Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-03-16

body OH top of it for a wad, it would lie
rather close quarters for breathing.
found 1t rather a snug berth as it was :: /
couldn't move an inch after had got in,
but ] knew | was out of sight at any
rate.
III supposed that after the men had
come aboard, the boat would be hauled
ont to the booms. and that then | could
get out of the gun. But instead of that,
they had the cutter loaded with something,
| don't know what, that it took pretty
near an hour, it seemed to me, to clear her
of. They got a sling on the main-yard,
and | could hear the orders given to hook
on it the boat and the bo'sn's mate in the
gangway piping to haul taut and "hoist-
away" and "avast-hoisting," AMI ''come
up over again, until it appeared 10 me,
they had got dozen launch boats over
the side. By this time my back lcxsn TO
ache with lying in the bore 0! that old gun;
1t didn't exactly ftmy shoulders.
81 now began to hear talking in the
cabln-thc gun, you know, was in the
cabin, except the muzzle of ii, that run
out of the port. couldn't hear so well
through the iron, though, and it was some
time beore could make out what the
talk was about. l could distinguish the
captains voice, and could hear the words
lock and wafer, pretty often. At last
he and the man he was talking with came
close up to the very gun was in, AMI
then | heard him call the gunner by name
in talking to him, and | recognized him
by his growl. | heard him rubbing off the
gun with his hands, and playing with the
lock, and two or three times he snapped
it that made me feel little nervous, for
| didn't know what he might have put in
it,"
He finds out at last what they were talk
ing about. The gunner has been making
some pcrcus>ion-wafers that he thinks will
never miss fire. He said they would set
the discharge off without any printing,
and wasn't sure that there would be even
any need of pricking the csrtidgc. The
captain tells the gunner to try some oI
these new waters on the very gun the
fugitive is in
81 was Just going to sing sut," he con
tinues, "when the captain asked the gun
ner if he was sure the gun wasn't load
ed.
".Ies, Sir says he; the charges were al
drawn when the ship came in, and thes'
guns in the cabin haven't been loadet
since.
'Ihat was not so bad, after all. The.
were only going to try if the waters woul,
snap--so | concluded to keep quiet.
didn't quite like the idea, though, for
wasn't quite so well contented with tn
gunner's trial in the gun as | should hav
! been out Of it. Iwasn't quite as easy II
! my mind as | had been an hour before
when was swinging in the captains cot
. ! lay still, though, and meant to 'sec
y out | knew there wasn't any shot /
the gun, at all events, and | didn't thin
a blank cartridge would hurt one mucl
seeing as | had pushed my trowscrs an
:, frock in before | had got i'll myself. 1t
had gone in head foremost, | should hav
been a good deal more worried about tn
matter; but. thinks to myself, I'll risk tn
feet !
$50 there I Y, aching all over, frol
=, having my shoulders and hips jammed
. between the round sides of my berti
h and listening to the talk between I'll
!" captain and the gunner that came in {
the touch-hole, and strange that | got eN
~ ~ crything mixed up in a heap, in my min'
;, as to what was going on outside. AT las
:, however, I heard the click of the sprins
4 as the gunner cooked the lock, and IL
>, next instant -
}, "Well what then %
" 81 was going through the air as if | ha
i been kicked by a forty y-horse power! M
y, clothes didn't follow me more than twent
> fathoms, but l didn't touch the water till
- was a mile and a half from the ship!'
That he was saved is matter of cours
:, "else wherefore breathes he in a chlistia
Z land" to tell his wondrous yarn.
NJ Like Hoods story of the @ronaut WI
7 was thrown out of balloon by a Graz
>. man, when some two miles up in the al
~ ~ and himself describing the circumstance
~ ~ and the moon-hoax of Mr.. Locke, tn
! "yan" derives it's interest from the matt
- ralness of its minutie, rather than fro
70 the probability Of its catastrophe.-Ha
N N per's Magazine.