The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-11
THE SUN, SUNDAY, MAY II, 1so-rH1RTY PAGES.

whose rolling tops, measure foot across.
straddlinR along the street, with his arms
have the native Chincoteaguer in all his pride.
The wife of the old native is to be seen about
ito town riding in a cart, The cart has wheels
feet IL diameter, with tires 81 Inches wide.
carts Of New YORK, only they are longer. Beo
tween these thlls stands the team u COW or an
OK or o pony or mule; Just as the owner han
L has to keen it's neck stretched to prevent
the ends of the thlls chatting its horns.
Seated on board lai across the box OF this
cart is the woman dressed in calico gown
and sun bonnet, while sitting about her feet
from q third to half the number the fam.
lily. The wife IL, gaunt and worn; the children
are fat and good looking.
on one model; 1t l. that of the dry goods box.
They were originally of logs but for the last
have q single room, with low attic above.
reached by a cross between a ladder and
holds a few dishes. A pot. a frying pan. a coffee
rot and iew basins and pie tins are piled be-
hind y rusty, stove. In one corner, stands the
found in the metropolis. The bedposts are as
thick as a, common stovepipe. Huge timbers
that is stretched criscross around pegs in the
rail. But the most noticeable feature OF all Is
hay in New Eneand now Winter and su nne
mer the ChlncoteaRuer must have n soft bed,
and his idea Of softness ia in no way so we'll
met us by abundant feathers Tho thought OF
such bed in such climate as this Is in
August is enough to make Northern man
tent. The children sleep on the trundle bed
and on feather beds on the floor IN tho attic;
Ho viii share h nest and bis
pork. corn bread and coffee flor such is his
diet with stranger Al any time, and be hearth.
only take drint from the ever. present wills.
key bottle and then sit down and chew tobacco
woman sits by in the old wooden rocking chair
and smokes stone wall pipe with z ilsh POLE
sSm ihe B1t Taxes strapae tna With a irog
nerve and stomach to stand tho orueal
GHOSTS AND CHARMS,
Living in an Isolated hut on an isolated
patch OF land, with 20 books no newspapers,
ChincoteagueT's mind was inevitably toward
a belief in tho supernatural. The wind signing
through the nines' strange voices from the sea,
lights that danced above tho stagnant water in
the. glades-ai came to him as manifestations
Bloxom living q mile below the village went
one day down the beach to. help discharge the
cargo Of Q beached yesselI,wracki the ship. as
capsized, and Elisha was struck on the head
BY the. boat, stunned. and drowned. Some
him. In short time they, were sure Of
it, for the soul of the old man, they said could
sand hill overlooking the sea. Sounds that
were unaGcouni9ble We're heard IN the old
house. me widow ana her children moved
out and a family of immigrants. who knew
not Elisha, moved in Before the year OF their
the nightly vi.itations. That was eight years
ago, but no tenant has lived there since. while
the be!eted wayfarer on the old road that leads
by tho house runs by with Fastening step
and bated breath. fearful lost the old man ap-
pear to seek yenGeWa2ie,o for his pnfimeIy death
little hut near Jamest own. on the main land.
Old Niger Dave Blake lived alone in the
swamp near Horntown. also on the main;
Neither rriest nor secular ruler ever exercised
a stronger sway over parish and subject than
these ignorant old con- urors over the minds oil
the old Chincoteaguers. Did husband suspect
his wife or wife her husband OF loving another
they believed, good souls. that the erring one
was bewitched Did the husband become petu-