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diff --git a/18522.txt b/18522.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd83f8e --- /dev/null +++ b/18522.txt @@ -0,0 +1,964 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wreck, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Wreck + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: June 6, 2006 [EBook #18522] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRECK *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, LN Yaddanapudi, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + +[Illustration: Frontispiece] + + + + +THE WRECK. + + +_ILLUSTRATED._ + + +NEW YORK: +DODD, MEAD, & CO. +_PUBLISHERS._ + + + + +COPYRIGHT, +BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, +1880. + + + + +THE WRECK. + + +[Illustration: The swing] + +Ollie had been swinging for nearly an hour in the grove behind the old +farm-house, when she heard her mother's voice calling, "Ollie, Ollie! +where are you, child?" Ollie stopped swinging and listened. "That is +mamma," she said; "I must run quickly and see what she wants." So, +jumping down and leaving the swing to "die away" by itself, she skipped +along the path which led up to the back door. Her mother was standing on +the step, holding a basket in her hand. When she saw Ollie she said, +"Ah, here you are; I have been looking for you all over the house." + +"I have been swinging, and only just heard you calling," answered Ollie. +"Do you want me?" + +"Yes," said Mrs. Rogers; "I want some more sugar. I thought we had +plenty, but these new cookies that Mrs. Coe told me about do take a +great deal more than my old ones. So, go as quickly as you can, my +dear, for I am dreadfully bothered for the want of it." + +[Illustration: Willie] + +"Yes," said Ollie, taking the basket; "I will not be a minute. Couldn't +Willie go with me? See, he is looking through the window. I am sure a +little walk would do him good." + +"No, not yet," said Mrs. Rogers. "The doctor says he must not leave the +house before next week. Now run along." + +Ollie threw a kiss toward the window and started down the path. She was +just going to open the gate when she heard a "rat-tat-tat" behind her. + +[Illustration: Ollie] + +"Willie wants something, I am sure," she said, turning back again; "I +wonder what it is! He is pointing under that bush, but I do not see +anything. Ah, here you are, you rogue! it is you who are wanted;" and +she pulled out a great big black rabbit, Willie's especial pet. "It is +just as well that I have to go to the house again, for I forgot my +sun-umbrella, and I am sure the day is very hot." + +[Illustration: The pet rabbit] + +The sun-umbrella to which Ollie alluded was one of her birthday +presents, and she was always glad when the sun was hot enough to make it +useful. The rabbit being laid in Willie's lap, Ollie started off once +more, running as fast as she could to make up for lost time. In a few +minutes she reached the village. The sugar was soon bought and tucked +away in the basket. + +Ollie ran along, and was just hesitating whether she should climb the +fence and run through Squire Thompson's lot, or go around by the road, +when she saw, just before her, Lucy Coit, walking along with her +school-books in her bag. + +"There is Lucy," said Ollie; "I wonder what she is doing with her bag +of books at this time of day. I will run up and ask her." + +[Illustration: Lucy] + +Ollie soon overtook her schoolmate, and putting her arm around her waist +they walked on together. + +"I could not imagine what you were carrying your school-books for," said +Ollie. "You can't have been kept after school, for you always know your +lessons so well." + +"No," said Lucy, "I wasn't kept after, but I stayed myself. I couldn't +get a sum in fractions right, and Miss Palmer said if I would wait till +every one had gone she would show me about it. Now I know it, and I am +going down to the beach. Don't you want to go too?" + +"Oh, yes," said Ollie; "but I must take this sugar to mamma first. +Let's climb over these bars and cut across this field. It is a great +deal shorter than by the road." + +[Illustration: Geese] + +There were some geese in the field, which evidently did not like to have +their privacy intruded upon, for they set up a terrible quacking as the +children passed them. Ollie and Lucy, however, quacked back again, and +the geese soon left them and continued to nibble away at the grass. + +Ollie soon reached her home, and leaving her basket on the table she ran +up-stairs to find her mother, for she wanted permission to go to the +beach. + +"Yes," said Mrs. Rogers, "you may go; but it looks a little showery, and +I don't want you to get wet. Watch the clouds, and if you see a storm +coming, hurry home, so as to get in before the rain." + +Ollie promised to do as she was told and kissing her mother good-by she +ran down-stairs. She found Lucy standing by the fence, looking over +into Mr. Beech's yard. Mr. Beech lived next to Ollie's papa, and he had +one little girl. Every one called her "Chubby," because she was so plump +and round. + +[Illustration: