Then the town itself is full of hints and flavors of the sea. The gables and roofs of the houses facing eastward3 are covered with red rust4, like the flukes of old anchors; a salty smell pervades5 the air, and dense6 gray fogs, the very breath of Ocean, periodically creep up into the quiet streets and envelop7 everything. The terrific storms that lash8 the coast; the kelp and spars, and sometimes the bodies of drowned men, tossed on shore by the scornful waves; the shipyards, the wharves9, and the tawny10 fleet of fishing-smacks yearly fitted out at Rivermouth—these things, and a hundred other, feed the imagination and fill the brain of every healthy boy with dreams of adventure. He learns to swim almost as soon as he can walk; he draws in with his mother’s milk the art of handling an oar11: he is born a sailor, whatever he may turn out to be afterwards.
To own the whole or a portion of a rowboat is his earliest ambition. No wonder that I, born to this life, and coming back to it with freshest sympathies, should have caught the prevailing12 infection. No wonder I longed to buy a part of the trim little sailboat Dolphin, which chanced just then to be in the market. This was in the latter part of May.
Three shares, at five or six dollars each, I forget which, had already been taken by Phil Adams, Fred Langdon, and Binny Wallace. The fourth and remaining share hung fire. Unless a purchaser could be found for this, the bargain was to fall through.
I am afraid I required but slight urging to join in the investment. I had four dollars and fifty cents on hand, and the treasurer13 of the Centipedes (a secret society, composed of twelve boys of the Temple Grammar School, Rivermouth) advanced me the balance, receiving my silver pencil-case as ample security. It was a proud moment when I stood on the wharf14 with my partners, inspecting the Dolphin, moored16 at the foot of a very slippery flight of steps. She was painted white with a green stripe outside, and on the stern a yellow dolphin, with its scarlet17 mouth wide open, stared with a surprised expression at its own reflection in the water. The boat was a great bargain.
I whirled my cap in the air, and ran to the stairs leading down from the wharf, when a hand was laid gently on my shoulder. I turned, and faced Captain Nutter18 (2 Tom Bailey’s grandfather.) I never saw such an old sharp-eye as he was in those days.
I knew he would not be angry with me for buying a rowboat; but I also knew that the little bowsprit suggesting a jib and the tapering19 mast ready for its few square feet of canvas were trifles not likely to meet his approval. As far as rowing on the river, among the wharves, was concerned, the Captain had long since withdrawn20 his decided21 objections, having convinced himself, by going out with me several times, that I could manage a pair of sculls as well as anybody.
I was right in my surmises22. He commanded me, in the most emphatic23 terms, never to go out in the Dolphin without leaving the mast in the boat-house. This curtailed24 my anticipated sport, but the pleasure of having a pull whenever I wanted it remained. I never disobeyed the Captain’s orders touching26 the sail, though I sometimes extended my row beyond the points he has indicated.
The river was dangerous for sailboats. Squalls, without the slightest warning, were of frequent occurrence; scarcely a year passed that three or four persons were not drowned under the very windows of the town, and these, oddly enough, were generally sea-captains, who either did not understand the river, or lacked the skill to handle a small craft.
A knowledge of such disasters, one of which I witnessed, consoled me somewhat when I saw Phil Adams skimming over the water in a spanking28 breeze with every stitch of canvas set. There were few better yachtsmen than Phil Adams. He usually went sailing alone, for both Langdon and Binny Wallace were under the same restrictions29 I was.
Not long after the purchase of the boat, we planned an excursion to Sandpeep Island, the last of the islands in the harbor. We purposed to start early in the morning, and return with the tide in the moonlight. Our only difficulty was to obtain a whole day’s exemption30 from school, the customary half-holiday not being long enough for our picnic. Somehow, we could not work it; but fortune arranged it for us. I may say here, that, whatever else I did, I never played truant31 (“hookey” we called it) in my life.
One afternoon the four owners of the Dolphin exchanged significant glances when Mr. Grimshaw announced from the desk that there would be no school the following day, he having just received intelligence of the death of his uncle in Boston. I was sincerely attached to Mr. Grimshaw, but I am afraid that the death of his uncle did not affect me as it ought to have done.
