HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-02-20, Page 6THE SEAFORTH NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941
The
Inland
Sea
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The element was neither of that glee-
sy green which distinguishes the Ant-
ertean waters in general, nor yet of
the deep :blue of the ocean, the 'col
a
ou
ol-
our 'being of a slightly amber hue,
which scarcely affected- its limpidity.
No land was to be seen, With the ex-
ception. of the coast, •which stretched
ec' he right and left in an unbroken
c•ut-tine of forest with wide bays and
kw headlands or points; still, much
he shore was rocky, and into its
caverns the sluggish waters occasioa-
a:y rolled. producing a hollow sound.
which resembled the concussions of a
distant gun. No sail whitened the
surface. no .whale or other fish gam-
'eolled en its -boson, no sign of use or
zrvice rewarded :he longest and
r. t t minute gaze at its boundless ex-
panse. -, was a scene, on one side
ofareartntly endless forests. while a
eentingly interminable wat-
t:" .,ret.;: itself on the other. Nature
,t-pear:A to have delighted in pro -
aa: r grand effects, by setting two
Of her _:•rincipwl agents in bold relief
t.
each -other, neglecting. details: the
eye turning. from the broad carpet of
..aye: to the still broader field of
fluid, from the endless but gentle
• heaving's of the 'la'ke. to the holy
Keen: and ,poeticalsolitude of the for-
ts:. with wonder and delight.
M:sbel Dunham. though unsophis-
t,ca.ed, like most of her country-
4.t•::ten •.1 that period. and ingenpoms
... t .rank as any warm-hearted and
-met re -minded girl well could be,
was not altogether sitiont a feeling
to the .poetry of this beautiful earth
of oras. Although she could scarcely
-.a-d to be educated at all for few
of her ex at that day and in this
wsy received much more than the rh-
e,iaten is of plain ,English instruction,
sail she had been taught much more
+. r:r.n was usual for young women in
her station of life: and in one sense
.rta':niy. she did credit tc. her teach -
mg. The widow of a field -officer.
n sits lit -i*td to the same
regMent as her father. had taken the
,ad i, charge at the death of its
mother; and under the - care . f this
lad-: Mabel had acquired some tastes
,rd many ideas which otherwise
r; :ii -t have ai:-ays remained-trang-
..s te. her. Her situation in the fam-
"'-;'en :e.- that n domestic
of " humble c.c.:vpaniun.
y;itt. apparent
ter sang rte e,hererre:
fee:Mg,.
e n. .ti_
arts fit i„
rta:-,i137 that dis-
iied :ter r the simation in life
aeidents of lir;it and fortune
-.44. no: trobabiv ce.mpe'- her to fill. All
else :ha: was distinctive and peculiar
.r; net belonged tr, natural character.
With such antecedents it - will oc-
casion the reader no wonder if he
learns that IMa;bel viewed the novel
scene before her with a pleasure far
superior to that produced by vulgar
surprise, She felt its ordinary tbeauties
s most would have felt them,' but she
had also a feeling for its sublimity --
for that softened solitude, that calm
grandeur, and eiquent repose, which
ever pervades broad views of natural
Objects yet undisturbed by the lab -
curs and struggles of man.
'How beautifuil" she exclaimed',
unconscious of speaking, as she stood
on the solitary :bastion, facing the air
ircm the lake, and experiencing the
genial influence of its freshness per-
vading bath her body and her mind,
'iHow very beautiful! and yet how
singular!"
The words, and the strain of her
ideas, were interrupted by a toneh of
a finger on her shoulder. and turning,
in the expectation of seeing her father.
:M;atbel found Pathfinder a: her Side.:
He was leaning quietly on his ic•ng
rifle, and laughing in his quiet man-
ner. while. with an r asst, et.ined arra,
he swept over :he et ?sole pen rarna _c
land and weft-,
Home you .nate beth ,'.S domains,"
said he,—"Jasper's and mine. The
lake is for him, and the .novels are for
me. The lad sometimes boasts of the
breadth of his dominions; but I tell
him my trees make as broad a plain
on the face of this'arth as all his
water. Well, Mabel, you are fit for
either; for I do not see that fear of
the 'Minos. or night -marches, can
destroy your pretty looks.'
'It is a new character for the Path-
finder to appear in, to compliment a
silly girl,"
Not silly, !Mabel; no, not in the
least silly. The Sergean;'s daughter
would do discredit to her worthy.
father, were she to do or say anything
that could be called silly,"
""Then she must sake care and not
pet too much faith in treacherous,
flattering w-ords, Btu, Pathfinder, I
rejoice to see you among us again;
for, though Jasper did not seen to
feel much uneasiness, I was afraid
some accident might have happened
to you and your friend on that rift,"
"The lad knows us ,both, and was.
