Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-06-30

seemed rather to surprise than annoy our ORR
ginal who quietly stepped up to the captain,
with the air of ofdemandipg what was merely a
matter of course. sa 9359
sHallo, skipper! OFF she goes, ehl But you
must turn about, my boy, and let me get out
sI.et you get out? echoed the asionished
skipper, and again repeating it, with what the
musicians call a staccato--' Let--you--get--
outF 8s
Exactly SO. I'm going ashore s
sPm rather afraid you are not, sir said
the skipper, looking decidedly serious, unless
you allude 10 the other sidep
'The other sder exclaimed the oddity, in
voluntarily turning toward England. 'Poo!
poo! nonsense man; only came to look at
your Accommodations. I'm not going across
with you; Fm not, upon my word!'
Il must beg your pardon, sir said the cap
tain quite solemnly; 'but it is my firm opinion
that you are going across'
'Poo poo! all CANNON; tell you, am go
| ing back TO Dublin"
| sUpon my word, thcn, said the skipper, ra-
ther briskly, you must swim back, like gram
pus, or borrow pair ofwings from the gulls.
The man at the helm grinned his broadcast at
what he thot' good joke of his officers; while
the original turned sharply round parodied
| hyenas laugh at the fellow, and then returned
to the charge.
Come, come, Skipper: it's quite as far out
as care for, if you want to treat me to
sail.
| 'Treat you to salp roared the indignant Of
ficer, sZounds! sir, I'm in earnest; as much
in earnest as ever | was in my lfe'
| $50 mnch tha hotter anwerp1 tho or;r;no1.
Tn not joking, myself, and have no right to be
joked upon
sJoke or no joke said the captain, 'all
know is this. The mail-bags are on board, and
it's more than my post is worth to put back
SEh? What? How? exclaimed the odditv,
with sort of nervous dance. You ustonish
mel Do-you-really--mean to say--Pm obli-
gated to go-whelher | have right or
not
Il do indeed sir; I'm sorry for it, but it can't
be helped NY orders are positive. The mo-
ment the mail is on board, must cast off,
Indeed! well-but you know-why-why,
that's your duty, not mine. ! have no right to
be here at ALL I've no right to be anywhere, ex
cept in Merrion Square.
The captain was bothered. He shrugged
up his shoulders, then gave low whistle, then
plunged his hands in his pockets, then gave a
loud order to somebody, to do something some
where or other; and then began to walk short
turns on the deck. His captive, in the mean
time, made hasty strides towards the stern, as
ifintending TO leap over board; but he sudden
ly stopped short, and took bewildcred look at
the receding coast. The original wrong was
visiby increasing inlength, breadth and depth,
every minute; and he again confronted the
captain.
well skipper, you've thought better of it;
I've no right in the world, have l? You will
turn her around
Totally impossible sir quite out of my
power
Very well, very well, very well, indeed"
The originals temper was getting up, as well
as the sea. tBut mind, sir, protest; Iprotest
against you, sir, and against the ship, and the
ocean, sir and everything! I'm getting farther
and farther out; but remembe1the consequent
ces. have no right to be kidnapped; ask the
crown lawyers if you think it."
And with this announcement, the speaker
began to pace up and down, like the captain
but at the opposite side of the deck. He was
on the boil, however, as well as the engine
and every time that he passed near the man
whom he considered as his Sir Hudson Lowe,
he gave vent to the inward feeling in a jerk of
the head, accompanied by short, pig like
grunt. Now and then it broke out in words,
but always the same four monosyllables.
-is-too-baP-wit most emphatic
fall of the foot to each. At last it occurred to
stout, pompous-looking parsonage, to inter-
pose as mediator. He began by dilating up
on the immense commercial Importance of a
pnnctual delivery ofletters; thence he insisted
on the heavy responsibility of the captain, with
the promise an early return packet from Ho-
lyhead; and he was entering into congratula-
ton on the fneness of the weather, when the
original thought it was time to cut HIM short.
MY good sir, you'll excuse me. The case is
nobody's but my own. You are regular pas
senger. You have a right to be in this packet.
You have a right to goto Holyhead or to Liv-
erpool to Glbralter, or to the worlds end-If-
you-hke. But choose to be in Dublin.
What right have to be here then? Not-onc
atom! I've no right to be in this vessel; and
the captain, there, knows it. I've no right
(stamping)to be on this deck! haye no more
right to be tossing at sea, (waving his arms up
and DOWN than the Pigeon Housep
Its very unpleasant situation, Iallow, SIR
said the captain to the stout passenger; sbut,
as have told the gentleman, my hands are IL
ed. can do nothing, though nobody is more
sorry for his Inconvenience dT
Gnconvenience be hangedp exclaimed the
oddity, in passion at least. 1T is no ncon-
yenience, sIf!-the-smaest! But that makes
no difference as to my being here. It's that,
and that alone, dispute all right to!' les&