Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-04-24
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The following truly marvellous or.
rloit 70 related in . story which we hnd
In one Of a exchanges. Il is a mari
time tale. and the scene Of Il Is located
on the coast Of England. and in those
days. a few years ago. when patrols Of
coast guard and evenue cutters were
kept exceedingly busy trying to proven.
sntsrprising stnugslsrs from landing
shsir contraband goods on the coas,
from France and elsewhere. Tho most
and successful Of all the Snug.
glsr captains, was the hero Of this tale
He Is described A. q dashing young fel.
low Of about $50 pounds weight, shor,
and active and always full Of good
brandy. But here's the story:
One dark. stormy and b~oisterous
night he was nearing tho coast with his
swift sailing craft close-hauled on the
wind and lee scuppers under water.
Just as he had managed to dodge
through between q couple OF revenue
cutters which were living 10 In the enle.
hugo sea waye came rolling oyer the
starboard side. sweeping tho deck and
carrying tho valiant captain away from
tho ,iIlsr' overheard into the wild.
foaminv wasts Of angry waters.
As he won't oyor the bulwarks
in An. oooL'. galley ard tba Whit
huil.tsrr;er' no Csntain wouldn't have
e;yen a nineh Of snuff for his chance OF
preserving his life. As no subsequently
Expressed n. "Blowed II I didn't a 70
myself. saws l.. old man. you wont
nevsr drink nothink but salt wator
soin:. and inst as / made this horc
msntal e;a%euiation. I drops nstrids of
somethink in The wator." Not TO con.
tinuo tho narrative In the ornamsnted
vet peculiar style Of the Captain. II may
be sinply explained that nj the moment
the bold smugVler fairly fell overheard,
he happened 10 fall astrido n shrimp,
and with the instinct OF a drowning man,
no clutched at tho object under him the
instant no encountered IL. Tho shrimp,
also experiencing tho shock, turned
back his two antenne, or ~feelcrs, and Il
was these which the Captain grasped in
his two hands. II Is no easy matter 10
ait on a shrimp In a hoavy yea, especial
ly TO q man who Is not accustomed to
horseback exercise on land, and tho
probabilities ore that any ono but tho
Captain would have speedily been I'M
shrimped. Fortunately his weight was
80 great az to deprcss tho convex out
line Of the shriinp's back, thus convert
ing the third scale or Joint OF tho
creature into O natural saddle. This, Of
course, gave our hero q comparatively
arm seat. which he was the better able
to retain by aid Of his purchase on the
antennn. Here. again. the smuggler's
ignorance OF equcstrianism stood him In
good play. A better horseman, in his
desire to drive on toward tho shore,
would have given tho shrimp his head,
but the Captain kept him well In hand,
and thus prevented the shrimp from
diving. Tho principle was exactly tho
same rs Is adopted with horses. Keep
a horse well refined up and no cannot
yuvA, a.u, W az s CIV. .o..;.,
sniip ,.hno' NV ~iaou M" s',s
nis n.aa uoNn, .no oap' n y,
~ Wv W"
'T Tsa n;r,, w.. ,;,o, a,,, I'm, 10 soo,
a. he found that the shrimp was some.
what under control. lo cast about 10
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seo VIM eoa ,s ~. .on .n us.s
eeah was W.u WIN 'o,Ioi. aha usnou
,nlousn 'ne wa,cs =, 'ae ia.1 VI ns,oyn
nno.s SO ias', hhuoea, 'n W. 'no yapan
'uIhs. n's ,aoe UasA Iu us nue. W
sN V'a ao sp,as naI'
xn'en nen'IJ sunoen'eu 49, en-
no . a yas, o sus
~ captain wou,u oi'ng MN oask W his
~ .uggins ~ 'ne slaIooalu or
port Iceier, IN eio case mIgn. oo' anu ~
was s'range, aMnos' pMWihlan, 70 no,e
nov quickly 'nis marine munster wh'eh
nsd never worn oitung harness. earn
al o ooey INC rein AT thr9o oei,s tne
captain sighted the beachy Heal ngnt,
py Altering ms course Two Po'h.s ne
was enao'ea 70 .,Sosrh 'ne hghls o, ms
pat,oi On une Gun aoo'o MS seere' i''i'
naIooi. tle entrance was MARROW anu
iiincuit' anu once no came near wreck
ing inc shrimp on on lock " m,stak-
ing ht'io wnite cloud on a pun ior
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