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The Country of the Pointed Firs
·
Sarah Orne Jewett
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“You
mean
to
have
a
good
supper,”
I
ventured
to
say,
by
way
of
friendliness.
“Goin'
to
have
this
'ere
haddock
an'
some
o'
my
good
baked
potatoes;
must
eat
to
live,”
responded
my
companion
with
great
pleasantness
and
open
approval.
I
found
that
I
had
suddenly
left
the
forbidding
coast
and
come
into
the
smooth
little
harbor
of
friendship.
“You
ain't
never
been
up
to
my
place,”
said
the
old
man.
“Folks
don't
come
now
as
they
used
to;
no,
'tain't
no
use
to
ask
folks
now.
My
poor
dear
she
was
a
great
hand
to
draw
young
company.”
I
remembered
that
Mrs.
Todd
had
once
said
that
this
old
fisherman
had
been
sore
stricken
and
unconsoled
at
the
death
of
his
wife.
“I
should
like
very
much
to
come,”
said
I.
“Perhaps
you
are
going
to
be
at
home
later
on?”
Mr.
Tilley
agreed,
by
a
sober
nod,
and
went
his
way
bent-shouldered
and
with
a
rolling
gait.
There
was
a
new
patch
high
on
the
shoulder
of
his
old
waistcoat,
which
corresponded
to
the
renewing
of
the
Miranda's
mainsail
down
the
bay,
and
I
wondered
if
his
own
fingers,
clumsy
with
much
deep-sea
fishing,
had
set
it
in.
“Was
there
a
good
catch
to-day?”
I
asked,
stopping
a
moment.
“I
didn't
happen
to
be
on
the
shore
when
the
boats
came
in.”
“No;
all
come
in
pretty
light,”
answered
Mr.
Tilley.
“Addicks
an'
Bowden
they
done
the
best;
Abel
an'
me
we
had
but
a
slim
fare.
We
went
out
'arly,
but
not
so
'arly
as
sometimes;
looked
like
a
poor
mornin'.
I
got
nine
haddick,
all
small,
and
seven
fish;
the
rest
on
'em
got
more
fish
than
haddick.
Well,
I
don't
expect
they
feel
like
bitin'
every
day;
we
l'arn
to
humor
'em
a
little,
an'
let
'em
have
their
way
'bout
it.
These
plaguey
dog-fish
kind
of
worry
'em.”
Mr.
Tilley
pronounced
the
last
sentence
with
much
sympathy,
as
if
he
looked
upon
himself
as
a
true
friend
of
all
the
haddock
and
codfish
that
lived
on
the
fishing
grounds,
and
so
we
parted.
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