The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-04-18
at last heard him say. Carried away

at last I heard him say. Carried away
fore-yard.'
"'Don't be tellin' les Of me, says I,
it's only two yards that TUX, Jus.
now you said / TUX watch, and now
it's four yards been stealth. o Cap'n,
but it's cruel OF you to ruin my carak-
ter as you're doin', and in hearin' OF
the ship, too-and my mother perhaps
aboord OF her.
"And then the voice KEN from the
ship again-'Where are you bound tor
"I'm bound to the mast says l.,
and the Capt'n is goin' to murthsr
me.
"'Will you howld your tongue, you
rascal?' says the Capt'n, lookin' pistols
at me. NO, ! won't says I; IN ex-
pose you TO the whole world for the
shameful way you're thrating me-
"Well, we soon lost sight of the ship;
but the storm was as bad as liver, and
only one good kem Of it; they we're too
busy with the danger to be amusin'
themselves with me. So got nyself
loose at last; and then seein' what a
way they were in, hadn't the heart to
desart them, notwithstandin' my bad
usage. No. says 1, III be ginorous,
and stand by them like man. So I
goes mp to the Capt'n, and, overlookin'
all he'd done, says to him, quite kind
", 'Capt'n, is there anythin' / can do
for you?'
"Kape out Of my way, you vagabone,
or / shall be tempted to do for you!
says he. And with that he made kick
at Inc as bad as horse stung in sand
pit; but / made allowance for this
throuble he was in, and didn't mind
his temper.
'All this time h'ard the sailors say
in somethin' about the anchor, and at
last the Capt'n was struck with a notion
and shouts out to them about me.
Where's the best bower?'
Here he is, sir, says !, running up
to him sgin, and paking low bow at
the same time. I'm the best bower on
boord, sir, for my mother, when / was
at school, paid tuppencs a week extra
to have me taught manners,
80 wish your neck was broke, says
be, you vagabonev making another
terrible kick at me in return for all my
kindness to him; and then up KEN the
Bos'n, and the Capt'n says to him, says
he: Have you let go now?' Aye, aye,
sir, answers Hairy-face,-and / may
just make the remark, that's oil he ever
did answer, the whole way acrost the
oushen.
we may depend on the osst 6owtr.
'Ohl you may do that says /, sir;
you may depind on me with sartainty.
Take that fellow out OF my sight, said
he, III You don't want me to murdher
him. so ut that / walks away with
Hairy-face to the other end of the ship,
where i hear the sailors sayin' the
anchor was comm home, and that the
Capt'n ought to know it.
"'He ought, you say, says 1; then
OF coorse I'll 90 and tell him, il it's
only TO show him bear no malice, and
I'm still willin' to be useful Upon
which runs back to him, and says /,
'Capt'n, the anchors comm home.
Thunder and ounsr says he.
Don't be angry, Capt'n, says L.
small blame to it for comm home on
such night as this. Who'd stay out,
sir, that could help it?'
upon which Hairy-face runs up, and
the CAPITA then cries out TO him, Is
this thrue hearts the anchor coming
home?
AYE. aye. sir srowls out Hairy
face.
"'Then we must cut aud rum says
he; but We must try and save the an
chor, So throw over the buoy.
"Well, now, must Just stop to tell
you that Of all tho mischievous little
blackguards that ever desarved drown
in, the cabin boy was him, sir. And
SO, still wishin' to be useful, notwith-
standin' all their bad thratement OF me,
ran of to ketch the villin; but the
little vagabone was so nimble, 1 couldn't I
at all lay how'd Of him; hovsomedever,
under the circumstances, did tho best
/ conld, and then / ran back to the
Capt'n. -,
is the buoy oyerboard?' says he.
"'Gsith, then, sorry to say, says
!, 'Capt'n, the boys not overheard, for
the young ID run so fast couldn't
clap hand on him, but the next best
thing to be done, did. L threw over
board the black cook-and that will
tighten the ship beautifully
"'Threw overheard the cook, you
murderin' villin!' roared the Capt'n.
You've saved me the Job OF doin' it;
you'll be hanged, thank heaven, at last.
"But hanged wasn't, beg to say,
for in the confusion OF the night,it was
big tar barrel threw overheard in
stid of the black cook, that same being
much OF his own size and color.
"Well, to make long story short,
sir, in spite OF the storm and all our
danger, we got to Ameriky at last, when
the Capt'n felt so happy. that he gave
up his anymosity aud the vingeance he
vowed ag'inst me, and only laughed at
the mistakes I'd made in turnin' my
hand to the say service. And, what's
more, when we reached New York, sir,
who should 1 find but my ould mother,
that had got in week before me, in
the ship ought TO have come in, and
that had had no storm at all-but
mines the bad luck OF the Hoys, sir.
And so, when / was on dhry land agin,
I took solemn oath, sir, that I'd niveI
work nv passige any more across the
Atlantic; aud. by me sowl. il you're Q
| wise man. think You'll do the same.