Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-08

Three Captings Rest, in Pembroke, till
Happy Thoughts cruises ended"
"Hhat's done, ship.shape, too"
"'N' set sail from Pembroke, without
airy but one port that's Whey" This
from Captain Rudder.
"When sailin', Cap'n an Cap'n
about, "icontinued. Captain Ballast; screw
and crew about; an cook an cook
about"
"Ev'rything turn an turn about"
acceded the other two decidedly.
"Ef airy one mut'nies, he loses his
share in Happy Thought an Vlney, an
snug harbors in some other port, tn rest
o. his nat'ral life."
EUR tn rest O. lis nat'ral life p
echoed Captains Rudder and Tacker
with evident agitation.
eth Happy Thought must cruise in
all ports whar thar's COINS on an
singin'," ...
"Whar thar's COINS on an singin',"
"An' never quit huntin' fur Whey
Jetsum."
Never quit huntin'."
ON find tn college whar tn colleger
halls from, m sass tn capting."
ON sass the capting."
"'N' lick tn geologer."
Lick tn geologer."
"'N' then GIT Viney."
"Git Whey"
Peradventur' Vlney amt got sud-
d'n'," here Captain Ballast's voice failed
him for moment, IAN ennything hap.
pens to one ON us" tother two's owners
O. tn schooner an Whey, share an share
alike"
Share an share, ekal in both"
"Peradventur' Viney's a long, long
time a-gittin', an ennything happens ter
two on u.s." Captain Ballast quite broke
down at this point, and Captain Rudder
| took up the thread of the compact.
"Peradventur' two on us slips our
moorin's fur tn last port, then"
Then tn last capting," concluded
Captain Tacker, as Captain Rudder
found he could go no farther, "gits the
hull three's dunnage, cash, tn Happy
Thought, an keeps on huntin' an
cruisin', till Whey Jetsums brought
safe to port
"Amen!" said Captain Ballast dole
fully. "Amen " responded Captains
Rudder and Tacker.
| And not until that moment did thew
move their honest right hands from the
stove-top, and then only to sign, with
Wheeling breath and labored move
nient, the compact whose articles of
faith and purpose were to bind them
together to the end.
This done, they marched OUT of the
little hut; clambered into their yawl;
rowed silently to their rocking craft,
where everything was in instant readi-
ness for the cruise; boarded the Happy
Thought, loosed her single line and
made sail in quiet and orderly way as
became the old mariners they were;
and, with few subdued farewells to
Pembroke folk, which were answered
back heartily enough from the shore,
floated hopefully out at the turn of the
tide towards 'Quoddy Head Light and
the sea. -. 5.
To these little old pilgrims of second
childhood and the sea, there was almost
the reckless and joyous elation Of youth
in their cruise in the Happy Thought,
entirely aside from the real object OF
their quest. How they ate and "yarned
it, by day, and slept by day and
night! How their stiffened joints
relaxed and the warm old blood
of the good old days went bounding
and thrilling through their cloggcd
and feeble veinsl With what delight
they recalled each islet, cove, hehdland,
bay, tide, eddy and threatening reef,
along the matchless coast of Maine
How they hailed passing steamers,
"spoke" far-oH ships, and banded
rugged sailors greetings to crews of
lugger. bark, brig, skiff and laboring
dory or freighted smack And how
they traced again and again in each
pulsing of the air, each film of ghostly
fog, each bearing of the consultations
and in every shade and coloriug of the
waters, as returned lover will gloat
and face, for the olden hints Of ocean
moods they knew and loved
They circled Grand Manan. They
loitered at ancient Machiasport. They
threaded the islands of Narragnagus
Bay. They criised idly about Schoodic
Point. They tloated under the shadows
of grim Mount Desert, recalling the
mysteries of the "Black Fog" coming
to the great resort of Bar liarbor as to q
wondrous, instant-built city of q dream;
and here they first awakened from their
heydey idling to realization of the
nature of their search; for surely there
were "singin's and COINS on" where
come thousands of rival parvonus with
their dollars, diamonds and dwadling
dallyings beside old Frcnchnan's Bay.
The vast caravansaries, the splendid
architecture, the dazzling shops, the
bewildering casinos, the great show
drives with their dog-carts, cut-unders,
barouches, phactons, chaises, tally. ho
coaches and their silver and gold trim
mings and crests, the gorgeous yachts
and launches, the amazing uniforms and
liveries, the brilliant rival fetes, and the
endless battle for precedence in loud
display with its implacable ferocities
subdued and frightened them. They
edged into this place, skunk into that;
trembled before an entrance here, peered
into windows there; CROPPED along by
streets lined with their pretty villas,
trudged the grand avenues in the dust
of the wheels; and scanned every
maden's face, lady's or serving
woman's, until they became the mo-
mentary laughing stock of all the bril-
liant throng; but nowhere was the face
they sought.
Then they went away, with but one
kindly memory in their sinking hearts.
! A young fellow Of pleasant face and