Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-11-01

w hOh
My lad, you have got prize. The
most that get themselves spliced catch
Tartars. This here lass of yourn aint
made O common stuff. If there is her
match ashore and Jack Bloom happens to
come across her, the 'Saucy Jane is
Tilted"
After that she sailed with us reg'lar.
One year--two--three. At the end of
that time she staid in moorings. There
was young Tom that had just hailed her
then, dye see. Too young to take voy
age and we were going to the West ln-
dies, and she couldn't leave him alone;
so she said goodbye to our Tom aid |
me, and we all blubbered, and the last
saw of her she was standing on the shore,
holding up the babby for his dad to see,
and wiping her eye with pocket hand
kercher felt the minite we weighed an
chor we'd left luck behind us along with
her.
Well, so it was From the first the
hands were discontented. One had seen a
rat leave the ship an hour afore she start
ed, and every night there were corpse lights
over the top.mast.
Tom talked about electricity but, lord
love ye, he was man of sense and
knowed corpse,lightS when he saw 'em,
and not to be took in with superstitions
about electricity. Twas jest to keep our
hearts up, | used to look at the 'Saucy
Jane as man might at child he knew
Was dyin.'
! We'll part this Wy 'ge, my lads" says
: l. and was right. One day the weather
!; which had been too fair to last, changed
! as it were in minuit. The clouds hung
black and heavy, and gale came on at
night. There wasn't one but knew the
; 'Saucy Jane" was doomed, and giving up
helped nobody, When she sprung a leak
they left the pumps and yelled for whis-
key. They got it Lord love ye, twas a
/, comfort to en- What odds? And Tom and
r had our first quarrel then--our first and
0 our last, for he said had done wrong
: aud wanted to keep them from the liquor
G and at work Which would have been
fools play, with corpse.lights over tht
:, nasts every night for week, aud shark'
+. iu the wake Of the ship three days Wrus
e shark for knowing when sailors will b,
overheard.
: Well. the end was what knew i
= would be. We all of course took to tn,
). boats, some went down and some vcr'
d saved
b The Royal Tiger" from England, pick
5 ed some of us up. knew nothing of i
at the time, for Id hit my head somewhere
It and lost my senses. When | came to
'f | wanted to drown myself, for Tom warn
II with US 'Twarn't so much for Tom a
for Kitty that felt. But when though
d of her and knowed Id got to tell her,
le warnt a man then, but babby. An,
says l.
/ KNOCK me on tue head, messmateS
le and do not let me 60 home to kill tn
is sweetest lass on the shore. For di
m she will as soon as she knows her lad
l gone"
to Half the white hairs | have came to IN
as was walking the deck thinking of XII
he ty and of her face as | should see it who
e, she heard the news.
l. When went ashore and was steern
n towards her moorings | trembled so 20
would have thought had the ague, an
IS all through fright-sheer fright-of he
De white face and her big blue eyes, tbs
lie | saw afore me just as murderers st
os ghosts.
| Well, messmates, came aboard th
house about dusk, and there stood sta
S ing. After I'd stared until the ueighto
le came to take sight o'me from their POI
holes by the dozen. raped at the doc
A woman | had never seen afore halle
to me.
nt Says she,-"We wont have no more vi
en- itors; doctors forbid it"
~ Says I,--"Avast there Give us
n chair, ma The world is a rollin
el round noao. sure, for feel her. Is kit
e, dyin', Oo9"
a She Sot cheer and fetched some waite
1g and says she;
ht "P'raps you're friend-?'
"Of Kitty :" says |. lord bless, yC
d, yes"
S; Says she,-"We've had so many here
en- look. thought twas curiosity. Yc
IN ha'nt heard them?
be "What?" says l.
de She's in trance" says she. THAT
what the doctor says. You'd think h
ar dead nothing will wake her-not h
u baby that she loves so. They found b
les on the floor with the paper that told
ur the wreck of her husbands ship 10 b
IS. haod. She has not moved nor spok
rd since"
,r, Says I,-"She never will. She's go
d. to him"
YER SO, after BIT. got up and went
mt look at her. Just like pretty corpse
im lay there but not cold or stiff I
is could just see bit of her eye where {