Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-01

heads of flaxen hair. ! always femem-
Der them with their apparent alcitness
Of attention, an unconscious habit ana
attitude Of listening. For Il IS said
these folk can hear the oncoming sweeps
Of the great tide-bom from the liish sea
which brings the harvest Of fish and
often terror and death--ior twenty miles
away
Long before this, II you are standing
on the cliff edge above ancient Bowness,
you will see the fishers, waist deep IN
water, hurrying on the Tightening OF
their upright nets, which for ten miles
below seem like tiny fences OF rush;
and away seward with your glass you
can see them scufryinc up from the ebb'
slime and sand towards safety and the
shore. Then 10 your unpracticed ears
come the faint feverbcrations o. 4 hoarse
roar. and soon, like pillar OF lame IN
the play oi the sunlight, the great mist
banner Of the advancing waters is lung
from Scotland to England, almost from
Cfihcl TO Silloth, and moves toward you
like luud cloud above running battle.
In few moments more the brllliancy Of
the phenomenon is greatest
Preceding the advancing cloud along
the sceihing front Of a wall Of water i've
miles wide, glitter, loams and misses a
bank Of spumc and spray, zoned,
trimmed and in,erlaced with tiny rain
bows. The roaring OF the believing
water.hosts becomes dealening. For an
instant you are envcloped by the cloud.
That passed, while YOU thrill with the
mystery and awful grandeur OF the
spectacle, the great tide-head Is abreast
OF you. true tide.bore, such as breaks
majestically into Minas aud other estua.
ries OF the Bay Of Fundy, cylindrical
and straight as an arrow across the
Firth, and from six TO eight feet In
height which sweeps past with below
and shrek like that OF hundred thou
sand coast fog.homs bowling in unisoni
while close In its wake Is a hillock,
tempestuous mass Of waves brilliantly
gorgeous in fitlully.swept prismatic
colofs-and the Solway tide is in.
This is the picture that comes to me
from lreland's craggy north. The
eastern shore Of wild Tough Swilly Is a
succession Of ruins dainty villages. like
Buncrama and Fahan, aud of pilgrim
haunted shrines. Over to the west are
wilder shores, huts rOund-towers,
| fishers cabins; and here and there the
natIntl hAllh OF llli ltIIlUEr llHlflH
| smacks lie white against the background
Of the headlands and hills. Here the
sweetest herring known to man are
taken. The brawny herring fishers OF
the north are here in greatest numbers.
They are sodden, hopeless, hard. But
they are brave and strong as iron. They
have tremendous frames, are brown as
bronze, and form groupings Of startling
impressivcncss. They are simple and
peaccablc, am told. But were pirates
wanted were fleets to be fitted out with
men for work giving one a shuddcr TO
contemplate. these sea-gianls would
furnish Incompatible human heartless
flint. Bu, II they are flint, their wives
are steel.
About six feet in height, broad and
strong as their burly mates, with legs
corded like mans, and bare TO the
knees, with arms long, crooked, and
lcshless rs wood; with Hat, hairy breasts
often barred from neck to waist. aud
tanned by salt, sun and wind TO the
color of the notified alder bark; with
wide jaws, half toothless mouths, sunken
cheeks, eyes blue.black and flashing
from deep, yellow sockets, and brows
bushy and ragged with bristling hairs;
with narrow, creased foreieads, and
great, vide saiiron.colored ears set
straight out from behind like dirty
wing and'wing' sails, and their square