The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-01-04

UNI, THURSDAY I
Deed something Of tho sort u they ssn
home BY one OF The neet.
Well. the luck did change. and What th
mate had said about II got around. bat
Vas not 90 ooptipuous that there we're nj
Intervals OF leisure. In those Intervals u
old ship looked like = toy factory.
great change hsd come over the spirit {
her crew.
I'm going shopping over TO Bedford Il
morrow, announced the bost-steersr on
night. II any Of you want TO send
Get stocking pattern, then. Ssilmsl
er'll take shape from deck bucket
somebody don't watch him.
You can have one OF mine that gram.
made, said the boy. only make II big, sn'
II will be just right.
Christmas came. and the Mary Aas va
slili ats distance from the sandwich Ia
lands, and Christmas morning . queer de
putation went from the forscastle to th
cabin--the boat-steerer and Miles Domarty
each with IN enormous white canvas
stocking.
We're sending ths love Of the Mary An
TO old Nantucket, said Abel Macy.
There were beautiful shells ard cora
there we're toy boats and models Of shlp'
full rugged. and half-models to hang on tb'
Wall like pictures; ther. were .ditty'
boxes, and one Of these. with inlaId pear
work, was for girl whom the boat.steere'
had 10 mind there were trinkets Of tor.
toise-shell from the Galapagos Islands
there were carved whales teeth and lvor,
work there were woven mats and thing
of wood and cocosnut.shell; and by pro
longed effort they we're got into the cap
tain's chest, which WAS large. Then II wal
locked and lashed, and the carpenter mark
cd 1t with black paint, to be delivered to
Mrs. Abel Macy, Nantucket, because ABE
had written letter to 20 Ia In, telling al
about 1t. There were soms other letters
too, but they we're shorter.
But the feet from the srcticf when the
Mary Ann reached the Islands there was nc
trace Of Santa Claus or Of anything else
gong to the "east'ard."
We shall be going home ourselves 10 time
for next year. This WAS from the cap.
tain,
He seems to care more than he did about
II, commented the forecaitle.
A year had passed, In q score OF homes
In Nantucket people were looking for the
Mary Ann. She was expected in the fall,
That WAS as much as could be known. Bu'
September passed October came and went /;
also, dull and chill, with fast.
waning days.
Grandmother ShIllet sighed a. she pu'
away Thanksgiving pies that she had hop
ed John would have eaten that day. .Ms,-
lssa Territt went to the Thanksgiving Ter
vice, but her thoughts kept drifting away
from the sermon. But when the old min.
Ister prayed for "those, our dear ones, o,
the deep, that they may be kept through
the dangers Of their way and brought SAT,
home," she prayed, too, with all her heart
December began. There's storm com
Ing up the coast, mother, said Joel Macy,
as he came into the house with Bose, the
dog, at bis heels. Bose sat and whined
Ill the time WAS milking. Those north
casters catch his rheumatism before they
10 mine sometimes, and | feel 1t coming,
100.
wish they we're home, sighed his wife.
Well, hope they will be fore the next
torn gets round.
Yes, = storm was coming up the coast,
md so, too, was the Mary Ann.
The old whale, chip was more fit for har.
,or rest and repair than for another storm
Tight. Cape Horn eeas had buried and
trained her. The Hbers Of her rores had
.rown short and brittle.
But the choice was not hers. The storm
lad been coming on for days before abe
reared her port. The entries 10 the log
howed that from the latitude Of Hatteras
be weather had grown steadily worse
The wind Was threatening; the seas wer'
leavy and iullen, Their temper was lik'
hat OF mutinous crew, who carry th'
hip on grudgingly. TIL the time comes I,
eize her for her own. lDay by day III
loads held ossession Of the sky, and nj
Of the sun could be taken.
On December 10th the log read, "At ~
Don, oil hands on deck, ard hove to. Vino
!. by s. Sea very bad. Iu coming about
be foretopmast-stay parted, and foretop
,ast cerricd away. Close reefed foresail
They we're then, ~ near ~ they coulo
eD, forty or nfty miles from the coast,
nth drift toward 1t Of knot and bali
T more an hour.
Their position was very dreary. They |
ID not know with what certainty whr
hey were. and were already partly disab-
I'd, with the storm ge.ti, g worse.
The night Of the l0,h came on. Although |
be ar was full OF driving wrack, II was
OF very dark, the moon being almost At
he full.
On every hand there Was the same terri
le aspect; the same ceaseless rubbing Of
rave and cloud, iDdistinct and ghostly.
here WAS the same awful surge Of thu
hip ~ she swupg her bows down into the
ollows; the same uncertain trembling re.
overy, not once or trice, but hour after
our the long night through.
When day came they made an effort to
zee the ship by cutting away the masu,
nd did 90 successfully. Ths maipmast and
lizzenmsst were cut, while the foremast,
I which the top part was already gone,
- lift standing. TIE reefed foressil had
cen blown away, but they managed 10 rig