The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1875-09-25


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tu8f chap ODD yell. F0r one whole night
he Rep 5hUutin' Murder roc the very
top NJ Die voice. Jack nld { got some
eanyHs gtskots, aud wo strapped him
down tuthp hunk solid, su ls Dr. couldn't
lu no. hurt tJ hissolf nor fp nobody else,
and then we took turn aud turn about
n-wlfchiu' him.
,'Did sou ever have them things, sirP
No; well. YOU needn't want 10, for
they're iisf nwful How it is that any
body as has had 'em once and got over
IL, should ever go ON a-driukin' aud
have 'em agin. is more than I can tell
aud yet they does, rs every body knows
faint often, though, that any body has
'cm as bad as this chap. I'D seen o
Of it afore, and maybe had had q
touch or two myself, but nothin' like
this had I ever seen. The mates name
were Charley Richmond, and he were a
good man. I've heern tell he used
sometimes to bowseup his own jib pretty
rs all good men villa mean man
won't git drunk, sir-and he done all
that could be done for this poor chap,
he wasn't nothin' but aCOnsul's
lie whaled the cook within a inch
Of his life, cause he said he be - if
he'd make Cruel for Il drunken brute
like that; meanin' this here Billy Corr,
and when thatthere mate is reckOned up
for a full due, that there whalin' will be
put to his credit. lie got him grog too,
lrter he rot so bad; if he could have
had it first along, it might have done
some good, but now it were too late
still we civ it to him, a little at a time,
md III say this for me and Jack, much
IS we wanted grog, and it were awful,
lrter the spree we'd been on, neither of
Is ever touched a drop that were
brought for this poor chap, and the mate
lnowed we wouldn't, cause he were a
rood man.
''Well sir, we got the southeast
good and strong and they carried
Is away up to about 6 deg. north, and
hen we laid two days into the doldrums
lfore we got the northeast trades; but
when we did get 'em they was so strong
hat we. had 80 carry II to'gallan' sails
md single-reefed top-sails, and she
gOin' free, too.
ave lost the northeast trades some
where's about the latitude of "a deg.
,orth, and was a box-haulin' about in
o the horse ATTITUDES for over a week,
md then we got a breeze from south
vest, which come on light, with cloudy
Weather inthe forenoon, and breezed on
Lrter dinner with rain. 1t were a duff
lay, and Il week day, so it must have
,een of a Thursday, and our side had
he watch from 8 to u of the night.
rhe main to'gallan' sail and foretop-
mast studdin' sail were set when we
on deck, and we were a headin'
Ter about nor-norwest and iumpin' her
Hong about eleven knots-a rainin' like
,lazes and as thick as tar. We'd never
eed the old man carry sail afore, and
didn't know he had it into him, but
Ie certainly were a givin' it to her that
.ight and no mistake.
ave had a good boom brace on the
tun-sail boom, and we toggled the low
+ halliards and made a jumper out of
hem, but it weren't no use, and at
bout five bells the chap Mt the wheel
her come to a bit, and snap went the
lest at the boom-iron. Well, its
bout the easiest way for to git a top
mast stun-sail in arter all, and we was
Il long a gittin' the pieces of boom on
eek, and we thought then that the old
would shorten sail, but he didn't,
nd we hung on and went below, leav-
n whole t~op-sails and main to'-gallan'
all on to her, she q walloWln', Tor the
ca had got up and every thing a-crack-
n like mad.
give always had an ideethat the old
lan-his name were Jones-had been
-takin' a little of somethin' in honor of
he fair wind and lgittin' out of the
oldrums, cause once, when | went aft
Dr. to take in the slack of the wheel
opes, | seer him a slappin' her on the
quarter, and a-talkin' to her,
ayin', go it, old gal, go it, old gal! do
our prettiest, my LADY, and such talk
5 that, and it appeared to me a kind of
SIGN that the old man had been a-tak-