The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-06-26
mex RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures of
An Eton Boy.
aY JAMES GRANT.
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aY JAMES GRANT.


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\ \ MS that lurked in the
y I'1 orr Efforts for e long
Il edge Of the Ratchet we
s.sIoned for my own use
| lar. about six feet long
nleee Of fine teak wood,
[.ro5 upon the beach. !,
|l ll-s / made and pointed
.s,e aud armed with 1t
/. Il ii watch for the sea-
/ ,tsout success.
/ sors. at this season, when
e.. -'' was reflected from the
T. # the volcanic rocks and
| mace Of tho sea, the heat
n all descrlption-intense'
md sufocating, SO that the
la collapse painfully in the
| 4 respiration. :.
In was like attempting 1t
|.-sb Of a newly-opened fur
usually retired inland
b, he cool solitude Of the
r., or wandered through
b YIsmn, impressive and ma
wss; for some were there
III they must have cast the
I 7 tbeir foliage on Alphonso
goue or Tristan da Cunha
1 ,s,rded followers.
III ocean storms had swept
4 into the waste Of waters
roW been FIVE days on the
ssut a sail being seen,
In than half cur time was
/ u.ehing the horizon; and so
sruaas old shirt still waved
] an the boom-end On the
! iep,
! sih day. however, to our
| hs signal was no longer Wis
p supposed that a gust Of
aeFthrown 1t in the night.
|rne. Carlton and Probar
b the mountain-top to re-
! Vhils Hislop and / rambled
mods. where we had a view
|hlaing sea to the westward.
Is cane in lcng rollers, as
fresh breeze blowing from
I'D the foam rose white and
he tremendous bluffs Of the
K Isles, as we named them.
Eaier between them was q
/ sparkling and snowy froth,
pa, had we been nearer, we
|iMttless have seen the black
The sealions. as they sported
|zry and sunshine.
|T,g Hislop how far he thought
ron the continents of Africa
America, he replied, without
II about fifteen hundred miles
nouih Of the Rio de la Plata
Eastward. aud twelve hundred
+ The Cape Of Good Hope on
sut there is land nearer &c
rsarerl" reiterated.
1 are the three isles Of Tristan
nd about five hundred miles
/ Of Us a desolate rock called
q Diego Alvarez; and fortu-
indeed for Us that We were
lxay there. as it yields only
GAS and now and then a few
ta-slsphants may be seen up
NsA about it. Dut, Dick Rod
It not make one long to b.
gan, with a good ship under
~ taeks and the breeze, too
aoud Of canvas, carrying tn
|sasls into one when seen asterl
assi studding-sail booms rig
ana dipping in the flynn
sne rolls from side to side
lol ! say, bring all this I
wen from here we can waite
~ mat rose, perhaps, betwee
olss Oh Mexico, rolling in foal
'aese rocky isles? Do yo
[''f honer's description of tn
4 ss'e And without waitiu
|Ey he began to recite from Il
|'nA vonderful facility:
h ne hoarse, resounding shor
\, slsa blows the stormy west.
||4osy tide comes surging wild
s'n oceans dark blue breast;
ald-sea It's born, then swell
y. ~ rages more and more,
mlns on with snowy bac
WIS numbering near the shor
nm It crest, firm and sublim
y with tumultuous bray
grim 'front.' of the rugg,
- and splits the brlny spray
a Aislop, in his classical e
N night have pursued his fir
-' I'LL we had all the dee
auOn and others on that II
Uay before the walls of Tire
,s ~ mad not a crashing sou.
Us iouseu d
oO up and had just time
ourselves behind the trunk
S. ea ! herd of seven wild hos
,,ng out Of the thicket
runnel which flowed towa
n ,sIe unlike any of the swi
We had ever seen before. a
ss vague sensations of ala.
Il uaSe watched them w
p.' y they inserted their 10,
IA. N.Y. J. n the water that shark
I'M NJ an broad-shouldered a