Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-09-16
Hgainst The eide.
tEAIo, sir, no fashionable watering
BY ALFRED R. CALHOUN.

Alick Freeman to his friend, casper
Burns, with whom he was discussing
the place where they should spend the
two weeks vacation allowed them by
the bank in which they were both
clerks, and of which their respective
fathers were directors.
I'VE had a good time at Saratoga last
year. said Casper Burns, adding, with
a sly laugh, 'but you are afraid of meet
ing Miss Julia Fletcher there again;
well, 1 don't blame youSshe is as rich
and pretty and heartless as you find
them"
NO, confound ii, Casper, Miss Fetch
or is all right, it is who was the fool,
and q spresumptuous one ut that, for
thinking she looked more favorably on
me than she did on the score of fellows
who danced her like midges in the sun.
Thate fashion. Why, only the strongest
constitution can stand the dressing,
the driving, the dining and dancing of
{hose fashionable watering places. We
want rest, or, rather, change. Now
what do you say to Whites Inlet?"
"White's Inlet? Never heard of such
place." replied Casper.
"Then I'll enlighten you," said Alick
freeman, stopping in the midst Of
packing his trunk and turning to his
friend. whites Inlet is near Barne-
gat--'I
Down on the Jersey coast?"
Certainly; the fishing is good, the
shooting tip-top, and there is no such
place for boating and bathing. And
then it is pretty we'll out Of the world,
md the chances are We'll be the only
visitors within miles"
"And we can wear out our old
Clothes" interrupted Casper Burns.
"Of course, no one would think of
wearing anything but old clothes down
at Whites Inlet. Oh. we'll have a
splendid time, free as the winds, and
almost like beingin state of nature"
st know, Alick, but people in state
of nature eat and sleep; how are we TO
obtain those necessary comforts?"
THE point is we'll taken" said Alick,
slamming down the lid of his trunk and
facing his friend. fright near the
mouth of the inlet there lives fisher
man named White"
''The inlet takes it's name from him?"
"Just so; and he has all accommo-
dations- necessary. I sent him word
we'd be down next week, and he's ex-
pecting us"
SCOT any pretty daughters?"
4'No; that's the beauty of it; has no
one but his wife, and the only neigh
Dor is a mile and half away across the
inlet. Oh, we'll have peace and no end
of a good time," said Alick Freeman,
rubbing his hands in anticipation Of
the pleasure in store for them.
The result of this interview was that
the young men found themselves at
Whites Inlet within week. After
leaving the cars they had to 60 in
wagon some 20 miles over a sandy road
that ran through a forest of funereal
mines and distorted scrub oaks, on
which the sun beat with tropical in
teneity and along which the mosquitoes
prowIed in fierce. bloodthirsty bands
The fsherman's house was perched on
yerdureless bluff of white sand, with
q swamp in the background and glori-
Gus expanse of blue ocean in front, II
the structure did not promise comfortlt
svas certainly picturesque, and told OF
wrecks and dangers along that treach-
erouS coast.
One end of the cabin was the stern
section OF wrecked schooner, with the
name eliza Jane" still visible; the
chimney of rusty iron had once done
duty on tugboat, and the Gothic door
way was the under jaw of a whale which
Sam White had killed on the bar, about
mile from his cabin.
sit doesn't look promising, 1 must
confess" said Alick Freeman, as they
got out of the wagon which they had
hired at round price to fetch them
over, "but it looks as if we might have
all the quiet here tsat heart could wish
for" This was Alexis first visit to the
place, which had been recommended TO
him by bachelor friend, and though
he pretended to like it he felt in his
heart that it was not all he desired. >.
at must be a splendid place for fish,
yaid Casper with grim smile.
"Oh, it is! Why, there's no end OF
fish Out there" said Alick, waving his
hands at The water.
"If it isn't a good place for fish," con-
tinued Alick, "then IT'S about the most
worthless place ever set eyes on"
Sam White, weather-beaten man OF
so, came out of the cabin to welcome
his guests, and help them in with their
traps" az he called the goodly array OF
baggage they had brought with them.
Mrs. White looked enough like her
husband to be a twin, but she was a
clean, wholesome, hearty woman, as
unconventional as the most ardent adj
1nirer of nature could wish.
The young men were given room
there were only four apartments in the
house-in the annex made of the section
of the wrecked "Eliza Jane" The Win
dows had once admitted light to the cap
+ain's cabin, and it required no stretch
of the imagination to picture themselves
on shipboard. The very decorations of
The chamber had a strongly marine as
pect, from the highly colored print Of q
naval battle TO the shell that answered
for soap cup.
The young men were hungry and
dusty and in no good humor; so that
while washing and changing their tray
cling. dress for natty sailor costumes
they did not exchange many words,
though Alick ventured to say:
I'm sure, old fellow, we'll like it
hugely after we get used to it."
People Like whisky and opium after
they get used to them. but is it worth