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Once I asked an old sea-captain why so many Cape Cod men and women who had been gone for years asked to be buried near their old homes, and his reply still lingers in my memory. He poked his toe in the sand for a moment and then said, slowly: "Wal, I reckon it's because the Cape has such warm, comfortable sand to lie down in." My friend Mrs.
The infant seemed to cling to him from that moment, and the Great Father above alone knows how strangely and rapidly those cords of love were cemented between the bluff, old bachelor sea-captain and the infant.
So early as 1622, transient trading settlements were made on its soil, at Bergen and on the banks of the Delaware. The following year, Director May, moved by the attempt of a French sea-captain to set up the arms of France in Delaware, built the fort called Fort Nassau at the mouth of Timmer Kill or Timber Creek, a few miles below Camden, and settled some young Walloons near it.
Here, for the first time, alone in swarming London, not one relative, not one friend, not even an acquaintance, except the kind sea-captain, challenged by the cold world around to do or die, fate called to Watt as it calls to every man who has his own way to make: "This is Collingtogle ford, And thou must keep thee with thy sword."
Since the subject of heredity always seems to come up when the Pitts are mentioned, it may be proper for us to go back and trace pedigree a bit, to see if we have here the formula for producing a genius. The grandfather of William Pitt the Elder was Thomas Pitt, a sea-captain, trader and gentleman adventurer.
As for his occupation when the census-taker, with a wink to the boys in the store, had asked him what it was, he had said, in that same odd tone: "Putties up glass a little white-washes a little " and, when the man had made a show of writing all that down, "preaches a little." He might have said "preaches a big," for you could hear him half a mile away. The foreman was a retired sea-captain.
At this juncture a certain Captain Lee, an old friend of her late husband also a sea-captain, and an extremely gruff one called upon the widow, found out her straitened circumstances, and instantly offered her five hundred pounds, which she politely but firmly refused. "But madam," said the excitable captain on that memorable occasion, "I must insist on your taking it.
I do not know what would have happened to me if a sea-captain had not come and proffered his assistance." "A sea-captain!" she exclaimed; "and had he a flat face and a broken nose?" "Indeed he had," replied Jonathan. "That," said the lady, "must have been Captain Keitt's pirate partner Captain Willitts, of The Bloody Hand. He was doubtless spying upon the Portuguese."
There is only one way to get rid of them: that which an old sea-captain mentioned to me, namely, to keep one's self under opiates until he wakes up in the harbor where he is bound. I did not take this as serious advice, but its meaning is that one who has all his senses about him cannot help being anxious.
There was no indication, therefore, of the return of that malady which had been so prevalent on the passage to Bear Island. Mr. Cooke had never felt better, and looked every inch a sea-captain in his natty yachting-suit. He had acquired a tan on the island; and, as is eminently proper on a boat, he affected nautical manners and nautical ways.
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