The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-11-23

was did. 1t blew enough to take the chr
whiskers off a Spanish mackerel. l have
seen no account in the Old or New Teasta.
ment when it blew so hard as it did tina,
day. The old boat bobbed up and down
worse than anything on this mundane
sphere, except Bleecker street horse-car
The skipper scupped around the wharf, land
shouted, "Get aboard ~
Says /, &" can't find ONE
He yelled in stentorian yell, "Get on
to the craft -
/ So got ON to the craft Then he un-
hitehed the bride and let her go. The
lee-scuppers were double-splced She had
ten dollar bonnet on her jib. The main
top foreroyal mizzen staysail sheet was
double-reefed and clewed up to clew
The Robert stays were hard a-port and her
hampers were bent double. The skipper
told me to take the tiller 1t was solemn
moment. So took the tiller.
Then he sang out, jam her hard
down.
Says ], "She is jammed hard down."
"Quick, quick he yelled, and let 90
the tiller, to look in the dictionary to see
what jam her hard down " meant, when
the boat turned a corner s. quick that we
hove two, and both of EN- went overheard.
| fell down into the sub-cellar, and swal-
lowed some nice bilge water. We lutfed
and We tackled and we came up into the
wind, and we sailed sideways and length
ways until we reached the fishing ground,
which was water. Then we threw out our
lines, and l hauled in just two fish, when
l felt gormy. l felt a regular corn colored
sickness coming on, and | went down
stairs and laid down, and sang,
Put me in my little bed,
g want to 90 home,'
and sich like, while them Orangemen kept
hauling in fish and singing Out, " See EN-
break!' 'Quick, quick ~ and sich like,
while l enjoyed myself being sick. BY
and by it really made me feel good to see
the fish suffer. A fellow what's going to
be hung derives satisfaction from knowing
some other fellow is to be hung with him.
To see them fish flop made me feel good.
One poor cuss Topped about until he got
into shady spot, and l saw he appeared
to enjoy it; so took him and laid him out
in the sun, and said, "Now, darn you,
flop And he did flop.
felt, when l began to get sick, like I'd
swallowed Mount Ararat, the first volume
of Pilgrims Progress, ten cents worth of
turnpike, the rear end of a horse-car, and
two male goats; and when ! got through
| was as hollow as a putty blower. The
sensation was very queer.
FISHING IN SCHOOL HOUSE.
When we got ashore l laid me in my lit
tie bed, and the next morning | got up to
see if the sun rose in the same place it did
when l was a boy. l went down to the
wharf, and | saw hen-coop floating. 1t
was full of fish Thinks !, "I'll say moth
ing to nobody" so | went and got some
bait, and l undid the scuttle of that hen
coop, and l never had such luck in my life.
hauled them in like old sixty, until fcl-
low comes running down the wharf, and
sings out:
'What in thunder are you doing?"
"Why,' said I, I'm fishing"
'Well,' said he, chat is cool; that is
my fish car
NO" said |.
"Ics," said he.
Then told him thought had struck
a school, and that was the school house.
Says he, "Put them fish back
Says |, 81 won't"
Then we left it to Sammis, and Sammis
said, ''Sot 'em back"
SO | sot EN- back
Then the cuss said, 'Put on the scut-
tie"
We left that to Sammis, and Sammis
said, "Put on the scutte''
SO put on the scuttle; and, take it all
in all, | got myself in a pretty kettle of
fish, and | didn't succeed in finding my
watch either.-N. Y. Sm.