New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-29
Dnah couldn't hs' been patchin, to our whale

| you Y said Counter Jumper. 500 aaiSEt
i sf III you'll wait, my lads, till gets through,
You IA know all about it, said Tim, giving him
rather contemptuous look. E3-4l4
r 4sWal, boys, my feelin's can more be imag
ined than described, as the 1ubberly quill-dri
vers say. Ny first thought was Tim, my lad,
4 you're g0,ser, this time, for sure You've
weathered it through all kinds o. weather, from
the burnfn times off the coast Of Africa to- the
ssih nor'esst snow-storms in the dead o. winter,
on the coast q North Ameriky You've been
aioft, fmy lad, reefn' the topsails, when the
mast was expected to go by the board every
mint, an you've did your duty like man,
when you was on alee-shore IN the brig HIGH
Flyer, from Boston and when in the Nancy
lJane, Of New london, that was knocked down
by white squali off Cape Blanco, on her beam
ends, you kept up stout heart, when all the
crew was despairin', and at last you git swal-
lowed by whale. Well, Tim, you've wealth
cred 1t through ,em all, therefore, why not
| Keep up stout heart here ~ Il didn't take
all this to 60 through my head as long as ann
spinnin it out to you-not at all ~
30 So when had thought all this, my heart
| began to grow lighter, an got quite resigned
to my fate, an set about cheering mp my ship
mates, by telling them to keep stout hearts in
their bodies, and never say die, while there was
ag ghmner o hope or life left
& Mayhap it wouldn't be out o. place, jist
4 ~. ssAt yV1 Hu&t VIC saw AUWA tuSTt
| Wal, to begin with, you see, the whale was
about half fun o water, that it swallowed when
It TUX US down, 80 that our boat rode free and
easy, without touchin', or bringin' up agin the
| bottom. At fast, it was uncomfortable, for he'd
raise up to the top Of the water to take in sup
ply Of fresh air. when the boat would come jam
up agin his stern, an he, not likin that, would
pitch down agin, when we'd make for his throat,
which know to him was great deal worse
| than comm agin the stern. So, / suppose, be
naturally came to the conclusion, as an o. ,us
did, that he'd a TUX too much loose cargo on
| board, an had better take in his wind ON ton,
| an swim along in horizontal position like, an
make the best O it. We could tell that he was
o doin' this, and that he was swimmfn' along
! putty fast, by the noise the waters made out
siae, as it rushed by him, and with what little
trouble We kept cur boat steady" sa9a
q But how did you breathe; how did you
exist down there in he whales belly, Tim 2"
interrupted Counter Jump a.s
"Well. my hearty, I'll tell you Jist the con-
illusions I come to. They were these, and al
though it's myself that says it, there's some
science in 'em. A half q dozen men wou1n use
up an almighty site o. wind, in so close place,
an O course, having NO other source to draw it
from, it natrally would be supposed that il
must be supplied by the whale himself, which
he did most efectually You see, we'd exhaust
considerable wind between us an the whale,
which kept him pretty much atop, but once an
a while he'd try, Pd know from my feelins, to
stick under d little lcnger than usual; but it
warnt of no use, up he'd have to GO, whether or
no. His haTin' to rise so much was what saved
us at last. - s..5s .ss, n. ,g n ss
Z. The next thing made note on, was his
general appearance inside. There you could
ha' seen his heart thumpin', thumpin', on one
side, am on t'other was his liver Ynu could
he seen his lungs puff up every time he'd take
in wind, and as we'd draw it ont to supply our
selves, you could ha' seen 'em 60 down gradual
like, like the blacksmith's bellows. Why, boys,
Ieould see till eight bells, and tell you of what
seen, am then not get half through. As foF
purvishuns, you know that every boat has a
bag o. bread, but none of US felt like eatin, still
we wouldn't have suffered much for the want of
somethin' to eat 9HaaHai49 aaAs sa5t9s
aHow. long we had been in the whale, r can't
tell, as we didn't carry watches, an even if we
| did, it was so damned dark that we couldn't
| have seen what time it was; but we might have
been in from the time we was swallowed till
next morning. Wal, some of the boys began to
get tired of this adventure, as didmysef.
begun to think was better off in the forecastle
place, yet it warnt @ patchin' to this as for
closeness. But, even if / was back, thought,
1 I'll lay my head agin pipe o. baccher, that I'd
just wished to be placed where i was. Sich is
4 human natur'. We never knows when we're
well off, till we git showed into some outlandish
hole or mother. e 90
And now the boys begun to git despairin-
Idaylight agin-never expectin to see home,
friends, or shipmates agin. Weu,I dom
blame them, for who Wouldn't .;y!sa5
g Let the land -lubbers blow about tobaccher
as long as they like, yet all their BLOWN won
alter my ide Of it one pint of the compass. FL
alters stick to bacher as long as I live-and 70,
why , You'll see by the time gets to an end
To cheer myself up, and make myself as com
Portable as possible, / took out box of matches
I THAT by good luck hadn't got wet when wei
Il the line, Lit one of them, an lit my pipe, an
commenced BLOWN cloud that'd shame Mis-
} sissippi steamboat. .aisti4o 5.5., s
Says I, smy lads,' in a loud voice, at tn,
! sounds of which they all looks up, kind o
/ | skeered, for we had all been silent some time
J listen to me, while unfold my opinions. Il
O. all my observashuns, while rovin around thi
world, Il hey TUX notice of one thing, and that il
e that no other hvin' animal, monkeys and ba
d boons not accepted, but man, can stand th
fumes of baccher smoke, tho l wouldn't swea
e to whale, never having a coganee of such OF
Il serwashuns. But, suppose westry it on nov
n while we've got the chance, an make new dis
d kiyery for the land d-lubbers, whether or no
\ whale will stomach baccher smoke. Mayhap
>. we do he IL get 80 SICK tnat ne III Heafe US VI
a So every mothers son of you, git out yor
pipes, an we'll smoke ourselves out of tn
n bloody hulk, an if you ever ketches me in sic
10 fix again, as the likes of this sing out
n "My words acted on 'em in q right ship shal
e manner. They were all soon in furry, CALI
on me for matches, for was the only one th,
q had any, and soon six pipes were ia full bias
rs for the mate, who never smoked afore, put Oh
il in his mouth this time smoking as well as t
ID rest on us, which made six pipes. It was abo
Il, ten minutes hard smokin' afore we perceive
Il. any visible sign of It's actin on him, but it hi
to come The old blower made rush for i
t top quicker than he ever did afore, but afore
n. got there he had to cough; yes, by thunder,
to coughed only as whale can cough, who has
d belly full of loose cargo in the shape OF boa
MT and-six, piping tobaccher smoke. seen
a. once that my plan had worked. Now our bo
r, went forard; now aft, now almost capsized,
he that we had to hold on hard to keep from fall
nj out, and knew by all this, the old he devil W
ay agoin' in conwulshuns strong. He must ha
been orful sick from that ere smoke, for some
M us was gittin' as sick as land -luhbers first
ne out of port, from the same.
he "Wal, the time had come, for he could
it keep us down there any longer, SO with an or
as retch of his tail, he sent us up like shot, Gle
ito a ships length out on the wide an rollin' s.
,e Thar was nary man in that ar boat but wi
We felt like a man as has jist been drapped with
i'd rope round his neck, to dance the pirates jig