We were up before sunrise the next morning, in order to take advantage of the flood-tide, which waits for no man. Our preparations for the cruise were made the previous evening. In the way of eatables and drinkables, we had stored in the stern of the Dolphin a generous bag of hard-tack (for the chowder), a piece of pork to fry the cunners in, three gigantic apple pies (bought at Pettingil’s), half a dozen lemons, and a keg of spring water—the last-named articles were slung33 over the side, to keep it cool, as soon as we got under way. The crockery and the bricks for our camp-stove we placed in the bows with the groceries, which included sugar, pepper, salt, and a bottle of pickles34. Phil Adams contributed to the outfit35 a small tent of unbleached cotton cloth, under which we intended to take our nooning.
We unshipped the mast, threw in an extra oar, and were ready to embark36. I do not believe that Christopher Columbus, when he started on his rather successful voyage of discovery, felt half the responsibility and importance that weighed upon me as I sat on the middle seat of the Dolphin, with my oar resting in the rowlock. I wonder if Christopher Columbus quietly slipped out of the house without letting his estimable family know what he was up to? Charley Marden, whose father had promised to cane37 him if he ever stepped foot on sail or row boat, came down to the wharf in a sour-grape humor, to see us off. Nothing would tempt38 him to go out on the river in such a crazy clam-shell of a boat. He pretended that he did not expect to behold39 us alive again, and tried to throw a wet blanket over the expedition.
“Guess you’ll have a squally time of it,” said Charley, casting off the painter. “I’ll drop in at old Newbury’s” (Newbury was the parish undertaker) “and leave word, as I go along!”
“Bosh!” muttered Phil Adams, sticking the boathook into the string-piece of the wharf, and sending the Dolphin half a dozen yards toward the current.
How calm and lovely the river was! Not a ripple40 stirred on the glassy surface, broken only by the sharp cutwater of our tiny craft. The sun, as round and red as an August moon, was by this time peering above the water-line.
The town had drifted behind us, and we were entering among the group of islands. Sometimes we could almost touch with our boat-hook the shelving banks on either side. As we neared the mouth of the harbor, a little breeze now and then wrinkled the blue water, shook the spangles from the foliage42, and gently lifted the spiral mist-wreaths that still clung alongshore. The measured dip of our oars43 and the drowsy44 twitterings of the birds seemed to mingle45 with, rather than break, the enchanted46 silence that reigned47 about us.
The scent48 of the new clover comes back to me now, as I recall that delicious morning when we floated away in a fairy boat down a river like a dream!
The sun was well up when the nose of the Dolphin nestled against the snow-white bosom49 of Sandpeep Island. This island, as I have said before, was the last of the cluster, one side of it being washed by the sea. We landed on the river-side, the sloping sands and quiet water affording us a good place to moor15 the boat.
It took us an hour or more to transport our stores to the spot selected for the encampment. Having pitched our tent, using the five oars to support the canvas, we got out our lines, and went down the rocks seaward to fish. It was early for cunners, but we were lucky enough to catch as nice a mess as ever you saw. A cod50 for the chowder was not so easily secured. At last Binny Wallace hauled in a plump little fellow clustered all over with flaky silver.
To skin the fish, build our fireplace, and cook the chowder kept us busy the next two hours.
The fresh air and the exercise had given us the appetites of wolves, and we were about famished51 by the time the savory52 mixture was ready for our clam-shell saucers.
I shall not insult the rising generation on the seaboard by telling them how delectable53 is a chowder compounded and eaten in this Robinson Crusoe fashion. As for the boys who live inland, and know not of such marine54 feasts, my heart is full of pity for them. What wasted lives! Not to know the delights of a clambake, not to love chowder, to be ignorant of lobscouse!
How happy we were, we four, sitting cross-legged in the crisp salt grass, with the invigorating seabreeze blowing gratefully through our hair! What a joyous55 thing was life, and how far off seemed death—death, that lurks56 in all pleasant places, and was so near!
