Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-04-08

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: Palace again, and to lay new floor
e over the rubbish of stones. I will max,
( floors over the rubbish of stones.
t will make the big house good and DIR,
$ to live in, in the rainy weather. vii
. barricade the steps of it for defencs
D against an army,-I will make it my
strong castle of retreat for me and my
; men, and our treasure, and our prisoners
: and all that we have, when the English
cruisers of the devil get too many fol
us along the coast. To work, you six
! Look at those four men of mine,-theil
J muskets are loaded. Look at these tive
/ Sambos who will stop here to fetch he'll
! if they wantit. Remember the women
and children you have left at the Palace
q and at your peril and at their peril
turn those axes in your hands from Their
proper work! You understand? You
}, English fools2'
i With these words he jumped to his
f feet, and ordered the niggers to remain
4 and place themselves at the orders OF
our guard. Having given these last
directions, and having taken his mates
i opinion as to whether three of the
4 Buccaneers would not be. enough to
watch the Palace in the day, when the
six stoutest men of the prisoners were
away from it, the Pirate Captain of
fered his little weazen arm to the
i American, and strutted back to his cas-
tie, on better terms with himself than
ever
\ As soon as he and the mate were
gone, Christian George King tumbled
himself down on the grass, and kick.
ed up his ugly heels in commissions OF
delight.
i ooh, golly, golly, golly' says he. you
dam English do work, and Christian
George King look on. Yup, Soccer!
whack at them trees!'
i paid no attention to the brute, being
better occupied in noticing my next
comrade, Short. / had remarked that
all the while the Pirate Captain was
speaking, he was looking hard at the
river, as if the sight of large sheet
of water did his solitary eyes good
When we began to use the axes, greatly
to my astonishment, he buckled to at
his work like man who had his whole
heart in it; chuckling to himself at
every chop, and wagging his head as il
he was in the forecastle again telling his
best yarns.
you seem to be in spirits, Short
I says, setting to to on a tree close by
him.
'The rivers put a notion in my head,
says he. Chop away, Gill, as hard
as you can, or they may hear us talk
ing
what notion has the river put in your
head?' asked that man, following his
directions.
] 'Youdon't know where that river runs
to, l suppose?' says Short. NO more
don't /. But, did itsay anything par
ticular to you, Gill, when you first set
eyes on it? 1t said to me, as plain as
words could speak, I'm the road out Of
this. Come and try me!' Steady! Don't
stop to look at the water. Chop away
man, chop away
The road out of this?' says |. 'Aroad
without any coaches, Short. I don't
see so much as the ruins Of one old ca,
noe lying about anywhere
Short chuckles again, and buries his
axe in his tree.
what are we cutting down these
here trees for?' says he.
| roofs and floors for the Pirate Capt
tain's castle, says l..
!. Rats for ourselceso says he, with
another tremendous chop at the tree
which brought it to the ground-the
first that had fallen.
His words. struck through me as il
1 ] had been shot. For the first time
since our Imprisonment | now saw,
clear as daylight, a chance of escape.
Only a chance, to be sure; but still !
chance.
Although the guard stood several pa
ces away from us, and could by no pos
sibility heara word that we said through
the noise of the axes, Short was too eau
tious to talk any more
wait till night he said, looping the
branches off the tree. Pass the word
on in whisper to the nearest of our
men to work with will; and say, with
a wink of your eye, there's a good rea
son for it
After we had been allowed to knock
off for that day, the Pirates had nc
cause to complain Of the work we had
done; and they reported us to the Pi
rate Captain as obedient and industrious
so far. When we lay down at night,
took the next place on the leaves &c
! Short. We waited till the rest were
asleep, and till we heard the Pirate
Captain snoring in the great hall, be
fore we began to talk again about the
) river and the RATS. This is the amount
of what Short whispered in my ear OF
that OCCASION:
He told me he had calculated that il
would take two large RATS to bear al
our company, and that timber enough
to make such two RATS might be Gu
down by six men in ten days, or, Il
most, in fortnight. AS for the means
of fastening the rafts-the lashings, he
he called them-the stout vines anC
creepers supplied them abundantly; anC
: the timbers of both rats might be con
nected together, in this way, firmly
enough for river navigation, in abou
five hours. That was the very shortes
time the job would take, done by th'
willing hands of men who knew tina
they were working for their lives, sale
Short. 81 @
These were the means of escape
How to turn them to account was thu
next question. Short could not answe
lit; and though I tried all that night
neither could |.
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4 sN@ A phriend, pheeling phunnily
phiguratiye, FURNISHES the phollowing: