The Republican journal., 1896-07-16
A Week Down Penobscot Bay.
BY OUR GEORGE.
A life on the ocean wave.
A home on the rolling deep,
With chance to 60 on shore
To pet yollr plub and SIepp

one foot on shore and the other on deck, so
to speak, and a cruise down Penobscot Bay
amongst the Stands about fills this bill, for
theN Won are at sea and on shore both at the
same tine and in the midst of the finest
scenery Oh the whole Atlantic coast.
Our rarity consisted of three and half
persons beside the skipper and cook There
was the Summer Visitor, the Special Artist,
Tie journal man and a small Kid the son
of the artist who answered to the name of
Dan every time rations We're served. Our
craft was the P Nj. Bonney or P. NJ. Bon
ne, Just as you please, as both styles of
spelling adorn her bow. The Bonney is no
spring chicken, as you all know, but there is
a satisfaction in going in her as she is so
well acquainted with Penobscot Bay that
you have only to tell her where you want to
go and she will do the rest-no, not all the
rest quite, for the sails and anchor do not
come up auto maticaiy but require little
coaxing. The Bonney is one story craft
with a basement and a roof garden, where
in pleasant Gather there is fine restau-
rant open at all hours, and pump which
which the poet speaks in those familiar lines
Brake brake. brake.
ON thy cold gray sands oh sea,
And would that donkey engine,
DidSt run thee instead of me.
60 saiipg just often enough to each time
forget all the nautical knowledge that |
learned tie previous time. l don't know
anything about the orthograply, syntaN, or
moods and lenses of a vessel, and I
don't want to either. | have always
found that wien sailing there is sure to
be Que OF more in the party who enjoy that
Iart Of tie Proceedings and who are will
ing to help sail the craft, and there is also
one who is willing to let him do it, and that
ore is tie writer of this sketch. Don't you
know there are persons at whom every dog
will always growl? ! am one; even d cast
iron dog will growl at me. Well, there are
persons. too, against whom a vessel seems to
have d gIudge, and ! am one of those also.
Now there is an arrangement at the lower
end OF tie iib consisting of a big club of
wood with double block attached to it. If
! went forward a thousand times a day that
club and block would make plHnge at me,
AMI if ] wasn't quicker than lightning /
slortd havs my head knocked off my shoul-
ders just an even thousand times but let an
CtheI stand Just where | did, and the jib
would Ne full of wind all the time. Then at
Tie other end Of the craft is the boom-I
am Well acquainted with that gentleman,
too ! uevei 60 ly linn that ne don't cuff
NE across the head, and when it hangs amid
SHIPS cthe hoom l mean), whenever l try to
60 under if, just then the stern of the craft
goes down INTO the hollow Of the sea, and
the boom gives dip and cracks yours truly
on the head. Before l start out on trip.
my etter half always quilts roll Of wad-
ding INTO iny bushy hair, which in "a way
sort Of deadens the blows, yet on my return
home my Uranium is covered with hundreds
OF bumps unknown to the phrenologist, and
not laid down on their charts Therefore, as
/ before remarked, l don't know anything
ABOUT vessel and don't want to. But our
SPECIAL artist will break away from a dinner
or water color to break away on a wind
lass, or pull his heart out on a rope.-he
seemed 10 want to do it, and l generally let
him.
With nice breeze, we got under way. or
weigh, and told the craft we wanted to he in
Bass HaTbor that afternoon, and she init
mated that it would be all right, and out we
Went through the Eastern Bay, passed Cane
hozIer town through Eggemoggln Reach,
one OF the finest sails in the bay on a clear
DAY. As we passed the celebrated conner
mine ! stood by the rail and gazed at the
scene, here Were the piles of beautiful
copper quartz, and pnts and half pints and
glls scintillating in the sun, and the hole
where the shaft was sunk and in nv minds
eye could seem to see those brave miners
taxing Ont quartz OF copper and putting back
gallons OF money, to keep the ratio even, a
sort q lH tel arrangement where they put IL
dollars in and took out one. All. those
were great times, those mining DAYS on Pc
hofsc"t hay-wo1klng "a scheme about as
feasible as opt nlng an ice cream parlor in
Tophet
At about three O'clock p. IL. we dropped
anchor III the inner harbor at Bass Harbor
and the first thing that struck me-besde
the man boom, Of Course-was that all the
'''S-H'i'o hCAV dSllIut NUeeIS. and we
'ouhd THIS the case everywhere | think
there are less wheels in Belfast in propor
"oh 10 the number Of legs than any place in
IN Maine. Down on some of these islands in
1he Day where the only road is COW path in
pasture, everybody has wheel and thew
ride, too. They can climb tree with them
down there At Bass Harbor. A little SETTLE.
1nent lots of your readers never heard Of
there is half breed Chinese who has
patented and is doing we'll selling nickel
bouquet holder which goes onto the handle
bar OF a wheel.
hat DID We do when We're first got an
chored, did you ask? Well we negotiated
Tor kettle full of Holsters and "Dave,,
billed en- and we ate them in several diff
ferent languages. Perhaps there is some
thing nicer and more toothsome than Iobs-
ter, fresh from the water and cooked to a
turn, lut l have never met it even in a
casual way.
The early bird catches the worm,'' like.
wise 1t IS the early man who gets the fresh
herring for bait, and the ''Kid'' and turned
out at the crack of day and proceeded to the
Welr and 10y invitation of the pronretor DOT