The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-11-19

you could say Jack Robinson,
Kent stuck bravely as far as the
cross- trees. There he slipped and strug-
gled and clung in the dark aud noise
awhile, then comes sliding down the
back-stay.
"I'm not afraid, sir" says he; "but
| cannot do it,"
For answer Whitmarsh takes to the
rope's-end. So Kentucky is up again,
and slips and struggles and olings again,
and then lays down again.
At this the men begin to grumble a
little, low.
"Will you kill the lad Z" said |. /
get blow for my pains, that sends me
off my feet none too easy; and when |
rub the stars out of my eyes the boy is
up again, and the mate behind him with
the rope. Wbitmarsh stopped when
he'd gone far enough. The lad climbed
on. Once he looked back. He never
opened his lips; He just looked back
If I've seen him once since, in my
thinking, I've seen him twenty times,
up in the shadow of the great gray
wings, looking back
After that there was only cry, and
a splash, and the Madonna racing along
with the gale twelve knots. If it had
been the whole crew overheard, she
could never have stopped for them that
night.
"Well," said the cap'n, "you've done
it now"
Whitmarsh turns his back.
By and by, when the wind fell, and
the hurry was over, and l had the time
to think steady thought, being in the
morning watch, | seemed to see the
old lady in the gray bunnet setting by
the fire. And the dog And the greer
rocking-chair. And the front door, with
the boy walking in on a sunny after.
noon to take her by surprise.
Then l remember leaning over to
look down, and wondering if the lad
were thinking of it too, and what had
happened to him now, these two hours
back, and just about where he was, and
how he liked his new quarters, and
many other strange and curious things
And while l sat there thinking, the
Sunday-morning stars cut through the
clouds, and the solemn Sunday-mornine
light began to break upon the sea-
We had a quiet run of it, after that
into port. where we lay about a couple
of months or so, trading off for fail
stock of palm oil, ivory, and hides
The days were hot and purple and still
We hadn't what you may call blow,
if recolect accurate, till we rounded
the Cape again, heading for home.
We were rounding that Cape again
heading for home, when that happened
which you may believe me or not, al
you take the notion, Tom; though why
a man who can swallow Daniel and tht
lions den, or take down t. other chal
who lived three days comfortable into
the inside of a whale, should make
faces at what I've got to tell can't see
1t was just about the spot that W,
lost the boy that we fell upon the wors
gale of the trip. 1t struck us quit,
sudden. Whitmarsh was a little high.
He wasn't apt to be drunk in gale, i
it gave him warning sufficient.
Well, you see, there must be some
body to furl the main-royal again, ant
he pitched onto McCalum. McCallun
hadn't his beat for fighting out the roya
in a blow.
So he piled away lively, up to thu
o'-sail yard. There all of sudden
he stopped. Next we knew he wa
down like heat-lightning.
His face had gone very white.
"Whats to pay with yOu" roare'
Whitmarsh.
Said McCallum, "zhers's somebody a
there, SIR"
Said McCallum, very quiet and dis
tinct: "There's somebody up there
sir. saw him quite plain. He say
me. / called up, He called down
says he, Don't you come upF and han
me if Ill stir a step for you or any otbe
man tonight"
l never saw the face of any man aliv
90 the turn that mates face went.
he wouldn't have relished knockin,
the Scotchman dead before his eyes
I've lost my guess. Can't say what b
would have done to the old fellow,
there'd been any time to lose.
He'd the sense left to see there wa
MT overmuch, so he orders out Bo
Smart direct.
Bob goes up steady. with a quid i
his cheek and a cool eye. Halfwa
amid to'-sa and to'gallant he stopl
and down he comes, spinning.
"Be drowned if there amt !" said hC
"He's sitting square upon the yard.
never see the boy Kentucky, if he ism
sitting on that yard. Don't you con
up p he cries ut,--'don't yoa come up r
"Bob's drunk, and McCallum's
fool" said Jim Welsh, standing BY
So Welsh volunteers up, and take
Jaloffe with him. There were coup
of the coolest hands aboard, -WelC
and JalofFe. So up they goes, and dow
they comes liks the rest, by the bacl
: stays, by the run.
HE beckoned of me back !" sa,
Welch. "He hollered not to come u
not to come upI"
After that there wasn't man of