Nebraska advertiser., 1865-10-05
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SCUDblkG UNDER BARE POLES.

minus petticoat mixed up with 1t
some fashion, is abou, as-rare curiosit
as horned horse, or letotal lecturer
And without woman IN the middle, Z
both ends, and all the way through j
Jacks saltwater yarn would be as in
sipid as a dish of Dutch 'pepper.poi
with the pepper left out.
But one March afternoon when W
were barging out the butt end of tear
ing equinoxtial gale in the middle of tn
Gulf stream off Haueras, after we hat
spun all manner of yarns, with dImit,
enough in them to have freighted th,
Great Eastern, some one remarked tha
yarn worth listening to couldn't be spur
without a petticoat in it. That declara
ration brought out Lieutenant George
Wickham III opposition.
Gentlemen, sre my yarns worth
listening to generally g
Capital - 'Excelsior'-'A No. l.
The best in the feet ? by the whole
wardroom.
Well, look here, gentlemen, ] am just
in the humor to reel you off a regular
hawser-laid yarn, as true as ST. Luke s
gospel, and as clear of crinoline as this
tumII.!er is of grog-not sine of petit
coat about ii. tell you III ball you of
better yarn than you ever heard from
me. I'll bet the-cigars for all na2ds Tor
month can do it,
Done, lieutenant III take that bet,
sung out the doctor. so will II put in
Purser Tom Powell. And Il echoed
Ensign McVail.
Very well, gentlemen; stand by TO
listen, and l am willing you should de-
eide lkc thing yourselves after hearing
the yarn.
Il am going to tell you how caught
that clipper srinOline craft of mine, who
'Avast heavlng bit, lieutenant
There you are, all fiat aback before you
are fairly filled away on your course
interrupted DOCTOR Joe.
How is that, Mr.. Cut.leg.'
Why there's petticOat in the very
first turn of the reel
Where q inquired Lieutenant Wick
ham, looking astonished.
There? Why on your wife, of
curse.
Ha ha ha w hat an inhocoht you
are, doctor. You're eternally going off
before you are loaded. Now, look here,
if you'll only put q stopper on that tongue
of yours, and listen 10 the yarn; if ycu
find scrap of crinoline or pe,licoat about
it, put me IN for the damages, and call it
two months
'Hcave ahead, lieutenant Delay
your jawling tackle, DOCTOR Now for
the yarn, ruled the ward-room.
We'll, gentlemen, when l was Just past
the twenty third nillstone on life's turn.
pike, tolerably good looking, and two or
three pockets full of dollars, I'd had
rather tough pull of the African fever
and went up into the interior of York
State where | was born, and used TO go
to school when was boy, for the pur-
pose Of lying off lazy like two or three
months, and cruiting ship,
About mile from my fathers, up the
road, Iiv, farmer Collins. pretty COM
fOrtably off in ths world, with family of
mostly. grown up children, among them
girl of about eighteen one of the pretli-
est girls in seven counties but unfotlu.
naIely some six months previous TO my
going home, Almira had gone crazed, or
love cracked, or something of that sort,
and as her parents didn't want to send
the poor girl off and shut h up, and
very likely have her abused in a mad
house, they kepther as quiet and comfort
able as { ey could at home.
The crazy girl went into high lantrums
occasionally. and was preuy hard to
hancle. But we found out accidentally
soon after / went home, that in her wild
est ranlls, AlnHra would always listento
me, and remain as quiet as lamb while
was with her. So | was often sent for
when she went into one of her wild fur
rles, and always managed to handle her
like pilot boat.
The next farm up the road beyond that
of Collins, belonged TO Colonel Elias
Hewitt. who was sort of rurul nabob,
and had one child ohly-Miss Cotnelia,
nineteen years old, we'll brought up, edu
Gated, and in my opinion the most mag
niicent female craft that over looked out
on country landscape. / had exchang-
ed signals two or three tines with the
little clipper craft, and learned tina! she
was willing enough to drift, along down