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Updated: May 6, 2025
That is the gift of Melchias Tibbitts, deceased, to the Basin school-house. Yonder is his schooner, the "Martha B. Fuller," long stranded, leaning seaward, down there in the cove.
The few lounging troopers who were witnesses of the scene prudently turned their eyes from the white face and blazing eyes of their officer as he strode by them. Nevertheless, when the door closed behind him, contemporary criticism broke out: "'Tis a Tory jade, vexed that she cannot befool the major as she has the captain," muttered Sergeant Tibbitts.
It is Sunday afternoon; the fog-horn that Melchias Tibbitts gave it serves as bell; the battered schoolhouse as church; and for Sunday raiment? some little reverent, aspiring compromise of an unwonted white collar, stretched stiff and holy and uncomfortable about the stalwart neck above a blue flannel shirt, or a new pair of rubber boots the trousers much tucked in worn with an air of conscious, deprecating pride.
"Of course she's gone," said Sergeant Tibbitts: "the jade flew with the captain." "Ay, 'tis plain enough. Two horses are gone from the stable besides the major's," said Private Hicks. Nor was this military criticism entirely a private one.
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