Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-04

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4 a )c<(LLL head out, looking
IS ~ >@NL back on tn ese
Nw//I spiashed walls and
MI glimmcring roofs
VT till they were sud
denly swallowed in
Vhe mist; and suppose some natural sadness
fsll upon the man at this departure. or wss
C some provision Of the endf AT least, upon
our mounting the long brae from Durrisdeer.
. we walked side by side in the wet, he be-
Ran first to whistle and then to sing tho sad
DIT of our country tunes, which sets folk
weeping In a tavern, Wandering Willie"
The ret Of words he used with 1t have not
heard elsewhere, and could never come by
any copy; but some of them which we're the
most appropriate TO our departure lnger In
my memory. One verse began
Home was home then. my dear, full of kindly
Home was homo then. my dear, happy for the
child
And ended somewhat thus.
Now, when day dawns on the brow Of the moor
land.
Lone stands the house and the chimney stone Is
cold
Lone let It stand, now the folks are all departed,
e Tho kind heartS the true hearts. that loved the
place Of old
could never be q Judge OF the merit Of these
( verses; they were SO hallowed by the melnn.
Y scholy Of the air, and were sung Tor rather
eccthed , to me by master sintSr at time
% fitting. He looked in my face when he had
4 done, and saw that my eyes watered.
All, Mackellari" said he, "do you think |
hAve never regretT
II do not think you could be SO bad
nAn, )" said I, 'if' you had not all the machin
Igery to be good one."
No, not all, said he; mot all. You are
3 toers In error. The malady Of not wanting,
my evangelist" But methought no sighed
= - be mounted again into the chaise
All day long we journeyed in the same
: mt6srable weather; the mist besetting IN
& e1osely, the heavens incessanuy weeping
e n my head The road lay over moorish
! hills, where was no sound but the crying OF
Z - moor fowl in tho wet heather and the
3 pouring OF the swollen burns Sometimes
4 would dozo off In slumber, when | would
4 Ind myself plunged at once ip soma foul eud
ominous nightmare, from the which would
awaken strangling. Sometimes, II the way
Uns steep and the wheels turning slowly, |
8 would overhear the voices from within, talk
hg In that tropical tongue which was to me
- tnarticulate as the piping of the fowls.
Sometimes, at longer ascent, the master
Nould set foot TO ground and walk by my
~. mostly without speech.
And all the time sleeping or waking, | be-
I I'D the same black perspective Of approach
4 ~ ru.i; and the same pictures rose In my
Sisw, only they were now painted upon hill
e1ds mist. One, l remember, stood before
60 with the colors Of a true illusion. 1t
4Aowed me my lord seated mt table in a
glnAll room; his head, which was at first
euried In his hands, he slowly raised, and
Y eGrued upon mo q countenance from which
4 hops had fed. saw it first on tho black
L window panes, my last night in Durrisdeer;
! = haunted and returned upon me half the
4 voyage through; and yet it was no effect Of
Z lrEacy, for ! have come TO ripe old age
With no decay of my intelligence; nor yet las
was then tempted TO SUPPOSE heaven sent
warning OF tbs future, for all manner of
( en1amities befell, not that calamity-and
4 raw many pitiful sights, but never that one
II was decided wo should travel on all
q night, and it was singular once the dusk had
& fallen, my spirits somewhat rose. The bright
& lamps, shining forth into the mist aud ON the
q Oaoking horses and the hoddug post boy
e gave me perhaps an outlook intrinsically
z more cheerful than what day had shown; or
a perhaps my mind had become wearied of its
4 lnelancboly. At least, spent some waking
hOurs, not without satisfaction in my
y thonghts, although wet and weary in my
body; and fell at last into q natural slumber
4 without dreams Yet l must have been at
& work even in the deepest of my sleep, and at
q work with at least measure of intelligence
Tor started broad awake, in the very act OF
I crying out to myself,
4 Hcme was home then. my dear. happy for the
child.
4 stricken to find in 1t an appropriateness,
a which ] had not yesterday observed, TO the
MATTERS detestable purpose in the present
B Journey.
We were then close upon the city of Glas-
Z row, where we were soon breakfasting to-
Z Eether at an inn, and where las the devil
+ would have ip we found a. ship in the very
s aFticle Of sailing. We took places in the
cabin, and, two days after, carried our ef-
Y tccts on board Her name was the None.
such, a very ancient ship and very happily
named BY all accounts this should be her
Z last voyage; people shook their heads upon
h tbe quays, and had several warnings offered
y ms by strangers in the street, to the effect
that she WAS rystsn cheese, too deeply
b tta0Ss. E-l-t infallibly founder IL we met
gale. From this it fell out we were the
only passengers; the captain, McMurtrie, was
s Silent, absorbed man with the Glasgow or
Gaelic accent; the mates ignorant, rough
& seafarers, come in through the hawsehole;
and the master and were cast upon each
others company.
The Nonesuch carried a fair wind out OF
TIE Clyde, and for near upon week We en-
= {oyed bright weather and sense of progress
found myself Ito my wonder) a born sea-
man, In so far at least as ] was never sick
yet was far from tasting the usual serenity
- my health. Whether 1t was the motion OF
y ~ ship on the billows, the confinement tho
eaated food, or all of these together, suffered
4 from blackness Of spirit and a painful
strain upon my temper. The nature Of my
efrAnd on that ship perhaps contributed; J
think 1t did no more; the malady (whatever
= was sprung from my environment, and il
s tbs ship were not TO blame, then il was tho
master. Hatred and fear are i'll bedfellows
s eae 10 my shame be it spoken l have tasted
!; tnoee IN other places, lain down and got up
81 v1th them and eaten and drunk with them,
A 80 yet never before nor after have been
4 - poisoned through and through in soul and
on0y - was on board the Nonesuch.
a. Ueely confess my enemy set me a fair ex
& eDpas OF forbearance, In our worst days dis
3 p1eyed the most patient geniality, holding
& - IN conversation as long as ! would suffer.
B oDd when had rebuffed his civillty, stretch
! ~ himself on deck 10 read The book h.
< I'D ON board with him was Mr. Richardson.
+ famous "Clarissa," and among other small
!. etisntions he would read me passages aloud
z nor could any elocutionist have given with
I eyeater potency the pathetic portions Of that
YORK. ! would retort upon him with pas
I nges out Of the Bible, which was all my H.
eory, and very fresh 10 me, my religious du.
& ~ u grieve TO say IL being always and even
q z sAis day extremely neglected. He tasted
- merits OF the work like the connoisseur
wes, and would sometimes take it from
~ hnnds turn the leaves over like man
knew his way. and give me, with his
- dsclamation, a Roland for my Oliver.
- u was singular how little he applied his
*In0 ding 10 himself. II tasssd bioh atova ~,