The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-11-05


o Jeans. Whist had rowsd Al swum
an sail-boated With him q college.
An gals IN white, With white shoes @.
luSgtn' red an yaller eofa-pdtlefe 70
mat yacnt out there. An a-goan' q
sailin' up an DOWN the sound, an out
70 sea sometimes.
Fretty soon there Got % - q
one gA IN particular what Jean was
settin' To-. an how there was to b .
gran weddin' at tho New York house.
an, bigger party afterward n this
here house down here. an the weddin-
tower after that, a-sailin' to foreign
parts In that yacht you go them Scan
dinavian sailors a5climbin al over, an
back agin. The talk ran high. an It
seemed for all the world - II things
was to- come out - they said they
would. But you never kin tell: no. you
never kin tell. Man proposes, % the
sayin' Is, an the good Lord disposes;
an the good Lord had made up his
mind. It seemed. that this was to be
sort o dinrent-like from what they
supposed It would be.
"Leastways, along about the last o.
May there come spell o. weather
terrible foggy weather. There want
q night o. that month that the fog
horns didn't blow themselves hoarse-
blow an blow an blow till we was
most deaf with the sound O. them.
well, one fine day. when the sun
come out to take a peep at things to
see how they was goin' on, the girls
In white, with their little white shoes
shinin'. brought out their red an yal-
lar sofa-pillers. an set sail IN that
yacht, with dags a-hyin' an music go
in an them Scandinavian sailors inn
Ported Gaze the old man had more
money than he knew how to spend,
an was bent on doin' something extra
expensive an no earthly use climbin'
the riggin' hand over hand. like blue
coated cats"
And, Iencouraged, as he put In q
silent and useless moment surveying
the moveless line with melancholy
eye.
The sun didn't stay out long" he
commenced again. 1T went back sud-
den-like, an the storm that come up
we hadn't had sech storm as that on
the sound in many year! The fog.
horns BLOWN like mad from light
house to lighthouse, a-callin' to peo-
pie as II they'd been human creatures
in distress. to keep in their houses an.
stay on the rocks.
cts q good yacht, that yacht, an
the sailors they done what they could.
But they was Scandinavian sailors, an
they want proof agin the gale that
bowed an howled an whistled as If
a pack o. demons had been let loose,
bent on destroyin' people. She struck
on the rocks
"What then?" cried breathlessly,
regardless Of the fish.
"Why. then out come this here COM
mon herd O. people about here. 81
Slocum at their head-people old man.
smythe's servants had had orders to
keep often his grass-an' they at the
elements tooth an, nail. same,s they've
been used to fightin' 'em from the
time they was children on up. They
saved the lives O. every millionaire in
that yacht. Not q soul was lost; not
even sailor"
He. raised his head with a Jerk. ana
for period Of time studied the cat
boats.
THAT night" he continued, then,
was the night when Beth slocum's
trainin' come in handy. An who
knows but It WAS what she'd been train
in for all her life unbeknownst? Who
knows?"
EYES," urged.
well, that was the gal what swum
out to the yacht. an saved the life O.
cid man smythe's son. Jean. That