The banquet finished, Phil Adams drew from his pocket a handful of sweet-fern cigars; but as none of the party could indulge without imminent57 risk of becoming ill, we all, on one pretext58 or another, declined, and Phil smoked by himself.
The wind had freshened by this, and we found it comfortable to put on the jackets which had been thrown aside in the heat of the day. We strolled along the beach and gathered large quantities of the fairy-woven Iceland moss59, which at certain seasons is washed to these shores; then we played at ducks and drakes, and then, the sun being sufficiently60 low, we went in bathing.
Before our bath was ended a slight change had come over the sky and sea; fleecy-white clouds scudded61 here and there, and a muffled62 moan from the breakers caught our ears from time to time. While we were dressing63, a few hurried drops of rain came lisping down, and we adjourned64 to the tent to wait the passing of the squall.
“We’re all right, anyhow,” said Phil Adams. “It won’t be much of a blow, and we’ll be as snug65 as a bug66 in a rug, here in the tent, particularly if we have that lemonade which some of you fellows were going to make.”
“Put an extra stone on the painter, Binny,” said Adams, calling after him; “it would be awkward to have the Dolphin give us the slip and return to port minus her passengers.”
“That it would,” answered Binny, scrambling68 down the rocks.
Sandpeep Island is diamond-shaped—one point running out into the sea, and the other looking towards the town. Our tent was on the river-side. Though the Dolphin was also on the same side, she lay out of sight by the beach at the farther extremity69 of the island.
Binny Wallace had been absent five or six minutes when we heard him calling our several names in tones that indicated distress70 or surprise, we could not tell which. Our first thought was, “The boat has broken adrift!”
We sprung to our feet and hastened down to the beach. On turning the bluff71 which hid the mooring-place from our view, we found the conjecture72 correct. Not only was the Dolphin afloat, but poor little Binny Wallace was standing73 in the bows with his arms stretched helplessly towards us—drifting out to sea!
“Head the boat inshore!” shouted Phil Adams.
Wallace ran to the tiller; but the slight cockle-shell merely swung round and drifted broadside on. Oh, if we had but left a single scull in the Dolphin!
“Can you swim it?” cried Adams desperately75, using his hand as a speaking-trumpet, for the distance between the boat and the island widened momently.
Binny Wallace looked down at the sea, which was covered with white caps, and made a despairing gesture. He knew, and we knew, that the stoutest76 swimmer could not live forty seconds in those angry waters.
A wild, insane light came into Phil Adam’s eyes, as he stood knee-deep in the boiling surf, and for an instant I think he meditated77 plunging into the ocean after the receding78 boat.
The sky darkened, and an ugly look stole rapidly over the broken surface of the sea.
Binny Wallace half rose from his seat in the stern, and waved his hand to us in token of farewell. In spite of the distance, increasing every moment, we could see his face plainly. The anxious expression it wore at first had passed. It was pale and meek79 now, and I love to think there was a kind of halo about it, like that which painters place around the forehead of a saint. So he drifted away.
The sky grew darker and darker. It was only by straining our eyes through the unnatural80 twilight81 that we could keep the Dolphin in sight. The figure of Binny Wallace was no longer visible, for the boat itself had dwindled82 to a mere74 white dot on the black water. Now we lost it, and our hearts stopped throbbing83; and now the speck84 appeared again, for an instant, on the crest85 of a high wave.
Finally it went out like a spark, and we saw it no more. Then we gazed at one another, and dared not speak.
Absorbed in following the course of the boat, we had scarcely noticed the huddled86 inky clouds that sagged87 heavily all around us. From these threatening masses, seamed at intervals88 with pale lightning, there now burst a heavy peal89 of thunder that shook the ground under our feet. A sudden squall struck the sea, ploughing deep white furrows90 into it, and at the same instant a single piercing shriek91 rose above the tempest—the frightened cry of a gull92 swooping93 over the island. How it startled us!
