Beadle's Dime Novels No. 131 — page 62: what you’re looking at

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66 THE WRECKER’S DAUGHTER. “Thank you, I will come in, if you will permit. I am not very strong, and the doctors have sent me down here to form an intimate friendship with all out-doors. I shall like it immensely if your father (did you say ?) will take me out with him. Iam a perfect ignoramus in the glorious science of catching fish, either by rod, spear, net or harpoon. I could no more catch a trout than a whale. Yet I've read old Isaack Waltof three times. If he will take me as a pupil, money shall not part us; he may make his own terms,” “He will not be avaricious,” said the young girl, as she gave him a chair, and went out to call old Joe. The stranger took this opportunity to cast a curious glance about the cabin of the Jolly Jack. “ Good heavens! she calls that man her father, and does not seem ashamed of him, either! I thought, when I saw her on the beach last evening, that she must belong to some party of city pleasure-seekers, who were down here for the novelty of the thing. Of all the strange combinations I ever saw, this surpasses them. I’ve been longing for a new sensation, and here it is. Of all things quaint, this cabin is the quaint- est—of all things beautiful, that girl is the most beautiful. I wish the doctor could see me now !” His thoughts being interrupted by the return of the young lady with her father, he arose from his chair and bowed po- litely to the old fisherman, who, queer and rough as he was, was not a man to be laughed at. “ Mr. Van Horn ?” “ Aye, aye, sir.” “My name is Arthur Wade. [ve been studying a little too hard, and my physician sent me down here to fish, row, and bathe. He said if I went to Newport I would sit up too late of nights; and, as I’m heartily tired of such places, I agreed with him. I told him I wanted something new, and he directed me to look for it in a few weeks spent among the people of the beach. I am certain, already, that I shall be charmed,” with a glance at the young girl. “ We do have city folks down here, once and a while, Mr. Wade. Great fools they be, too, most on’em. Don’t know ‘a blue-fish from a bass. Don’t know when thar’s a storm a-brewin’, or when it’s only make-believe.” COMIC OOKS.COm