A FAITHFUL PICTURE.
Oftentimes I have seen a tall ship glide by against the tide as if drawn by gome invisible bowline, with a hundred strong arms palling it. Her sails were unfilled, her streamers were drooping, she had neither side wheel nor stern wheel; still she moved on stately, in serene triumph, as with her own life. But I knew that on the other side of the ship, hidden beneath the great bulk that swam so majestically, there was a little toilsome .steam tug, with a heart of fire and
ams of iron, that was tugging it bravely on, and I knew if the little .s earn tug untwined her prnos and left die ship it would wallow and roll about, ;i id drift hither and thither, and go off -i ith the refluent, no man knows whither. ; \.mi so I have known more than one genius, high decked, full-freighted, idlesaileil, gay-pennoned, but that for the bare, toiling arms, and brave, wurmOeuiing heart of the faithful little wife that nestles clese to him, so that no wind or wave could part them, would have gone down the stream and have been heard of no more. —Oliver Wendell Holv. s.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2974, 6 October 1882, Page 3
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200A FAITHFUL PICTURE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2974, 6 October 1882, Page 3
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