Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-01-30
"Guests from Gibbet Island. -

| IS the title OF one oflrving's most Celicitous
STORIES IN the October Knickerbocker. Il do.
scrlbes 'Ihe Wild Goose a piraticaI tavern.
kept IN olden time in Communi-paw. bv n frae.
booter, Vanderscamp by name. and real
scamp by nature. The different cbarootes -
nave all The ialthiulness ola picture, The
ola negro, fluto Tor example, is study for an
artist. The following incident is recorded
Oh Va,nderscamp and his sable companion.
:, II happened late one night, that Van 70 ,st
sandefscamp was returning across the broad
pay N his light skif, rowed by his man Pluto,
ne haa been carousng on board a vessel. new.
~ arrived, and was fully obfuscated in intel.
lect oylthe llqour he had imbibed 1t was still
solitary night, heavy mass of lurid clouds
was rising in the west, with The low utter;no :
Of distant thunder. Vanderscamp called ooo :
Pluto o,pull Justify, that they might Get home =
'e'ofe me gathering storm, The old negro made !
10 reply but shaped his course so as to skirt :
nc rocky shores Of Gibbet Island. A faint :
reaRing overhead caused Vanderscamp to f
ast uphlseyes, when, TO his horror, he beheld ;
ne bodies Of his three pot companions and :.
rothers N lnquty, dangling in the moonlight. :,
ne rags futtering, and their chains creak mo :,
lhey we're slowly swung backward by the d
sing breeze. 8
what do you mean, you blockhead" cried ~
and1.erscamP, by pulling 50 close to the ISL lii
q thought you'd be glad to see Your old ao
lends once more growled the negro; YOU vi
gre never afraid OF living man, what do ~,
u fear from the dead? !. -;
Who's afraidA hiccupped Vanderscamp. part. ia
'nealed by liquor, partly nettled by tie ieer rer
me negro; who's afraid? Hang me bu lrro
uld DC glad to see them once more, alive Or the
ID, at the wild goose. Come mylads ii tbe "A
no. continued ne taking draught, and floor II
ing me bottle above his head, there's fair IA
amer 70 you 10 the other world; if you should wi,
walking the round to night odds fish, but Il !,
% 2. happy sif you will drop in 10 sup. I'M
I;aI was
i hIe% lc,d n a |as N, Ine only reply Inc dye
n tba raila'a s'''.''' aug as y whistled turn
? y thsy were laughing and gibbering in vaa
ar va Piuto chuckcd to himself, and her
pulled for home. The storm burst over har
voyagers, while they we're yet far from he III,
O. lhe ram lell IN torrents, the thunder neva
hed and pealed, and The lightning kept up her
icessant blaze, TWAS stark midnight BE-. and ,
they landed at Communipaw. ah;Ia
'lPplng and shvering, Vanderscamp crawl. La
He was completely sobered by n III,
lorm; the water soaked from without, hay. I'M 4
lluled and cooled the liquor within AZ 5aS MA 4
at the Wild Goose, he knocked ,imidl n la ~ J
ubously at the door, for he dreaded The siooa,
tion he was to experience from his wife. IA III
ad reason to dose She met him at The van ~
hold, in precious III humor. 1oors
, .n's = u,ne' sac si'f UP Keep people *Thi
their beds and bring home company, 10 rians, a
he house upside downPn credib,
ompauyo said Vanderscamp, meekly. Id q conf
company with me, wife.'n an5 i' III
Q indeed! they have got here before YOU. " and
y your invitation; and blessed looking tod as Z
my they are, truly
lderscamp's knees smote together - The
e love Of heaven where are they wi(e?" sued b
heref-why in the blue room up stairs cial Ba