Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-12-03

up TIL barrels before the beef is gone"
Are they so ravenous?" asked Mrs. Marvel, |
"that they can't wait"
"Ravenous! by the Lord Harry, if you'd only |
see Them as have, eating hondspikc without /
pepper or salt, you'd think nothing at all of
their eating beel-baTel"
"lhe massy on me, rde no idecr the poor
cretures ever come to so short commons
"Short! Ibelieve you'd think it long enough |
before you'd eaten up handspikc."
81 dare say should, for Eve lost almost all
my teeth"
but if you hadn' you'd find it no such short
job to eat IA handspike, | can tell you. Why
do you know, it took me once a whole week to
eat up one-but twas made of the best white
oak"
"Ah, WELL" said Mrs. Marvel lifting up her
eyes in unieigned establishment: 81 thank hea
ven was made u woman. and no sailor"
"'risn't every woman that's no sailor, though,
aunty. There was Tom Roundiacc shipped
with us from Bclfast-as fine rosy-cheeked
lrishman--or rather Irish woman-as ever went
aloit. lie belonged to my mess. Every body
liked the snug little sailor and would have
shared with him the last bit of pigtail in his
box. But he could not endure hardShips like
the rest of us-bless his rosy checks! lie fell
sick, and while he was delirous like, it came
out that he was woman and no man."
bOl tItlul Nlu SllC llNt Ou plhtSs
too
"She' no, bless your soul As soon as She
was discovered to he delicate woman, and no
man, was allowed to mess with the captains
wife, and live on the very best"
II suppose she had tea and coffee, and bread
and butter"
Tea. OH yes-back tea"
"Shuson, or bohea? But no matter-cyther
on EN- is very good-and great deal more
hcalthtul than your green teas
THAT may be, maam-but | can tell you
twas neither souchong or bohea; but blacker
than either"
"Oakum."
Opium, Oh, Lord do they make tea out OF
that pilen stuff? should think they'd never
wake no more
"Not opium, aunty-but oakum."
What sieh stuff as the culprits pick in the
pcnnytcnshcry?"
"Aye-wc shipped hundred weight for the
use of the captain and his Lady
"Fugh! I'D as soon drink tea made out of
tobacco.
It's very good, though when you once learn
To ike it. As to bread and butter, that was
out OF the question. To be sure, they had good
ship-brcad, made partly Of rye-meal and partly
of plaster OF paris and saw dust; but for
butter, that was not to be thought Of aboard
ship"
No butter"
NO"
Nor nothing to spread on their bread?"
Nothing! Oh, yes, they had plenty of good
fresh tar
Tar do YOU say?'
ave"
do they butter their bread with tar? Well,
that beats all ever heard of wouldn't 60 to
sea for nothing in the world. Butter their
! lr,rI ,+i,b | r,,u bp,. la fhpV trnt II
| down"
by swallowing, aunty."
"By swallowing? Why, don't it stick in
| their threats ?"
"Oh-ayc--a little at first. But as soon as
/ it gets warm it runs down. The common sail
ors YOU must know, never &c, any-it's notch
or two above their diet lIowsomeyer. | re-
member We tapped the tar barrel enc night. un-
bekuown to the captain-l and the rest Of my
mc>>-and got out pound for each man, and
thought we'd have one glorious meal. But it
come TO the ears of the captain, and il We hadn't
persuaded him it was the rats, we should have
had round dozen apiece, every boy on board
ship"
- s'po>c they have chickens and SIGH like to
cat in tie cabin
THAT'S true; there arc few starved things
and as soon they're gone, the sailors eat the
hen coopN.'
well, | should think they were better than
marnspikes or beef barrcS-beng made Of
pine, and therefore more tender and, besides
they must taste the chickens a little, and that,
something, YOU know. for there aint no better
eating in the world than good chicken. Blu
how do they cook the hen coops?'
"Why, they make a stew Of them, mixed NJ
with few bits of ropes end. and sometimes
head or two of sponge, if they can get any tresl
from the sea-
81 always understood that vegetables was
charming remedy for the scurvy.'
Nothing betteI-we had several men cureC
by putting sponge in their broth, with a littl
seasoning of tish-hooks'
1--WE often heard they had some dreadful
scurvy people aboard the ships. ! wonder TO
my part, that folks will 20 to sea, to live OF
bee-harrcls. and hen-coops and hand spikes"
, Beef barrels and hen-coops are not dshe
to be sneeIed at. The worst of it is, that
body must wait until the fowls and the beef ar
used up, before they can eat the coops and bar
} reS.'
5 What an appetite sailors must have! AM
1 what an astonishing digestion, too. But dar
5 say they have all good teeth, and stomachs tina
, can digest any thing
5 Why, yes, aunty, that's true enough tor tn
/ most part. But there was viii Mungum-poo
tcllow-he'd Just come to sea, and like to hay
QltNl Ot udN, dlttI tdtllP Il blt VI u
4, and would, if he hadn't taken a dose of tn
r trade Winds
= " Trade winds well, that's the queerest kin
. of hade ever heard Of How does it operate?
5 Every much like an anti-phlegmatic.'
5 "Ah, me. if such are the hardships of a SEE
if fming life I'll persuade your cousin Jim. VIII
$ has great notion of going to sea- to stay
o home, where he can get something good to ca
r Massey on me, wonder how you lived throug
d il all Jack ?"
n Il had my life insured"
e GRUMBLERS.-If you find man disposed
o complain of the GOODNESS of the world, be SUI
IL YOU will find that he has never brought anythir
IT into the world to warm it, but is personal lum
!" of ice set in the midst of it, If you find m;
n who complains that the world is all base al
hollow, tap him and he will probably sound ba
10 and hollow. And so, in the other way Il kin