The Arkansas advocate., 1836-04-29


 i grizzled hair waved is locks gently to the winds and his face was distorted with an im- moderate quid of tobacco which protuded his right cheek. This parsonage was se- l cond officer and steerslnan on board the vessel, and hls name was Obadiah Coble. He had been baptized Obadiah about sixty years before, that Is to say, if he had been baptized at all. He stood so motionless Ut the helm, that you might have imagined him to have been frozen there as lie stood, were It not that his eyes occasionally wandered from tic compass on the pinnacle to the bows of the vessel, and that the breath from his mouth, when it was thrown out into the clear frosty air, formed smoke like 10 that from the spout of half-boiling tea-kettle.
 The crew belonging to the cutter, for she was vessel n the service of his Majesty, King William the Third; at this time em- ployed in protecting his Majesty's revenue against the importation of alamodes and lutestrings, we're all down below at their breakfasts, with the exception of the steers man and lieutenant who now walked the quarter deck, if so small all ex- tent of plank could be dgni6ed with such a name. He was a Mr. Cornelius Vansly- perken, a tall, meagre-looking parsonage, with very narrow shoulders and very small head-perfectly straight up and down, pro- truding in no part, he reminded ycu of some tall parish pump, with nob on its top. His face was gaunt, cheeks hollow, nose and chin showing an affection for each oth- CT; and evidently lamenting the gulf between them which prevented their meeting, both appeared to have fretted themselves to the utmost degree of tenuity from disappoint- ment in love as for the nose, II had pearly round tear hanging at its tip, as if it wept. The dress of Mir. Vanslyperken was hidden in great coat, which was very long, and buttoned straight down. This great coat had pocket on each side, into which its owners hands were deeply inserted, and so close did his arms lie to his sides, that they appeared nothing more than as would bat tens nailed to a topsail yard. The only de- viation from the perpendicular was from the insertion of speaking trumpet under the left arm at right angles with his body. Ii had evidently seen much service, was bat tered, and the black Japan worn off in most parts of it. As we said before, Mir. Vans lyperken walked his quarter deck. He was in brown study, yet looked blue. SIX strides brought him to the taffrail of the vessel, six more to the bows, such was the length of his tether-and he turned, ard turned again.
 But there was another parsonage on the deck, parsonage of no small importance, as he was all in all to Mir. VansyperSen, and hlr. Vansiyperken was nj in ali to him: moreover we may say that he is the hero of the TAIL. This was one of the ugliest and most ill-conditioned CUTS which had ever been produced from promiscuous inter course--ugly in color, for he was of d dirty yellow, like the paint served out to decorate our men-of-war by his Majesty's dock yards. Ugly in face, for he had one wall eye, and was so far underjawed as to prove that bullAdog had something to do with his creation. Ugly i'll shape, for although larger than d pointer; and strongly Euilt, he was coarse and shambling in his make, with hls forelegs bowed out. His ears and tail had never been docked, which was pity, as the more you curtailed his proportions, the better looking the cur would have been. But his ears, although not cut, were torn 10 l rlbands by the various encounters with dogs on shore, arising from she acidity of his tempef. His tail had lost its hair from an invetera.e mango, and reminded you of the same appendagc in rat. Many parts of his body were barred from the same disease. He carried his head and tail low, and had vilainous sour look. To he eye of the casual observer, there was not one redeem ing quality that would warrant his keep; to those who knew him we'll, there were a l thoiisand reasons why he should be hanged. He followed his master with the greatest precision and exactitude, walking aft as he walked aft, and walking forward with the same regular motion, turning when hIs mas ter turned, and moreover turning III the same direction; and, like his master, he appeared to be not a little nipped with the cold, and, as well as he, in d state of pro- found meditation. The name of this un- couth animal was very appropriate to his appearance, and to his temper. It was Snarleyyow.
 At last, Mir. vansyperken gave vent to his pent-up feelings. s'i cant-i won't stand this any loneer.n muttered the lieute- 1 nant, as he took his six strides forward. At this first sound of his masters voice the dog priche, ut, tho remnant ; z: .se; l both turned aft. "She has been now fool- ing me for six years;n and as he concluded this sentence, Mir. Vanslyperkcn and Snarl- l eyyow had reached the taffrail, and the dog raised his tail to the half cock.
 E They turned, and Mr. Nanslyperken paused moment or two, and compressed IT. AL