The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-19

now whispered Sal 70 her companions.
who at once began looking glum and
solemn.
Not bit Of itr' rejoined Aunt Mi
randy. whose quick ears had caught the
Iuguorlous prophesy. Its boat-ride;
an outing!"
Lord it's de Tombs. an thirty days
on de island ~ whispered Club Slivers
nervously, wriggling and lodging ike
. young partridge ready to break for
Not bit of it,' stoutly reasserted
Aunt Mlrandy in alarm Now. YOU Door
little fools, do look like a detective, or a
policeman, or a Missionary
'Nope!' shouted Name heartily.
You're de plush jay Of de town ~
ance and approval
De easiest angel OATS lit on our route! ="
gurgled Sal Smuggs, with a smile at the
earnest old lady, and a wicked leer at
her companions.
u should think sou calculated Aunt
Mirandy with swelling pride. mo airs,
HelIner. were Just all going 10 be
friends together. Come On, now for an
outing; all day, mind you, down by the
seashore; And you're just gOin' to be
tree and happy and natural and your
serves, ana DO what you like and say what
you like and have what you like, every
blessed minute the livelong day.
Poor old Aunt Mirandy, To keep
these hopeful pledges will at least tenn
porarily trail your banners of practical
religion in the dust!
A half hour later the four were wedged
IN among the masses of humanity throng-
ing the great pleasure boats which daily
ply between the seething city and the
soothing sea
Aunt Mirandy already wesried from
ner unusual mental and physical exer-
lions OF the TnOrDIpcr na6Ha6 nd cfa
ana gulped and snored. all of which drew
forth untranslatable sayings from her
outIandlsh charges for a time; but the
gentle influence of the to them wondrous
experience soon subdued them, stilled
them, perhaps awed them; for to these
waits. whose farthest confines ofobserva-
ton had been the outlying towering walls
surrounding the dreadful quarter where
they prowled like rats, or the rivers
eoge where they occasionally skulked to
the water like fever-driven beasts, it was
all mighty voyage of discovery.
Inc islands OF the bay, with their sin
uous shores, their glowing coves trimmed
by emerald verdure and cameo-like villas
above; the forests, the parks, the home
hung cliffs of radiant river shores; the in
Vulnerable ghostly harbor craft; the great
Liberty statue, with extended torch hun
dreds of feet above the pennanUs of tallest
Shlps' spars; the frOwning forts with their
cannon cleaning in the sun and silent
sentr1es, with their solemn, measured
march above; the Narrows, where the
tides play wild and tiercely: the lofty.
luminous highlands of the Jersey coast
fading into an indistingushable line of
mist and haze, where the far sand-dupes
and waters meet; the swaying fOg-bells
with their dolorous throbs; the light
ships rocking lazily with the tide;
and then, as the steamer skirted the
Long Island coast, the boundless ocean,
bringing the first faint consciousness of
measureless immensely they had ever
known-all toned and touched and ten
derby tinted by the impalpable, breeze
swung pendulums of the seas ever chang
ing lights and wrought upon
their souls so deep a spell that they at
last sat mute and still, long after the
thousands had scrambled from the steam
er's decks; and only when Aunt Mirandv
scourged from the land of Nod by the
stern hand of Silence, awakened with a
snort which diverted the deck porter
from surly reproof at delay, was the
blessed spell and enchantment broken
when they scram bled like merciless imps
IN the summer day pleasures of the shore
AS they left the great iron pier and
passed the long lines of artfully arranged
ntckel-dreadful dens of fakirs and shams,
Aunt Mirandy noticed the trio's glisten-
ing eyes and craning necks, but she
wheed!ed Them past these, and finally, by
gentle wileS and promises of future gave
ties, enticed them to the beach, where
thousands, for miles in either direction,
were wallowing in the sands or tumbling
IN the foaming surf.
In trice she had them among the
bathers, while she sat like a conUented
child among the sand, with smiles of sat
isfaction playing about her hard old face;
thinking wonderful things about practi-
cal piety, snOrting and calculating by
turns, and enjoying their enjoyment with
the spirit and fervor of elated youth.
And how those girls of the slums dis
ported in that flashing and foaming surf
How they ran and scampered, sailed and
retreated, tussled and strove! How they
jumped end plunged and corvetted and
darted, and blowed like frolicsome por-
poises-for the time in their unrestrained
liberty, so little different, so completely
lndlStlnguishable, from the countless
ones around them! And who NAV know
but that, for this little time, they were
precisely the same human animals, lifted
out of faint and stain by the blessed ex-
hilaratiOn and abandon of old oceans i'm
partial waves and spume?
This IS at least the view that Aunt Mi
randy took of the matter, as she sat in
sand, saying precisely this manner of
things. though CURLY and sententiously
as she occasionally recalled Triplebob
Trigtldy and the minister with scorn. or
brushed tear of overlooking enjoyment
from the quivering tip of her wrinkled
nose
If the breakfast had been a "stunnin'
oanket," that dinner in the great pavil-
ion, with the melodlous rattle and clatter
about them, the band playing the most
enlivening music and the soft breezes
stealing up from the sea, was entirely be-
yond the powers of Name and Sal and
Club to fifty praise
But when done, Aunt Mirandy kept
her word In other notable respects.
She rode with them the raging tobog-
gan. She had their pictures taken with
her grinuing charges lowering open
mouthed above and behind her. She
raced with them upon scraggy donkeys'
backs. She penetrated with them the
lalrs of the stuffed serpents, the dens of
the stufy freaks and the iungles of the
stuther fortune tellers. They tossed balls
at impossible targets. They swayed in
chariots of the mighty revolving wheel
They made startling rushes on overhead
wire railways. They repeatedly paid
homage to that most perennial and most
entertaining of all trivialities, the mirth-
ful tragedy of Punch and Judy. 1t seemed
they would never finish with the merry
go-rounds In fact, they INDUCED IN
stlntedly In every grotesque diversion of
the seaside Babel; and as the lights began
to flare ont alone THE rrovaef and ,oOet