The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-08-23
goes my cap to leeward. and down ]

goes my cap to leeward. and down /.
goes crack. .......s..,,. ..s,s.,....,.s..,.s.
7 didn't hurt myself, and so II
crawls up pgin, and tkere was the snip
sending up rockets. II was q fine
t'sight. I can tell you, to see 2em go
up and burst into stars. Presently /
heard the booming again, and
thought as perhaps there was poor
aailors out there as was going to be
drowned. - 5es.p ,4sa,r gSfi
'"Then I got sleepy, and began to
hope father wouldn't come off to
fetch me now, cause it was too
rough, and I was afraid If he did,
perhaps he'd be drownded. T asked
God, if he pleased, not to let father
come off to be drownded, because he
hadn't been naughty, as know'd of,
and I had and SO if anybody was to
be drownded, I thought it ought to
be me.
Every now and then I heard the
booming of guns, and that and the
noise of the wind seemed to make
me more and more sleepy. Presently
1 thought I'd undo some of the
main-sail and roll myself up in it, for
1 was getting terribly cold.
"When I'd coiled myself up in it,
1 asked God to take care Of poor
little Jim, though he had been q
naughty boy. and to bless father and
mother, and uncles and aunts, and
all good people; and soon after this I
got quite warm, and the booming of
the guns and the howling of the
wind got all to muddle, and I fell
asleep. .
"How long I laid there I don't
know; but 1 was suddenly walked up
by being rolled right out O. the sail
into the bottom of the boat; and
when l looked up, it was broad day
light, and there was my father with
his mouth wide open.
'Hlllo, fatherl' says I; I'm SO
hungry
"But father didn't make no an
swer. All he did was to holler out
and laugh great, big laugh.
"When he'd done, he catches me
up and kisses me, and says he, I'm
ioggered if didn't think he'd turn
up somehow know'd he warn't
born'd to be drownded.'
"Next, he hists me up atop of his
shoulders, and begins to wave his
sou'wester, and holler-how he did
holler, to be sure.
"Well, first, out comes one of the
neighbors, and she looks, and she
waves her hand back, and begins to
holler too; and then she scutters off
into our house, and brings mother
out; and when she looked, I waved
my hand to her, and she throwd her
arms up and clasped her hands.
"Then father hollers to her, and I
hollers too, and father throws me up
in the air and catches me. In n mi
mute or two, mother and all the peo-
pie, men and wimmen, came running
down to the waters edge, shouting
and hollerjng like mad.
'When we got into the dingy to
pull ashore, every now and then, ia
ther gave great big laugh, saying,
Bless his heart, I know'd he warn't
born to be ,lrownded.
Presently, 1 begins to think about
the tanning.
"Father," says T, sis mother going
to tan me for getting aboard the
boat?"
eff she does, I'll tan her" he saws.
."Well, as soon as the dingy touched
the shore, all the men lays hold of her
and away we flies, and father and
boat and all, right up to high water
mark. Mother ketches me up and
begins to kiss me until I am almost
smothered, and the wimmen they all
kissed me; and after they'd done with
me, the men takes me up and begins
to chuck me about from one to the
other like cheese; and everybody
laughed land was SO pleased, and SO
was l, only L couldn't help saying,
Mother, I'm SO hungryr
"'Bless his heart, dare say he isl!
cried she; and she laid hold of me
and carried me home, and gave me
some breakfast. and set to with q
will. There stood father and mother
looking at me. Fust mother laughed
and then cried, and then father
laughed at her till he cried; and then
they fell kissing of one another, and
then me, and by that time finished
my breakfast.
"After a little while, grand father
comes in, and he shakes father by the
hand and don't say nothin', but all
the while he puckered up his old glib,
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