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...Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field worker into the world's social register. Thirty-one years ago Capt...
Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...
Builder Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody...
Because his army is too famished and ill-equipped to fight the Irish, Essex returns to England against the Queen's express command. It is a characteristic, headstrong action; she slaps his face. To no avail does he protest his former braveries and services; the Queen scourges him with words. Outraged, he attempts to lead the people of London in revolt, is arrested, tried, sentenced to the block...
...this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...