, We see, m place ter
crawl inter ef 4 spell o. weather should
/ come on unawares, m a leetle cook
/ stove to warm up vittles, m make tea,
n coffee on, eff We wanted ter go on
long trip. See here, did ye ever come
across anything harnsomer than this
hard wood fnlshin', m eZ tell marm
I them there cushions is ernough ter
/ tempt ravin' t.arin' hurricane ter in
/ duige in lazy 1t IN stop awhile N
rest its bones"
| [ admired everything to his satisfac-
/ ton.
"But you mustn't forget the story
you were going to tell me, Uncle Joe"
| said; 81 should be sorry to lose It,"
"Oh, no, miss ye needn't be afeared
/ o. thet, you Jest walt till haul up the
ilb. m git sot down ter the helm, m
L II 1etcn DeSlnnln'.
"Ye see," he commenced, after the
boat had got well under way, nigh
about thirty years ago, some folks by
/ the name o. Cram moved over frIfm
! Firetown, n located in thet there house
/ on the pin, the third one frum the
! school'us', as ye come along the beach
road. They wuz good folks ernuff, as
/ folks 90 though the old man was kinder
| lazy m shiftless, m marin, she got the
notion thet they hadn't none o. 'em
any unreasonable i'll will against dirt.
/ There vuz three Or four boys In the
/ family, with nothin' uncommon about
'em bat their names, m fakelty fur
poor luck. l kant lest recall what these
names wuz, now, only thet they wuz
dretful highflown, m ez the boys halnt
nothin' in pertikler ter do with the
the story, taint so much matter.
'fBut the one girl amongst 'em was
an uncommon picter. Her hair wuZ
lest ez black ez coal, all kinder curly
m crinkIy over her forehead, M hung
| down her back in amaZin' long shiny
ringlets. l never see no blows In
poWsy bed that could hold a candle to
her cheeks for redness, m ez fur her
eyes. they wuz ez bright m sparklin' ez
a flash o. lightning on dark night.
| She wuz a trig built m pooty sallln'
little craft, too, m 'peared to be smart
I though folks said she warnt no great
hand fur work. But eZ fur's looks
goes she wuz a regler three-decker m
no mistake, 'u' / hardly ever come
acrost her without she WIZ all trimmed
out, ez eff fur meetin' er dance, Win
ribbins N posies, eff 'twarnt morn n a
bunch o. beach peas, or harmful o.
rnerrygools. Pritty nigh all the young
feIIers in these parts wanted to court
her. IN no strange sailor ever stepped
ashore but what wuz dretful took with
her harnsome countenance. But sne
only kinder laughed at 'em all.
siI tell We, miss, we're maxim ALFRED
GOOD time. now-down in hearin' or the
he'll buoy, so soonl" exclaimed the Old
man, suddenly dropping the thread OF
his discourse. "Hain: she a steppln'
stiddy m pretty long, with this span
kim breeze? swan ter man, she's even
more nv a sumner than calculated at
fust."
we were, indeed. flying around the
noint like magic. The little craft SEEM
eI Ike something alive and glad, puff
ing and swelling her eager sails, toss
ing the salt spray with her Prov ,careeh-
ing gracefully on one side, then righting
herself with a gleefull little spring.
"Bus there I've most forgot where l
was in nv story. Lem'me see; why, L
hain't told We what the girls name wuz
vet. hev II Twas Galassy, m proud,
eIeyatin' name like that seemed terJest
suit her. She hadn't no notion o. set
tim, down here, she said. wearin' oy
patched close. m eatin ov long,neck neck
CLANS; so one fall when she was about a11l.
nineteen years old. of she went down
TO Greatport, m got some kind ov
s;,ooat;on in a hotel there, m 'twasnt
long afore we heard how she'd BEN m
rnt Us = rich sea Cap'n, named Haley, onto
her hook, m was married to him. d1 1t
wuz wa pritty plain that there wuz ,I money ons;.
in that bargain, for all the Grams com'
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