It was impossible any longer to keep our footing on the beach. The wind and the breakers would have swept us into the ocean if we had not clung to one another with the desperation of drowning men. Taking advantage of a momentary94 lull95, we crawled up the sands on our hands and knees, and, pausing in the lee of the granite96 ledge27 to gain breath, returned to the camp, where we found that the gale97 had snapped all the fastenings of the tent but one. Held by this, the puffed-out canvas swayed in the wind like a balloon. It was a task of some difficulty to secure it, which we did by beating down the canvas with the oars.
After several trials, we succeeded in setting up the tent on the leeward98 side of the ledge. Blinded by the vivid flashes of lightning, and drenched99 by the rain, which fell in torrents100, we crept, half dead with fear and anguish101, under our flimsy shelter. Neither the anguish nor the fear was on our own account, for we were comparatively safe, but for poor little Binny Wallace, driven out to sea in the merciless gale. We shuddered102 to think of him in that frail103 shell, drifting on and on to his grave, the sky rent with lightning over his head, and the green abysses yawning beneath him. We suddenly fell to crying, and cried I know not how long.
Meanwhile the storm raged with augmented104 fury. We were obliged to hold on to the ropes of the tent to prevent it blowing away. The spray from the river leaped several yards up the rocks and clutched at us malignantly105. The very island trembled with the concussions106 of the sea beating upon it, and at times I fancied that it had broken loose from its foundation and was floating off with us. The breakers, streaked108 with angry phosphorus, were fearful to look at.
The wind rose higher and higher, cutting long slits109 in the tent, through which the rain poured incessantly110. To complete the sum of our miseries111, the night was at hand. It came down abruptly112, at last, like a curtain, shutting in Sandpeep Island from all the world.
It was a dirty night, as the sailors say. The darkness was something that could be felt as well as seen—it pressed down upon one with a cold, clammy touch. Gazing into the hollow blackness, all sorts of imaginable shapes seemed to start forth113 from vacancy—brilliant colors, stars, prisms, and dancing lights. What boy, lying awake at night, has not amused or terrified himself by peopling the spaces around his bed with these phenomena114 of his own eyes?
“I say,” whispered Fred Langdon, at last, clutching my hand, “don’t you see things—out there—in the dark?”
“Yes, yes—Binny Wallace’s face!”
I added to my own nervousness by making this avowal115; though for the last ten minutes I had seen little besides that star-pale face with its angelic hair and brows. First a slim yellow circle, like the nimbus round the dark moon, took shape and grew sharp against the darkness; then this faded gradually, and there was the Face, wearing the same sad, sweet look it wore when he waved his hand to us across the awful water. This optical illusion kept repeating itself.
“And I too,” said Adams.” I see it every now and then, outside there. What wouldn’t I give if it really was poor little Wallace looking in at us! O boys, how shall we dare to go back to the town without him? I’ve wished a hundred times, since we’ve been sitting here, that I was in his place, alive or dead!”
We dreaded116 the approach of morning as much as we longed for it. The morning would tell us all. Was it possible for the Dolphin to outride such a storm? There was a lighthouse on Mackerel Reef, which lay directly in the course the boat had taken when it disappeared. If the Dolphin had caught on this reef, perhaps Binny Wallace was safe. Perhaps his cries had been heard by the keeper of the light. The man owned a life-boat, and had rescued several persons. Who could tell?
Such were the questions we asked ourselves again and again, as we lay huddled together waiting for daybreak. What an endless night it was! I have known months that did not seem so long.
Our position was irksome rather than perilous117; for the day was certain to bring us relief from the town, where our prolonged absence, together with the storm, had no doubt excited the liveliest alarm for our safety. But the cold, the darkness, and the suspense118 were hard to bear.
Our soaked jackets had chilled us to the bone. In order to keep warm we lay so closely that we could hear our hearts beat above the tumult119 of sea and sky.
After a while we grew very hungry, not having broken our fast since early in the day. The rain had turned the hard-tack into a sort of dough120; but it was better than nothing.
We used to laugh at Fred Langdon for always carrying in his pocket a small vial of essence of peppermint121 or sassafras, a few drops of which, sprinkled on a lump of loaf-sugar, he seemed to consider a great luxury. I do not know what would have become of us at this crisis if it had not been for that omnipresent bottle of hot stuff. We poured the stinging liquid over our sugar, which had kept dry in a sardine-box, and warmed ourselves with frequent doses.
