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Show let me in and gave mo a light, and I went up staira to my wife's room. She lay tloeping quietly. Upon her boiom lay our child, whom I had never seen. She was as beautiful beau-tiful a3 when I left her, but I could see a mournful expression upon her face. Perhaps she waa dreaming dream-ing of me. I gazed for a long time! I did not make any noise, foi I dare not wake her. At length I imprinted a soft ki9s upon the cheek of my litte child. While doing it, a tear dropped from my eye and fell upon her cheek. Her eyes opened a3 clearly as though she had hot been sleeping. I saw that she began to be frightened, and I said, 'Mary, it is your husband!" hus-band!" and she clasped me about my neck and fainted. But I cannot can-not describe to you that cceno. She is now the happy wife of a poor man. I am endeavoring to accumulate a little . property, and then I will leave the sea forever. .A. EJailor'o story, Eight years ago (writes ' an American sailor) I left the port cf Boston, the master of a fine ship, bound for China. I was worth ten thousand dollars, and was the husband of a young and handsome wi?e, whom I had married but six months. When I left her, I promised to return in less than a twelvemonth. I took all my money with mo save enough to support my wife in my absence, for the purpose of trading when in China, on my own account. For a long time we were favored with prosperous pros-perous winds; but when in the China seas a terrible storm canif upon us, so that in a short time I saw the vessel must be lost, for we were drifting on the rock of an unknown shore. I ordered the men to provide each for himself in the best popsible mmner, and forgot for-got the ship; as it was an impossibility impos-sibility to save her. W o struck - a sea threw me upon the rocks senseless, sense-less, and the next would have carried car-ried me back into a watery grave, had not one of the sailors dragged me further up the rocks. There were, only four' of us alive, and, when morning came, wo were on a small uninhabited island, with nothing to eat but the wild fruit common to that portion of the eartK I will not distress you by an accound of our sufferings there; suffice it to. say that we remained sixty days before we could make ourselves known to any ship. We were taken into Canton, and there I had to beg; for my money was at the bottom of the sea, aud I had .not taken the precaution to have it insured. It waa nearly a year before be-fore I found a chance to come home, and then I, a captain, was obliged to ship as a common sailor. It was two years fr.im the time I left America that I landed in Boston. I was walking in a hurried hur-ried manner up one of its streets, when I met my brother-in-law. He could not speak nor move, but he grasped my hand, and the tears gushed from his eyes. "Is my wife alive?" I asked. He said nothing. Then I wish that I had perished with my ship, for I thought' my wife was dead, but ho very soon said; "She is alive." Then it was my turn to cry for joy. He clung to me and said: KYour funeral sermon has been preached, for we have thought you dead for a long time.'' He said that my wife was living in our little eottage in the interior of the State. It was then three o'clock in the afternoon, and I took a train that would carry me within twenty-five twenty-five miles of jny wife. Upon leaving leav-ing the cars I hired a boy, though it was night, to drive me home. It was about five o'clock in the morning when that sweet little cottage cot-tage of mine appeared in sight It was a warm, moonlight night, and I remember, how liko heaven it looked to me. I got out of the carriage and went to the window of the room where the servant girl slept and gently knocked. She opened the window, and asked "Who was there?" "Sarah, do you not know mo?" said I. She screamed with fright, for she thought me a ghost, but I told hsr to unfasten the door and let me in for I wished to see my wifV She |