The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-10-09

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captasns got onto 81 after SO long q
time, an quit fdumpin's their lumber
over to 'em tor the tide TO carry In
l turned my face seward for fear
the smile wreathing it might offend
"But;s about the boat?" 1 reminded
him.
'The boat?s browning moodily at
it. ''DoS you know, them city folk
make me mad. That's what they do.
They make me mad showin' off their
ignorance. What do they know
bout a boat? Nothin'.s Not q blamed
endurin' thing. They might know all
there is to know bout electric cars
an trans an cabs an automobiles,
but they don't know nothin' bout .
boat. They come down here from
the city,, dressed to death in white
from head to foot, an hire sloop,
an fill it plumb full to the riggin'
with their friends. Then off they go
sailin' away, singin', "A sailors life
for me, for me! A sailors LIES the
only life for me!' Humphl Then the
first thing you know, stiff breeze
blows up from somewhere, AM, az, i
say, not KNOWN the first thing bout
taclin' or talSin' down a sail or
histin' one,I the next thing that; hap
pens is this: The boat gives one big
whirl an stands. on the; wroAk tend.
Then the next 1nor.nins you Rad a
long list o. the dead, with black lines
round it. Humphi... ~. III
He smoked fully five minutes Of ex-
asperating silence. before he com
menced again, & 49,. L !. sS& &Se}
'That there boat over there" he
groaned, twas 9as, neat "a little acat-
boat as ever h'isted sail in these
here waters, an there want nobody
Killed in the wreck o. her, fortu-
Hat'ly; but. I laid it to kind o. spe-
cial Providence watchin' over fools
an young people, judgin' that was
what prevented it,"
He gave several: vigorous and ex-
haustive puffs upon his pipe, leaving
the story to lag, habit peculiar to
him. FL GFiF
'.It has all the earmarks of having
been gem of boat, II essayed,
starting him.
Seem! 1t was a jew'l! An if it
hadn't been for" Hating, he shook
his head, speechless for a. space
through sheer indignation. '.It was
like this" he resumed upon his re-
coyery. Cali summer long there'd
been a pretty, young girl here In one
% them cottages over there" point
ing to the curve Of the beach fringed
by a row of little shingled houses
the color of dust, with her mother,
a tall, straight, slim, white-haired
woman with what they called "a
'ristocratici air. She had q distant
relative what was related to some
body or other belongin' to the navy
or somethin', an that was what gave
it to her, they said. The girl want
quite 50 'ristocratic-lookin' as her
mother. but the young fellers they
swarmed round her like bees round
honeycomb, just the same. -
Between 'em they KEEP us guessin'.
Out of dozen or more there was
three pretty much neck an neck III
the runnin'. One was a. young actor
chap what come down, from the city,
AN stayed with her from Saturday
nlornin' till Monday mornin'. Reg
ular as the day come .'round-as
clockwork, you might say-there he
come, an there he stayed, Another
was the rich Teller what owned the
boat. g. fs 81
can the third was man what
didn't seem to have anything tall
to do but hang round that there cot
'tage every day in the week, an Sun
day, too, the livelong, endurin' time,
b'gosh! The livelong,s endurin, time! 9
you'd samthought,' blowing away
the smoke, and Regarding me with .
calm gaze at once large and contem-
plative, shat, SEEM he had so much
time onsshis hands while the Others.
was at work, AN was So Industrious
bout putin it il to the best advan-
tage-mak kin hay while, the sun was
shinin', you might say-that the wind.
would fn'lly blow. him her way for
igood.r But that's just where you'd
be mistaken. Girls like her never
takes what the wind blows their
way. What they wants is somethin'
they have to go sailin' after, an
catch by the ropes, an work till their
hands is blistered TOWN. TO land.
/, Anyhow, the bettin' on the island
was pretty solid for this teller, with
nothin' to do but to o-a-fshin' an
a-swimmin' and a-sailin' round the
bay, an maxim love to her mornin',
noon an night, persistin' in it an
persistin' in it in spite o. the white
haired mother fHownin' him down an
tryin' her level best to freeze him
with her 'ristocratic air, an dead
agin the rich Teller what owned the
boat, because the mother was with
him. Anybody what knows anything
knows that nothin' sets young girl
so agin Teller as havin' her mother
allus aggin' her on to marryin' him"
& He meditatively. crossed one leg
over the other. PA ~ 49,
: "But then" settling himself COM
fortably in the sand, ''where wo-
man is consumed there amt never