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Hinton (recitative:) "Old Captain Gardiner is one -of the 

 lucky ones ; he has doubled the Cape of Good Hope for this 

 life, with only one real squall that made him reef pretty close 

 for a spell ; but he has dipped up from the sea a pretty for- 

 tune, and he can, in his old days, sing with me : 



" 'In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining, 



May my fate no less fortunate be, 

 Than a snug elbow-chair will afford for reclining, 

 And a cot that o'erhangs the wide sea.' 



9 '-_. 



" But, boys, I can tell you a different story from that which 

 you have just heard," Hinton continued. "Away, away 

 around the dark stormy cape, and up in the north, lies the 

 quiet, shaded cemetery of Sag Harbor. Under the shelter 

 of overarching elms is a beautiful marble monument, a bro- 

 ken ship's mast, around whose foot is coiled a broken and 

 unstranded hawser. On the base is this inscription : 



"'TO COMMEMORATE THAT NOBLE ENTERPRISE, 



THE WHALE-FISHERY; 



AND A TRIBUTE OF LASTING RESPECT 



TO THOSE BOLD AND ENTERPRISING SHIP-MASTERS, 



SONS OF SOUTHAMPTON, 



WHO PERILED THEIR LIVES IN A DARING PROFESSION, 



AND PERISHED IN ACTUAL ENCOUNTER 



WITH THE MONSTERS OF THE DEEP. 



ENTOMBED IN THE OCEAN, THEY LIVE IN OUR MEMORY.' 



And six young heroes are named on another face of the 



CHARLES W. PAYNE, Captain of the ship Fanny, aged 30, killed in 1838. 



STBATTON H. HARLOW, 

 ALFRED G. GLOVER, 

 RICHARD S. TOPPING, 

 WILLIAM H. PIERSON, 

 JOHN E. HOWKLL, 



Daniel Webster, 



Acasta, 



Thorn, 



America, 



France, 



27, 



30, 



1838. 

 1836. 

 1838. 

 1846. 

 1840. 



