The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-09-21

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! !, 1Slll have her yet before | 90 to Dav
\ Jones' locker"
u L didn't give up the thoughts of Mis-
: Eva Jersey, and being second mate,
Z found chances after while to talk to her
and L was handsome young fellow thel
vanity you'll say, but it's truth-anc
she took ashine to me. When [ knew
1t | was beside myself with joy.
Secret bit we were about it, as lover.
VIII be, and the cappen was man to be
afraid of. Button day | went to him
and says |, 'fCappen, I've word to say
to you aae
| couldn't go on at first, but by-and by
| managed to stumble through it. 81
loved his daughter and wanted him to give
her to me-" That was my yarn, and Lord
love ye ! the squall it raised. Cappen
rose up and looked at me-
"Hare ye been drinking, my man 2"
says he.
"No, Cappen," says I.
"Then you're mad" says he.
"Nor yet mad" says l.
He pointed to the door,
81 haven't had my answer" says l.
II beg pardon, Cappen, but l want to
hear it."
Ladies may read this, or I'd write down
what he said to me. Talk about oaths af-
| ter that
Il don't deserve this, sir" said I.
"Iou deserve cowhiding If [ had
| a jack o. nine tails handy I'd lay it over
your back, said be. "Miss Eva Jersey
is lady, and you common sailor"
"Second mate now, sir" says l.
Second fiddle sticks end" says he.
"And, sir, she-she likes me-" said 1.
Then cappen kicked me out. Mind ye,
be was sixty-fve, or I'd not have let him
do it."
Next thing | heard Eva was sent away
to an aunt's, and the nigger that waited on
the cappen ashore fetched me note bid
ding me good by, and saying that she must
obey her father That was duty Let ev-
cry man and woman do their duty | did
mine; for, you see, I'd engaged with Cap
pen Jersey for new voyage, and the
time was come and though it went agin
me, [ couldn't desert, though / said sits
the last voyage we'll have together, my
hearty" Said to myself. you know.
| did my duty. | worked hard But
all the light was gone out O. my sky. I !
was in a iog, with my compass lost. Life |
warn't nothing to ne, and soon | had
chance for death.
For there came to US such gale as
never blew before, when we were not far
from the Gold Coast and after it had |
blown bit it seemed to me the cappen /
lost his scnzes. lie might have saved
the ship, but he was obstinate, aud so she /
went upon a rock and split to pieces
We took to the boats in the storm /
never saw any Of my messmates again
We might as we'll have been afoat 10 egg
shells. The first J knew, after knowing
nothing was lying in burning sand on my
face and when | cleared my eyes | saw
I'd been washed ashore. Two men lying
along side o me. turned the first over;
it was the cook, Peter; he was stone dead
| looked at the next; it was the cappen.
Yes, twas poor old Cappen Jersey, and
he wasn't head, for he groaned when / |
touched him.
Says I, What cheer, cappen?"
Says he, Il shan't live to see my girl
again, Blaizc."
"Tcll that to the marines p says l.
s.'We're Oh main land, fancy, and Mig
gers or not, I never knew men l was a
fraid of. Wen get home yet, cappen."
You may" says he, 81 must stay
here; my leg Is broken"
So it was The old hero had been
bruised and beaten nearly to death besides
though he bore it SO well, and | found
myself piping my eyes as looked at him;
but was a bit of a surgeon, and | set
the limb and bandaged it-bark for splints,
and nly shirt for bandages--and then
Chat was hard job took poor Peters
clothes and made a kind of bed for cap
pen in the shadicst place | could fnd, and
buried the cook, with bit Of prayer, and
set down to think. | couldn't leave the
cappen He couldn't 60 step. and L
must feed him and myself. l had bit
Of liquor in flask, and that was all.
I couldn't tell you much about how we
lived, sometimes burning, sometimes soak !
ed to the skin, half the time hungry. |
found berries and roots and bread fruit /
tree, aud caught parrot and roasted her.
| stuck to the cappen. suppose a month |
went so, and he could just move little |
and then began helping him on by easy
stages, hoping to come to some place /
where we should see human faces. We !
didn't only to woods we were afraid to
go through for the wild beasts, and |
wished VIC had staid near the shore,
where We might have seen sail.
I learned how to say, "Give us to-day
our daily bread" then, and the Lord sent
it. But one day-a burning day could |
find neither water nor food. We were
starving. I was as weak as a child, and
the poor Cappen weaker than l.
And the Cappen said to me over and
over again, "Go, Blaize,' -'twasnt my
man now-'yoa can escape, perhaps
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