Chubby] + +"Lucy," called Ollie, "what are you doing?" + +"Come here a minute," said Lucy. + +Ollie went to the fence, and there she saw Chubby holding a basket full +of delicious ripe strawberries. "Why, Chubby," said Ollie, "what are you +going to do with those lovely berries? How good they look, don't they, +Lucy?" + +"Oh," said Chubby, "I must be very careful, for they do roll about so +that I can hardly carry them. You may each have one, but I cannot spare +more, because they are for my tea-party." + +So Chubby passed the basket very carefully to the children, while each +one helped herself, and then she started to walk carefully over the +grass toward a seat under a big tree. + +"And what is your party?" asked Lucy. "It must be a very nice one, I +think, if you have such things as those to eat." + +"Oh, there it is," said Chubby; and looking in the direction of her +finger the children saw a table covered with a white cloth, and a pretty +blue tea-set upon it. + +[Illustration: The tea-party] + +They had evidently been very hungry when they began the feast, for not a +crumb remained upon one of the plates, and three little girls were +sitting there, waiting patiently for a fresh supply of good things. +Ollie and Lucy watched Chubby till she set her plate of berries safely +upon the table, and then, turning around, they remembered that they +had only a short time to stay at the beach, and that consequently they +had better not lose any more time in loitering by the way. + +It was only a quarter of a mile from Ollie's house to the water, and it +did not take long to get over the ground which lay between. Ollie was +never tired of the ocean, and it was a rare thing for her to let a day +pass without spending some time on the shore. + +Some one was there before them, and at first the children could not +imagine whom it could be; but as they drew nearer they saw that it was +Miss Palmer, their teacher. She had thrown off her hat, and was reading +so earnestly that she neither saw nor heard the children till they were +close upon her. + +Miss Palmer was very much beloved by all of her scholars, and they +thought nothing a greater treat than to sit by her side and listen while +she told them stories or talked to them. So when our two little friends +saw who it was, they ran and sat down, one on each side of her. + +[Illustration: Mrs. Palmer] + +Miss Palmer looked up, and upon seeing who it was that had interrupted +her she closed her book, and said she was just wishing she had some one +to talk to. + +"Do you notice how still it is?" she said, "and how close and hot the +air is? I fear we are going to have a terrible storm. We must watch the +clouds, and run a race with them. If we get home first, all will be +well, but if the clouds do, alas for our clothes!" + +Just as she spoke they heard a low muttering of thunder, and then +suddenly a blast of cold wind rushed by them. The big black clouds +rolled rapidly up, and in a moment the whole scene before them was +changed. The ocean began to have a lowering, angry look, and a schooner +which had been lying lazily in the water gave a bound forward like a +live creature, and sped on its way. Miss Palmer sprang to her feet, +saying, "Now, children, the time for the race has come. The rain is +determined to get there first, but so are we; see who will win the +race." + +[Illustration: Schooner] + +So all three started on at a quick pace. One big drop fell on Lucy's +hand, and they hurried on. The race was barely theirs, for just as they +stepped in at the door a blinding flash of lightning came, and a crash +of thunder almost at the same instant, which made them glad enough that +they were safely housed. + +Although the thunder and lightning ceased after a while, and even the +rain poured itself out, the wind continued to blow furiously. Lucy +waited till she dared wait no longer, and then said that she must go +home, for she knew her mother was already anxious about her. + +"Oh, you can't go, Lucy," said Ollie; "see how that great tree bends; +why, you couldn't keep on your feet for one minute." + +Just then they looked out of the window and saw Ollie's father riding +by. He had just stopped to speak to some one, and Ollie, losing no time, +opened the window and called to him. + +[Illustration: Ollie's father] + +"Papa, papa," she called, "do you think it is safe for Lucy to try to go +home?" + +The wind was making such a terrible noise that Ollie's voice could not +be heard. + +Mr. Rogers dismounted and came to the window. He did not think it at all +safe for Lucy to go home in such a gale, and promised instead to go +to Mr. Coit's house and beg permission for Lucy to stay all night with +Ollie. + +Of course both of the children were overjoyed with this arrangement, and +begun at once to amuse themselves. Ollie's papa soon came back, bringing +with him a bag for Lucy, which contained everything that she could +possibly want during the night. + +The wind, instead of abating, increased in fury. It roared and screamed +about the house like an angry wild beast. It caught up the clothes which +old Milly had spread upon the grass to bleach, and whirled