Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-10-09

She sighed.
she was thinking that the hand
some sailor was only Cousin Joe
She hesifated a moment, kissed
the Photograph again and then
went downstairs to look out of a
window fronting the sea and to
pits sailors.
Every body in the neigbborhood
had something to do with the sea,
which was only a bit of way OIL
and kept pounding night and day
on the rocks making al. the fuss
1t cOuld 10 attract as much atten'
ton as possible. To keep this un-
rul, sea in any kind of suDjectiOn
every one must do something.
Uncle Ronald Kicker was the
keeper of the yellow life-saving
station on the rim of the gray
sands.
Uncle Ronald was big, burly,
good .natured kind of a fellow.
Aunt Nabby was slim, slen der
woman, whose thoughts were
quick moving, dartIng out like
swallows wing, aud here eye
sparA led like run OF brook water
the day the spring has l.fted the
lid of ice covering it.
SAID Uucle Ronald to Aunt
Nabby in the hearing of Polly at
the window:
SD like 10 have you, Nabby,
clean up at the ct 'tIOu, If you wlll,
sweep round and 80 on. NOthlD'
dom there in summer, but want
to keep things sort er slicktd up,
aud I'll low you pay for it. PSe
got to be off to my tater patch
t'olher side of the back pasture"
i will, Ronald
Ronald Kicker left the room.
Polly, sOon as have finished
these ere dOughnuts-lheu-cOm
obr cried Aunt NAbhy, we will
run that lte-savin' station this
forenoon. They shall have female
crew today. You get the brOoms
ready. 1t is wOTn-Out thing down
at the station. We'll be lively and
that soon.'
A smart but sprighily broom-bri
gade soon charged on the station
and captured 1t without difficulty.
Windows were thrown mp, the
brOoWs set to whisklng, aud the
dust routed.
The nving room below, The mems
headquarters by day, speedily was
swept. The bOat-rOJm with Its
app .ratus of snrf-boat and breech
es.buoy, life-car and Lyle gun,
rockets and signals, received
prompt attention, and this floor
also was thoroughly swept. Aunt
Nabby remained to do some
'cleanin' out behind the door
where one of the other but less
particular crew had left a heap OF
dirt. Polly singing away, went
upstairs hopping like a robin from
step to step, landing on the thresh
old of the masculine crews quar-
tsrs by night.
The bed look all right said
Polly, eying six iron beds, neatly
covered with bedding and set IN
two prim rsws along the northern
and southern walls of the room
Yes, they look all right, but
know those men didu't sweep nn
der the beds. No, before | sweeI
I'll take a look off from the look
out on the roof
This was a platform on the roof
rallied about, and supporting
a ig.statt. Here on clear days
watch was kept by the surtmen. |
need he, a signal could be run uI
to The top of the staff, AMI any
needy craft on the water promptly
instructed.
Guess women'S eyes can see al
quick as meu's murmured Polly
'and WE will have it so today
On her way up short flight o
Steps to the lookout she halted II
a little recess aud examined tn
box of signals kept there. Sine
her arrival she had been very mucl
interested in the signal depart
ment, and, instructed by Uucl
Ronald, felt that she could nov
handle those signals as readily al
the keeper himself.
Don't | wish that Cousin Joe
, whom never saw only in his pic
ture, we're off on the water an
needed some signaling from tn
, shoreP
? If she had allowed the promp
4 ings OF her heart and the slgns
o vocabulary permitted, she woul
have at once signsIed, Il love tbe'
0 Joseph But be was just Oousl
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