The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-10-01

Well. sir. of course, without money
and without clothes had 10 come on
the Consul's hands, and il We're the first
: time ever done 50. except in case OF
wreck Every scrapc | ever got into.
sir. and almost every scrape every body
else ever know'd GOT into, come of
drinkin' rum, and yet You see, sir. |
sticks To il with great faithfulncs>: but
arter all. il wern't 50 much drinkin', a.
il were drinking 80 much.
"Well, the American consuls in for
eign ports has fund provided for sich
cases as mine. for YOU see when a cap
tain pays man of in foreign port he
Las for 10 give him three months extra
pay. one month Of which the Consul
keeps, and this creates fund for to pay
the board and passage home Of ship
wrecked sailors and were pretty well
/ wrecked and no mistake. Then every
captain has for TO take these men when
the Consul sends them ON board. least
wise "A certain number, accordin' 10 the
size Of the ship, and he gifts paid small
amount for their passage. and i, allowed
for 70 make EN- work. jist A. il they'd
been shipped regularly.
There was three Of u Consul'S men
on board of this here Sarah Lucinda.
me and a chap named Jack Wilson.
and another chap named Billy Corr
We were all pretty well 'mops and
brooms when we came aboard. hut
Billy Corr was the worst, and he went
right down sick the day arter We LETT
Rio. Iii heerd Of him ashore. and folks
in Rio didn't seem to make him ont
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there "A passenger like. aboard Of a brig
from somewhere on the south side of
Cuba. and that he had lots Of cash. and
all in gold pieces, and that he'd Swayed /
away on All taut ropes, never drawin' I
sober breath till his money were all /
gone. and then Dustin il out on tick as !
long A. possible. and finally feichin up \
a. had onto the Consul's hands. Well. 4
sir, yau can easy see he'd been on a 4
months drunk. and in that time il amt \
probable he'd ever ate a square meal:
80 YOU see. he laid right over me and
Jack, A. hadn't more than week OF il
for want of means.
1T has almost always happened. sir.
that If any body were sick aboard Of a
ship where were il would be me that
EN-. and this time me and Jack bein'
kind of supernumerarie>, and comm
aboard onto the same day with this Bill
" Corr, Of course. when he went down
right bad. me and Jack was put for to
look out for him. Well. he were bad,
there's no denyin' it. Ii were like Pad
dy, when he fell from aloft. he said il
wern't the fall that hurt him. il were
stoppin' 80 sudden, and this poor chap.
a. long a. he were ashore he'd get some
grog every day, just enough to carry
him along safe. but a. soon a. he rot 10
sea, where h. couldn't Git any. the sud
den stoppage brought on the triangles,
anu he had 'em about as bad a. any one
ever | seen. Lord love YOU. sir. how
that chap did yell. For one whole night .
he KEEP shoutin' Murder ut the very
top Of his voice. Jack and got some 1
canvas gaskets, and we strapped him
down To the bunk solid, SO as he couldn't I
do no hurt TO hisself nor 10 nobody else. ]
and then we took turn and turn about
a-watchin' him
"Did YOU ever have them things. sir9
No; well. YOU needn't want To. for
they're jist awful. How it j. that any '
body as has had 'em once and rot over I
Il, should ever 20 on a-drinkin and |
have EN- agin, is more than | can tell. I
and yet they does, as every body knows. J
'Taint often. though, that any body has '
EN- a bad as this chap. I'd seen a Z
plenty of it afore, and maybe had had a 8
touch OF two myself, but nothin' like :
his had ! ever seen. The mates name r
we're Charley Richmond, and he were a '
good man. I've heern tell he used '
sometimes to bowse up his own jib pretty
aut as all good men villa mean man I
won't cit drunk, strand he done all c
hat could be done for this poor chap, ;
hough he wasn't nothin' but Consuls !
nan. He whaled the cook within inch q
If his life, cause he said he be ii
ned make Cruel for a drunken brute :
ike that; meanin' this here Billy Corr, u
Ind when that there mate j. reckoned up c
or full due, that there whalin' will be v
'ut TO his credit. He got him grog too, t
Irter he got so bad; IL be could have v
lad it first along, ii might have done b
ONE good, but now il were too late /.
till we Civ il to him, little at a time, 9
md Ill say this for me and Jack, much g
: We wanted grog, and it were awful,
.rter the spree we'd been on, neither of h
Is ever touched drop that were {
'rought for this poor chap, and the mate il
moved we wouldn't, cause he were a
.ood man. a
We'll, sir, we got the southeast Z
rades good and strong and they carried ]
IS away up to about deg north. and .
hen we laid two DAYS into the doldrums "
fore we craf tho norfhoaut tradau h,,t "A
fhen we did get EN- they was 50 strong v
hat we had to carry our to'gallan' sails q
nd single-reefed top-sails, and she