Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-06-05

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and Deacon Oaks wondered why "the
grace o God hadn't freed the land
from stuns," no one ever came TO dis
turb its quietude. Every morning Tn
Gle Terry, often accompanied by Telly
In calico dress and sunbonnet, rowed
out to pull his lobster traps, and after
dinner harnessed and drove to the head
of the island to meet the mail boat;
then at eyentide, after lighting his pipe
ana the lighthouse lamp at about the
same time, generally strolled over TO
Bascom's to have a chat, while Telly
made call on the ''Widder Leach" a
mlsanthropic but pious protegee of
hers, and Aunt Lissy read the paper.
once In about three weeks, according
TO weather, the monotony of the village
was disturbed by the arrival of a small
schooner owned Jointly by Uncle Terry,
oaks and Bascom, and which piled be-
tween the Cape and Boston. Once in
two weeks services We're held, as usual,
in the little brown church, and as often
the lighthouse tender called and left
coal and oil for Uncle Terry. Regu-
larry on Thursday evenings the few
piously inclined, led by Deacon Oaks,
gathered In the church to sing hymns
they repeated ffty-two times each year.
listen to prayer by Oaks that seldom
varied in single sentence, and heard
Auntie Leach thank the Lord for his
many mercies," though what they
were in her case it would be hard to
tell, unless being permitted to live
alone and work hard to live at all was
mercy. The scattered islanders and
the handful whose dwellings comprised
the Cape worked hard, lived frugally
and were unconscious that all around
them was rocky shore whose cliffs
and inlets and beaches We're so many
poems of picturesque and charming
scenery.
This was Southport in summer, but
In winter, when the little harbor at
tho Cape was icebound, the winding
road to the head of the island buried
beneath drifts and the people often for
j weeks at time absolutely cut off
from communication with the rest Of
the world, it was a place cherries in
its desolation. Like so many wood
chucks then the residents kept within
doors or only stirred out to cut wood,
fodder the stock and shovel paths so
! that the children could go to school.
i The days were short and the evenings
long, and to get together and spend
! hours in labored conversation the only
pastime. 1t was one of those long even
ings and when Aunt Lissy and Telly
/ were at neighbours and Uncle Terry,
left to himself, was reading every line,
including the advertisements, in the
last Journal, that the following met
his eye:
WANTED.-Informatio that will lead
to the discovery of an heir to the estate
of one Eric Peterson, a landowner and
shipbuilder of Stockholm, Sweden, whose
son, with his wife, child and crew, was
known to have been wrecked on the coast
of Maine in March, 1877. Nothing has
ever been heard of said Peterson or his
wife, but the child may have been saved
Any one having information that will lead
to the discovery of this child will be
! amply rewarded by ting with
: NICHOLAS FRYE, Attorney at Law, =
Pemberton Square,..Boston.
! ''Waal, I'll be everlastin'ly gol darn
edv' Uncle Terry exclaimed after he
don't beat all natur I'm goat"
1t was fortunate he was alone, for it
gave him time to think the matter
over, and after half an hour of aston
ishment he decided to say nothing to
his wife or Telly
!. 'I'll jist breathe easy an sag up"
he said to himself, "same as though L
, was crossin' thin ice, an if nothin'
, comes ont nobody IL be the worse for
: worryin'"
} Then he cut the slip out and hid it In
} his black leather wallet and then cut
J out the entire page and burned It,
"Wimmin are SIGH cur1s creeters
they'd be sure to want to know what
I'd cut out O. that page" he said to
, himself, "an' never rest till told ZEN"
/ When Aunt Lissy and Telly came
, home Uncle Terry was as composed
as a rock and sat quietly putting his
{ pipe, with his feet on top of a chair
and pointing toward the fire.
< ''Were you lonesome, fatherw asked
g Telly, who usually led conversation il,
e the Terry home "We stopped at Bas-
CONS, and you know he never stops
= talking"
! Hes worse'n burdock burs ter git
e away FROM" answered Uncle Terry,
can We can't be perlite ter him unless
/ We want t. spend the rest O. yer life
0 listenin' His tongue allus seemed ter
. be hung in the middle an wag both
s ways. 1 wasn't lonesome" he contin-
ued, rising and adding a few sticks
G to the fire as the two women laid aside
e their wraps and drew chairs up. GIVE
read the paper purity well through an
d had spell O. Twin over bygones," and
IS then, turning to Telly and smiling, he
b added: 81 got thinkin' o the day ye
came ashore, an mother she got that
:" excited she sot the box We was in or
e the stove an then put more wood in
IS It's wonder she didn't put We in the
stove instead o. the woodr'
II AS this joke was not new to the lis
n fonorS no notice was taken of it, anC