Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-04-09
Miscellany.
eTerl aulcd BY a Pirate.

inaction-and surveying. with that cool.
nOthing-tO -speak-Of air CHARACTERISTIC OF
the uudemonslraiive Anglo-SaxtOn, the
vas, expause Of sunii sea beneath our fee
and the huge dark green pyramid Of Cape
Eric, topped BY its trim lighthouse, tow
eng giaut-like overhead.
.'Now think Of it," remarked l, "yeu
promised me South American stor.', aud
I've never had it yet. Suppose you give
il to me to-day. With all your travels.
you must know a good yarn or two.
Can't you recolIect a yarn connected
with Cape Frio yOnder ? 1t would come
in very appropriately, Just now.
Over the ancient mariners broad, joyi-
al face, falls sudden gloom. like the
shadow of some great peril rising up again
from the far past. Before he can utter
word. divine that the coming story
will be one of no ordinary interest.
"Well." he answers. at length, with a
grim earnestness IN his voice, lit happens
that l hare got yarn about Cape Frio-
ani such one as you don't often hear
uow-a-days. You young travellers of this
generation only read about what | saw
then: but it was not thing to be for
gotten. Listen. and l tell ycu about it.
"On fine morning in May, 1881,
was rounding that very hesdland that you
see youder, in the brig Carron, bound
from Glasgow to Rio de Janeiro and
although we had onr share of rough
weather on the way, can't remember b
voyage that enjoyed more. You young
fellows of this high pressure age. who gal
Top through your lives as you would ride
to honuds, aud fly over country OF event
as you would take big fence, cam
think how much you lose. In my time
the passage of the Atlatic was voyage
nowit's jump We u,ed to be months upor
months at sea, in the glorious breezy wea
ther, with blue water and blue SIX al
around us, aud fresh air string our blooC
like the breath Of life, and all the troub
les and b,theratons Of our life on shor'
lying bsdind us like dream ; while go,
but | mustn't forget my story.
1T was about ten in the noruiug, and
was lying on spare sail in the main.tol
ia favorable lounge of mine) just as In
lying here now -reading aud lookinI
through my telescope turn ;bout--wheI
all at once the skipper shouted up to nj
Master K, weel ye jist TAX a loo
through the prospec' (lelescope) at yo
craft on the weather bow ? | levelle
{, NV glass at her. and made her out TO b
- Il long. low-lying craft seemingly y standin
away from us and so reported TO tt
captain. But in another ten mintes or sc
his voice came up again land this tim
with rather different sound in lD Mai
ter K. dinna like he look Of yo
- - craft wull ye jist tax anither look {
It, her ?
Why" said |, lcvelling my glas
, '.She's changed her coul SC e-Shc's comm
right down upon u.s."
;, "'Wad ye kindly bring down the pro
= pee, sir? | wad like to tax loo
IN mysei !"
nj This time there was tremor in h
n voice, wkich no one could mistake. b
IL gan TO feel rather uncomfortable, az
to came down post-haste. The skipper toe
n. the glass and l., watching him as
of looked through ii, saw his great red ia
ne grow whitcr, till it was livid as corpse
1t. and he just got out four words in XII
be Of halt.choked whisper 'She's an arm
|e. veSsel!
re IL understood it all in moment; al
,ly so did every one else that heard hi
Nv This was just at the close of the war /
lc. TWEEN Brazil and Buenos Ayres and t
m. Eastern coast was swarming with exp
on vateers, who had been thrown out OF wo
nd by the peace. and didn't care whom tn
at attacked. SO long as there wasanythfng
of be got by it. For one moment We thoug
lin of showing Sight hut that idea would
his hold water. Not cutlass nor a pi
ixt was there on board, let alone irearm
ic. any our crew we're the most innocent /,
err you can immagine-quiet, easy-goi
he Westland Scotchmcn, mostly married me
is with broad good-uatured. simple fac
for like tho villages ir pantomime. 7
us very sight Of them would have been enou
to re-assure any pirate on earth, and
n6- only thing left to be lone was to try str
its agem. So the captain gave orders to
,dy up as many dummies as possible, W
spars and old jackets, to look as If