The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-19
of these saiIors WOULD bare bio baclz and

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of these sailors would bare his back and
take dozen flashes In place Of his
mesamate. too once thought 1 had
made such a. friend. Eheul
both Cooper and WEIGH seem by
their talk, to consider the ship living
creature. Cooper cheWs. WEIGH only
smokes, and omen lets his pipe out; he
Ia so volubla.
"Captain Hudson Is quite a charac-
or, might say, two characters: for he
il one man when he issober, and anoth-
er when he is the worse for liquor: and
that am sorry to see is very often.
Captain Hudson sober, Is rough,
peartah seaman with quick, expert
anced eye that takes in every rope in
Tie ship, as he walks up and down his
Quarterback. He either evadeS, or
bluntly declines conversation, and
gives his whole mind to sailing his
'sCaptain Hudson, drunk, is a Earru-
lous man. who seems to have drifted
back into the past. he comes up to you
and talks Of his own accord, and al
ways about himself, and what he did
fifteen or twenty years since. BE for
getswhatever has occurred half an hour
ago; and his eye, which was an eagles
Is now q mole's. He no longer sees
what hissailors are doing allow or aIoft:
TO be sure he no longer cares; his pres
emit ship may take care of herself whiel
he'is talking of his past ones. But the
surest dicia of inebriety in Hudson
are these two: First, his nose Is red
Secondly. he discourses upon a sea-
mans datty TO his employers. Ebrius
rings the changes on his duty to his
employers till drowsiness attacks his
hearers. Cicero de oDieiis was all very
we'll at certain period of ones life;
bIbtttEs ItaattG de o0teiis is rather too
much.
an. B. Except when his nose is red,
not n word, about his duty to his em-
ployers. That phrase, like fine lady,
never ventures into the morning air. 1t
Is purely pOst-prandtal, and sacred to
occasions when he is utterly neglecting
his duty ID his employers, and to every
body else.
...,All this is ridiculous enough but
her precious life should be intrusted TO
the care and skilI of SO unreliable n
captain
"Joseph WylIe, the mate, is less co.
centric, but even more remarkable. He
il one Of those powerfully built fellows,
whom Nature, one would think, con.
structed to gain all their ends by force
and directness. But no such thing; he
goes about as q cat; Is always popping
up out of holes and cornersi and can
see he watches me- and tries to hear
what say 10 her He is civil to me
when i speak TO hfmi yet notice, he
avoids me quietly. Altogether, there
Is something about him that puzzles
me. Why was he SO reluctant to let
me ON board as a passenger1 Why did
hetell downright falsehood9 For he
said there was no room for me; yet,
even now, there are two cabins vaeant,
and he has taken possession of them.
"The mate of this ship has several
barrels of spirits in his cabin, or rather,
cabins, and It is he who makes the cap
tain drunk. Ilearned this from one OF
the boys. This looks ugly. 1 fear
WElie Is bad, designing man, who
wishes TO ruin the captain, and 80 get
his place. But, meantime, the ship
might be endangered by this drunk
ards misconduct. I shall watch Wylie
closely, and perhaps put the captain ON
his guard against this false friend.
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