Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-09

by the Typhoon?"
My brother answered decidedly, '' Yes. Ne
have sailed in queerer craft than she is Is
| there anything against her?"
| &" The fiaesi ship which ever came into the
bay" our friend answered But she has a
queer crew.
" We know all about that said Edmund
''We have sailed with Lascars before now
How about the captain
" A gentleman and a sailor. every inch OF him
| God send him always good d ship, and al
ways better crew.
=. Well" said Eimund, ave will chance the
crew ; how al out the officers -
" Let me Introduce you to the first mate,
said our friend, and forthwith took US across
| the room, and presented us to the man We had
noticed on entering. Now got near to him.
was obliged to confess to myself that he was one
of the most ill-looking dogs had ever seen.
We shall see more of him directly.
As for the rest, we could only gather that the
ship was splendid ship, and that the captain
was jewel. That contented US on the whole.
On the third day from that we were on board
waiting for the mailbag. l was standing on
the house on deck by the captain, watching for
The last tlmc the 5werms Of gray corvic-s
10 the black Yuarries, AMI the pleasant, sunny
peaceful hills which lay beyond. thinking that
alter all, 1t was a rery dear old country, and
getting pathetic about leaving it, when heard
a quiet voice behind us say
are you 1Ol1S 10 tihc steatIi SIT
The captain turned Immediately. e" think
this suck from the north viii do, sir IT it holds. "
turned VIII n the skipper turned, and saw
for the first time Brown Passenger.
He was very brown indeed. A scrupulouely
dressed, middie-sized man, with very brown
face, and lron-gray close cropped hair. No ap,
pearance Of beard or whiskeTs Say an old man,
If you like yet So slngulaIly handsome, with
such Intelligence, vitality, and determination in
ais lace, that one felt glad that be LOT a
suitor tor the hand OF any young lady whom
orc proposed 10 make oue's own | liked the
looks OF him exceedingly. But unfortunately,
ne, at frs, could not admire ths looks, the
presence, ut either my brother myself i
/ ioCnd out afterwards the Of this. 1t
our boards. lie told Mrs. Dishmore, during an
interval 81 squabblIEg, that he GespIset any
man who was too lazY to shave himself and OF
course Nj. DIshnore, who spared with (or
/ To SPEAK more properly, lne) worse than she did
| Hltn him, told u. Was never anything but
very civil - tbe man. even before this, and al
"Ass tfled 10 make Ic~cv between INN and my
brother, who never submitted TO him Tor one IN
slant But through 1t all, | think he liked Ed
muud better than he did me.
On this occasion, when the captain had walked
forward, was gushingly polite to him. l said,
IL open the conversation, - This wind will take
Us through the deads IN ten hours, sir Our
crew are q rough lo', but they seem smart.
Il don't profess to know much of this sort
! Of business, sir, he growled " but il | may
be aliowed an opinion, should say that more
/ tur0ulen., drunken set of vagabonds never ha
charge Ot snip before. Anu then he Walk ed
AFT, as If | was utterly below contempt.
said u myself - You are cool hand and
/ somewhat impertinent. You have been living
III Queer Street, and have got history. |
should like ~ know 1t. But you must not be
iinpertinent 10 me, young gentleman. | have
lived IN Queer Street, too, though do mt knos
/ your number. Folks who havS once lived in
/ Qneer Street never iInpcrtinent TO me. You
must be won over. You worth it
4 But meanwhile cur rAscally crew. Llsc4rs.
/ whIte- washed Americans, and "sGndry." had
/ got the anchor up and some sail. spread, and We
began to travel down the hirbor before the north
wind. Oar SKIPPER knew the harbor well
enough 10 drop lis pilot and take her cut
/ through the Heads on his own responsibility
All down the long harbor the ship as steady
as rock, but when We had passed th 50 Hea ds
and came on the great swell of the Indian OCEAN,
the yards were brace up the great ship seemed
10 give sigh, and bent over TO her sixteen thou
/ sand miles battle with the eleme ts Nv last
recollec ion OF the beautiful melancholy country
which We SD III never see again is this az our
/ ship III ide her FIRST sIckenIng plunge in the
ocean, and showed US that she not mere
Inert mass of lro3, but glorious, amest living,
creation OF the bHmd1 brain !; | standing on the
quarterback, and feeling as If the bottom of my
somach was coming out II each mad dive (l
am never sea sick, that is quite another thing),
/ noticed that We were passing Ii. NJ. s. Ssyx,
which Numbering the teeth of the
wind, at one moment showing US, in beautiful
contrast, her cleaning bright deck, at another
her long black hull, III which the volcano slept
oIxty-iour-pounders are but poI-1un in these
days, of course, but nevertheless she looked
about as il-tempered and da lgerous bit of
gocds ever hoated on hig h seas.
xuf.f a.. b.t.4
with 1t the grea. westerly swell. The ship te-
gan to roll heavily as she hsw before it, bury
ing her lee bulwarks continually. For few
days L stayed much on deck enjoying the wild
scene, but II soon got too cold. The ships head
was southward, and the days grew shorter, and
tie whlriing sncw-storms more frequent as she
went how!lng down towards the Welterng seas
OF the Antarctic Ocean.
So now ad leisure to examine our fellow
passengers more closely. The first one | nat
urally stuffed was the one who gives title to
this paper,-the man known to US on the first
half OF the y0ya &c Sc the Bfown Passeng, "
liked him, but he was very queer aud re-
served and he Tor the first Il day did not seem
to like His great objection, as he told ma
after, was my beard but even alter he passed
that over ana We became more familiar | could
not find out who he was, what was mis- rank 10
life, where he Lad been, or what his opinions
were. tie was The closest man | ever met. He
agreed with me in qualified manner, till, like
the late Mrs. Shandy, he nearly drove one mad
He Was 50 txaspeIatins!y negative and reticent.
and what made the mattei more exasperating
was, that there force and decision on eyery
line OF his brown face H. was man of action,
and of strong convictions, yet | never
could strike d spark out o: him. l used to try.
felt sure that the man had corns somewhere e |
on his feet, and used TO stamp about vaguely
TO TT and punch one of them. [ never gol any
acknowledgment of teeline, ou. Of him, how
ever, but slow, amused sinle. | saw that he |
liked me the better ior my efforts t. irritate him
into some expression OF opinion, but the only |
visible result was that same quiet. bright smile,
and that only appeared when had contradict
ed myself III trying to irritate him, and he had
in few clear words showed that was contra
dieting myself. gave him up after week, fer
| made the not very aattering discovery that be
was amusing himself with me He was Some
body, said to myself, man who had been I
Knocked about the world good deal, had heard
many opinions expressed, and would not COM
nit himself. The captain, on inquiry. told me
that he had been Knocked about the world con-