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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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ein the boat ? The Captain looked down. Woman, saidhe, in a harsh and bitter tone, go home ; whatbusiness have you here in the rain ? and imme-diately he hobbled away to another place, andagain pointed his glass seaward. Pletty cast a despairing look around, when anold woman, with a basket of refreshments on herarm, having overheard the inquiry, approachedand hissed into her ear, Who but Abijah Bowline would fling awayhis life on sich a fools errand? And the lives ofthe four men he shamed and bullied into goingwith him, Studley, and the Coffins, and Pollard,theyll leave widows and orphans behind; butfor him—a desperate man—its no great mat-ter. A skipper, wrapped in a pea-jacket, said: Theyre brave lads anyhow, and it was noblydone; but I fear its of no use: I pity em. Would ye like a drop of whisky, Sir, thiswet morning ? Thank ye, mother, I dont care if I do. Hetty stood the while unnoticed and alone.Her silken hair hung wet and matted about her 752 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
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STUDLEY. face and neck. Her handsome features whiteand clammy like a fair chisled statue, all but theconvulsive, heaving breast, and the restless eyewandered eagerly and anxiously over the ragingexpanse of ocean. There and then she stooduntil it was all over. As the old skipper had said, the vessel wentto pieces before the boat reached her, and hercrew, ten in number, clinging to a floating por-tion of the wreck, were picked up by young Bow-lines boat. Thus laden, it was doubtful wheth-er she could land in the surf. They made thedash, and, as was feared, the boat swamped; but both the crew and passengers were hardyand practiced watermen, and a hundred handsstood by with boat-hooks, oars, and lines to helj)the failing. All were saved ; and with the rejoic-ings there were shouts and oaths, thanksgivingsand tears. In the long procession that marched up thebank and along the street of Siasconsett theleading man was Abijah Bowline. Hatless andshoeless, his woolen shirt and sailor pantsdren

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