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J remember thp : t aiec ^ afe friiend -of ' ^ gft . ^^ e ^ l ^ jip ^ tli . rt having met Stephen Cameron at tKe ^ pp ^ ot a T ^| gibfe ? f ti , j the ydtith volunteereq to escort her homevvarqs ; , * pr ^ t 9 ^^ M ? n "" tide , and the offer was accepted . AsVtK ^ y yiren ^ ial ^ pg , [ jh e
lady expressed . to ' 'Stra jh < i ] i ^ a ^ ' ^ from the directibp of $ m < cfw ^ IIjftg ; '' j 4 n ^ ^ 'p ^ P F ^^ Q ^ r- ^ ^ voice faltering with eEnptioh ' as h ^ i ^ plc ' e , "" rep V fj ^ i , ^ J ^ IlL ' d ^ ed Miss A——JJ i j youdid bill knowTb » W :. i . ^ u 5 c i ^ J ^^ 'j ^^ i §» & . it affords me to Seelni ^ self of the saj atle ^ ® £ % ^ W ^ ^ S cr ^ turq , you wp tilj riot ^ peak to me ir ^ thj § svige ^ I do not think that any . language could express more ifully Jthe ^ nguish which resulted from a sense of his iriutility .
I am 'endeavouring to write down things , as they happened , after the simplest and most unadorned fashion . Stich should ever be the language of truth . We nmst dress up ftctioh in costly apparel , ' . but truth is fairest in her homeliest garj ^ ^ ItJo not think that the events composing this little history will ever be mistaken for fiction .
I have said that Stephen Cameron was a ski | ful , piechapic . He fitted up an old boat , and made a pair of oars wit ^ bis pWn hands . . In this crazy vessel he would often put out tp sea , taking his gun yviih him that he might go in ' , search of the seair fowl , which were plentiful upon that part of the coast . There was a long riSge of rocks , forming a sort of island , about four miles disikiii from the shore , and on this , rocky island there was
an old fisherman ' s hut , the tenant of which had lately died , and to this strange spot did poor Stephen oftentimes betake himself . There he would abide , perhaps for a whple day , arid sometimes he returned not in the night-season . Oh ! then , hpw xn $ py aching hearts there were m the old Fort . When ( i ^ rjfc ^ ess ^ gan to spread its pall over the earth , and Stephen came not , how heavy-laden was the heart of his mother .
Sitting , at tjie window ,. which over-looked the sea ,, she would turn her , s ^ rai rjjri g eyes towards the rocky island , hoping to catch throi ? gti the obscurity a glimpse of her Stephen ' s boat returning to tfoie safeguard of the shore . And when night came on ' ami ' th ^ pcea n became a vast expanse , of darkness , Mrs all t ^ e searward windows
Cameron woiil ^ illuniinate of her dwelling witjti a glittering ari ^ y of c ^ i ) i clles T and turning towards her daughter ^ , or to her : " ' * old . jpoian / ' she would say , " Well , ihe poor boy ' shall . a {; ljga $ t- . ha ve , . si beacon towards which he rtifty steer ; and wlio knb ^ d fej ^ t t % t th ^ se lights , seen frbtu a distance , may reproach bip ^^ j | i ^( ily ; and cause him to ttirft away from these most dangerous courses , looking upon them
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/52/
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