The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-03-09

she broke upland the last man as come
aboard the ship, bein' at a anchor off the
Battery, were chap called John Wise, as
had the handsomest set Of teeth ever seen
onto man, and he far gone with the 'trian-
gles' AFTER most tremendous spree.
"Mostwise all SIGH come to my lot to take
care Of, and arter beatin' him while for to
try to git him to work, and he not bein'
able, the mate Civ him up, and he crawled
into bunk in the forecastle.
I'VE gifts our anchor and makes sail, the
wind bein, fresh from norwest, and under
we went flynn. down the bay and round the
discharged our pilot purceeded, pilins onto
in dreadful, for she were a beast to steer
and no misunderstanding nigh onto the whole
Atlantic Ocean and askin' for more.
sWell, sir, this. chap what l were teilin'
you about got obstropulous toward night,
and were ravins crazy, so as there weren't
no sleepins in the forecastle with him, and
we had to git some canvas and make a
straight weskit for him, and pat him into
the fore-hatch house AMI under guard,
and / be to take care of him in the first
watch, which l were in the starboard watch
and when the mats watch came on deck ut
II O'Clock and Bill Sweeny were put to re-
lieve me, we hadn't nothin' for to do but to
sit and listen to his ravins, and he went on
awful and without any stoppin', and his
constant talk were Of pitchin' people over
board. Here's another dead one,' he'd
sing out; overheard with him?' Here's
woman dead; pitch her over the side. 'Hur
rah for hell. Who's afraid of fre?'s Forty
gone to the devil in one day, And then he'd
go on shouting MURDER alta half hour onto
a stretch; and then he'd think he were a
fighting, and would curse and swear fit to
take the handle off of iron pot. I tell you
what, sir, he had ZEN bad, and no mistake.
ssWeR the mate in thessmiddle watch piled
brandy and laudnum into hin, and when
come on agin at eight bells they'd got him
quoted down and he went of to sleep.
''He come out of 'em next day, but were
as weak as infant, and we went in for to
build him up agin, if so be as there were
timber enough to fasten to.
"One thing is sartin', sir, if chap kin be
got over the triangles anywheres, its at sea,
cause folks there knows how for to take
care of him, and there's many doctors in
my opinion don't know half SO much.
ssW ells sir, in this here case we worked
away at him, but he were SO far gone that
there wern't much chance.
Zone night, when we'd been about FIVE
days out, it were my wheel from to 10,
and when came forward l were clean beat
out grindin' of tomast stunsail into her a
wanderns all over the Atlantic Ocean with
the wind norswest and BLOWN stiff, and as
come fol- ard along the waist she took a
wipe to windsard, and got regular green
sea onto my shoulders which didn't improve
my temper any: but arter fifteen mini,s
hard cursin, ] went into the hatch-house
and seen this poor devil evidently sinkin',
and booked sartain for the long wage. l
felt ashamed of myself to think I'D let SIGH
trifes vex me, and thought arter all how
much better off were than him, and so
come to good nature agin. Probably the
cursin. helped, for good, healthy swearer
can generally cuss himself into good humor
if he keeps it up long enough, and it are a
excellent safety valve for i'll humor, and al
lows the surplus gas to pass off without
doing any harm.
Frequent, when we've had Holy Joes
aboard, they has come for'ard and spun
yarns to US chaps about the sin of swearin',
in in their book aud the SWARM in our talk
were as different as chalk is from cheese.
Sailors never swear with their hearts, it's
only with their lips. and it goes out into the
air and passes off to leeward and never
harms nobody. IT'S tother kind of swear
in that's the bad kind such as envy, hatred,
revenge, malice, ec;: that's the kind the
Holy Joes ought to 60 for. and they wont
find that at sea.
..Well, sir. arter got little dry ,lunnage
on iue and had bit OF chuck, lights my
pipe and goes into the hatch-house. and
sesd that there were a change. Afore this
chap had been Eighty like and kind of
wanderin' in his recsonin', but now he
were quite sensible, and after l had Civ
him Bit Of Cruel sits down by him and
he says TO me:
tom. did you ever 60 a blackbirdin''
mo, said l. for know'd what he ment
were takin' niggers over to Cuba, i never
did
Don't you never DO it then, says he.
don't you never do il; for the money you
gifts in that way don't do you no good.
Three or four weeks ago landed in New
York with couple of thousand dollars, and
look a, me now, jist wai,in' for the breath
to 60 out Of me to be chueked over the side.
...Hold hard, old chap says l. when
you gifts strong you can spin me the yarn,
but I'd slash il J,st now if was you.
NO says he, Il ain sleepy, and it'll
ease me for 10 talk. There amt much to
tell, and you may rs we'll know it ltwere
about a year ago. comm home from London
in the Westminster. there were q clap
second mate Of her called Drinkwater, and
when We WAS pretty well over this side. ne
picks out me and joe Carroll and Billy
Edwards aud Jim Cole. as was in his watch.
and he says to US: s.Boys. would you like
to go in TOR thing with plenty Of money IN
i,." and we said we would If SO be as twas
safe. Then he telled rs all we'd got tn do
were to go to the Sailors Home. in Cherry
street. arter we got IN, and to wait there
till we heard FROM him. and on no accounts
was we to drink drop o. anythln'. picks
you out" says be- .scause | thinks can
trust you. and If you goes of a-husiin' OF
it, why the game is all up Well. Tom.
We done this and in about q week We got