Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-04-03
A Young llUrv.

".Av, ay,. sir they're smart seamcn
enough, no doubt, them Dalmatians. ard
reason coed, too, seein they aian half The
Austrian navy; but they amt got the
seasonin of an Englislman, put 1t how
Yer will r
ain starting on the uppor deck o. the
Austrian Lloyd steamer, locking my last
upon pyramidal Jail;., as itrscs up in Ter
race after terrace OF stern gray masonry
against the lustrous evening sky, with
the tipped breakers al lis feet. Be
side me- with his elbow on the handlall
and his short pipe between his teeth,
lounges the stalwart chiet-cnglnecl, as
thorough an Englishman US ii he lrad not
spent two thirds of his life abroad, and
delighted to get hold Of listener who
las he phrases i'll "has been about bit >
"No; they amt got an EnglishnIan' $
soasonin," he continues, pursuing his'crlt
icism of the Dalmatian scamcn; "and
what's more. they amt got an English
mans pluck neither not when it comes TO
o real scrape."
"Cun nc one but an Englishman have
any pluck, then asked l, laughing.
"Well, l won't just so for to sag that :
o'course man as is man 'ull have pluck
in him all the world over. I've seed q
Frencher tackle shark to save his mess
mate; and I've seed Rooshan stand to
his gun arter every man in the battery,
barrln' himself, had been blowed ali 10
smash. But, if yer come TO that, the
pluckiest feller as ever l seed warnt Il
man at oil r =,
What gas he, then pa woman 2"
"No, nor that neither; though, mark
ve l don't 90 for to say as how women
amt got pluck enough too, some on 'enl at
least. N.Y. old CONAN, now, saved my
life from a lubber OF Il 'Portlgee is vas
lust goln' to stick knife into me, when
she cracked his nut with handsp!Ee,
| (You can hear her spin the yarn yourself,
ii YOU likes to pay Us visit when We get
to Constantihople) Bu, this un as I'm
a-talkin' on was little lad not much biG
ger in Tom Thumb, only with sperrlt o!
his own as nd ha' blowed up u man owal
| most Would ger IL ke to. hear abcE'
it. T T ,.s.,jI i assent: .nu the :n.rr.,e.
knocking the ashes out Of his pipe, folds
his brawny arms upcnthe top 9i the rail
and eomnlences as follows:
8'Boat three years ago, afore got this
berth as I'm in now, Twas second englI
ncer aboard a Liverpool steamer bound
for New fork. Tlere'd been lot o.
extra cargo sent down Just at the last
I minute, and we'd had no end Of Jot
stowin' il AWAY and that ran us 'GtG
o'startifif SO that, altogether as you may
think, the cap'n warn't altogether IN the
sweetest temper in the world, nor the
mate neither; as for the chef-englneer
be was an easy-goin' sort o'chap as north
in on Garth could put out But on the
{ ,uornin' of the third day out from Liver
| pooi, be cum down to ME. in a prociou:
hurry, look!n' as if somethin had put hin
out pretty considerably,
"Tom,' says he, "what dye think
Blest if we amt found stowaway.'
fThats the name, you know, sir, US We
gives to chaps as hides themselves aboarc
ooutward-boun vessels, and gets carried
out unbeknown to everyboty.)
| The dickens you have !" says l. :. WHO
! is he, and where did Yer find him p
"Well. we found him slowed away
among the casks foPard and ten to one
we'd never ha' twlgged him at all, if .thf
skippers dog hadn't shifted him out ant
begun barklll'.l srch alltLle mite as h
IS tcnl4 could almost put him in MY
baocypouch, poor little beggarl but h!
lopks to be q. good plucky un for all that.
q" didn't wait to hear no more, but VI
on deck like q sky rocket; and there dit
see SCI a sight, and no mistake. Every man
lack O the crey, ard %hat few passenger
We bnd aboard, was all ina ring on t!h!!
fo'e's.,c, and in the middle STOOD the E.st
ma;e, lookin' as black as thunder Rlgh
in front of him, look:n reglar mt
among ~ all them big fellers, was little bi
q; lad not ten year. old-ragged as
0oarecroH but with. bright curly hair, ant
hmuie little face O his own, if it hadn'
heen 20 woful thin and pale. But. bles
vSl v son, to scs tie way that little "dsaa