Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-02-10

darter, as was properer, and eight bells
strikin' there and then the steward tells
me and Jimmy fur ito keep shady and
he'd bring us out another caulker. which
we done and he done. and which he
wouldn't have done in my opinion if he
hadn't had at least three finger in his
self
with your permission, sir, / don't care
| if do. once more; after rheumatics It's
required and tell him he neednf ptlt i'm
too much water. under pretense of max
ING it hot. And so, sir, as | WAS sayin'.
lit were only two or three days arter this
that word were brought for'ard to us.
that the old gent had shifted his moor
ms through the night, aud for couple
of ms to come aft with palms and needles.
of which were lucky enoughsto be one.
the other bein''a chap by the name of
Johnny Rooney, KNOWN that certainly
there were il glass of grog i'm il, if not
somethin' to be picked up i'm the way of
dunnage, which did git coat of the old
mans, and Johnny got two weskits.
"Considerin' he were q Downeaster |
must say that the old man done the
thing handsome in allowin' new can
vas, though for the matter of that the old
chap left plenty of money, and suppose
the yally of the canvas was took out !:
still. honor to him as honorable does.
and there's maEya skipper as would a
had him sewed up in old canvas and a
charged for new, which. he didn't but
give MS good No. hemp, and we meas
ured off two breadths and put Fem to-
gether with neat flat seam and layin'
him out on the cabin table. Johnny and
me sewed him up, takin' the last stitch
through his nose aud leavin the needle to
keep his head straight; and L must say
he made rs neat Il layout as L ever seen.
Gittin' up some pig-iron out of the hold
for ballast to him. which is better than
Jumps of coal. not bein' clumsy, and that
! das. at seven bells of the forenoon watch,
all hands was called and we hauled up
the mainsail and backed the main-yard,
and the old man read the sarvice beauti-
| full afore we launched him, which, if he'd
been an emperor he couldn't have been
buried heater or in more ship-shape style,
we film away Immediately arter, and
proceedin'.
II reckons, sir, it were about a week
arter this. and we on the eastern edge of
the banks, standin' to the north'ard on
the port tack, with three tO'gallan' sails
onto her, the fog bein' that thick you
could cut it with knife. all hands bein'
| on the lookout, about six bells in the
forenoon watch. made Il ship on the other
tack three pints OH the lee bow and close
aboard. liz were our place to have KEEP
off. but we hadn't room, having crochlck
1 and spankpr set, which Oughtn't to be in
thick weather and we on the port tack
and all we could do were to to spring our
luff and try TO squeeze by. Whether or
no the other ship KEEP off or not. don't
know-he weren't bound to; but any
way he didn't clear lis; his JlbboOm
comm i'm Just abaft our mizZen-maSt, he
/ struck us on the starboard quarter, Jist
i'm the wake of the captains state-rOOm,
and smashed us all to smithereens. The
two ships went right clear OF each other.
and we see at once that we was badly hit
and must 90 down. The lee main braces
were all carried away. and we let go the
main tack and sheet. and let the yards
run in square To deaden her Roadway SO
we could git the boats in the water. The
old man and the mate KEEP their heads
COOL, and eyerythin' was uone decent.
Word was passed Women and children
fuSt,' and it were done accOrdin.' we
had to knock few of the rOughess OF
the passengers over the head for TO keep
| em from rIshin' to the boats, and then
we got every woman aud every child In
| to 'em safe, it bein' smooth SO that We
could work fast. The other ship, which
were the Oriole, had tackled and hove to
nigh hand 10 us and she sent her boats,
and we was soon all aboard of her with
out losin' a man.
..She were bound to Boston. and in
good time we all got there safe. Me aud
II Of hn
come right OH to New York, goiR' to
| board at Kennels in Franklin square.
Here we was found by the steward.
who took lis up to- lawyer in Nausau
street. where we had to make what they
called atierdavit. about this old chap
maxim his win aboard of the Mignon.
Jimmy swared to signin' it along with
tue captain and second mate, and we
both sWared To what the steward had
told us that night he Civ us the 'caulk-
| ers.' 1t wertl.'t no use though. them
| blessed Holy Joes allowed it We're all a
yarn, and hung OH TO the property. All
| that the old NAH could say was that arter
the old chaps went of The hooks, he seal
| ed up all his traps except this Will. and
that he put into Il oiled silk case along
with the ships register. That case were
in his bureau in his room, and his room
were all stove III when the ship run into
us, and he couldn't git into it; l don't
think he tried, bein' more exercised In
gittin his passengers off safe and leavln'
| hisself. she yoin' down soon arter he lett
her, he bein' the last man.
"Well, sir, me and Jimmy We ships III
the Westminster along of Capt. Hovey:
| for London. Seven days out, fannln'
along across the Banks, with light wind
| dead aft, there were a shark seen fOllerln'
arter us, and of course we went tor that
eea-lawyer right OF, and it weren't long
| afore he vert hooked, and We tOwed him
along amidshil,s and got a bowline round
| him and yanked him in on deck. he
were a rOuser, 10 feet long If inch.
Fust we thought we'd bride him and let
him 90, but then one OF the cabin passen-
gers wanted his jaw, and so his heaC was
cut off. We was just gOin' tor to throw
| his carcase overheard when somebody
saws. Cut him open and see what he's
got inside of him. and Jimmy Duncan
| out knife and ripped open his stummick.
"sHello,' says Jimmy, here's som dun
mage as has belonged do some poor
rnatelo,' and with that he picks out wad
of somethin' and begin for to open 1T. a
minute arter seen Jimmy goin. for the
| forecastle, and to all questions as to what
he I'd got of that fish, Jimmy were as dumb
as oyster. That night, hOws'ever in
the dog watch Jimmy says to me: Tom,
NV boy, don't mind telling you that
there blessed shark had into him the oil
skin case with the old Mignon's register
and the will of that chap what you help
ed to sew up. 1t ought to be worth mon
ey to US. my lad, if so be a., how We ever
otis back to New York; - IA - =
/ - Io.r~ and thof fhora low