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My own experience is extensive; but one who is now no more, my nearest relative, had forty years of trial, and he accomplished by Irish hands alone, in the midst of the outbreak of '97 and '98, as Inspector-General of the Light-houses of Ireland, the building of a work, which perhaps more than rivals the far-famed Eddystone, namely, the South Rock Light-house three miles from the land, on the north-east coast of Ireland, every stone of which was laid by Irish workmen.
They became good companions in the next two weeks; climbing the rocks, rowing from one island to another, bald pieces of rock, like the summits of mountains rising above the surface of the sea, visiting the light-house, the monument to Captain John Smith, Betty Moody's Cave, the graves of the Spanish sailors, the trap dikes of ancient lava, and much else.
There was no one a patch on en but the Dane; and I'll back the Dane next time they clinch. 'Tis a nuisance, though, to have'n like this with a big job coming on, too, over to the light-house." Taffy looked steadily at the smith. "What's doing at the light-house?" "Ha'n't 'ee heerd?"
Glory be to God, there is a ransom that can now deliver you, braver than Grace Darling putting out in a life-boat from Eddystone Light-house for the rescue of the crew of the Forfarshire steamer Christ the Lord launched from heaven, amid the shouting of the angels.
"There she is, sure enough; and we shall have her alongside to strike cargo out and in, by the time the people have got their breakfasts." As Spike pointed toward the light-house while speaking, the mate changed his position a little, and saw that a schooner was coming down toward the islets before the wind.
He turned half about, and almost before he knew what he sought his eyes met George's. George stepped quietly to his side. "Let me get my mare," said George, and walked away toward the light-house railing where he had tethered her. "We'll find the child. Our work's done here, Mr. Saul!" Taffy turned to the Chief Officer. "Spare us a man or two and some flares."
There was Jim Baker, for instance; I'd have sworn he would fight." "I can understand why he didn't. He hasn't taken any interest since his second marriage." "Now, that was a nice piece of work! I always liked Jim the best of any of the young men until he did that. And what inducement was there in the woman?" The light-house keeper's wife fired up.
"Oh, I'm in such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when you came in." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house. "It was very sweet of you to come.
Exactly opposite this house, just over the way of the water, shines every night the light-house of Havre a place I know well, and love very moderately: but it always gives me a thrill as I see afar, exactly a particular spot which I was at along with her.
And now that the sea opened out he saw from afar the shore on which as a boy he had been privileged to listen to the summer dreams of the sea; saw the gleam of the light-house and the lights of the seashore hotel where he had stayed with his parents ... The Baltic!
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