The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-08-18

ink and paper; Harry had plenty. ne
mildest name that ever Hicks called
him was "muff;" but even that didn't
hurt Harry.
Harry didn't search his Bible 10 find
the proverbial five-pound note, but he
searched il TO find something far better,
muif As he was; and night and morn
in he knelt by the side of his sea-
chest, and he never felt biz the worse
for il.
Henry had been At sea for three years,
and every day of those three years Hicks
had had his rum; but one day poor
Williams was so i'll that he could hardly
stand erect, and Harry did not hesitate
10 give htni the rum that day.
Crash, That was blow, and Hicks
was the giyer, and poor Harry lay
stunned and bleeding upon the deck.
But that same evening, on the orlop-
deck, Harry took OF his jacket, which
Lazy Lawson held, and told Hicks 10
stand up like a man.
won't describe the fight. Suffice il
to say that next day Hicks had TO 90 on
the sick list, and he couldn't appear on
duty for a whole week. But nobody
pitied Hicks.
And Harry's life in the gun-room was
more pleasant after that.
CHATTER
When three years had passed away
and, OH, how quickly years do fly in the
navy, Harry felt he liked the service.
" hen five years had come and gone he
positively loved il, and wouldn't have
changed places with lord on shore
/ al This time Harry hadnever once been
/ home, for when one commission wa
done he had volunteered for a second
/ in the same station and not only ne
I but his dearest friend, Lazy Lawson
and his faithful servant, Dan Williams
I had ali managed to effect an eXchang,
J into the corvette Vengeance, Just new
AZ out from England. Harry was soor
/ senior midshipman on that ship, ant
ere very long junior sub-lieutenant.
You would hardly have known Harrl
/ Winsome now. He was no longer tn,
/ little bashful boy, who rode on boarC
/ his first ship on top of his sea-chest
I but a tall and handsome young man
still little quiet-loOking, and with ;
east IF care in his countenance
but with fair irrepressible hair tina
/ curled over his well-bronzed brow
and an eve that never feared 10 lool
you in the face.
"Heigho," said Harry TO his frienC
and chum one Sunday morning; ="
wonder II there will ever be any fight
ing 20 give q fellow a chance 10 win hi
epaulets."
"Epaulets, indeed" replied Lawson
who was still n MILDLY; II only wish
could win my scales and stripe, le
alone epaulets. But | suppose l shall
never be any thing but Lazy Lawson.
envy you, Harry How the dickens d.
yol manage il -
81 just keep pegging away" SAFE
Harry.
"Mind, I'm not jealous, Harry, bu
somehow envy YOU"
"Why don't you keep pegging ava
as do2" asked Harry simply.
"Oh. hang work and grinding" SAT-
lawson: ~ can't do il, and there's al
end. Besides, there's luck. you know
The skipper never fell into the hand
Of the natives, and gave me a chance O
saving his life. And | happened TO b
ON leave when the ship was on fire
Williams told me, though, II was quit
a sight 10 see You, all black and grimy
scuttling the decks with the carpenter
axe. But-by gum, Harry I'll neye
forget the day YOU jumped overheard
in half a gale OF wind. after poor Jo
, Emmett Il was so funny; because
when / saw YOU come up and IN
broken water all round you frOthy an
+ bloody. made sure the shark had yc
instead Of Joe; and YOU only brOugt
up one half of poor Joe after all-ths
, was funny. On. you're a lucky, luck
beggar, Harry"
"And SO would YOU be, Lawson,
YOU would only Just make up your min
to keep peg -"
"Strange sail on the lee bow. sir!"-
, this in stentorian tones from the ma
at the masthead.
IL was a sight TO see the bright gleal
, that now shone from Harry's eye, an
= illuminated his whole face; il was
I sight 10 see the alacrity with whicl
glass in hand, he Skinned up the ri.
! ging: and IL was sight 10 see poo
little Lazy lawson stick his hands dee
! into his peg-t0p trOusers-pOckets, an
/, gaze upwards after him
''Lucky-lucky begger!" said Law
son.
, Harry came down almost as quick
as he had gone up, went below, and e
p tered the commanders cabin. Short
! afterwards, the order was passed TO
, the men have dinner half an hot
, sooner; and even a novice could ha'
= told, from observing the unusual
beaming faces Of both men and officer
I, that something more than usual was
the wind. The ship was kept away