them round +and round in circles over the house, and carried them off no one knew +where. It seized the old bucket which hung in the well, and swung it +back and forth with such force that no one dared go near enough to +fasten it. + +At eight o'clock the children went to bed, and in spite of the wind they +were soon sleeping soundly. All was still within the house, and both +Lucy and Ollie were too much used to storms on the sea-shore to be +disturbed by them. + +Suddenly, however, Lucy started from her bed. What was that sound? +surely it was the slamming of the front door. While she was listening +she saw something which made her heart beat fast. It was a rocket which +shot by her window. Another and another followed. Lucy sprang out of bed +and began to dress. There was hardly a child in Spehunket who did not +know the terrible meaning of the rocket soaring into the air in the +dead of night. + +[Illustration: Lucy wakes up Ollie] + +Lucy hastily slipped on her clothes, and then, going back to the bed, +she took Ollie's hand and called softly, + +"Ollie, Ollie! wake up. There is a wreck, and I think some of the people +have gone down to the beach. Don't you want to go too?" + +Ollie started up, looking frightened at being so suddenly roused. "What +is it? what is it?" she asked excitedly. "What is the matter?" + +"There is a wreck, Ollie," said Lucy, "and the men at the life-saving +station are hard at work. Oh, Ollie! just think of the poor things +clinging to the ship, and expecting every moment to go down! I must go +down there and see if I can't do something to help." + +By this time Ollie was wide awake, and as interested as Lucy. It did not +take her long to dress, and in a few minutes they went softly +down-stairs. Mrs. Rogers' bed-room door was open, and upon looking in +the children saw that Ollie's papa and mamma had gone to the beach. As +there was no one of whom they could ask permission, each little girl +wrapped herself warmly in a woollen shawl, and drawing the bolt of the +kitchen door they stepped out into the night. + +It was two o'clock, and during the six hours which had passed since they +went to bed the wind had abated in force somewhat. The sky was full of +black, angry-looking clouds, but the moon was struggling to make +herself seen. On the whole, it was not a dark night, and the children +found no difficulty whatever in seeing the well-worn path which led +through their field to the beach. If they had been doubtful of the way +they would have been guided by the bonfires, and by an occasional rocket +which shot up into the air; but as it was they knew the road well, and +excepting when the moon was hidden for a moment behind a cloud, all was +bright around them. + +They soon reached the beach, and were there just in time to see the men +from the station bring down the life-boat. It was a hard pull through +the sand, but the feat was soon accomplished, and the boat was left near +the water's edge, to be ready in case the line from the mortar should +fail to reach the wreck. + +[Illustration: The Life-boat] + +The mortar was standing there, and the men were preparing to send out +the line which was to bring succor to the terrified passengers on the +wreck. At the word of command the string was pulled--"_Bang_," and off +went the line, curving through the air. Every one watched in breathless +anxiety to see if it would reach the ship. Yes, on it went, and then +dropped down upon the deck. + +A shout of joy rose up from the crowd upon the beach, and it must have +been answered by those on the wreck, but every sound was lost in the +roaring of the wind and of the angry waves. In an instant a stronger +line was attached, and to that, after being drawn on board and securely +fastened to the mast, a little car was attached and was quickly drawn on +board. Into this car one human being could get at a time, and could be +drawn over the breakers safely to the shore. + +The work of the night now began in earnest. Back and forth went the car. +Sometimes it brought back a little child, sometimes a papa or mamma, and +at last the sailors one by one, and then, last of all, the faithful +captain, who would not leave his ship until he had seen all his +passengers and crew safely on the land. + +When they began working the car Lucy and Ollie stood by looking on, and +longing to help those brave men. But they were only little girls, and +what could they do? + +"Ollie," said Lucy, "I have an idea. Do you see that bonfire? It is +nearly out. If you will gather some sticks and build it up again, I will +run back to your house, and get some coffee and a kettle. I think a cup +of coffee would refresh these men wonderfully." + +"Oh, yes, Lucy," said Ollie, "run--run quickly. Tell Milly to help you. +I saw Sambo here a moment ago--oh, here he is. Sambo, Sambo, go back to +the house with Miss Lucy and help her bring some things which she +wants." + +Lucy and Sambo were off in a hurry, and as soon as they were gone Ollie +gathered all the drift-wood she could find, and proceeded immediately to +brighten up the fire, which had nearly died away. She worked steadily +and quietly, and