The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-11-12

she seems to say,-"thlnk II II was
hmg' . ...... ........
And the next I knew I'd let slip my
tongue in jiffy, ard give it to the mate
that furious and onrespectful as III wa
ger Whitmarsh never got before. And
the next knew after that they had the
irons on me.
"Sorry about that, eh'" said he, the
day before they took 'em off
"No, sir" says I. And never was
Kentucky never forgot that. | had
helped him occasional in the beginning,
Learned him how to veer and haul
brace, let go or belay sheet but let
him alone generally speaking, and went
about my own business. That week in
irons | really believe the lad never for
got.
One time-it was on Saturday night
and the mate had been uncommon fu-
rous that week-Kentucky turned on
him, very pale and slow Il was up in
the mizzen top, and heard him quite
distinctly .......
"Mr. Whitmarsh," says he,-"Mr
Whitmarsh, he draws his breath in,
-"Mr Whitmarsh, three times
"you've got the power and you know
it, aud SO do the gentlemen who put
you here; and I'm only stow away
boy, and things are all in tangle, but
you'A be sorry get .tdr every time you'rs laid
yow hdadS on mel'
He hadn't pleasant look about the
eyes either, when be said it. .#
Fact was, that FIRST month on the
Madonna had done the lad no good.
He had a surly, sullen way with him,
some'at like what Pve seen about a
chained dog. At the first, his talk had
been clean as my baby's, and he would
blush like any girl at Bob Smart's sto-'
ries; but he got used to Bob, and pref
ty good, in time, at small swearing.
don't think | should have noticed
it so much if it had not been for SEEM
ing to see Nelly, and the sun, and the
knitting needles, and the child upon
the deck, and hearing Of it over, "Think
if it was hmP Sometimes on a Sun
day night / used to think it was a pity.
Not that l was any better than the rest,
except so far as the married men are
always steadier Go through any crew
the sea over, and it the lads who have
homes of their own and little children
in 'em as keep the straightest.
Sometimes, too, used to take fam
cy that l could have listened to a word
from a parson, or good brisk psalm
tune, and taken it in very good part.
A year is long pull for twenty-five
men to be becamed with each other
and the devil. | don't set up to be
pions myself, but I'm not a fool, and
know that if we'd had SO much as
one good officer aboard who feared
God aud kept his commandments, we
should have been the better men for it.
It's very much with religion as it is
with cayenne pepper eff it's there, You
know it,
If you had your ships on the sea by
the dozen, you'd bethink you of that,
Bless you, Tom. if you were in Rome
you'd do as the Romans do. You'd
have your ledgers, and your children,
and your churches and Sunday schools,
and freed niggers, and 'lections, and
what not, and never stop to think
whether the lads that sailed your ships
across the world had souls, or not
and be a good sort of man too. That's
the way of the world. Take it easy,
Tom, take it easy. n
Well, things went along just so with
us till we neared the Cape. It's not a
pretty place, the Cape, on winters
voyage. | can't say as / ever was
what you may call scart after the first
time rounding it, but it's not pretty
place. .. ....
don't seem to remember much
about Kent along there till there come
Friday at the first of December. II
was a sti'l day, with little haze, like
white sand siited across a sunbeam on
kitchen table. The lad was quiet
like all day, chasing me about with his
eyes.
"Sick7" says /. uat5e oa
mo-" says he. .aa# prom ,r
"Whitmarsh drunk" says l..
"No," says he.
A little after dark l was lying on a
coil of ropes, mapping it. The boys
were having the Bay of Biscay quite
lively, and | walked up on the jump il
the choruses. Kent came up whlle
they were telling
''IIow she lay .
On that day
! In the Bay Of BIsCAY or ...
He was not singing He sat dowr
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