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Excerpt from The Scallop Shanty: A Chatham Play The following extract from a forth-coming volume on genealogy and Cape Lore will explain the relations of the characters in this play. "Captain Horsefoot Cable of Horsefoot Harbor, came to our town in the early forties. He was described by his friends as 'a man of bulky and noble bones and with an eye for command.' The charge that he was a Cape Breton pirate or beach-comber is a base slander founded on the Captain's wonderful collection of bloodstained cutlases and ships' pistols and the curious foreign coins with which he was wont to pay his debts. That he died in liquor is a malignant fiction, for liquor is never imported into the Cape in vessels sufficiently capacious to contain a person of his bulk. "His eldest son of like name and the father of Gabriel and Ichabod Cable was drafted in the Civil-War, taking part in Sherman's march to the sea. Owing to some misunderstanding as to his duties, he was suspended for a time, which suspense, brief as it was, brought about his death at the very moment, when spurning an ungrateful earth he was reaching up to heaven. Another son, Agag Cable, is known chiefly as the father of that renowned mariner, Captain Cyrus Cable, who has just fallen fighting in France in his Majesty's Light Horse, leaving by his English wife, Maud, one only child, Frances Cable. Still another son, the Reverend Hell-Fire Cable, a worthy disciple of the great Jonathan Edwards, left one daughter, known as Roxanna, who was joined in holy wedlock to the late Captain Narlwood Cleat of Wicket Hill, their three children being, Vashti, Iphigenia and Charles, who, at this writing, reside with their mother, Roxanna, in the Cleat house on Wicket Hill. A fourth child, Miriam Cable, is still with us. She is the delight of her friends and the despair of her enemies and as her charms and graces are acknowledge by all, they need no encomiums here." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.