The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-09-07
VOLUME XIV.

ha5dksfehiefs, the stupid old thing abe
said You NUT pretend that voa mislsid
thom, Ra by Anp, Who would have
ihrngh, that the old slmpletou had such .
memory ster slli
hu' Ra ~ Am da no, promise TO pre-
tend that sbe had mislsid the hsndkerch,efs.
In fact she was more troubled about the
disappointment that Grandtir would feel
when he kuew there ~, only one hanaker-
chief than so iut Me. Asronl shse Of the
difficulty.
There Was ob. person Who highly sp-
proved OF he wsy In which Grsndsir had
spent his ten dollars. and that Was little
Abel He told ~ his wonderful present far
snd near, ard as Nut had praphesied, the
house was throngcd with people who came
TO see u.
Old Cap'n Maxwell, who had Just come
to live with bis sou over on the Cape road,
came over ss soon a. he heard sbout Il.
Csp'n Maxwell had been around the world
as captsin Of = sbip and thought himself
great oracle In nautical matters, and II hap
penod that he and Grapdsir fell into dis
puto. Grsndslr was pacific aud long suf-
fcrlDg. but de WAS not going to allow any
one TO say that the vessel was "too nArrer
smidships.H So the argument became .
heated one. Grandsir especially became
so excited that Ruthy Ann and her mother
we're frightened and had sci ious thoughts
Of sending to the sbipysrd for Mutt.
She's Just Ike the the Pzafro, shouted
Grsndsir, suddenly. And then he arose to
lis feet. white and trembling, That's the
name that Ivo been trying forhfteen yesrs
20 remember, ho cried. That ship or--or
getting so worked up or something brought
II back to me. The Pil.rro OF pofchmouth
As second mate, mate and csp'nl sailed
aboard OF her for twenty yesrs.
Old Captain Maxwell removed his pipe
from his mouth, hitched bs tr' users, naut-
ically aud stared, open-mou,hei, at Grand
sir.
You don't happen toremomber \ shipmAte
named Dace, do your he asked after
moments reflection, his irritating dlfier-
ence with Grnndsir quite forgotten,
Ursh Daeel gasped Grandsir. I've been
thinking and thinking about him, but his
name had got away from me long Of the
vessels Lame. All them twenty years
Uriah Daee and me was shipmStes. He
ain't living, is heS He'd be most ss old A.
| | am.
He died last spring down to Paquoit.
some OF my folks down there send me the
Paquoit County Journal. He had lived
alone and been kind OF miserly and he left
property worth fifteen thousand dollars and
not relative In the world left 1t oil to one
OF his old shipmates Of the Pizsrro II he
was found-if not. to the seaman'a home
down to Paugus. just as sure M YOU'RE
liviu' man that money. belongs to you.
Hiram Gilkey that was the name. ] saw
II myself In the paper. 1t said he WAS cup
posed TO be dead, because they had tried to
fnd him and could, not and couldn't hear
Of any that knew anything about the Piz-
AFRO. But don't calculate you've got any,
thing to do but Just sail 10 and show your
colors.
Before night all squam knew about the
legacy, and one Of the selectmen went
down to Paquoit with Grandsir and Cap
tain Maxwell to claim II.
As soon IS he received the legacy Grand
sir said he meant to have 1t secure cd to bis
"own folks :" he had found he wasn't 1T TO
have the spending OF even ten dollars.I
And yet II he hadn't bought that lship
for little Abel There Ia an old Morse pro-
verb, The nest Of "a blind bird 10 built by
God"
No one doubted who Grandsir's "own
folks" were, and it WAS all 10 vain that
Mrs. Aaron sent, post haste, to the city for
seven purple siik handkerchiefs.