After four or five hours the rain ceased, the wind died away to a moan, and the sea—no longer raging like a maniac—sobbed122 and sobbed with a piteous human voice all along the coast. And well it might, after that night’s work. Twelve sail of the Gloucester fishing fleet had gone down with every soul on board, just outside of Whale’s-Back Light. Think of the wide grief that follows in the wake of one wreck123; then think of the despairing women who wrung124 their hands and wept, the next morning, in the streets of Gloucester, Marblehead, and Newcastle!
Though our strength was nearly spent, we were too cold to sleep. Once I sunk into a troubled doze32, when I seemed to hear Charley Marden’s parting words, only it was the Sea that said them. After that I threw off the drowsiness125 whenever it threatened to overcome me.
Fred Langdon was the earliest to discover a filmy, luminous126 streak107 in the sky, the first glimmering127 of sunrise.
“Look, it is nearly daybreak!”
While we were following the direction of his finger, a sound of distant oars fell upon our ears.
We listened breathlessly; and as the dip of the blades became more audible, we discerned two foggy lights, like will-o’-the-wisps, floating on the river.
Running down to the water’s edge, we hailed the boats with all our might. The call was heard, for the oars rested a moment in the row-locks, and then pulled in towards the island.
It was two boats from the town, in the foremost of which we could now make out the figures of Captain Nutter and Binny Wallace’s father. We shrunk back on seeing him.
“Thank God!” cried Mr. Wallace fervently128, as he leaped from the wherry without waiting for the bow to touch the beach.
But when he saw only three boys standing on the sands, his eye wandered restlessly about in quest of the fourth; then a deadly pallor overspread his features.
Our story was soon told. A solemn silence fell upon the crowd of rough boatmen gathered round, interrupted only by a stifled129 sob25 form one poor old man who stood apart from the rest.
The sea was still running too high for any small boat to venture out; so it was arranged that the wherry should take us back to town, leaving the yawl, with a picked crew, to hug the island until daybreak, and then set forth in search of the Dolphin.
Though it was barely sunrise when we reached town, there were a great many persons assembled at the landing eager for intelligence from missing boats. Two picnic parties had started down river the day before, just previous to the gale, and nothing had been heard of them. It turned out that the pleasure-seekers saw their danger in time, and ran ashore130 on one of the least exposed islands, where they passed the night. Shortly after our own arrival they appeared off Rivermouth, much to the joy of their friends, in two shattered, dismasted boats.
The excitement over, I was in a forlorn state, physically131 and mentally. Captain Nutter put me to bed between hot blankets, and sent Kitty Collins for the doctor. I was wandering in my mind, and fancied myself still on Sandpeep Island: now we were building our brick stove to cook the chowder, and, in my delirium132, I laughed aloud and shouted to my comrades; now the sky darkened, and the squall struck the island; now I gave orders to Wallace how to manage the boat, and now I cried because the rain was pouring in on me through the holes in the tent. Towards evening a high fever set in, and it was many days before my grandfather deemed it prudent133 to tell me that the Dolphin had been found, floating keel upwards134, four miles southeast of Mackerel Reef.
Poor little Binny Wallace! How strange it seemed, when I went to school again, to see that empty seat in the fifth row! How gloomy the playground was, lacking the sunshine of his gentle, sensitive face! One day a folded sheet slipped from my algebra135: it was the last note he ever wrote me. I could not read it for the tears.
What a pang41 shot across my heart the afternoon it was whispered through the town that a body had been washed ashore at Grave Point—the place where we bathed! We bathed there no more! How well I remember the funeral, and what a piteous sight it was afterwards to see his familiar name on a small headstone in the Old South Burying-Ground!
Poor little Binny Wallace! Always the same to me. The rest of us have grown up into hard, worldly men, fighting the fight of life; but you are forever young, and gentle, and pure; a part of my own childhood that time cannot wither136; always a little boy, always poor little Binny Wallace!
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