The Shasta courier., 1868-11-07
SHASTA COURIER.
A Sailors Yarn.


ON 'artb 'arf so damnable delightful as going
to sleep, feeling yourself all cozy an COM
fortat le from the speerets you've been
drinking, aud hawking in the morning
with q cussed 'edache, and with big coone
a staining over you With Delaying pin in
his 'and explaining to you hall the car
cumstances as to 'ow you shipped, aud him
forming of you of the dootes you've now got
to perform Veil. sir, yos good bit knock
ed about by the various parties on board
that same craft; so Won fine morning, think
ing as 'ow l couldn't possible get into
voser BERTH and having the hopportunity so
for to do, | gives 'em the slip, and gets on
board an American waller. Rayther start
lin hincident hoccurred to me at that ere
time. A vale 'avin been seen by the man at
the look out, three boats were 'mediately
lowered into the vater an the men vos all
told hoff into 'em. The Captain himself
vent in one on em boats, leaving the first
mate in charge of the ship. vos in Won on
'em myself, a pulling an hoer. As We got
nearer to the vale We hobseryed 'er lifting up
her tail hail right as she took duck into the
sea, so We knowed as low she vos of a sort as
vos veil worth having. The boats hall separ
ated each from the tother and We we're hall
heagerly Watching the water, for We knowed
She come up again to the surface soon.-
Vile We we're nall straining hies an
looking hout for the first indications of her
vereabouts, Won o the chaps gives a terrific
'owl, an directly arter ards finds myself
travelling upards through the hair like
cricket ball. The vale, sir, had come up
right underneath us, and tie boat vos com
pletely stove in. Many of the men we're that
stunned by the blow, sir, that they vent down
never to happear no more. Won of the boats
pulled off to our rescue, vile t'other foller'd
up the vale. They soon crawled close to her
stern, and the harpoon vos got andy. The
Captain 'imself flung it, an With mighty
korrect aim too, for it 'addent no sooner
struck her than down she vent agin right
underneath, and Lord. sir away vent that
little vale-boat "a spnnin arter her, gnn 'aes
under, towed along by the line witch yos at
tached to the harpoon. A quarter of hour
afterwards she rose hup agin to the surfce,
an then :" the furry" as We calls it, began.
The vale had been bleeding profusely hall the
'ole time in 'er hnternals; but, sir, she
meant to keek hup bit of dust, she did,
in the water, afore she keeked the bucket
Good God sir, 'ow she did lash the water into
a foam with her tail, hall the time a blowing
hout her blood Like red smoke. 1t vos a grand
sight truly | should think therage of them
beeg bulls at a Spanish bull-fght vern't moth
ing to the fury of dying vale. Veil, sir.
it vos soon hall over. and she turned herself
bottom uppards. and now We we're Just think
ing about towing her beeg carkase halong
side of the ship ven We hobserved as 'ow the
ship bad clean gone away. She was no we're
to been seen. Great vos the CONSERVATION of
the Captain, to be sure, an very much wex-
ed he vos to find it so; 'owsomever, he
knowed it vos the first mates doing, concern
rnor xkh ha had afn haH
am so he guessed as ow i: varn't of no use
votever to wait for her. He dewided the pro-
visions between the boats, and cut out the
vaie's tongue, which is dooced good eating,
sir. an he tells to set sail for the nearest
pint of land. vieh 'appened to be for the
Clarence River ON the lIorsetralian coast, and
vich vos two hundred miles hoff, in nor
vestly direction. Veail prayed for fair veth-
er, but, sir, who ever card of things 'ap-
pening as We Won't 'em? Venever YOU see
the passengers packing hup at hend of a
long vige, you may be sure a foul Wind will
spring up an keep cm out of port for a week
ten days The helements his spitefuI, sir,
vich no Won can't deny. And so afore VERY
long We ad reg'lar gale a sweeping right
down upon US; luck y it came from abaft,
and helped us along a beet. The boat in
vch sat vos steered by young chap as
NOSll accustomed 10 tne anullng OF q steer
hoer, but it being as 'ow he vos her third
mate, We letted him ave his way Some of
the old uns growled at i'm few and as it
turned hout, they vos in the rights of it, for
he shortly afterwards let her broach to in the
trough of sea, and spray caught 'er and
turned her clean over. Hin moment We vos
hall swimming about, some holding on to
her keelson, an some we're hof to the tother
boat, vich, seeing our dissarster, 'ad turned
Ter ed round to help US. There vos Won Ca
naka chap, ha Sandwich Islander whose
name vos Jupiter he caughed 'old of the
compass ven she capsized, and | seed him
swimming hoff to the Captains boat, 'olding
the compass in his left and The Captain
he wouldn't let him. or any of em get in lis
boat, being afeared lest so many on 'em hall
trying for to get in together, with the heavy
seas on, would capsize him too 500 he tells
EN- they must just swim back agin, AN trv
to right their hown boat. So they Svims
back, ,eepting old Jupiter, who begins
cusslng an swearing awful at the Cap'n
an then axes i'm for the course to the CIar-
ence River, vich the Cap'n gives EN- Nor
vest and by vest-halEvest," saws he. Veil.
sir, ve'all tryes hard for to right the boat
an the Cap'n he tells US ow to do it, an in
harf an hours time righted ;er, an then
] got in her fust-for | was but buoy-to
bale her hout. Soon another gets in, as We
rid 'er Of 'er voter, AN then another, till
we're all in er again. We finds her hoers,
an her mast an sails, but We can't see moth
ing of the compass. of ole Jupiter so
We resoom'd our course in the wake of the
Cap'n's b,at Arter some time / heerd the
Cop'n hollern' out for ard to get the small
'arpoon andy, for" says he. d" there's
beeg porpoise right ed - but be comes
up, he sees rs 'ow it varnt no porpolse at all
but would you believe it, sir Pit vos old
Jupiter 'imselfa steering his course quite cor
rect-like to the Clarence River, with the COM
pass in his left and, hand composedy enough
he vos doing it. The skipper axed i'm vot
he was doing there and be turned his beeg
ed round as cool as picked sauman, an re-
piled, Nver yer mind. yer old thief. So
the Cap'n he sails past i'm; but when old
Ju. sees the t'other boat n folerin' he halls
'er and gets in. The next day We vos taken
on to Sydney in cutter as We fell IN With.
RoUGH.-One evening lately a merry party
was assembled at house in Nashville, Ten
nesscs, where wedding was about to take
place. The bride, parson and guests were
there and the bridegroom waited for. They
waited and waited. and at last were compell.
ed to dispense with the ceremony. The
bridegroom was on a jury that was unable to
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