The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-03-27
A Young Hero.


reason good, too, seem they man half the
Austrian navy; but they amt got the sea-
Sonin OF an Englishman, put it how yer
will p
am standing on the upper deck of the
Austrian Lloyd steamer, looking my last
upon pvramdal Jatla, as it rises up in
terrace after terrace OF stern gray ma
s0ury against the lustrous evening sky,
with the foam-tipped breakers at its feet
Beside me, with his elbow on the hand
rail, and his short pipe between his teeth,
lounges the stalwart chief-engineer, as
thorough an Englishman as if he had not
spent two-thirds OF his life abroad, and
delighted to get hold of listener who
Gas he phrases it) '.has been about a bit"
ono; they amt got an Englishman's
seaSonin',' he continues, pursuing his
criticism Of the Dalmatian seamen; land
what's more, they amt got an English
mans pluck neither not when il comes to
real scrape."
Can no one but an Englishman have
any pluck, then ?" ask l. laughing.
"Well, | won't Just 90 for to say that;
O course Z man Us is a man 'ull have
pluck in him the world over. I've seed Il
Frcnchel tackle a shark to save his mess
mate: and I've seed Rooshan stand to
his gun arter every man in the battery,
barrn' himself had been bowed all to
smash. But if yer come to that the
pluckieSt TELLER AS ever | seed warn't a
man at alln
"What WAS he, then ? woman ?"
"No, nor that neither; though, mark
We, don't 90 for to say as how women
amt ct pluck enough, too-somc on EN-,
at least. NV old CONAN. now, saved me
once from lubber of a Portuoee as was
lust a-goin to stick knife into me. when
she cracked his nut with a bandspjkc
you can hear her spir the warn vourself
if YOU likes to pay us a visit when we get
to ConstantinopIp) But this mn as I'm a
talkfn' an was a lille lad NOT mnrh hiog
n Tom trblmnb oniy With snerrit nf bis
own rs md ha, blowed mn a man-o-war
a'mott. Would We like TO hear about if 49,
eagerly assent and the narrator
knocking he ashes out of his pipe. folds
his brawny arms uDon the ton Of the rail
and commences AS follows:
Bout three Years AGO. afore oot this
berth us I'm in now. I was second en-
piueer aboard = l.ivarnool steamer. bonnd
for New York Thpr4,d been lot Of av-
fra CARGO sent down inst at the last min
ute we'd no end of n ioh stowin, If away
and that ran rs late a. startin' 40 that
altooether. n Won NAV think The can'n
warn't altogether in the sweetest temnor
in the world nor the mate neither. 90 for
the chief-enpineer he was an aasv-ooin'
sort o chan as nothin, on earth conld mt
ont But on thn mornin, Of the third dav
ont fam, I ;,,e,,,orI NO o,,r, dn,y,, 70 ,,,',
i'm nrpcinus hurry Iool,in, nc If soo,atb;n,
had nnt him on1 nrettv considerably
Tom - sove he ..what dive think
BIes, II we ajn't found a stovawav ),
(Tbat,s thn nann WIN I,no,y civ as ya
,,;vac to chans as b;doS tbo;rso,,ras .,aoord
0ut,o.r,-bonn1 vessels ana Ctots oarr;ad
ont nnbeknown to everybody
..The dickens Won have, SavsT ..yyho
is he and where aid Yer find him 2n ~
"NVeU we found him slowed auvor
a,,on,, tho cool,g fo,,ard. and ,o,, 80 ' aas
we'd never ba, tyigoed him At al # tho
skinner's dor badn'f shifted him ont and
haI,rn ba,l,in' Sncb a litfIo ,aita as no ~
TOO ronId a'most INIT him in NV ha 100 =,
nonch noon littlo hnanari hnt bo lonLs -
he - pond nInrlI Inn for all that"
didn,t wait fo hear no mora bnt nm on
deck like a skv-roclet. and thara did 500
q ei,,lt and M n,istake FvarI ,,,on-Taol-
o, the crew and what few nassen GERS W., WE
had aboard was all in a rino on the
$500 i =: H. :5I, i 'no
mate lookin, as I1acll &C tbnndor RIM
in front If him Ioolin, a re,,ar m;,o
among ali them bio tallars was a little an t;t
q, a lad NOT fen year old-raaoaS as
scaro-c,ow bnt Win br;(,bt n7,r,v ba;r
and homie little face ., his own If i
HADN'T bean 50 wofnl thin and nale Rut
HESS YER qonl to SEQ tbe waF that l;ttlo
chan held his head m and Looked about
him you'd ha, thonobt tba whole chin no.
lonoed to him The mata uas rrroat
hnIFin, black bearded Teller with : , I"I,
that md ha' frightened horse and voice
fit to make one lump through kev.hoIe.
but the Young ,un warn't bit afearedN
he stood STRAIGHT mn and looked him frIl
in the face With them bright clear ewes