The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-01-01
A YOUNG HERO.

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SAY, az, sir; they're smart seamen
CROUCH, 90 doubt, them Dalmatians, but
they amt got the seasOnin' Of IN English
man, put it no, yer will :"
am standing the upper deck Of the
Austrian Lloyd steamer looking my last
upon pyramidaI Jaffa, as it rises up in ter.
race after terrace of stern gray masonry
against the lustrous evening sky, with the
foam tipped breakers at its feet Beside
his sirort pipe between HE teeth, Icung, s
the stalwart chief engineer, as thorough an
Aagli.hmnn as il he had not spent two
thirds of his life abroad, and delighted to
get hold Of a listener who (as lie phrases it)
has been about bit -
No; tcey amt got an Englisbnan :
-easonin, he continues, "and what's MORE
they amt got on EngIishmans pluck
neither, not when it. comes to real
scrape"
Can no one but an Englishman have
any pluck, them" ask |, laughing
well, | won't just go for to say Mat; o
course a man as is a man ull have pluck ip
him all the world over I've seed French.
tr tackle a shark to save his messmate and
I've seed Rocshan stand to his gun arter
every man in the battery, barrin' himself,
had been blowed all to smash But if yer
come to that, the pluckiest Teller as ever
eed want man at all -
NV hat was no, then? "a women7"
NO, nor that neither; though, mark ye,
! iont 20 for to say as how women ain t
gat pluck enoI,gh too-some on EN- at least.
But this I'm as IN a-taikin on was little
lal not much bigger n Tom Thumb, only
with sperrt Of his own rs nd la bowed
up a mar o war a'most Would yer like to
hear about it,
eagerly assent; and The narrator,
knocking the ashes out Of his pipe, folds
his trawny arms upon the top of the rall,
snd commences as follows:
Bout three years ago, afore | got this
berth as m in now, was second engineer
aboard Liverpool steamer bound for New
York. Ihere'd been lot If extra cargo
sent down just at the last minute, sni wed
had no end of job stOwin'; so that alto
gether, as you may Think, the Cap'n warn I
altogether in the swee test temper in the
world, nor the mate neither, rs for the
chief engineer, he was an easy goiu' scrt o
shap, as nothin on earth could put out.
But on the morniu' of the third day out
from LiyerPoob he cum down to me in n
precious hurry, lookin' MS if sometin' had
Put him out pretty considerably.
"'Ton, 80 he, what dye think? Blsst
if we ant found a stowaway. Chat
tho nnme, you know, sir is We gives 10
chaps as hides themselves aboard outward
bound vessels, and gets Carried out unbe,
known to everybody
Tile dickens you have says I. Who
is he, and where did yer find him?
"Weil, we found him slowed away
among the casks orard; and ten to one
we'd never ha' twigged hlm at all, if the
Shippers dog hadn't shifted him out and
begun barkiu'. Stitch little mite rs lie is
TOE, could Almost put him in my teccy.
pouch, poor little besgar! 5ut he looks to
te a good plucked fot all that
Il didn't wait to hear no more, hut UP
on deck Ike sky rocket and thc.e | dtd
see q sight, and no mistake. Every man
Jack o the crew, and what few passengers
We had aboard, was all in ring on foe
.tle, and in tho middle stood the fust mate
l.-ckin' ms black as thunder. Right in front
of hin. .ookin' q regilr mite among al
them Big fellerS, ual a little bit O lai
not ten year old-ragscd as scarecrow
but with bright curly hair, and bonn,
little face o his own, il 1t hadn't been g
woful thin and pale. But, bless yer soul
u sec the way that little chap held III.
head up, and locked about him. you'd ha
though. the whole ship belonged TO him
The mate was great hulkin black beard
81 Teller, with a look that nd he frightened
horse, AMI voice fit TO make one iumI
through \ key-hole; but the Young III
war mt u bit afeard-he stood straight up
and locke. him full in the face with then
bright Gear eyes O. hisn, for all the worl
as if lie was Prince Hatred himself Fol-
dad say afterwards COVERING bis voice {,
whsIsr) as how he coined O. bette
blood nor what be ought; and for my part
I'm RATHER o that way . tbinkin' myself
for nsvsr yet seed common street uaral
{cs they calls EN- nowl carry it of Tx,
htm You might ha' heeri pin drop, a
tho m. te spoke.
g We'll, soa souns wheIp, says he il
his grinIness voice, what's brought 10,
ierc :
- Il was my ssep-father as dore il.
says the boy ia a weak little voice, but a.
steady ns coeIl be. Fathers dead, an,
mothers married again, and my new fathei
says As how be won't have no br,.ts about
eatin' up his wages; AMI he slowed m,
away when nobody war Mt lookio, and gu
ME same grub TO Keep me goun' for day
or two I'll got to saa. lie says l n to :,
to Amt Jane Al Halifax; AMI here's Ler
address
And Wi,iI thai, i.e sl;ps III, hanl int,
the breass Of his -hrf, Al i outRi.h 4 serar