Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-04
MY Observation-Disclosures

- NY GREAT.4RANDFATBER.
HIS Remarkable Voyage. :,
-: ny JOHN QUILL = e.
You see1:safd my great-grandfather, who
had gathered crowd of bis friends around
him ut the grocery store in Darby, Que
evening; you SEQ was once a sailor before
the mast, ON email vessel which was cruis-
ing about in tho Sonth Atlantic Qoean. ..
She was a very Amsll .vessel. and " ftail
that w1Saftelk n the time that she would
| aato plGcv 6she didn't III happened
|t1fky that fuSs seat alofEt o nail 8 block
OF sOme kind on the top of tho nlainmAst,
and rs We had NO Ratchet took amaze. l
hit the mast three or four pretty stiff
knocks, when all of sudden thought I
felt her 60 down with . jerk. But she look
Cd all right, and I thought it couldn't pos
sibly be. So l came down and said nothing
aboutit.
Three or four days aft rwards the mate
says to the captain:
>sCap.. it's queer we don't sight land by
this time"
VERY queer" says the captain. 90:
."Aud what's funny about it lis that for
made us out to DO in precisely the same lati-
tude and longitude
MAYBE something's tho matter with the
sun" 9@-s. ~,
:.or perhaps the parallels Of latitude have
"or maybe you've made mistake in your
figures"
IL didn't think of that" says the mate.
So they took another observation and
found that they wore in precisely the same
| cid place. Everybody was frightened, and
| It was not until after close examination
that it was ut last ascertained that had
actually driven that mainmast through the
bottom of the ship into the mud. where il
had stuck fast, and that tho old tub hud
been spinning round and round, like o
weather-cock on a steeple, all this time
without anybody knowing it. -"
To say that the captain was mad, don,
describe his condition. He roared around
60 about it, that I got scared, and hid my
self in an old i-cask In the hold There
laid all day, when it was decided to heavt
part Of the cargo overheard to tighten ship,
and the cask was in was headed up. and
afraid to bulge, and tho whole concern
was heased into the water. -
was in that barrel about four days. I,
was little; crowded, to be sure, and it
would roll some, but on the whole wal
comfortable. One day felt myself tossed
On shore, and then was so certain Of saw
ing my life, that / just turned over and
took tirst-class nap {, 20
was walked by something tickling my
face. At first I thought it was mosquito
but then remembered that no mosquito
could possibly have got into that barre
anyhow. brushed at 1t again, and caugh
it. It was = straw. gave it jerk. Some
thing knocked against the barrel outside
and ! heard the word.
"Tuyfel r's: g.
Then another straw was hurried, ant
pulled that harder yet. Something struci
tho barrel again. and heard this exclana
ton: * .
''Der Tuyfelw IS,
Then another straw was put in, and
caught bold Of it, and saw that it can
through the bunge-hole, and there wa6f1
man outside trying to suck something's
other through that straw, and every TIM
gave her . jerk it jammed his old nos
bat against the staves. So gave he
one. more pull, and then kicking the head
ont tbs cesk. ] got: ont and said to hi
fellow: IS:
Look here. what in the deuce are 70,
trying to do, anyhoWr. ::
I ''Nein. says he, shaking his head.
b s.'Whst ore you fooling around here for
say! :is:
"Nsin, says he.
"That makes eighteen" says I. -.
.Nein," says he. ''S'
"Twenty-seven," says I. "Go on: II
add it mp for you. I'm lightning caleal
ator, am" .'' -:
"Nein.:
"rhirty;si1." said. "You appear to b
regular original old first nine. What clul
do You belong to anyway i
"Mtin," says he. still shaking his head
"Forty-f-" Just then it flashed
across my mind that he was Dutchman
"Beer." says l, to try'him. :. '
+ had touched asympathetic chord in hi
nature. ~
| 20! yaw yaw says he "Ha ha da
| others, arms and wept. = iV
= ] felt that I had found ! friend.
I sincerely wished he had been my lont
lost brother, with the regular thing il
strawberry marks on his arm, only 1 neve
| had brother. and he was never long lost
| and never had anything ON his arm. >!
| But this German wa good fellow. HI
lived In Dutch Guiana, and had wife, ant
! three pretty daughters who were 80 precise
| ly alike that could never tell one from til,
other. fell in love with one of them;
never could tell which, 90 courted then
all three. just as they happened to com
along. tsS'
., One day they all came in together.
tried to be sweet with the one ! though
was the right girl, and the other two 20
80 mad that was afraid they'd burst som
blood vessel or other. Then all three o
them said had promised to marry them
and all three Of them repeated the fon,
words I had whispered to them, and &C
cused me of treachery.
| 1t looked stormy for me. There was en-
.tirely too much loves chidings for comfor,
| / then offered to marry them all three, an,
10 take them. to Salt Lake; or to cut my
self in three pieces; or to drown mysel
with them and perish in four water
graves.
Respectfully but firmly declined.
Then they all went out. After bit on
came in and said: .~..f
'.Abijah, dear, let us us elope together
and leave these horrid women, and 90 t
some sunny cline. where we can be happ
in the fullness of each others love-"
! Il will think it over, my angel" said ]
She passed out. Then one ofthem cam
in again.
| "Abijah, dear. let us fly together, an,
leave these horrid women; and 90 to som
sunny cline. where We can be happy in tn
fullness of each others love-" 49,, u,
II say will think it over, my own an
And she disappeared. But she SCENE,
anxious, 80 in SIZE comes again.
"Abijah. dear, let us fly together, an'
leave these horrid women, and 90 to som
sunny cline, where We can be happy in tn
fullness of each others love-"
"Look here, now, you've said that thre
times, and that's enough. NJ mind full
erasps the idea. say III think it over.
"Why, I never said it BEFORE" says she
THE mischief you didn't" says I.
upon my sacred word and honor; II
cross my breath to it, "ssye she.
! saw it all, They had all three Of then
tackled me with the same proposition.
was clear that must fly. made up M
mind TO- take the very first boat that lei
Dutch Guiana for anywhere.
I left the house, and hadn't gone NOR
than square when saw the parent of tn
three girls in pursuit. We both ran. II
was armed. He carried his boomeran
with him. He fred it at me. lodged
and the boomerang flew back and braine
him on the spot, and there were precisel
three more beautiful orphans in Dutch Gu
lana than there were when ! came.
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