The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-11

care very murh about going away anyhow
and SO there he stays till old age or Christ
mas dinner carries HIM Off flocks OF from
thirty to iifty exist here The wild ones cross
Gruins by the natives. and are valued highly
because mungtum yields three TINES the
weight Of feathers that tame goose does and
twice he weight o. a wild one. The hybrds
lay eggs. but the eggs will not hatch.
CHISruTEAGrE's TIDAL WAVE.
When tho old Ihincotcaguer grows lugubri
and he has bur oHe fri, nd VINO is a stranger.
vii Ing to listen. tie talo of great storm is
fon II wa waS o long aS9ntn 1SS2i-TIhen the
came on. The clouds Off TO southnrd gathered
thick and b!a one morning the wind fell. the
the silence aud gloom and tn" sky OF to the
sea became terrifying The ;uIs and tho Wild
all night long their cries we're head: b t when
day brok? every sound died out. Then the
nn's Sa o ar SOY l rho g'
not kept long In suspense While thew stood
I E;nd yos b yast eopd Of water ard
pines on Assateague, the water in the
marshes. and everything in its path on Chin
one knows where. Then a roar ms Of thunder
was heard seaward by those who remained
hills and higher. than the trees thai had COW
erei them. came foaming in: over its bed over
the beach, over the, hills over the mar shes,
across the bay and far Vi on tho sloping
around Of tho mainland miles away. How
dead found resting plare no ono knows, but
the story Of two marvellous escapes is told
by those whose houses stood a. the
track OF tornado and wave. Old man
Hickman gathered his little grandson in his
arms as he wind storm came. The walls AMI
roof Of the house fed away with the wind.
leaving the two unframed. Thon came the
deluge and gnconsciousness. and when the
wind resumed its sway tho old man. with the
boy still in his arms and safe was lying in the
Androas. with his family OF a wife and eight or
nine children, was carried on by the wave.
me, me p HL found AHtraas some hours
above the ground haif mile from where he
started. His family were never heard from.
Chncoteague lies Just awash. When another
such storm comes more than 2.OUJ people will
be found in the path Of the tidal wave
YoUNGIsH OLD FOLKS.
The aged Chncoteaguer is proud Of the fact
that he is spry. Uncle Ken Jester who cello
brated his 10th birthday in the lively manner
already described, is u fair sample Of Il num- Dor
OF others. Iio will break tho Widest pony.
scull bateau when common men would ear
the sea. and dance at an oyster roast with
vigor that takes the shine of II many young
man of the same, age. The Birch lnmily has
four boys in it whose ages are t2. 81, 10. and
~. They have no notion of giving up the oys-
ter to, business, for twenty years yet. anyhow.
spry rs they are. Another sister. Mrs. Mary
Watson. met an nntimely death recently at tho
age o. 03. David and lsnac Daisey are, at 10
aud, -. respectively, able to Dc a good days
work. rs a days work Is counted in This easy
going climate, PeOple will he surprised il the
two do not live t. be as old as their mother,
on the island arc. nearer 10 Than 90, though
not yet 10. And all this IN n community OF 40
voters. Nor Is account taken Of three or four
colored people whose ages are uncertain.