The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-03-23

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him and her had made it up together
for to club together all the cash they
could muster atwixt 'em, aud for him
to 60 over and keep a-sendia' her
money till sich time As she could
come out and jine him and git spliced
for full due.
Well, sir, this little gal, she were
the darter Of that family, and had
been uader the charge of this young
woman for nigh onto all her life, and
this here young boy, he belonged to
a neighbor, and what does these two
do but to think they were in love,
and this here boy, bless his old
fashioned soul, gifts up to runnin'
away with his gal for to get splioed,
and she said as how she'd go if SO be
as Nancy would 60 with her and this
young woman, seein' here chance
for to 60 to her own sweetheart, con-
sented FOR to 60 along with these
little ones.
4 never stopped to think, Tom,
said she, how wrong it were; Mas
ter Edward had fl0, which he had
got somehow, and this, with the bit
of money Tim had sint over, was
enough, thought, and I'd take good
care of the childer, and they couldn't
be marryin', they we're such bits, and
when | got to the beyapt, sure I'd
keep them until the master sint for
'cm. see now, Tom says she,
show bad it were, and oh, what'll l
do, at all, at alp
Well, sir, this were jist one ratlinc
higher than could git, and what to
tell the gal didn't know. Tom. the
young chap, had writ to his folks
from Liverpool, and if the ship was
to have laid forty-eight hours in the
rivet. as they had to do afterwards,
they could have been took afore she
sailed, but, you see, they come to
Liverpool over night, and come
aboard in the mornin' and we went
out of dock and down the channel,
and here they was nigh onto 1900
miles from home.
thought | should bust myself
with laughin' when this here Nancy
telled me how this here young chap
wanted to go right off afore parson
and get spliced out Of hand; but you
see that wouldn't have suited her
book, not at no price, and SO she
managed to put him of and git him
aboard. and it's wonderful, Tom,
says she again, 'to see them two, as
has always been used to the best OF
everything, livin' down in that
hole meanin' the steerage, and eat
in the commonest of victuals and
never once complainin', believin' that
they are goin' for to be married as
soon as ever they gifts over
well, my lass says /, arter reck-
onin' it up for awhile, this here is
too heavy for my tackles; but I'll
tell you what we'll do, we'll put it to
old Davy, and if there's man aboard
of this ship that's fit to advise you, in
my opirion old Davy is the man.
This he-e old Davy, sir, were nigh
hand unto seventy years old, and had
been to sea over fifty years, SO you
may Judge how much he must have
know'd.
well, put it to old Davy, Tom,'
says she. If it were to put two ends
of rope together, if it were to send
spar up and down, or even if it
were to strip ship to a girtline, |
wouldn't turn my back to no man;
but in this here business I'm of
soundin's altogether. But my advice
to the young people is that they
might just as well wait FIVE or six
wears: 'twon't do 'em a bit of good
for to make splice Of it jist now,
cause, you see, they're too young,
accordin' to my opinion, as has been
to sea, man and boy, for nigh hand
unto fifty-fve years; and that's my
opinion. But this here is case two
or three ratlines above me, and my
advice to the young woman is for me
TO 60 to the old man, as has got more
sense for thing Of this kind, and is
also sailor man.
Well, sir, the gal took old Davy's
advice, and as soon as she mentioned
the name of the folks that these here
kids belonged to, the old man know'd
'em right away, cause he were ac-
quainted in Yorkshire, and they was
took into the cabin from that time
out, and very comical they used for
to look, promenadin' up and down
the poop-deck arm in arm, fully be-
levin as they we're goin' for to get
spliced right off, as soon as ever the
ship arrived.
You see, the cabin passengers
humored 'em and made believe to
treat it seriously, and that fooled the
youngsters altogether. Arter we got
in, the old man took this couple up
with him to the Astor House, where
he boarded, and Nancy went off to
find her Tim Whether she ever
found him, or what ever became of
these children, of course l do not
know, but l supposes that the next
packet brung some one over to look
out for them. Twould be q funny
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