Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-20

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Why, there are signals Of distress here
and open few the coach door, and two of
them Jumped out, and the tall one, taking
off his low hat, with his pipe in it, stood
before the clergyman and said
The craft is at your service, sir, and
these poor things here shaking in the
wind. Isn't she, Jack-Tom? En- my
lad Come, clear the cabin, it's cold
day; come out, Bill, and give your berth
to the ladies who are you, to be there
when your betters amt served 3"
The clergyman was beginning to thank
them, and say they could all go outside,
Ion deck? Not they-what, this cold
and squally day? No, the cabin is the
place for those who were rot brought up
before the mast"
And with inimitable, though rough
grace, and with their hats off and queues
sticking our behind, they handed in the
wife, the two girls, and then the clergy
man, in spite of his remonstrances to the
contrary. The young woman, overcome
with the change, cries rather hysteri-
cally, when one sailor turning to the
other, said, Jack, these poor things are
low, and so am quite squeamish and
odd, as though puff would capsize me;
let's have some grog and give the ladies
some" In a moment they had got their
glasses, and presented them with great
Importantly at the coach-door. in the
meantime, the luggage was put up, and
no small quantity, for there We're three
ladies, and the coachman being in a
hurry, up they all sprang, and. stuck one
Of their sticks. with blue handkerchief,
on the top of the boxes.
The clergyman called the office keeper,
to pay their fare and so to refund the
sailors. They heard this, and one of
them said:
What's that boat doing alongside
That lubber is wanting more money from
the cabin passengers.
In a short time, however, understand
ing the nature Of the parley, he said:
''Avast there, hold your tongue, you
scribbler: no one ever pays in kings
ships. The poor things shall have free
passage, and shall all mess with US be-
sides. 1t sha'n't be said that the old I'm
petuemse ever saw sig gnals Of distress and
did not bear down to lend hand. Cheer
up, sir, the money Will help the lad to
London, and you'll have to pay a bill as
long as boat-hook, depend on it these
doctors are great thieves. IF there's any
| trouble below, give us hail, and we
shall hear on deck. Keep the poor things
that are crying warm. And now blow
up your music, my lad there abaft, and
clap all sail on her." and off went the
coach, amid the shouts of some and the
whimpcrs Of others,
"Eine fellows, those tars, said some.
| Poor fellows, what fools they are not
to take the gentleman's money!" were
the muttered, half ashamed words Of
! others.
With an occasional glimpse of one ano-
ther, as the almost empty coach reached
the crest of a hill, and the other heavy
laden one dipped into valley far behind,
and which Tor the moment, awakened a
feeble cheer from the little craft, as they
called the other, the two coaches hastened
on III the order that might have been ex-
/ pected, and never stopped without an
offering OF hot grog being made to the
| O"''iii loN'foNiSoNdS' -1DOuG SUllSSI, lUcN
took in their top-gallant sails and ROYALS
III the crowded streets of London, and at
last let 90 their anchors, on in the court
yard OF the Bell Tanvage in Ludeate-hill,
and the other at the Saraccn's Head.
The two men who had alone taken their
passage, as they said, in the first, sprang
down, and hurried round the point, and
then came round, head to the wind. and
let 60 her anchor in the aforesaid we'll
known urtyard.
/ Cheers from the victors were answered
by jovial counter-cheers from the beaten.
and down the last Of all sprang, clean off
the top to the ground, and gathered round
the coach, TO lift the cabin passengers out,
pushing aside first the porter and then the
waiter, making, as they said, clear decks
and then, opening the coach doors with
lmnntable but most unpublished courtesy,
with their round hats off one side, and
quids in their mouths, they handed out
the clergyman, his wife and daughters,
and hoped they hadno been tossed about
10y the rolling and pitching of that ere
heavy merchantman She was no man.
ol-war at all; they could not get nine
knots an hour out Of her the other one
/ mIoht have cp2rc6 nor rora1c o,1 ct,l