night. It was not until the
next day that the bodies were washed ashore. One of the searchers,
walking along the beach in the early dawn, found them both. He came upon
Henry first; he was lying on the sand upon his face. A little farther
on, gently swayed by the rising tide, lay Joe and his dog. Joe lay on
his side, precisely as if asleep; the dog was in his arms.

The boy lies in the burying-ground on the hill, near the stone and the
weeping-willow which mourn the youth who met his untimely death in 1830,
in the launching of the brig. There is a rose-bush at the grave, and few
bright days pass in summer that there is not a bunch of homely flowers
laid at its foot. It is the spot to which all Mrs. Parsons's thoughts
now tend, and her perpetual pilgrimage. It is too far for her to walk
both there and back; but often a neighbor is going that way, with
a lug-wagon or an open cart or his family carriage,--it makes no
difference which,--and it is easy to get a ride. It is a good-humored
village. Everybody stands ready to do a favor, and nobody hesitates to
ask one. Often on a bright afternoon Mrs. Parsons will watch from her
front window the "teams" that pass, going to the bay. When she sees
one which is likely to go in the right direction on its return from the
bay,--everybody knows in which direction she will wish to go,--she will
run hastily to the door, and hail it.

"Whoa! Sh-h! Whoa! How d'do, Mis' Parsons?"

"Be you going straight home when you come back? Well, then, if it won't
really be no trouble at all, I 'll be at the gap when you come by; I
won't keep you waiting a minute. It 's such a nice, sunshiny afternoon,
I thought I 'd like to go up and sit awhile, and take some posies."

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