Smyrna times., 1873-03-26
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A Young Hero.


too seein' they man half the Austrian navy; s
but they amt got the seasOnin' of an English t
man, put it how you will. " IL
| am standing on the upper deck of the /
Austrian Lloyd steamer, looking my last upon t
pyramidal Juffa as it rises up in terrace after q
terrace Of stern gray masonry against the lus-
trous evening sky, with the foam tipped breakers
at it's feet. Beside me, with his elbow on the
handrail, and his short pipe between his teeth,
lounges the stalwart chief engineer, as thorough
an Engishman as if he had not spent two
thirds Of his life abroad, and delighted to get
hold of listener who (as he phrases itl has
been about bit. "
"No; they amt got an Englishman's sea-
.onin'," he continues, pursuing his criticism
| of the Dalmatian seaman. land what's more,
they amt got an Englishman's ptuck neither,
not when it comes to a rdat scrape."
"Can no one but an EngliShman have any
pluck, then?" asked |, laughing.
i "Well, won't just go for to say that; o |
i course a man as Is a man 'ull have pluck in |
him all the world over. I've seed Frencher
tackle shark to save his messmate; and I've
seed Rooshan stand to his gun arter every
man in the battery. barrin' himself, had been
bowed all to smash. But, if yer come to that,
the pluckiest fellow ever seed warn't man
at all
"What was he then-a woman?"
"No, nor that neither; though, mark ye,
don't go for to say as how women ain got
pluck enough too-some on EN- at least. my
s old 'ooman, now, saved me once from lubber
of a Portgee as was just gOln to stick
l. knife into me, when she cracked his nut with
handspike. You can hear her spin the
. yarn yourself it you likes to pay US visit
: when we get to ConstantinOple.) But this un
e as IN talkn on was a little lad not much
. bigger n Tom Thumb, only with a sperrt OF
n his own as nd ha' blown up man o war
If a'most Would yer like to hear about it?''
70 | eagerly assent; and the narrator, knocking
r. the ashes out OF his pipe, folds his brawny
Or arms upon the top of the rail, and commences
~ as follows:
" "Bout three years ago, afore got this berth
as I'm in now, | was second engineer aboard a
| Liverpool steamer bound TO New Y ork. There q
ne been lot of extra cargo sent down just at the
ne last minute, and we'd had no end OF jOt
: stown' it awsy, and that ran US late o startln
'' so that altogether, as you may think, th'
"a capn'n warn't altogether in the sweetes
temper in the world, nor the mate neither; a
.re for the chief engineer, he was an eaSy-goln
Al; | sort O. chap as nOthn on earth could put out
m. But on the mOrnin' of the third day out frou
ice Liverpool he cum down to me in preclou
nj hurry, looking as if SOnlethiH had put him ou
pretty considerably.
un- Tom says he, what dye think? Bile:
If we amt found stowaway. (Ihat tn
ers hides theirselves aboard Outward-bound vessel
nn and gets carried out unbeknown to ever
irst body
an 1o''The dickens you have!' says I. WI
OF is he, and where did you find him ?
4'e; "'WeIl, we found him slowed away amor
'"a' the casks for ard; and ten to one we d new
ha' twivged him at all if the shippers d.
hadn't shifted him out and begun barkI
he'e Sich little mite as he is too! L could u mC
us, put him in my baccy pouch, poor little begg;
"f" is but he looks to be a good placSed un tor
go that.
g"e 81 didn't wait to hear no more, but up
n ~ deck like a skyrocket; and there | did SCI
Dost sight; and no mistake. Every man, Jack o
crew, and what few passengers we had aboa
ever. was all in a ring on the TO c'te, and IN
d M middle stood the fust mate, loOEin as Oiack
said thunder Right in front OF him, lookin
place reg lar mite among all them big fellers, wa
e the little bit O. lad not ten year Old-ragged a
ional scarecrow, but with bright curly hair, an
uited bonnie little taco O his own, if it hadn't b
rs' :, so woful thin and pale. But, bless yer SO
shaii to see the way that little chap held his h
whom " " - -: Lolo,ad % him Tha n,ate VT.
II and "nOo x:5 I'H SIeSL boor5ad foIlar with
"'' that 'ud ha' frightened horse, and vOlc
Al ., to make one jump through keyhOle; but
young one wsrn't bit afeared-he 81
, .uv straight up and looked him full in the face
,ibted them bright, clear eyes o hisn, for all
sstina. world as if he was Prince Hatred him
Folk did say afterwards" towering his voi'
.ble in a whisper) "as how be coined o better b
use of nor what he ought; and, for my part,
rather O that way o thinking myself;
'' never vet seed a common street Harab las
] may calls 'em now) carry it off like hinI.
n such might ha heered pin drop as the
is'ered spoke.
Hge. be =" Well, you young whelp, says he in
'"t ez; grimmest voice, what's brought you here
IS, and - 1t was my stepfather assdone it, say
nd this 49, - a ,vaat E,tla voice hnt as steat
at could be- Fathers dead, and mothers
saenes res red again, and my new father says as ho
,oi s won't have no brats about eatin' up bis W
oh eor- and he slowed me away when nobody VI
lookin', and guv me some grub to kee
goin' tor a day or two till got to sea.
. kind says I'm TO go to Aunt Jane at Halifax;
10 ., here her address.
''G u, 81. "And with that he slips his hand into
oorres breast Of his shirt, aud out with a scri
-, paper, awfal dirty and crumpled up, but
the address on it, right enough.
. ooun. I'VE all believed every word ont, even
All take out the paper, for his look, and his voice
States the way he spoke was enough to show
objected there warn't ha pQrth o lynn III his
CORES. skin. But the mate didn't seem TO swalle
n inter. yarn at ALL he only shrugged his shoulders
,odence kind O. grin, as much as to say; I'm too
ner the bird to be caught with that kind o chat;
,ount of then he SAYS to him, Loyk here, my
rational that's all very fine but il won't do here
States, n ,bese men n mine are In the secret
lty paid mean m have II ont of 'em. Now, you
aies. ,1a;r.t o,t ,ha ,non 90 stownd vou owav an
III be at o ~ rar,, ,a;nn,e ;f vou don't it'll
D it ap. yu.ia eaIl 49,, t'f''' :" 80 -
there is "VisT ,t 1,,o io' yJu k;s hr;oht ta
,bs fol- way, (it did my heart good to look at him
brave little chapl) and says quite quietly;
register told you the truth; am got no more 20
d TO the " The mate says notpin put looks
ter fees for minute as If he d see clean through
hes. the and then he faced round to the men, 10
required blacker than ever. Reeve rope to the
the two he sings out, loud enough to raise the (