by the time she had a bright blaze Lucy reappeared with +a big package of coffee, a pot, and a pail of water. They filled the pot +and put it over the fire and waited for it to boil. It seemed a long +time before the steam began to rise, but gradually it became more and +more dense, until at last the cover of the pot began to dance up and +down, and the delightful bubbling sound greeted their ears which told +that the water was boiling. + +The coffee was already in the coffee-pot, and in a short time the +grateful fragrance rose upon the air. + +"Oh, oh," said Ollie, "we have neither milk nor sugar!" + +"I never thought of that," said Lucy, in a disappointed tone, "but I +know they must have some at the lifesaving-station." + +"I knows where they keeps it, miss, for I used to be on the crew once," +said Sambo; "I'll be back in a jiffy with it." + +So off went Sambo. The sugar was found, but alas, there was no milk. + +"Never mind," said Ollie; "they must take it as it is. It will do them +just as much good." + +[Illustration: Man in the surf] + +Now all this time the brave men of the life-saving station had been hard +at work, drawing the car back and forth, and they had just brought in +the captain, who, as I said, stood faithfully by his ship until all on +board had been rescued, when some one shouted, + +"A man--a man in the surf!" They rushed into the water and looked +anxiously before them. Yes, there he was, clinging to a piece of the +broken mast. His strength was almost gone, and just as a big wave was +about to break over him two strong pairs of hands seized and dragged him +almost exhausted to the shore. + +"Would you like some hot coffee? Would you like some hot coffee?" + +"What's that I hear about hot coffee?" said one and another joyfully. +"Hot coffee! why, who has been good enough to think of that?" + +"A cup of coffee would be a good thing," said Joe Brown; "for the fact +is, I for one am just about beat out." + +Lucy and Ollie were quite delighted at the success of their undertaking, +and for the next half hour were busy enough in pouring and passing the +coffee. Not only were the men of the station thankful for a good drink, +but so were the poor tired and frightened passengers; and the children +had all they could do to fill up the cups fast enough. + +They received a great many thanks and a great many praises for their +thoughtfulness, and when they were through the captain of the wrecked +steamer proposed three cheers for the kind little girls who had done so +much to refresh them. + +The cheers were hearty enough, and the children were quite embarrassed +to have the attention of so many people called to them. They felt quite +repaid for all their trouble when they saw how refreshed every one +looked after taking a cup of their good hot coffee. + +After a while the crowd began to move on toward the station. The crew +rolled up their ropes and proceeded to drag up the boat, which they had +not needed after all. + +All were happy and thankful that no lives had been lost, but the poor +passengers were rather melancholy at the thought of probably losing all +their luggage. Every one was wet through, and it was necessary that they +should get on dry clothes as soon as possible. + +All the houses in the village were opened to the sufferers, and soon +every one was made comfortable. Clothing of all sorts was lent them, for +the morrow, but in the mean time they were glad to go to bed and get a +good rest and sleep. + +Ollie and Lucy went back to bed too, but no sleep came to them. They +talked until they saw the morning dawn, and soon after sunrise they rose +and dressed for breakfast. + +After breakfast they went down on the beach again to look at the wreck, +and they spent a great deal of time there watching it. A great many +efforts were made to save her, but all in vain. One day, when the wind +was unusually high, a great wave struck her side, a crash was heard, +and down she went, out of sight forever, beneath the waves. + +"Now," said Lucy, "I suppose I must go home. Mamma will be impatient to +see me and to know that I am all right after the storm." + +"And you want to see her too, I have no doubt," said Ollie. + +"Yes, indeed I do, but I should like to come back again. It is such fun +to have a girl of my own age to talk to; but mamma has to be very busy +this week, and I must get back and help her." + +So Lucy walked toward the house. She wanted to get her bag, and to say +good-by to Ollie's mamma. + +The two children were talking so busily as they went along that they +did not notice a horse and wagon standing at the gate of Mr. Rogers's +house, until they were close upon it. + +"Why, Ollie!" exclaimed Lucy; "there is our horse; papa must have come +for me. I wonder if we have kept him waiting!" + +The children hurried in, and were soon in the sitting-room, where, to +their surprise, they found Mr. and Mrs. Coit, talking very busily. + +"Oh, mamma!" said Lucy, running forward to get a good-morning kiss, +"have you come for me? It was too bad to keep you waiting; I will be +ready in one minute." + +"I have not come to take you away," said Mrs. Coit, "but