The Penn's Grove record., 1886-02-27

eatin'. even n OIu merry NouIuB
hey Dotbin' ter do with the Critter. He
caught him once, as the story goes, but
when he see what he'd got holt of,
he lot him drop powerful! sudden, an
therets the marx er his fingers where
he raabbed him, ter this day, plain ez
ken he. Pr'aps you'd like to hear about
M Gfdin' the merrage stif'kit o. Bob
Halp.ss father an mother. 1t sounds
like 8 regular sailors yarn, what folks
call a fish story, but it's true every
word on 1t: eff you don't b1ieve 1t, you
can ask Bob Haley himself eff faint
lest as [ tell it, He's a g0in ter put up
at the hotel back there in the village,
fur quite a spell yit. Them summer
gentlemen that | told it to this mornln
seemed ter be real tickled with it. one
ON 'em. m a real dedicated gentleman
he is. slick an smooth ez minister,
had fnowed ov a greenback bein' found
i'm tho stomach of a ced, someWhares
down cape Cod way. IN Bob Haley,
be was standir' by all the time L was
telI.u' on it, m he SEE:
" Gentlemen, Uncle Joel amt a
spinIn' no yarn; the truth is sometimes
stranger than felton,
/ said that l should like to hear 1t
| above all things. 1t was just the time
for a story, such a still, dreamy after
noon, with nothing about to disturb
o~ne'sfull enjoyment of it,
cts just the time for a sail, TOO;
the brreze has got into a notion O.
. comm I'D towards sunset, these days,
M don't die down till pretty well into
, the ev,nin'. What dye say to tryln'
! the new bote, miss2 She hain't got no
name. Wit. put n6,-m m l run on an
idee that we'd call her Delly'rance,
since she seems to be 1eliv'rin' on US
out of all our troubles tcr esee, when
7 git ter be too old m used up ter run
her, we kin sell her fur enough to Keep
| me m marin mlddlln' chirk, till we git
through, Lysarnder's wife, she thought
Of 1t fust, poor soul, fur she's got beat
tlful learnin', as well as a pious mlno. F.,
| accepted the invitation to sail, Will
delight. The sun vas low in the west
, and the air becoming deliciQusly cool
The sky, overhead, vas of the tender
| est azure, and the sea stretched away
. rippling into various lovely hues whlct
shifted and melted into each other. Ii
was deep purple in the shadowy cove, 9
soft time under the broad sunshine, anc
in some far away places streaked viii
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.
Two hunks, We see, m place tel
crawl inter eff a spell o. weather shoulc
I come on unawares, m leetle cook
stove to warm up vittIes, m make tea,
m coffee on, eff We wanted ter go on
long trip. See here, did ye ever come
across anything harnsomer than thl'
hard wood 6nishin', m ez L tell marn
them there cushions is ernough tel
| tempt a ravin' taarin' hurricane ter IN
dulge in a lazy fit 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 JOEL
! | said; 81 should be sorry to lose IT."
"Oh, no, miss ye needn't be afearet
/ O tibet, you jest wait till | haul up thu
lib. M git sot down tor the helm, n
III fetch q beginnin'.
'Ye see," he commenced, after The
boat had got well under way, 'nigt
about thirty years ago, some folks BY
Me name o. Cram moved over frun
ITretown, 'n'located in tibet there house
on the pin, the third ont frum thu
schDol'us7, as ye come along the beach
road. They wuz good folks ernutf, az
folks 90 though the old man was kinde,
lazy N sbiftless, IN marin, she got thu
notion tibet they hadn't none o. zen
any unreasonable i'll will against dirt
There WIZ three or four boys III tn
family, with nothin' uncommon aDou
lem but their names, IN fakelty fu
Door luck. I kant Jest recall what thesi
names wuz, now, only tibet they WI
dretful highffown, m ez the boys hahn
nothin' in per@kler ter do with tn
the story, faint so much matter.
,'But the one girl amongst 'em wa.
an uncommon pieter. Her hair WI
lest ez black eza coal, all kinder curl.
m crinkIy over her forehead, M hun!
down her back in amazin' long shin.
ringlets. I never see no blows in
poWsy bed that could hold a candle t.
her cheeks for redness, m ez fur he
eyes. they wuz ez bright m sparklin' e
a flash o. lightning on dark night
She wuz a trig built m pooty sailln
little craft, too, m 'peared to be smar
though folks said she warnt no grea
hand fur work. But eZ fur'S look
goes she wuz a regler three-decker N
no mistake, ~ / hardly ever com
acrost her without she wuz all trlmmet
out. ez eff fur meetin' er a dance, witt
ribbins m posies, eff 'jwarnt morn'n
bunch o. beach peas, or a harmful 0
merrygOOls. Pritty nigh all the young
fellers in these parts wanted to cour'
her, m no strange sailor yer stepped
ashore but what wuz dretful took wit
her harnsome c-ountenance. But shI
only kinder laughed at 'em all.
81 tell ye, miss, we're maxim alldre'
good time, noW-down in hearin' ofthl
bell buoy, so soon!'' exclaimed the OLD
man, suddenly dropping the thread o.
his discourse. "Hains she a steppin
Study m pretty long, with this span
kim breeze? l swan ter man, she's ever
more ny a sumner than l calculated a
fust."
We were, indeed. flying around tn
point like magic. The little craft seem
Cd like something alive and glad, put
Ding and swelling her eager sails, toss
ING tho salt spray with her PROV ,eareen
ING gracefully on II side, then rightin!
herself with a gleefun little spring.
"But there I've most forgot where
was in my story. Lem'me see; why,
hain't told ye what the girls name WI
vet, hev n Twas Galassy, m a proud
e~leyatin' name like that seemed terjes
suit her. She hadn't no notion o. set
tim down here, she said, a wearin' o.
Matched close, m eatin ov l0ng-lecl
CLANS; so one fall when she vas abOu
nineteen years old. off she went down
to Greatport, IN got some kind oy
s~itooation in a hotel there, m 'twasn'
long af0re we heard how she'd BEN N
cot a rich sea Cap'n, named Haley, ont,
her hook, m was married to him. l
wuz pritty plain that there wuz none,
in that bargain, for all the Grams com
menced right away ter git most I'm
commCu sot up in the world. The Oh
t--.vhf a navrr uk,xra nina hat IN