Smyrna times., 1875-01-27

0o0 anu hSar' lie IeIt all the subllmity of hi
great POSITION and made the world fee it, too
" "en ne gave even the simplest order, he dis
charged it like blast of lightning. and sent
long, reverbcrating peal of profanity thunder
ing alter 1t. could not help contrasting the
way IN which the average andsman would give
an order. with the mates way of doing if II
the landsman should wish the pane.nlank
moved foot farther forward, he would proba.
Dly say: James, or William, one of you nush
mat plank forward, please; but put the mate
IN MS place., and he would roar out: Here,
noW, start 1 that gang plank for ard Lively
no" r., w hat re you about Snatch it snatch
It! There there! Aft again aft arain !
Dom you hear me? Dash it to dash are
you gong to sleep over it Vast heaying
East heaving, | tell you Going to heave i
clear astern? WHERE're YOU going with
that barrel for ard with it, fore I make vom
swallow It, you dash dash dash dashed snlit
between tired mud turtle and a crippled
| s wished l could talk like that.
Hhen the soreness of my adventure with
tHe mate mad somewhat worn off, | began
llmlGIy to make up to the humblest official
connected with the boat-the night watchman
He snuobed my advances at first, but
presently ventured to offer him a new chalk
plpe' anu that sOftened him. So he allowed
me to SIT with hin by the big bell on the burri.
cane deck, and in time he melted into conver.
satlon. he could not well have helped il. I
hun@ with such homage on his words and SO
PIIalhly showed that felt honored by his notice
nc toiu me the names of dim capes and
sniaaowly islands as we gli1ed by them in the
anu ltu oy ana by got to talking about himself
ne seemed ever er,sentimental for a man whose
Salaiy was SIX dollars week-or rather he
hlg4t nave seemed so to an older person than
l. but | drank III his words hungrily. and
win faith that might have moved mountains
Il 1t had been applied judiciously. What was
r 10 me that ha was soiled and seedv and
fragrant with gin? What was it to me that
MS grammar was bad, his construction worse
anu MS profanity so void Of art that it was an
eieheht OF weakness rather than strench in his
conversation? He was wropged man a man
VINO had seen trouble, and that was enough for
ne me- As ne meIIowed into his plaintive history
nus tears drlpped upon the lantern in his Ian.
ana crled, too, from sympathy He said he
was the son OF an English noblem an-eithcr an
earl or an alderman, he could not remnmbor
wh'ch' but believed he was both; his father,
me n"beman' loved him, but his mother hated
MN m from the cradle; and so while he was still
Ht'le boy he was sent tn zone of them old
ancient col llPges' he couldn' remrn her which.
and by and by his father died and his mother
seized the property and shook him. ne ba
phrased it. After his mother shook Him
members Of the nobility with whom he was
acquainted used their influence to get him the
position OF "lohloIly hoy in a ship" a ndlrom
mat point my watehman threw off all trammeIs
OF DAT, and loc'ty aud branched out into a
narrative that prlstled all aloug with incredible
adventures; a narrative that was So rccE;ng
%rh 61oodshed and so crammed with hair |
breadth escapes and the most engaging and
unconscious personal villainies, that / sat
speeeaieS:' enjoying, shuddering, wondering,
1t was sore blight to find out afterwards
.nat ne was a low, vulgar, ignorant, senti
mental half-witted humbug, an untraveed
native Of the wilds Of Illinois, who had absor
bed wildcat liter ,ture and appropriated its
narvelS until in time he had woven odds and
enus Of the mess into this yarn, and then gone
on telling Il to tledgengs like me, until he had
come to believe it eIf-AAdntic IioutkIy