Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-06-30
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sha'n't be even ornamental, if circum-
stances don't change"
He looked away from Margaret as he
uttered the last words and began to
make marks with his heel in the sand.
She watched his movements, but her
mind was following up an engrossing
train of thought.
Are you going to sit still and allow
your life to map ITSELF" she asked, after
a second pause. 1T seems to me you
have an opportunity to make future
for yourself. Why don't you take adj
vantage of it? do admire a man who
can fight against obstacles, and who
wins for himself a great name and a
high position, not because Of, but in
spite Of the accidents of fortune. And
certainly cannot understand how any
person with ordinary talents can so
through life with no ambition above
amusement. I grow Disguised with my
SELF"
1T is just as I expected" replied
Brian, erdeavoring to speak lightly.
you're strong-minded.
Thanks. l consider your remark a
compliment, though you may not mean
it as such. 1 don't admire weakminded
men or women. I am glad to have ideas
of my own, and not to be swayed by
every passing word. You are laughing
again. suppose you consider me vastly
amusing, but I think myself vastly nom
sensical. There is something in the air,
I dare say, or in the company" she con-
cluded mischievously.
"The company without doubt" he
agreed. Il never pretended to amount
to much, and I know I never shall. That
is why never considered it worth an
effort"
why not?" she asked quickly, some
instinct prompting her sympathy. "You
have SO much before you. It is never
too late to begin, neither is it ever too
early. That sounds like a paradox,
doesn't it? Your profession is an adj
vantage in itself. It is such noble
one."
"A dog life when it comes to practice, p"
he answered. Il tell you there's lot
of sentimentality in the world. People
talk about this thing and that thing be-
ing ennobling and elevating, and all
that nonsense, when they know about
as much of it as 1 do of heaven. Much
good medicine has ever done me. I've
got my diploma. I've logged it all over
Europe, but it hasn't seen the light Of
day for many a long month. I know
this don't suit your ideas, but I never
realized the need of practicing for a
living. I expected to be independent,
and where was the need?"
But now?" questioned Margaret.
"Oh, now, my beloved cousin has
stepped in and I'm as poor as the devil.
I beg your pardon. The words are
forcible but expressive. The feeling is
wretched, but the experience worse. I'll
worry along somehow, unless certain
event come about. Are you going?"
Yes" she returned, half absently
gathering her things together. Il am
hungry. I think it must be twelve
o. clock, and here in S'conset we dine at
that questionable hour"
"a barbarous practice, but now that
you speak of it, begin to feel some in
ward cravings myself. May I walk I'M
der the shadow of your wing?"
Without awaiting her permission he
possessed himself of her shawl and
trudged by her side through the deep
sand to the village.
Turning from ore of the grotesque
little streets, into a more grotesque
Broadway, Margaret found that her ap-
petite had been true guide. 1t was
twelve o'clock, and all S'conset was 60
ing to dinner This pleasant duty
S'conset never forgot, it being one Of
the unwritten, yet faithfully observed,
| laws of the small town that, whatever
the individuals occupation at the mo-
ment, the stroke of twelve should find
him ready, and all ideas gave way to the
reality-dinner.
After leaving Margaret Brian found
his own appetite had increased to an
alarming extent, and he very gladly be-
took himself to his unpretentious abode
and the meal awaiting him.
He did full justice to the latter, and
at the same time managed to take in
the history Of Captain Folger's eight
brothers and sisters, all of whom had
reached their eightieth year and were
still in the land of the living. AS he
showed some skepticism on this latter
point, the Captain proposed s. cruise to
| town, where the house in which they
were all born should be pointed out to
him. It is needless to say Brian was
still unconvinced. He afterward dis
and cruise was the Captains word for
ride.
These old seamen 90 not take kindly
to the expressions of landsmen. They
| will greet you with the salutation,
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Where are you going?" They will
agree to land" milk and vegetables at
your door, and if you happen to be rid
ing with an old captain you may be re-
quested to shift your seat fore or aft,
or midship, or to sit to the leeward, as
the case may be. It is even said,
though we are not bound to believe it,
that when the whaling industry failed
through the discovery of coal oil, the
old salts, obliged through necessity and
not choice, to take to farming, en-
countered much difficulty from the fact
that their oxen were land animals, and
when commanded to go to port or star
board were too obtuse to obey the order.
! Horses were equally trying. Con-
trary to tactics on shipboard, pull on
the port rein made the animal sheer to
port, when the old captain was bent on
having him so to starboard.
Under such difficulties blowing was slow
work and farming a decidedly discour-