Sartain that we should not drown.
which is scarcely one of my 'gifts. It
would have been hard swimming of
a sartainy, with a long -barrelled rifle
in the hand; and What between the
game, and the savages and the French
Kildeer and I have gone through too
much in company to part very easily.
No, no; we waded ashore, the rift
hong shallow enough for that
wish small exceptions, and we landed
with our arms in our hands. We had
to take our time for it, on account of
the Iroquois, I will own; but, as soon
as the skulking vagabonds saw the
lights that the Sergeant sent down to
your canoe. we well understood they
would decamp, since a visit night
have been expected from some of the
garrison. So it was only sitting ,pat-
iently on the :tones for an hour, and
all the danger was over Patience is
the greatest of virtues in a woods-
man,"
"I rejoice to hear this, for fatigue
itself could scarcely make me sleep,
Inc thinking of what might befall
you."
'Lord bless your tender little heart.
Mabel- hut this is the way with all
yon gentle ones. I must say, on my
par. however, that I was right glad
the lanterns come down to the water-
side. which I knew to she a sure sign
of poor safety. We hunters and guide:
are rode beings; but as have our feel-
ings and our ideas. as well as any gen-
era' in the army, ..,oh Jasper and l
ro:.d ;la, died ,rc;re • ,:i should
.alit:' ',file 'tar':,—w-e uould"
I thank yon for a1: ton did for
toe. Pathfinder: front the bottom, of
an heart, ,'.tan:: • ,.'t: and, depend
on it. my Fath, -.r sia:i's know it
have already told hint mach, but
have still a duty . Perforin on this
suhjert "
"'f,usit. \lai,e:' The Sergeant
knows what the woods be. and what
men—true red men—be, too. There
is little need to tell him anything
about it. 'Well, now you have met
your father, do you find the honest
old soldier the sort of person you
expected to find?
"He is my own dear father, and
received the as a soldier and a father
should receive a child. Have you
known him long, Pathfinder?"
"That is as people count time. I
was just twelve when the Sergeant
took me on my first scouting, and
that is now more than twenty years
ago We had a tramping time of it;
and, as it was 'before your day, you
would have had no father, had not
the rifle .been one of my natural
gifts,"
"Explain yourself,"
"'It is too simple for many words,
We were ambushed, and the Ser-
geant got a bad hurt, and would
have lost his scalp. but for a sort of
inbred turn, I took to the weapon.
We inrought hien off, however, and a
ttandsomtr head hair, for his time
of life not to 1.e found in the riji-
ment than tb, Sengeant carries about
with..ti.,: this ssed day."
g'i'rt: se ras my father's life. Wath-
finder! exclaimed Mabel, .unconsc-
iousi •, though .warmly, taking one of
his hard, sinewy hands into 'both her
Own. "God bits you for this, too.
ol,mg your other good acts1'
'Nay, 1 slid not say that mach,
though 1 believe 1 ,did save ?ti•
scalp A man might 'live nrithotit e
scalp, :.nd so I cannot say 'I saved
his life. Jasper may say that, much
Consenting you: for without his eye
and arm the caro., would never
have passed the rift in safety on a
night like the lat. 'The gifts of :he
lad are for the water, while nine are
for the hunt and the trail. He is
ponder, in the cove there, :ooking
after the canoes, and keeping his eye
on his 'beloved- little craft. To my
eye, 'there is no likelier youth in
these parts than Jasper \\'extern."
For the first time since she had
left her room, (Mabel now- turned her
eves ibeneath her, and got a view of
what might be the foreground of the
remarkable picture she had been
studying with so much ,pleasure. The
Oswego threw its dark waters into
the lake. ,between banks of some
height; that on its eastern side ;being
bolder and prejectiflg farther north
than that on its western The fort
was on the latter, and beneath
it were a few huts of logs, which, as
they could not interfere with the
defence of the place, had been
erected along the strand for the
purpose of receiving and containing
such stores as were landed, or were
intended to be embarked, in tine eont-
munications between the different
ports on the shores of Ontario. Two
low, curved, gravelly points had been
formed with surprising regularity by
the counteracting force^, of the.
northerly winds and the swift current,
and, inclining from the storms of the
lake, formed two coves within the
river: that 00 the western side was
rhe most deeply indented. and, as it
also had the most water, it formed a
sort of picturesque little port for the
post, It was along the narrow strand
that lay between the low height of
the fort and the water of this cove,
that the rude ibui'Iding just mentioned
had heen erected.
Several skiffs, bateaux, and canoes
were hauled up on the shore, and itt
the rove itself lay the little craft
front which Jasper obtained his
claim to be considered a sailor. She
was cutter -rigged, might have been
of forty tons iourthen, was SO neatly
constructed and painted 55 to have
something of the 4ir of a 'vessel of
war. :hough without quarters, and
rigged and sparred .with so scrupu'ons
a regard to proportions and (beauty,
as well as fitness and judgment, as to
give her an appearance that even
Mabel at once distinguished to be
;gallant and trite. Her mottle was,
admirable, for a wright of ,great ..611:1
had sent her drafts front England, at
the expresss request of the officer
who had caused her to he construct-
ed:
ons rite -
t t
ed: her paint dark, warlike, and neat;
and the long coach -whip ,pennant
that site wore at once lrroclaintecl
her to be the property of the eking,
Her name was the Scud.
