The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-13


A sA1IoR's YARs.-A young sailor, who had been
rowing around the world for several years, en- return
ing home, was constantly annoyed and honlzed on
account of his having had 9 personal relations with
cannibals, anacondas, whales, elephants, sharks,
tigers. pirates, and other creatures which inspire the
untravelled mind with terror. He hated, above all
things, to g spin yarns,' but still he was constantly
beset to do so. Being at a party one evening, where
the guests were indulging in the narration of exceed
ingly tough stories, he was, as usual, importuned to
spin them a yarn, and finally, at the request of his
father, he related the following narrowing tale, the
circumstances mentioned in which he saw with his
own eyes ::
IS AS one of the Panama steamers was leaving the
harbor of Havana, in the summer of 1854, said the
young sailor, 8 a beautiful widow lady named How
ard, was standing by the gunwale, on which her son,
q little boy some four years old, was sitting, playing
on q sugar fageolet, which his fond mother had pur-
chased for him in port, of an ingenious Spanish con-
fectioner. The child was greatly delighted with the
toy and blew vigorously, while Mrs. Howard seemed
toenioy the little fellows delight as much as he en-
joyed the fageolet. The transcendant beauty of the
mother, and the angelic loveliness of the child riv-
eted every eye that observed them, and various were
the speculations advanced as to their history. After
some time a sailor shouted, ga shark "a shark %
and everybody crowded to see the huge creature that
was swimming alongside the vessel. As the passen-
gers were remarking upon the appearance of the
shark, a shrek was suddenly heard, then a splash !;
and quick as lightning the ravenous monster darted
upon his prey.
IlIJIe lOnlIny howard mai Iallen from the gun
vale, and the widowed mother was now childless.
HMrs. Howard, who had tainted, was carried be-
low, in q state of insensibility.
"The shark still swan by the vessels side. Some
of the men determined, if possible, to avenge little
Tommy's death ; and batting a huge hook with a
piece of fresh beet, they cast it overheard. Almost
Immediately the shark swallowed it and fifteen stall
wart arms pulled Justify at the stout rope. He was
an immense monster, and struggled yiolently.-As
soon as his nose was pulled out Of the water a num-
Der of CALIFORNIA; began to practice pistol shooting at
his eyes. Their balls soon put a quietus upon him,
and he was hauled, lifeless and timber on board
When his huge bulk had been stretched along the
deck, it was proposed that he should be opened and
the remains of the boy taken from his stomach and
given q Christian burial. The proposition was i'm
mediately acted upon and soon the carcass was laid
open when, to the utter astonishment of everybody,
the boy loas found snugIy seated 6ett0een the monsters
RIBS, STILL PLAYING HIS FLAGEOLET 20
The young sailor has not been annoyed since that
evening, by requests to "spin a yarn"
A RICH NIGHT ScENE.-Last Tuesday night, which
will be remembered as one of the warmest of the sea-
son, q young lady of the West End was excessively
frightened at q little circumstance which TRANSFERRED
about the hour Of midnight. The young lady, whose
beauty is only equaled by her mOdesty, and whose
''eyes, dark charm' has caused more than one waist
coat to ~palpitate, had retired to her chamber, where,
after laying aside the greater part of her wearing
apparel, she committed herself to the tender embra-
ces Of Morpheus, whose soothing influences were aid
ed by the cooling breath Of Zephyr, who came in at
the open WINDOW ana anEeu her cheeks with his
featheIy wings. In a word, she was snoozing finely.
1t was, as we said, about midnight, when the
young lady was aroused from her delicious slumber
by hearing a noise at the window. Half Enclosing
her eyes she was startled by the sight of a corpulent
form apparently struggling to gain admission to her
chamber through the open window. 1t struck her at
once that the intruder had been caught by the rear
of his unmentionables by a nail or some other sharp
instrument, as he seemed to be struggling with q firm
determination to enter.
Her first thought was TO faint her second, to give
the fellow q push her third, to jump out of the win
dow as soon as he jumped in her fourth, to scream,
which was Immediately carried into effect. The Whis-
tie of the locomotive on the Iron Mountain road, when
it gave its first snort on the 4th of July, was but a
whisper to the screams of the young girl. The whole
house, and half the neighborhood, were awakened by
the cutlery. The old folks, three female servants and
big brothers rushed to the rescue, and ~broomsticks,
mob handles and boot jacks FLASHED in the gaslight,
as the household entered the chamber of the fright
ened beauty. An examination Of the figure in the
window dispelled the fears Of all, and changed the
screams of the young lady into shouts of laughter.
The imaginary Sc fat man. was only her own darling
chopped skirt. - which she had hung on q hook near
the window, and which the wind, had inflated and
set in motion. There was no more sleeping in the
house that night.-Sf. Louis Herald.