The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-06-26


And the glmmer Of The skylight.
That shot across the deck;
And the pinnacle pale and steady,
And the dull glimpse Of the deaa-eye,
And the sparks in gerry eddy,
That whirled from the chimney neck:
In our jovial floating prison
There was sleep from fore 70 mizen,
And never a star had risen, n
The hazy sky TO speek.
Strange company we herbored;
We'd hundred Jews to larboard, Is
Cnwashed, uncombed, unbaIbered,
Jews black, aud brown, and grey;
With terror it would seize We, Il
And make your souls uneasy,
To see these Rabbis greasy,
Who did nought but scratch and pray:
Their dirty children puking.
Their dirty saucepans cooking,
Their dirty fingers hooking
Their swarmng feas away.
To starboard Turks and Greeks were.
Whiskered, and Drowned their cheeks were,
Enormous vide their breeks were,
Their pipes did puff Away;
Each on his mat allotted,
In silence smoked and sauatied,
Whilst round their children troited,
In pretty, pleasan, play.
lie can't but smile who traces
The smiles ON those brown faces,
And the pretty pra,tling graces
Of those small heathens gay.
And so the hours kept tolling,
And throagh the ocean rolling,
Went the brave Iberia bowling
Before the break Of day.
When A ScEALL upon sudden,
Came Ger the waters scudding;
And the clouds began to gaiher,
And the sea was lashed to Iuther,
And the towering thunder grumbIed.
And the lightning jumped and tumbled,
And the ship, and all the ocean,
Woke up in wild conmo,ion.
Then the wind set rp bowling,
And the poodle dog yowling,
And the cocks began a growing,
And the old COW raised q lowing,
As she heard the tempest blowing:
And fowls and geese did cackle,
And the cordage and the tackle
Began TO shrek and crackle:
And the spray dashed Ger the tunnels,
And down the deck il rlnnels;
And the rushing water soaks all,
From the seamen in the fo'ksal,
TO the stokers, whose blank faces
Peer out Of their bed places;
And the captain he was bawling,
And the sailors pulling, hauling;
And the quarterback tarpau!ing
Was shivered in the squaling;
And The passengers awaken,
Most pitifully shaken;
And The steward jumps up, and hastens
For the necessary basins.
Then the Greeks they groaned and quiv-
cred,
AID they kuelt and moancd and shivered,
AS the pluDging waters met them,
And splashed and overset them;
And they call in their emergence
Upon countless saints and virgins;
And their marrowbones are Bonded
And they think the world is ended.
And the Turkish women for'ard
Were frightened and beIorror'd;
Ard, slrieking and bewildenng,
The mothers clutched their children;
The men sung, "Al.ah, Iilah.
Mashallah Bismillahn'
As the warning waters doused them;
And spiashed them and sOused them,
And they called upon the Prophet,
And thought but little of ii.
Then all the aeas in Jewry
Jumped up and bi, like fury;
And the progeny Of Jacob
Did on the main-deck wake up
Il wot those greasy Rabbins 8a
Would .ever pay for eabins);
And each man moaned and jabbered in
His filthy Jewish gaberdine,
in wo and lamepiaiion
And howiins CONSERVATION.
And the splashing water drenches
Their dirty bra.s and wenches;
And they crawl from bales and benches,
In hundred thousand stenches.
This was the White Squall famous,
p Which latierly o'ercame US, .s
And which all will remember
On the 18th September;
When Prussian captain Of Lancers
fIhose tighi-laced, whiskered pranccrs)
Came on tie deck astonished,
BY that wild squawl admonished,
And wondering cried, '.Potz tausend,
Vie list der Sturm jetzt bra ascend 20
And looked ut Captain Lewis,
Who calmly stood and blew his
Cigar in al! the hustle,
And scorned the tempest's tussle,
Aud oft we've though. hereafter
How he beat the storm to laughter;
For well he knew his vessel
With that va in wind could wrcsfie: ift
And when wreck we thought her,
And doomed ourselves to slaughter,
How gaily he fought her,
And through the hubbnh brought her,
And, as the tempes. caught her,
Cried, George! some brandy and water!,"
And when, its force expended,
/, The harmless storm was ended, q ~
And, as the sunrise splendid
Came blushing Ger the sea,
i thought, as day was breaking,
My little girls were waking,
And smiling, ard making
A prayer al home for me.
NEAR THE SPor.-An old Dutchmas look n
Of hauling the cotton across the country TO a
rtain river. One day he stepped the team. abou,
On for the purpose Of eating. his dinner, and
ring refreshment and rest to his horses. Percciv-
, indications Of spring little distance from,
: road, he left his son in charge of the hcyses
d carried bis tin pail over 10 the water. /,
owed 10 be hot spring, and the old Du,chu,an
led out in terror to his son, will loud voice:
''Haunse. triSo on !! triye on te DEAN. a.,
ot's sake! HaeH ish not Won mile yrou, d;sb