The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-08-28
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worthless place / ever set eyes on.
Sam White, a weather-beaten man OF
so. came out OF the cabin TO welcome
his guests, and help them in with their
traps" as he called the goodly array OF
baggage they had brought with them.
Mrs. White looked enough like her
husband TO be twin, but she was
clean, wholesome. hearty woman ms
unconventional as the most ardent adj
mirer 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 20 the cap
tnin's cabin, and IL 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
naval battle 20 the she'll that answered
for a 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 AliclS yentured TO say:
I'm sure, old fellow, We'll like 1t
hugely after we get used 10 IT,"
people like whisky and opium after
they get used TO them, but is IL worth
while acquiring the habitP" said Cas-
per Burns, with shade Of sarcasm in
his voice.
Alick was about to respond at ven
ture, but at that moment Mrs. White,
without the formality Of knocking, put
in her head TO say that dinner was
ready, and to add that in her opinion
they ''was purity nigh starved
There was roast duck, two or three
, kinds OF fish, potatoes like snowballs,
hot biscuit and yellow butter, and aPot
! Of steaming coffee, all served on a clean
r crash tablecloth.
; Sam White asked long, old-fashioned
1 blessing, TO the great amazement of the
: young men, who expected 20 find him q
4 prcfane old sea dog, and then he said;
e "You must make a long arm, boys
and help yourselves"
L "Well," said Casper, as they strolleC
i down 10 the beach after dinner, Il mus
I confess / haven't enjoyed a meal 81
4; much for years. ] was hungry, and i
h went TO the right spot"
d "oh. this is just the place for al
appetite. You can find one here soone
l. than in any other part Of the country,
I, said Alick, handing Casper a cigar, am
n feeling that there was something 10 re
N deem the place IN the eyes of his friend
Is As they stood on the shore the SUI
D.. was setting and the blue cxpanse too
81 on a crimson tinge. They sat down o.
e, the white sand, and they could see ava
)f ND the shore and across the inlet tw
'e figures females. One of them had
w white scarf about her head and the OIL
err a scarlet one, but beyond this tn
IA young men could not make them out
"Ah! il is a comfort 10 know we an
* not wholly shut out from the world
Of said Casper, blowing a Whit of smob
lis in the direction OF the figures.
e. ~ am willing to worship atadistance
replied Alicll. I'm glad the inlet sep'
rates us, but I've no doubt they are q
he wives or daughters Of some OF the tisl
Oh ermen up the beach"
nd "Them 2" said Sam White, when one
ID, the young men asked him who his IA
ly neiphbors were, "them's some foil
from the city as have taken the ole BE
10 per place for the summer. It's mo
lonelier over there than ii is here, b
OF when ole Cap'n Benner he was a-livii
Nn there was no end Of company over theI
but that's years and years ago"
no 81 suppose there's no danger of al
of the strangers coming over here
ite asked Alick Freeman, with the slig
10 hope that the old fisherman would 81
there was a great deal of danger.
ok, .Not the least bit" replied sa
M White, "but as there's two young ladi
me over there and two young men ON
ere here. why. the chances Is that son
=, how they'll get together afore long
- "Thnt's human nature" said M
- ~, White. looking up from the potato
- she was peeliug; "the boysll seek 9
- the gals just as ducks goes bareioo'
10 the water"
Alicb limited that he was an exc
- ton, and that while he did not positl
~. IN hate the other sex, their preser
- was essential 10 his misery, and mr
on more 10 the same effect, all OF wh
:, Mrs. White heard with strange Nv
kle in her gray eyes that plainly =
che had her doubts, not of the you
mans sincerity, but Of his reasoning
TO- The friends slept In the cabin y
: night, as they had not slept for yes
ood Through the little windows the cool
zeal breeze poured in, laden with hsa
on aud the balmy odor that brings sieeI
a.. when they awoke the sun was ia
toes ing on the sea and transforming int
{ snow bank the bar about two M
:. ont. where a great. black buoy rose
yith fell on the waves.
lori They had uip - .ne 80 -.
II sharpcned their appetites, and a.
ri n breakfast they started of with :