She lield fast until thousands of boxes of merchan- 

 dise were thrown t)\erl)oar(l, wiK-n, with tlie aid of a tug 

 and a hij^h tide, she was gotten off, and williont rudder 

 or stern] lost was towed to New \'ork. 



Our friends, the guides, lament tlie fact that most of 

 the Jeltisom'd cargo Hoated out to sea, hut with the re- 

 mainder, which was weight}- enough to sink, they liave 

 been engaged for some weeks gra]i]iling in fifteen feet 

 of water, ;uid bringing their find to tlie surlace and shore. 

 Ot course, some ''odd" lots hax'e been brouglit up. 

 Among them was a case of 2500 little boxes of split leaden 

 bullets for fish line sinkers and several cases of while, tlinty 

 rock, consigned to a Trenton ]"iottery, which the wreckers 

 are much out of heart about, because of their weight and 

 also because no one down here can tell whether they are 

 worth the freight to Trenton or not. 



These wreckers, l)ranters and fisliermen lix'e a liapjiy 

 life and are as full of content as an egg is of meal. Xo 

 fluctuations in stocks : no frills of fashion ; no telephone 

 reduced rates : no silver craze — in lact nothing under llie 

 sun or above it can knock the bottom out of a " branter's "' 

 content, give him Iml tlie favoring tide and howling gust 

 tliat liring llie branl "in ])lent\- " lo his decoys. This 

 it is thai warms up his imagination, cheers his heart 

 and fill his pocket with "the coin of the realm." 



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