The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-25
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ssOn the twenth-fourth day-the
boy was gone to light the lamps.
Sands says to me, How long will he
be gone?' =,
'FsA half an hour says I. ~ 81 y.
Stevens says he. rjl..- J. Fl > +
81 told him to say Benz: j
Ben, then,' says he, I'm not
going to last much longer, I feel it
here, somehow of Warming -
''He did look awful bad, but I told
him to cheer up; we might get taken
off any time, for we were just III the
track now. * ~,p,:! 7,
stsNo, no, says he, cts all over
with me, 1 feel it here and lie put
his hand on his breast. Lord, what
a ndit was to what first knew it!
Thin and lean, and the bones making
the skin look shiny over them. Soft,
too, as woman's!
There's thing I want you to
do, Ben, if you get off at all.
81 told him I'd do anything for
him I could. 49,. j.
''Now listen, Ben, says he, sfor I
amt got much wind left. '.' III
The voyage, before last came
home with lot of money, and made
up my mind for a spree; so [ went.
ashore, and got a fashy suit of
clothes. Well, I didn't like the name
of Sands, so I took another, and had
a regular game. Tn very sorry now:
but you see, when. a fellows been
three years saznongst the coolies, it
seems rs though he ought to have d
little freedom when he gets amongst
white people again. tlAs
We'll, 1 went down to the sea-
side to a village I knew, and there I
saw a girl at church. She seemed
took with me, so struck up an ac-
quaintance with her for lark. She
took it quite serious, and was regu-
larly in love with me, and got at
last to be in love with her. Well, 1
didn't mean no harm to the girl, /
meant to marry her. I did, as rue
as God,' says he. We'll, we went
wrong, and one night she said I had
been cruel to her, and got cross
then told me we must be found out
soon. was savage at that and at her
being cross-poor girl, she'd cause to
be. So [ said I'd never see her again
and went off in huff. T meant to
come back, did, Ben. I. swear it.
Instead of that, I met messmate of
mine, and he got me drunk and ship
ped me on West India trader, and
when [ came to myself I was too far
from shore to get back; so L sulked
and shirked duty. The captain says
to me-:
''My man, it's no use-you're here
and you'll be paid. You can't get
back any quicker than with me; so do
your work like man, and we shall be
back in couple of .lonths or so, at
least ~ d, n
g so I did my work. When we
got to Kingston I took the fever, and
was in the hospital near two months,
he left me there, paying me for the
voyage out; and then [ came home
and heard that she'd gone away, no
body knew where
g Well, I set to work to find her,
: and tried all ways till the money was
gone, and then had to ship in the
Belle of Aberdeen, for I'm pretty
good at whaling, and knew I could
get money; and wished to go back
and find her, and get married to her.
"Here.he was took with spasn1s, so
bad that 1 brought out my case-bottle
OF brandy and gave him little. I'd
Just put In the cork, when the boy
came running to me and fell down ali
OF a heap close by me-
WHATS the matter?' saws I.
HE opened his mouth once or
twice, and at last got out, "A sail!
It's close BY can see 'em on the
deck, and he tainted right dead off
81 told Sands. w.
"A sail! says he, and tried to oct
up. Lord! he'd no more strenefb
than a baby, and fell down directly
looking as dead as could be. want.
ed to know more about him, so I gave
him some more brandy and asked him
the girls name. ~ lj@
=" 1.-THE sail, says the boy, for he'd
come to, and would say nothing else.
'Oh, the sail!' ~
What's her name?' SAYS I to
Sands. He stared at me as if he
didn't hear.