The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-01-31

amt got none. Now, ii he wins the wild
der, it stands to reason he'll want this
money, and If l done win her 1t stands,
to reason that shant want 1t, and so
purposes Tor to put that in, the winnin'
man to take the pile,' which it we're Joe
as done it In two straight games, and
were spliced to the widder week arter
we got In, by Parson Hodge, in the Mar
iners' Church in oliver street.
"You see, sir, don't suppose as how
the Widder cared for to be spliced agin
so soon, but what were she to doP Here
she were like a cat in strange garret
in this big city, where she didn't know
soul, and as you know, sir, necessity
oft compels what decency forbidsy any
way, spliced they were for full due,
and Jack Adams ships in the Black Bali
ship Columbus and goes OIL to sea.
''It strikes me went into the Mar
mi ON along with Captain Edwards, bat
| don't jst remember, and 1T DON'T mat
ter piu's worth to this yarn, butI
know il were a year or so atore Jack
came athWart my hawse agin,
and then L stumbled over him
one day in South street, near Dover. de
telled me that he'd quit golp to sea and
| was workin' along shore for Bill Dorl-
an, the rigger, cause, he said, his old
| woman haylp lost two husbands agoip
to sea, were bound for to hold fast to
him, and keep him ashore; and then ne
ups and he tells me that comiP home OH
of o Liverpool voyage he found the Wa
der Johnson we're a Widder CARROLL as
we'll, Joe havip shipped in bark bound
tO Rio, and come home missiR, beln cast
away list to the no'th'ard of Cape St.
Rooue. five of the crew beiM drowned in
the surf, one OF 'em bain' Joe; am SO IL
list come napral and were jacks plain
duty to splice the widder, which he
done.
81 heerd the rest of this yarn, sir,
from Bill johnson, nim as was Knocked
off the foretopsail yard that night when
our watch was a tryln' TO Iurl that
double-reeted lopsail aboord of the Caro-
ms Magnus, which wer'n't droWnded,
but come down easy like onto the top OF
sea, and nigh hand OF some wrecked d
stuff, which he hung fast TO, ana were
picked up the next day by Engllsn
whaler bound to the Pacific, which were
nigh onto tive years of voyage afore
, ever Bill put his foot on English soil
agin, Iandin' in London and gittin' paid
: off, and shippln' into a London packet
for New YORK.
"Gittin' here, he falls to inqurin'
about his wile, and at last comes
: athwart of q shipmate as tells him of hel
marryin' Joe, and OF him gttin'
drownded, and then Of her marryin
Jack Adams, and SO he gifts underway
at once Tor tne place where she lived
arrlyln' there along about O'Clock OF .
eyenln' just as Jack were COMM home
from his work, and if you'd believe me
: sir-I told you first of this were Jougl
one-who should come up the steps
of that house at that very ldehtl
3 cal time but Joe Carroll, whicL
F., hadn't drowned at all, but had come
9 nigh hand onto it, and had been tool
9 care OF by Brazilian chap for spell
9 till he got strong enough, aud had then
a managed to fetch up at PernamDucO
I where he were took down with the ieVer
and went to hospital for a many
months, gettin' out at last, and shlppin'
in a brig for Baltimore, from which place
, he had last come, and so here was The
1 three of 'em, all there to once, which
i made the Widder johnson say, as sale
q she said in the first OF thls, 100 much o
( a good thing are dreadful
e HWell, sir, Bill told me they went in
a and talked IL over friendly like, and o
D course he said that she wer'nt to blame
? for what she'd done, and Jack and Joe
1 wern't to blame lor what they'd done
Here were her rightlul and righteous
i husband come home, and there were
I nothin' for the other Two to do but II
sheer off. Joe said he were sorry h
hadn't got home a week or 80 sooner
= and JACK said ne were sorry they't
, either of 'em come home. lie stasnet
!, the riggin' business at once, aud him AM
Joe shipped aboard OF tue John u. Cos
ter for the East lndees,"