The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1852-11-27

always 10 'atow away with my sea-duds.) i,
claps down the 'hatcleS' over an assorted CARO-
that is, t" talk Grandchildren fashion, i, .coy
er"th multitude OF sins
do not know that | exactly understand vor
yet.
Mo- shouldn't at all wonder if YOU didn't
for know it is just as hard for sailors to get
the 'hearlng' ofyour law-slany: and Iook e
you've never been to sea maybe 10 learn any
thing. That's the high school Of larnin where
1 dplomy,d and tuh my 'degrccs.' And the
reason why kings never uncovers their TO D.
inanners,---
Still, you have not explained, Tom.
No! Well, as we sailors honestly derend on
wind al. weather. for everything, (Which land
sharks do no.. as they sail under false colors.
that previso is with US, sort of siny quay none.
as you gentlemen say. We weigh unchor,' or
'heavc TO- according as the breeze sets on cur
quarter or in our teeth
] am in the fog yet, ION.
Ay! Then you and don't seem TO be ms
king any more 'hcad- way than craft in a
dead calm.' It's always wise 10 :heave to- till
the fog 'lins' But if must talk in shore
lingo, mean, VIC sailors are reliable TO dlsap-
po!ntment sometimes, as we'll us slhc best reg
lated iamilics,' sir.
l. fhat it!
Ay,ay -ir. We close our reckoning some.
IN, lie, l.
nights voyage. You see sir, we sometimes
scrowd SAIL IL little too much, on n spree, and
then we 'kecls over 10 leaward,' and our sba last
shifts too much on one side. That makes US
sort O. top-heavy. [f1itching up his togs.l
So. And you say it was so last night, ch?
Yes sir. No sooner had You left the 'ospital
yesterday, than here comes Jack Spanker,
ashore son leave' from the brio Spar,an-und
ses Jack, scs he, s'Tom, MY hearty, being as
how Eve got little slack cable now and plenty
ofthe tin just wants you TO strike breeze
with your slender in tow (rny gal. sir.) and
run down to night to old mother Grants dance
/ 'ouse- and let's have a real shlndy-a regular
built elbow on. OUT old ship-matc. What
d'you say TO that my old scove2'
! Agreed, Jack, SEES I, with all my heart.
| And so YOU went, Of course
| Pm blowed i'll didn't: cause you see, Squire,
dance 'ouse is sailors hearcn, And after
froIicking all night, I oversight the 'rcckoning.'
What pleasure can YOU see at a dancc-housc,
with the drawback oil a wooden leg?
o., SILVER my timbcrs enough oft sir.
takes my pretty Irish gal, sir. Mary--NIary Ma
lory-(O, sir, she's a pretty, blushins creature.
you shall know her soon--) aud Treats her,
AMI sees her dance, and enjoy herself-and it
does me more good Il dcviish sight than if ii
was all my own iun. And protects her from
insult. And il,thcrc's any chance for the sport
Of "a sky-lark,' a biz ola scrimlnngr, general
ly Try to play hand AT that onme. Split my
'cal-hcads,' sir, if sailor doesn't see more slee
in one night at a dance ouse, than forty o. Your
rcg'ar-buills Cat their cuttilIion- has) do in
whole season.
But what's the matter with your eye?
0, a trihe, sir. You see, thought u chap
didn't behave quite civil 10 Mary. and TUX him
a shot ''bctween wind and watcr," that hove
him on his 'Ebeam-ends.' AS scorn 10 hit
man when he's "haId a-ground'' sir. scs L.
crnc up Bll--''right ship again, and let's have
another shout" So with that sir, he ups and
fctches me tap on the pepper, that made it ga
dead-llgi.'' for while. But | planted ''a ire
=. 1 f.l.,
and he sss;ruck" sir. When he comes to, he
scs, Sos he, (it was Bill Bowser, sir,) s.Tom, |
was Il fool. So thought Bill, scs I,-Nutfl
scd Here's my hand. So we TUX drink, and
il was all over.
And that's the way you ,cnmen Eltlc affairs
of honor, chl
Yes sir. After drink, we're fast friends. |
We don't harbor no malice perpaace, as you say, |
and GO out next day, for shor, like bloody cut |
thronts, to shoot or stob one another. Is that
any '.coursr' for civilized christians TO ssteer''
sir!
| should say no.. Tom. Yet the subject in
wolves delicate points to moot, sometimes.
to 'sstcer his ''crait" by the points of the COM
pass uiihin sir, that the great sssaling -mastcr"
has placed in his "bnnaclc," and will "nayi-
gate" by ii, and not suffer himself to DO lead on
a Greet" by false lights he'd soon find his 'sun-
dcrwrters'' have d-mn deal better policy TO
insure on.
Faith, I believe TON, you're not far wrong.
A laundering sight nearer right than wrong
sir, trust me.
Perhaps so.
But when all hands was 'piped a-lclt," in
gale, 10 oman the yards' and "hand sal''-or,
(the command was passed, TO "rnake ready for
action" who ever saw Tom Lotus sku.k sir?
or Jack Spanker; or for the matter o. that, Bill
Bowser eithcrl {
Tom, have never understood how il was you 1