"•(']tat, then, is the vessel of Jas-
per!" said Alaibel, who associated the
master of the little craft very natur-
ually with the •cutter itself. "Are
many others on this lake?"
"Frenchers have three: one of
which, they tell tee, is a read ship,
such as are used on the ocean; attoth-
er a ;brig; and a third a cutter, like
the Scud here, which they call the
Squirrel, in their own tongue, how-
ever; and which seems to have a nat-
ural hatred of our own pretty boat,
for 'Jasper seldom goes mis that the
Squirrel is not at his Neots."
"Anti is .Jasper one to run from a
Frenchman, though he appears in
shape of a Squirrel, and that, too, on
the water?"
"`Of what use woulsi valour be
without the means of turning it to
account? !Jasper is a :brace boy, as all
on this frontier know; but Inc has no
gun except a little howitzer, and
then his crew consists only of two
men 'besides himself, and a boy, 1
was with him in one of his tram -
nooses, and the youngster iw•as risky
enough, for he brought us so near
the enemy that rifles began to talk;
but the Trenchers carry cannon and
ports, and show their faces outside
of Frontenac, without having some
twenty men. thesides their Squirrel,
in their cutter. No, no; this Scud was
built for flying, and the major says
he will not put her in a fighting hum-
our thy giving her men and arms, lest
she should take him at his word, and
get her wings clipped: I know little
of these tidings, for gifts are not SI
all in that way; but I see the reason
of the thing—I see its reason, though
Jasper does not."
"Alt! here is my .uncle, none the
worse for Itis ,wini, sprint to Took at
OILS inland sea."
Sure enough, Cap, who had an-
nounced his approach by a couple
of lusty heats, now made his appear•-
ance on air bastion, where, after nod-
ding to his niece and her reonrpanion,
he made a deliberate survey of the
expanse of mater before hitt, Ian or-
der to effect this at his ease, the
mariner mounted on one of the old
iron guns, folded his amts across his
breast and balanced his body, asif he
felt the motion of a vessel. To com-
plete the picture, he had a short
pipe in his mouth.
'Well, Master Cap," asked the
Pathfinder innocently, for he did not
detect the expression of contempt
that was gradually settling on the
features of the other; "is it not a
beautiful sheet, and fit to benamed
a sea"
"This, then, is what you call your
lake " demanded Cap, sweeping the
northern 'horizon wvith his ,pipe, "1
say, is this really your lake?"
'Sartain; and, if the judgment of
one who has 4ived on the shores of
many others can be taken, a 'very
good lake it is."
`tJust as I expected. A pond in dim-
ensions, and a seuttle'buitt in taste.
It is all in vain inland, in the hope of
seeing anything either full-grown or
useful, I ;knew it would turn out
just in this way."
't -What is the matter with ''Ontario
Cap? It is large, and fair to look at,
and pleasant enough to drink, for
those who can't 'get at the water of
the springs."
"Do you call this large?" asked
Cap, again sweeping the air with his
pipe. "I will ,jttwt ask you what there
is large about it? Didn't jaspper him-
self confess that it was only some
twenty leagues front shore to shore?"
"But, uncle," interposed Mabel, "no
land is to be seen, swept here on our
own coast, To me h looks exactly
like an ocean.."
"This bit of 'a pond 'look like tate
ocean- Well, Magnet, that from a girl
who has had reals seamen in her fam-
ily is downright nonsense) 1R -'hat i'.
there about it, pray, that has oven the
outline of a sea on it?"
'Why, there ,s w•atii'—water---
w•ater—nothing but water, Inc miles
on miles.—far as tie eye can sec."
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"And isn't there water—water—
water—nothing but water for miles
on miles in your rivers, that you have
,been canoeing through, too?—ay, and
''as far as the eye can see,' in the bar.
gain?"
"Yes, uncle, but the rivers ;have
their ;banks, and there are trees along
them, and they are narrow,"
"And isn't this a ;bank where we
stand don't these soldiers :caul this
the 'bank of elle lake? and aren't ;there
trees in thousands? and aren't twenty
leagues narrow enough , of all con-
science? Who the devil ever heard of
the (banks of the ocean, unless it
might .be the ;banks that are tinder
water?"
"I:>.tt, uncle, we cannot see across
this lake, as we can see .across a
deer,
i'y (lt eoener- o1 old ear)—
i.e, arc'nbue?"
"E:',
v er-'lWell,. I can't tell until I
walk 'back and find the engine."