to beg Mrs. +Rogers to keep you a little longer." + +"Ah, Miss Lucy," said Ollie, laughing, "you see they have found it so +pleasant to be without you that they are going to give you to us." + +Lucy looked from one to another in surprise. "What do you mean, mamma?" +she asked; "am I to stay here? what for? how long?" + +"I will tell you," said her mother. "Just after Mr. Rogers left our +house with your bag, last night, your father brought a letter from the +post-office from your Aunt Mary. She is going to move out West, and +wants us to go on and make her a visit before she leaves. We are going +to take Willie, for I think a change of air would do him good, after his +illness; but your aunt's house is so small, I do not think it is best +for you to go. As Mrs. Rogers has consented to keep you, I think you had +better stay here." + +"Oh, good, good, good!" exclaimed Ollie, clapping her hands and jumping +around the room for joy. "Now you will have to stay, and be my sister +for a good long week." + +Lucy hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry. She was delighted to stay +with her friend, but the thought of being so long away from her mamma +made her feel almost homesick. + +"I will write you a letter every day," said Mrs. Coit, seeing the cloud +on her little girl's face. + +But the cloud only stayed a minute. "After all," she thought, "mamma +will only be gone for a week, and I would much rather be here with +Ollie than at Aunt Mary's, where there is no one of my own age; and a +letter every day! oh, that will be _too_ delightful!" + +"Well, I must go," said Mrs. Coit. "Thank you very much, Mrs. Rogers, +for taking Lucy; I hope she will be a good child, and not give you any +trouble. Good-by." + +"Martha will send over your trunk this afternoon," she continued to +Lucy. "It is all packed, and William Henry Johnson said he'd bring it +over on his way to the mill this evening. Good-by, my dear," and Lucy +was seized, hugged, and kissed, and almost before she knew what it was +all about her mother had gone, and she was left alone, watching the +wagon as it rolled slowly down the road. + +She was roused by hearing Ollie's voice close behind her. + +"Oh, Lucy, let's go up-stairs, and get the room ready for you. I must +move the things in my closet, and make enough bare nails for your +dresses." + +So the two girls went up-stairs together, and the afternoon was passed +in preparations for the coming week. + +The next morning Lucy and Ollie went to school as usual, only instead of +having a long solitary walk, they each had the other's company, which +they found very pleasant. The girls at school were quite astonished to +hear that they were spending the week together. + +As they were walking back from school, they saw on the beach the signal +which was always used to show that there were fish in sight. + +"Oh, let us hurry through our dinner," said Ollie, "and go down to the +beach. I love to see them draw in their big nets full of fish. It is +such fun." + +Mrs. Rogers was astonished to see two wild children rush into the house, +all out of breath, exclaiming, + +"Isn't dinner ready? We are in such a hurry to get down to the beach." + +"Yes, dinner is ready," said Mrs. Rogers; "you can sit down as soon as +you like." + +As soon as they had eaten as much as they wanted, and had been excused, +they rushed to the beach. The men were just preparing to launch the big +boat through the surf. When the children came in sight, the captain of +the crew saw them and said, + +"Hold up a minute; here are our little friends; they always enjoy a +dance on the waves; let's wait, and take them in." + +So they beckoned to the children, and in a few minutes they were seated +in the boat. The word of command was given, and off they went--now up on +the top of the wave, now down, down, down. + +They had an unusually good haul of fish, which the men insisted was all +owing to the presence of the two little girls. They stayed on the beach +or in the boat all the afternoon, and finally went home to supper so +hungry that Mrs. Rogers laughingly declared that she could not possibly +cook enough in one day to satisfy them. + +Mrs. Coit kept her promise and wrote to Lucy every day, and between her +letters and her good times with Ollie, the days passed so quickly that +Lucy was surprised to find at last that the hour for her departure had +arrived. + +"How little we thought that day when I walked home with you that I was +to be here a week!" + +"I wish we were going to have it all over again," said Ollie. + +"So do I," said Lucy. + + +THE END. + + +Transcriber's Note + +The following typos have been corrected. + +Page Typo Correction +13 shorer shorter +46 joyfully joyfully. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Wreck, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WRECK *** + +***** This file should be named 18522.txt or 18522.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/2/18522/ + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, LN Yaddanapudi, and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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