The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-20
BETWEEN TWO HORNS.
BY SARAH T. PRITCuARD.


boy not bigger than your'n go out in a
boat to-day. Eon't you do it. "Tain't
no kind of weather for that slip OF q LAD
to 90 foolin' with them big billows as
sweeps around old Dull Head. Why,
look yourself, woman. You can sec
them more'n four miles away dashing
and lashing the shore"
As Captain Rose spoke he pointed
with bis right hand in the direction of
one of the two headlands between which
Dell Haven lay.
"And no dory in the harbor," he con-
tinued, could weather Bright Head
(pointing toward the headland at the
left, not if Capn Hez skah himself was
q row'n of it. You'd 6Bkr take them
row-locks out and hide the oars if he
won't mind without you doin' it."
Il can't bear to do it," said Mrs.
Swing. Orchard will be so disap.
pointed. He set his lobster pots yeitcr-
day. and he hasn't slept any all night in
his eagerness to go out early and haul
them. Don't you see, Captain Rose, it's
Saturday, and two whole coaches full of
summer boarders came last night to the
Bright Head House, and he can get a
big price for his Holsters to-day. My
poor Dick has worked so hard making
the lobster pots himself, and it seems
like cutting OF the boys reward to say
you shant't go to him."
.sS'posc you do feel weakish bout it,
Susan; but you don't want that ere boat
to be picked up adrift and no boy in it,
do ye?" y,
s'You know I don't, Captain Rose,"
she said. "If hadn't loved him do you
think Id get up before daylight to see
the lad off :"
"Hush," said the Captain. "IIere he
comes, and he's fastening his straw hat
to his buttons. lie sees there is wind
enough ahead"
1t was morning in June, and tho sun
was not yet risen, but the glory of his
coming was in the east and on the sea.
As he came down the pier, the oars on
his shoulder. and securing his straw hat
by a string to his .,ackct, the old Captain
said: Hes fine lad, Dick is, and we'll
worth the saving"
"Good morning, Captain Ross" called
out Richard. "Good for Holsters, do
you think"
"Better for Holsters than tits for boys
Q e'aculatcd the Captain removing his
broad brown hands from his pocket and
laying one of them on the lads shoulder
as soon as the latter came within touch
ing distance. al say, Dick Swing, that
you are not going out in that cookie shell
ef your'n this morning." he announced.
II certainly ain, captain Rose" re-
turned the boy. ''Its little rough,
but like as not the wind will come right
around before 1 get half way to the
ledge, aud I should think you would
know better than to scare my little
mother here hal to death. ee, mother"
he said, gayly, II have an extra oar
and one thole PIN, yes, two of them, In
ease row-lock gives way, and I've got
lot of extra courage about me that
I can't exactly show you unless you
come with me-"
This he said looking out to sea, for he
did not feel like looking either at his
mother or Captain Rose.
"Dick," said Mrs. Swing, approaching
the piers edge as the owner OF the little
boat proceeded to bestow his lunch
basket and extras under the bow.
"Well, mother, returned Richard,
looking up.
II wish you would not CO." she said,
her tones full of beseeching.
"Why, mother! Do you want my
seven new lobster pots to be carried Off
to sea-" he asked. "How could you
have the heart to ask me2 If this wind
keeps on blowing l shall lose them every
one.
"That's true" calculated Captain
Rose. 81 never thought of that. It's
Just right, this wind is, to drag them o /,
but you never can haul them in alone.
You'll be sure to be dragged over
board"
"No, I shan't. Come along with me
il you want to help" laughed Richard.
''Humph! l should sink that craft
before we got out of harbor," said the
Captain; though if wasn't SO heavy /
would co. Captain Rose weighed a
trifc l>ss than three hundred pounds,
and had let the sea after fifty years OF
faithful service.
Not another person was in sight.
''I'll tell you what I'll do," said the
Captain. "If you insist on going, Ill
stop on my way up and ask Captain
Danforth to look out for you, and if he
thinks you're getting into trouble to
sail after you"
"Thank you, Captain"
"Dick," said his mother, ''can't you
Bet the lobster pots go9"
Couldn't lossibly," smiled the boy.
''Could you have the heart to ask me
Will you cast me OFF, he called a second
hter.
"Wait minute" exclaimed Mrs.
Swing. "Fetch your boat close up.
want to speak to you, Dick"
The boat received the necessary i'm
petus, and touched the side of the pier
Mrs. Swing had seated herself on the
topmost layer of logs forming the wharf,
and leaned over as though to speak con
fdentially to her sou.
"Dick," sa' d 8 mother, "hold fast
I'm coming" and into the boat sht
dropped before either Captain Rose or
the dock or Captain Richard in the boa
had knowledge of her intention.
"What under the sun, mother" crieo
the boy, do you mean"
s:I'm going with you, Dick, to keel
you from falling overheard when you
haul in" aud she seated herself in tn
stern, calling back as the tide floatcc
the boat out, "We depend on you, Cap
tain lose, to send after us if we-if i
gets too rough" she gasped, with
dash of spray in her face.
..Ay, ay" cried the Captain, and HI
took oil his hat and swung it, he scarce
" knew why.
of all the women in Dell Haven, from