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Rosalind Richards. A Northern Countryside
A Northern Countryside
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I—A NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE
CHAPTER II—THE RIVER
CHAPTER III—THE BANKS OF THE RIVER
CHAPTER IV.—THE CAPTAINS
CHAPTER V—BY THE ACUSHTICOOK
CHAPTER VI—SPRING
CHAPTER VII—THE EASTMAN HILL CROSS-ROAD
CHAPTER VIII—RIDGEFIELD, AND WEIR’S MILLS
CHAPTER IX—MARY GUILFOYLE
CHAPTER X—TRESUMPSCOTT POND
CHAPTER XI—IN THE TRESUMPSCOTT WOODS
CHAPTER XII—HARVEST
CHAPTER XIII—WATSON’S HILL
CHAPTER XIV—EARLY WINTER
CHAPTER XV—ASSIMASQUA, AND MARSTON
CHAPTER XVI—OUR TOWN
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Rosalind Richards
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The laborers of the river are the dredges, pile-drivers, and their kind. They must see to the journeyman’s work that keeps the river’s traffic unhampered. They drive piers and jetties and dredge out sand-bars. They go and come, unnoticed by smarter vessels, laden heavily with broken stone, sand, or gravel. They are dingy powerful boats, fitted with a derrick and hoist or other machinery. They carry big rope buffers at bow and sides, and in spite of this their bulwarks are splintered and scarred where they have been jammed against wharves and knocked about. There is no fresh paint or bright brass about them, they are grimy citizens, but are all strong and seaworthy. Sometimes the Captain is also owner; sometimes one man owns a whole little fleet, of two dredges, say, and a small tug, named perhaps after wife and daughters, as in one case I know, the Nellie, Sophia, and Doris. This is the family venture, followed with as much anxious pride in “our Vessels” as if the fleet were Cunarders.
One day what should come up the river but a white schooner, tapering and tall, and glistening with new masts and cordage, bearing a fairy cargo of shells and corals. The rare shells, some of them costly museum pieces, were to be sold to collectors, if any were to be found along our northern harbors, while others, as beautiful as flowers or sunset clouds, the children might have for a few pennies.
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