Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-10-01
TERMS So so in advance.
WHOLE NO.

dent of a very clever paper, the Yankee Blade
contributes to its columns the following anu
sing yarn
Brother, what is yarn? inquired a little
cherry checked child of her brother Jack, iust
returned from sea- Cherry's brother was q
fine, hearty looking fellow, seventeen years
old. as rosy as herself, and whose eyes twink
led with mirth at sis's question. 'Com, III
tell you,' said Jack, taking her on his knee
1t is sailors story, every word true, bu
you must not believe all of it,
'And won't you tell me one;'
Yes, certainly, hut remember, the one tell
you is all true. 1t once happened on our
voyage round the Horn; we'd been off sound
ing quite spell, our steward was rather crab
bed, and had got out of eggs
Eggs, brother-do you have eggs in ships.
Bless you to be sure. Did YOU never hear
of Mother Carey's chickens? The eggs they
lay are peelers, | tell you; and plenty enough
uery high latitudes.'
But where do the chickens come from,
Jack "
why, Cherry, they come over in great
f1ocks. and light all round us; the minute we
see them we begin to take in sail. How ig-
norant you are, Cherry
Well, go on, jack
Wed got out of eggs, as l told you, and
to tell the truth our butter was rank
Butter, butter'
You put me out-don't interrupt, Cherry:
butter, to be sure. If you were to see oul
dinner table
table, says Cherry, didn't know
No, poor child, of course you never were
at sea, and how should you know anything
| 10 &c ~
eggs-and I'm sure there's no lie in that
when one morning we walked up with a whale
alongside of us-a cosy old chap that was
rather near-sighted, and having left his specks
at home did not spy our craft till he was clost
aboard p
Whales don't wear spectacles,' whimper
ed Cherry.
Not that know Of says Jack, Pm sure
morning to the old fellow; and our captain
says he, Matey, get a boat out, will you
and pay respects TO that critter; | reckon WI
mought catch him if we had the right sort o
bait
Toasted marlinspike are the sort they sna]
at most and while we were getting SOM
toasted-for all we had were raw I says It
Jim Ratlin, what say to swinin' off and scra
PIN 'quaintance p Done,' says he; and with
out another word we overheard and swum.-
The Old Man (Captain) bawled after us; bu
we made as if we were deaf. Our plan wa
to take a rope with us, and make a slip noos
over his smeller, and steer the sea monster in
to port-frst rate riding-an elephant ride is
| fool to it, but we did not comeit quite, for a
soon as we got snug aboard of him, the ole
fool began to scramble to windward. HI
sounded two or three times, but we held on It
his ears. Finally got chance and jabbe'
my penknlfe into him; but he still kept o.
running at last he turned up, and we crawle
20 the upper side, and set sail, and began +
thind of finding the ship. We had to drift a
we could, for he wouldn't mind bit nor rel
when we first caught him, and now he wa
dead, to be sure he wouldn't We put on
and swum sou-west all one day, and then a
night swum back to the whale In the NOR
ming we made another excursion with no bet
ter luck. We at last concluded 20 stop aboar
entirely, and abandoned the old ship; so W.
established ourselves comfortable, and being
hungry, commenced cutting away some of tn
blubber-took the tinderboX, caug hit some Al
biero, cooked and ate their meat, and dram
their blood. We lived so about a week, ant
might suppose, longer We had given u
all hopes OF seeing our ship again, when wa
awakened from my afternoon nap one day
with a cry of Whale ahoy"
sHallor
'Where yer bound"
Bound to ship, if we can find one
| Tackle on then = and they threw us a line
They soon came up with US, for, to say tn
truth, we didn't want to race. You can ludg
our surprise at finding that # was a boat iron
our own good ship Napoleon. They took u
'long side, and we commenced cutting in
and we slowed down 100 barrels of as goo
oil as ever was put into. a riah.' Wha
think of that?
Jack ended, but poor Cherry was SCUM
asleep.
| narrow barrel, holding anywhere from ten
| fifteen gallons and something less-and used TO sto
between the places interSttces as they may be calle
which are left between the large hogsheads aud ba
res after slowing This idea origin aed with Mr.. Urla
| Folger-hence the name 'riah.
O+We never tire of reading anecdotes j
Illustrative of the pecuiarities of Charles Natl