The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-10-14
Stletf Stnrg.
AN OLD SAILORS
YARNS. "..s
MISSING HIS RECKONING---A NAT
RIMONfAL ADVENTURE.

some of the most puzzlinest things
Snsws on for stranger" says old Tom the
.otAer day as we sat together; sis the way
-they has in England Of namin' theil
streets. You gets into the street yor
wants, and afore you've gone dozer
blocks you find it's changed its name anC
you're in an entirely different street
Thus one and the same street, will some
times have three or four different names
1iore you've gone the whole length
ofit.
Il mind 3 funny blunder made once
made in consequence of this, though ar
Ter al it turned out all right, jist as if I'd
a kept my right reckonin',
"When used for to be goin' regular
into the Liverpool packets, out Of one
shin and into another, it 50 happened
that l come for to be shipmates with a
. chap as were called Dick Ostrom, three
Or four voyages one arter another, and we
got to be chums like.
Dick we're one of those steady chaps;
didn't never 60 onto 10 sprees, always
boarded TO the Sailors Home when we
we're to New York, and went to church
Sundays. never had much opinion of
SIGH, but Dick we've a pretty good sort Of
4 chap and tiptop sailorrnan as well,
and so looked over his failin's and we
got to be chumnies, turnin' in and out
together at sea, aud wearin' each others
.,dunnage The both ofus come up in the
John K. Skiddy, aud then both shipped
again in the New World.
~ expect Dick were the bashfullest
chap along OF wimmin, that ever stood on
two legs. Sailors amt given much that
VIC, cir, and it were a wonder seem as
ned been so long in that trade, that he
hadn't a got over it, but you see, he new
,ser went round like the rest of us, and
would turn the color of red buntin', if
amy ofthe gals at the boardin' house said
anything to him, and that was the wag
ahey come for to call him 'Bashful
Dick"
Soon as supper were over Dick would
.Qp his boom and sail barge and none Of
Us know'd where nc wentto, and we sup
posed he either went down aboard or
Else to some gospel shop to hear some
preachin', anyway his way wer'nt our
way, and we didn't trouble ourselves
about il, 40.
while We VAS in Liverpool that time
in the New World, we sot the riggin' up
afore and AT, and ule aud Dick was mp in
The foretop one day-Saturday itwerea
seizin' oitthe topmast riggin', when all Of
q sudden Dick sa,s to me, Tom, I've
shn idee of gittiitspliced.' ...
"Well, ifhc'd told me he'd an ldce
Of jumpin' out of that top, wouldn't
Aaye, been more astonished. fJ5 s....
0'rAll right my lad, says I; If 80 be as
Ty6u gits the right kind of a lass, but
there's many leaky craft, my boy, to
every sound one, and you'd better be-
sure she's seaworihy afore you ships
She's good as they build 'em, says
Dirk, too good for me I'm aleared'
THAT Pm sure she aint,' says /,
Where does she bail from and how on
arth did you ever come athwart her
AawseT3 . a1l r,. f 'L
"She lives here, says Dick, "and I've
tneen cruisin' off and OH in her wake for
couple of years or 80, and I've been
savin' up till I've got $500 in the bank at
nome; and that's enough | think for to
eit;spliced on. @
"five hundred dollars says /; why
ipsa forth, it's more than ever | had in
nay life at one time, and I'd been spliced
br years When is it to come off? If it'll
be any help TO you, can give you the
mark and number of the chap as spliced
me, and he's man as will do the job
neat and cheap.
'@WelI. as to that, says Dick, 4 amt
said nothin' to her about it as yet. /
thought | would last wage, in the Skid
dy, but every time | went there some-
thin turned up, and couldn't jist git to
Il; and since I've been here this time I've
gene there lots oftimes determined tosay |
sometnin' about it, but the fact is, Tom, / |
can't do 1t, and there's the truth about it. |
You've seen me in many gale Of wind, |
and you know that where any man can |
90 can 60, and that amt last at any
thin' them times; but alongside Of wo-
man, Tom, Pm nothing but baby. Not |
but what can take care of one, Tom, If |
I'm once safe spliced to her, and she
needn't be afeared of wantin' for anythin' |
.ti q7s !