A FISHERMAN'S HOPES OF FUTURE BLISS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 31, 5 February 1875, Page 4

A FISHERMAN'S HOPES OF FUTURE BLISS.

[Atlantic Monthly ] Some of the inhabitants who attended church: regularly, hut who had never experienced a change of heart, had J strange ideas of the future state, which was all the more remarkable as the! genuine orthodox doctrine waß preached! to them every Sunday. A short dia-l tauce north of the village was a small/ fishing hamlet, the inhabitants of whiebj were known as " Grinders," and most bitter rivalry existed between them and the fishermen of the village. They pursued their calling on the same ocean, braved the same daDgers, and frequently, in storms, had to seek the same refuge; but the cloud of enmity whirfb threw its shadow between them never for an instant seemed to lessen but (as time passed grew larger and blacker. During the herring season a fish similar in appearance to a shark, but no larger than a cod, known by the fishermen] as & sea-dog, made its appearance on the coast in great numbers, and committed dreadful ravages among the herrinbs, literally destroying, whole "schools" and frequently destroy iog them when they were caught in the nets. Qne pf the fishermen, a regular atteoder of tile Presbyterian Church, beiog on h» deathbed, his friend?, anxious for hil future welfare, thought to ask him some\ questions in regard to bis spiritual condition. " Well, Rab, ye're dyin', ye ken ? " " Ay, Jamie, I'm gaun." '•An' where d'ye expect t' gau t' ?" " I diuna ken, Jamie, bit I wad like t' turn mi' a' sea*dog an' plunder the Grinders' nets." And, thus be died. . . _ ...