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for some sort of an explanation-and
we got it.
~ neverlI drink that toast, gentle
men-if | do, may | be promoted to
the captaincy Of a hay stack, and serve
in meadow under Rear-Admiral Jack
ass! No, no, commodore; d-n and
blast all pstticoats, / say. All the
fighting and getting killed, and starv-
ing, going ragged and dry, comes by
the means Of dimity, corsets and calico.
The world: and US too, gentlemen,
would have been ten thousand times
better off if there had never been
woman made. | know devilish well
should. L was triune-petticoat cir
cumstance that made a Texan naval
officer of me, instead of my being at
this moment gentleman of the 'Old
Dominion where I was born. Blast
all female women, say p
This speech Of Fred's reminded us
that we hadn't heard a Biographical
sketch for more than month, and so
we opened upon the second luff of the
old Galveston like pack of Cuban
blood-hounds upon fresh Seminole
trail.
"Give US the items, Fred. Come,
square the yards, and let's have the
particulars" sung out everybody, from
the commodore down to Tim Ewing,
the little four feet four MILDLY of the
Lamar.
"Well, I will" replied Fred, apro-
vided you'll knock off firing, light up
cigars, and hold on quiet for about ten
minutes-it wont take me much longer
than that"
agreed. Go on, Fred. Well all
hold still-so ball off your yarn"
Stand by. then, and here goes for
the secret of my being a luH in the
navy of our one-star republic.
II was born on the Nansemond river.
about twelve miles from Norfolk, in Old
Virginia, and, as | was an only child,
and my father being one of the richest
planters in the tobacco State, was, Ike
all only children of rich men generally,
pretty well spoiled by the time was
put of petticoats, (blast petticoats } and
before I was eighteen | had raised
nutiny in and run away from half the
literary institutions in the State, sold |
hree of my fathers best niggers to
.aise funds TO gamble with, got shot in
he leg by a confounded old scamp, |
ust as was climbing up to his daugh-
er's window, fought duel with one of
,ur neighbors about his pretty young
wife, and finally brought up with a
ound turn as midshipman in the
United States navy.
But didn't stop there long; for
,efore three months of our first cruise
vas up, the dandy first luff of our
lay in a gale of wind for forgetting to
aIute him when I ran past to see some
rider executed. | hesitated, and he
allied me id Virginia opossum.
II pitched into him. tore off his
panlettes and cap and flung them
erboard-knocked him down, and
tamped on him till he yelled murder,
phen up came the captain, who order
d me under arrest. | dove down into
he middies' berth and got my warrant,
7hich | rendered to the captain, and
Then he refused it, tore it up and
ung it in his face.
"Then came grand f1are-up. Old
Iur'west ordered up the marines, and
nally the whole after guard, 10 secure
le. I got a marines musket, and
fter Strengthening out about dozen of
I'M, they disarmed me, when, rather
ian submit, | jumped slap overheard.
nd came devilish near being drowned
efore they picked me up.
AFTER that, they were all glad
nough to get rid of me, and the cap
lin let me go at the first port. That
as Rio Janeiro; and as had no
loney, | shipped in a whaler bound
,und the Horn. Before we got to Val
araiso | had a row with the officers, !
which cut the bully second mates {
1se half off, smashed the mates fin Y
ers with the head Of a hatchet, and
ackened both the old mans eyes with /
~ fists. q
"When we got into port, the captain
ave me up to the consul, who handed
e over to the authorities, and they t
IONluGQ ttlG Will q UOItu dUudtu Oll0 I'll Z
leir damp, dark, vermin-haunted, in t
rnal old stone prisons. / held on
Iere about two months, when, getting I
loroughly disgusted with my fare and a
| flung the soldier, :
no came to lock me up, into my cell $
le evening, fastened him in, shoulder b
his musket, and made tracks for
lhnson's, in the Maintop.' o
:" shied round in the outskirts of the t
ty for two months longer, during Ii
hich time had made love to little Fl
milan beauty, until | made her be-
sVe that she was an angel and a Il
int. Her father was rich, and | man.
red to borrow eight ounces of him, b
Ith which | got on board a homeward
und hide-drogher and left Valparaiso. g
ying off the-o Chilian with fore k
psail, and leaving the little angel to Il
back TO heaven by herself, or stop Fl
ere and lay back for another Yankee, Ii
she chose. Il
After an absence of nearly two
ars, | got home again, where found a
1t my father had been dead some six fc
,nths, and then was, just twenty h
arc ald my auun x,,oSfnr and uoSSaSc