Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-11-01
M issell Il.
From the N. Y. Ledger.
THE CAPTAINS YARN.
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.

w nen our nfSt mate ana hltIy zee were
spliced | went to the wedding, and, Lord
love ye, twas the prettiest sight, next to
a launch, ever saw. She all in white.
with flying top-salls like drifts Of mist !;
and he with white lontogs, and rose in
his button.hole; !; a brown-skinned, black
eyed lad, salt as the sea could make him ;
but she Was like one of them flowers born
and brought up in hot-houses, that wind
and weather han't never come nigh, nor
never will F: fetched up book larnt, too /;
and could sing Ike the mermaids used
to hear summer nights, when1 kept mid
watch in the Tropics.
When you came nigh her, nessmates,
you felt as if you couldn't be too tender
sort o as if, supposing she belonged to
ye, ye'd have liked to put her in glass
state-room, and kept watch outside the
rest o your !ifc--eastways did.
Tom Dut'on naturally was proud of her,
and she was proud of him; and two con.
sorts never set sail more willing or more
happy.
|
ty sight, aud made man wonder wheth
er there warnt no mate for him nowhere
But when Tom came to me next day and
said Captain, Kitty wants to 60 with
US this voyage" thought he'd lost his
senses.
"My lad," says I,"she don't know wha
a v'y'ge is storm would be the death o
her Take may advice lad and hcep he
safe ashore.
But she heard me, and came to US, anc
put one hand on my shoulder and tn
other on 70 as
"lm safe with my husband y she said
Il cannot stay at home, and listen to tn
wind and rain at night, and think of hi
danger. should 60 mad. But with hin
the worst would be to die together.
must 60, Captain You'll never try t
hinder me" ..
couldn't. only told her that tn
waves we're rough, and the wind tickle
and she nestled closer TO Tom and smiled
Then thought Of little boats had seeI
save ships crew, when the taut vessel,
hundred times as large and strong. Wa
wrecked upon some rock, and that may b
our Great Captain watches these littl
boats He has made for pity, and keep
the fierce storms from them; and so
said
kitty. we're all in the Good God
hands. and safe on sea as ON land, as tn
chaplain says"
And so she sailed with us.
Well we'll. that was v'y'ge-one t
try the Oldest salt aboard and there warn
one bore it better than Toms wife Wbe
the gale was at the worst, and had m
. hands full with towards. and was CON
pelled to stand over the man at the whet
t with belaying.pin, because. dye SCI
,, the rascal wanted to let go and pray,
/ foldin' of his hands on account o bein
in dlnger, that gal never gave Nigh
o trouble.
A couple of other women were aboarc
. aud they squalIed fit to skeer the sharks
. not a sound from her lips. Only, whe
twas all over, she crept into Toms boso'
aud hid her face minute, and when st
, lifted it twas wet with something beslc
the brine upon his jacket
r There was calm. too. harder to BET
!, than any storm to my mind, with burr
in sun overhead, and the vessels sid
s blistcring in it at noon She kept OF
hearts up then. and read and sang to u
- And when the black cook was SICK LoT
love ye. twas pretty sight to see he
=. like a white lily flower. as she was, tent
' in him as his mother might, a, d new
!. seeming to remember what an lgnoral
,. black dog he was, but speakin' soft to hi
aud eodiug him with her own hand
: There warnt one didn't love her.
: have had him keelhauled if there'd bee
:. and sarye him right. for dog that did'
st know an angel when he saw her TIM
2. O. she saved the "Saucy Jane" that Vyt
myself.