Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-11-03
miscellaneous.
MY GREAT.GRANDFATHER.
HIS Remarkable Voyage.
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BY JOHN QUILL
You see. said my lreat-grandfather, wh'
had gathered erowo OF his friends aroun'
him at the grocery store IN Darby, on
evening; You see | was once sailor befor'
the mast, on a small vessel which was eruis
ing about in the South Atlantic Ocean.
She was a very small vessel, and so iran
that was afraid all the time tina. she would
90 to pieces, but she didn't 1t happened
one dav that I was sent aloft to nail blocl
of some kind on the top of the mainmast
and as We had no haiehet took an axe.
hit the mast three or tour pretty str
knocks, when all of sudden thought
felt her GO down with jerk. But she look
ed ALI riGht. and / thought it couldn't pos
sibly be. So | came down and sad nothing
abeut it,
Three or four days aft rwards the mate
says to the captain:
Gap, it's queer We don't sight land by
this time"
Every queer says the captain.
s-Ani what's funny about 1T Is that fol
several days past my instruments have
made us out to be in precisely the same lati-
tude and longitude
s'Maybe something's the matter with the
sun
'-Or perhaps the parallels of latitude have
shifted.
"or maybe you've made a mistake your
figures"
Il didn't think Of that" says the mate.
So they took another observation and
found that they were in precisely the same
old place Everybody was frightened, and
IT was not until after close examination
that it was at last aseertained that had
actually driven that mainmast through the
bottom of the ship into the mud. where 1t
had stuck fast, and that the eli tub had
been spinning round and round, like a
weather-cock on n steeple, all this time,
without anybody knowing 1T.
To say that the captain was mad, don't
describe his condition. He roared around
so about it, that / got scared, and hid my
self in an old cask in the hold. There
laid all dav. when it was decided to heave
part of the cargo overheard to tighten ship,
and the casE / was in was headed up and
/ afraid to bulge, and the whole concern
was heaved into the water.
+ was in that barrel about four days. Ii
was a little crowded, to be sure, and 1t
would roll some, but on the whole l was
comfortable. One day | felt myself toosed
on shore, aud then l was so certain of saw
ing my life, that just turned over and
took first-class nap.
vas walked by something tickling my
face. Al first thought it was mosquito,
hut then remembered that no mosquito
could possibly have got into that barrel
ANYHOW / brushed at IT again, and caught
L. Ii was a straw. | gave 1T jerk. Some
thing knocked against the barrel outside.
and I beard the word
'.Tuyfal =
Then a,.ather straw was hurried, and
I pulled Il. 4 harder yet Something struck
tue barrel gain, and heard this exclama-
ton:
Der Tuytel =
Then another straw was put in, and |
caught hold of it. and saw that 1T came
through the bunge-hole, and there was a
man outside trying 10 suck something or
other through that straw, and every time
gave her jerk it jsmmed his old nose
bat against the slaves So l gave her
one more pull, and then kicking the head
out of the cask, got out and said to this
fellow:
Look a here, what in the deuce are you
irving to do, anyhow"
As.Nsia, says be, shaking bis head.
s..what are you fooling around here for,
say
That makes eighteen, says l.
'Neia, says he.
.sTwentv-seven," says /. ''Go on: III
add it mp for you. I'm lightning calcul
ator. | am.
NeiH.
-srhirty:six," said ''You appear to b.
a regular original old first nine. What ciut
do you belong to anyway
.sNein," saws he, still shaking his head
s.Fortv-fN" Just then it flashed
scross my mind that he was Dutehman
Beer" says |. to try him.
had touched asympathetic chord in hi
nature.
"Otyaw! yaw says he ''Ha ha da
- gooti o. yawr' and we rushed into eacl
otEer's arms and wept.
T felt that had found friend.
al sincerely wished he had been my ionl
lost brother, with tie regular thing il
strawberry marks on his arm, only neve
had 8 brother, and he was never long lost
and never had snything on his arm
But this German wa good fellow. III
lived in Dutch Guiana. and had a wife, ant
three pretty daughters who were SO precise
lv alike that / could never tell one from tn
other. / fell in love with one of them;
never could tell which, SO courted ther
all three, Just as they happened to com
along.
tried to be sweet with the one i Though
was the right girl, and the other two GO
so mad that was afraid they'd burst som
blood vessel or other. Then all three {
them said had promised to marry then
and ali three of t. IN repeated the fon
words / had whispered to them, and az
cused me Of treachery.
IT Itlooked stormy for me. There was Ell
sireIy too much loves chidings for comfoT
4 then offered to marry them ali three, an
totake them to Salt Lake: or to cut ny
self in three pieces; or to drown myse
with them and perish In four water
graves.
Respectfully but firmly declined
Then they all went out After q bit on
came in and said:
"Abiiah. dear let us us elope togethe
and leave these t0rrid women, and go
some sunny cline. where we can be hapI
in the fullness of each others love"
II will think ii over, my angel" said
She passed out. Then one Of them can
"Abiiah, dear, let us fy together, ar
leave these horrid women, and go to SON
sunny cline, where we can behappy in T.
fullness of each others love.
81 say win think it over, my own al
gel"
And she disappeared. But she SCENE
anxious, so in she comes again.
"Abijah, dear. let us ty together, an
leave these horrid women, and go to. son
sunny cline, where we car be happy In IL
fullness of each others love.
sIook here, now, you've SAID that thr'
times. and that's enough. My mind ful
grasps the idea. say I'll think it over
why, pever said it before says sh
1.-THE mischief you didn't," says l.
s.Upon my sacred word and honor; l
cross nv breath ia it, "says she.
saw it ALL They had all three OF the
tackled me with the same proposition.
was clear that 1 must fly l made up n
mind to take the very first boat that lie
Dutch Guiana for anywhere.
/ left the house, and hadn't gone mo
xhaa . square when saw the parent OF Il