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

iuh anu laHtif iAattl Haa Pithlls Ao
mildest name that ever Hicks called
him was snuff" but even that didn't
hurt Harry.
Harry didn't search his Bible 10 find
the proyerbial iiye-pound note, but he
searched il 10 find something far better,
muff AS he was; and night and morn
i'm he knelt by the side OF his sea-
chest, and he never felt bit the worse
for it,
Henry had been NJ 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 HIM the rum that day.
Crash, That was blow, and Hicks
was the giver, 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 whole week. But nobody
pitied Hicks.
And Harry's life in the gun-room was
more pleasant after that.
CHATTER IL.
When three years had passed away
and, Oh, how quickly years do fly in the
navy, Harry felt he liked the service.
When five years had come and gone he
positively loved il, and wouldn't have
changed places with "A lord on shore.
al this time Harry had never once been
! home, for when one commission was
done he had volunteered for second
I in the same station; and not only he,
I but his dearest friend, Lazy Lawson,
and his faithful servant, Dan Williams,
I had ali managed to effect an exchange
into the corvette Vengeance, just new
AZ out from England. Harry was soon
senior midshipman on that ship, and
ere very long junior sub-lieutenant
You would hardly have known Harry
Winsome now. He was no longer the
I little bashful boy, who rode on board
/ his first ship on top of his sea-chest,
but tall and handsome young man
I still little quiet-looking, and with a
cast Of care in his countenance,
but with fair irrepressible hair that
curled over his well-bronzed brow,
and All eve that never feared TO look
you in the face.
"Heigho.n said Harry TO his friend
and chum one Sunday morning; Il
wonder If there will ever be any fight
ing TO give = fellow chance TO win his
! epaulets."
"Epaulets, indeed" replied Lawson,
who was still MILDLY; II only wish
could win my scales and stripe, le.
alone epaulets. But | suppose | shall
never be any thing but Lazy lawson.
envy you, Harry. How the dickens do
yoa manage it?''
81 just keep pegging away" said
Harry.
"Mind. I'm not jealous, Harry, but
/ somehow envy YOU
"Why don't you keep pegging away
as do?" asked Harry simply.
sob, hang work and grinding" said
Lawson; II can't do it, and there's an
end. Besides, there's luck. you know
The skipper never fell into the hands
of the natives, and gave me chance Of
saving his life. And | happened to be
on leave when the ship was on fire.
J Williams told me, though, it was quite
sight TO see you, all black and grimy,
scuttling the decks with the carpenters
axe. But--by gum, Harry I'll never
\ forget the day YOU jumped overheard,
I in half gale Of wind, after poor Joe
Emmett. Il was so funny; because,
when | saw YOU come up and the
/ broken water all round you frothy and
7 bloody. | made sure the shark had you
/ instead of Joe; and YOU only brought
up one half of poor Joe after all-that
was funny. OH you're a lucky, lucky
beggar. Harry
"And so would YOU be, Lawson, il
you would only just make up your mind
to keep peg -"
"Sirange sail on the lee bow. sir,'--
/ this in stentorian tones from the man
AZ the masthead.
II was a sight TO see the bright CLEAN
that now shone from Harry's eye, and
I Illuminated his whole face: il was a
sight 10 see the alacrity with which,
glass in hand, he Skinned up the rig
ging; and il was sight to see poor
little Lazy Lawson stick his hands deep
into his peg-top trousers-pockets, and
gaze upwards after him
.'Lucky--lucky begger," said Law
son.
Harry came down almost as quickly
as he had gone up, went below, and en-
tered the commanders cabin. Shortly
afterwards, the order was passed to let
the men have dinner half an hour
sooner; and even 4 novice could have
told, from observing the unusually
beaming faces Of both men and officers,
that something more than usual was in
the wind. The ship was kept away a
few points in the direction Of the strange
vessel, which in less than an hour could
be seen from dcck-a large three-mast-
ed ship, under every stitch Of canvas
! She cnnld carry and keeninp well In