The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-03-10

anu Sne SdlU Nancy We're nef Dig sister;
and by this time the young chaps arms
had got tired and he Civ me the ball of
and tuckin' his sister under his
arm he sailed away ait, and as I look
ed at him / couldn't help thinkin',
He's forty, if he's day =" -
"Well, sir, dogs and children was
always fond of me, and so l soon got
mighty thick with this here couple, and
the weather continuin' terrible fine,
almost every day, in the dog-watches,
this here two would find me out, and I
got to spinnin' 'em some of the most
almighty twysters that ever were heard
of. These here yarns what I spins you
is of course all true; but, Lord love you,
what I used for to tell these here chill
dren was the most awful whoppers about
phantom ships, and great fish with tre-.
mendioqs wings, as come out of the
water and flew at the ships, breakin'
their spars all to pieces; and wonderful
big whales as would come up under
ships and lift 'em clean out OF water;
and these kids, bless you, would take
'em all in, and would never git tired of
hearin' of 'em, except sometimes of a
night the little gal would 60 off to sleep,
layin' her little head down onto my lap,
while the youngster, as wide awake. as
a black-fish, would continually keep
askin' for more of 'em, till / were clean
beat out inventin' of 'em. What both
cred me were to make out how these
here two could be of the same family as
the older gal. She were as Irish as the
pigs in Drogheda, while no one in the
world would have ever said that they
come Of the same stock and as for a
broglle, they hadn't a bit of it.
It were all PLAIN to me, howsever,
one night, when we had got to the
west'ard nigh up with the fifties, and
arter / had been q spinnin' twysters to
these youngsters, and they had gone
down below to bed, this here old gal,
which, Of course, I had got well ac-
quaihted with, comes up agin and sits
down by me and says she, tom, I'm
greatly worried about them bits of chill
der, poor things!'
"sAs how, marmp' says I.
And then she turns to and reels off
the whole yarn to me. It seemed that
she had been a livin' as nursemaid with
a English family away somewheres in
Yorkshire and there was "a bit of q
boy as she called him, as were the
gardener at the same place, and she
and this gardener got very sweet on to
one another, but they couldn't get splic-
ed, you see, cause this chap hadn't got
no money, and so arter a while, hearin'
of the great wages Civ to gardeners
in the States, him and her had made it
up together for to club together all the
cash they could muster atwixt 'em, and
for him to go over and keep a-sendin'
her money till sich time as she could
come out and jine him and git spliced
for a full due.
swell, sir, this little gal, she were
the 'darter of that family, and had been
under 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 git
spliced, and she said as how she'd 60 il
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 go along with these little
| 'uns. l never stopped to think, Tom,
says she, how wrong it were; Masthel
Edward had tf1O, which he had got
somehow, and this, with the bit of money
Tim ehad sint over, was enough,
thought; and I'd take good care Of the
chiider, and they couldn't be marryin',
| and thin such bits, and when / got to
the. beyant, sure I'd keep 'em till the
masther sint for 'em. see now, Tom,
says she, how bad it were, and, oh
what'll do, at all, at alp
"Well, sir, this were jist one ratline
higher than could git, and what to tel
the gal didn'tknow. The young chap
had writ to his folks from Liverpool
and if the ship be to have laid forty
/ eight hours in the river, as they had te
/ do afterwards, they could have beer
took afore she sailed but, you see, they
come to Liverpool over night, and come
aboard in the mornfn', and we went ou
of dock and down channel, and hert
they was nigh onto 1900 miles from
home. 8 80. ~
81 thought ! should adjust mysel
with laughin' when this here Name,
telled me how this here young chal
wanted to go right off afore a parso1
and git spliced out Of hand; but you SCI
that wouldn't have suited her book, no
at no price, and so she managed to pu
him. off and git him aboard. And it,
wonderful, Tom, says she agin, to SCI
them two, as has always been used t
the. best OF every thin, livin' down il
.Ethat ho1e,' meanin' the steerage, san,
eatins the comnlonest Of victuals an,
never once complainin', believin' tina
they are goin' for to be married as 500
as ever they gifts over.