The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-04-20
an OLD SAILORS YARNS.
Murder will Out TIE El,o>t that Bis
tHr!:pd tie Grew Ola Packet.

"Drn as the weather are somewhat
" ar'nrr. sir" said he old sailor Il
should say a, ale ""nla he E"rc
>o"thin' t|1au rum, besides brin' more
for >mokin'. which goes |
better with bee, than With any strong
tippIr. as in doubt ynn has ohsn vcd. |
If 'hcn it wonl.lu't I've N.>plra>iu t"
you, sir, as may take whatsoever
vou likes, J would say let him bring
me mug of ale.
81 were thinNin' sir, to-day, as
were comm here of the cuirns way
in which things will come ont, if 50
he as It's rccloncd up for 'em not to
he hidden. mind once when | we've
fore the mast in the ship New York,
Black Ball par',et, bound from Liver
pool to New York, ]cavin' there on
the S,h of March, with passengers.
the second day ont we touuu stow.
away. lie weren't like the ordinary
run of stowawaNS neither, b'ln
much better dressed than lhc COM
mon run, and a chap as had evident
" moved in much better circles than
was usually the case with sirh, and it
were matter of wonder to us why
Sich a man should have come aboard
in sch a unlrrhandcd sort Of way.
He were in the held amongst the car
go, and when we went down to sarvc
out the water he crawlrd out and
gave himself up, bein' half starve.
haviu' been there three days without
any grub. He told the mate he were
williu' to work, and would be glad for
to do anythin' for to arm his grub.
, Well, of course he conld't be chucked
overheard there he were, and the
only way were to git as much work
out of him as possible SO he were
sent for'ard with us in the forecast lie,
being put into our watch.
"Wc had ordinary weather down
| Channel, the wind hein' from the
s'uth'ard and s'uth'ard and west ard,
and it were not till the sixth day out
that we passed TnsIiar. Our side
came up at T. O'Clock one night just
after weil'd passed the light, and afore
one bell the wind went in to the
BASTARD. We sent out the port boom,
the wind bein' about three pints ont(
that side, which we had no sooner go
done than it he to square the yar(
agin, the wind haa\in' dead aft. W.
got the spanker and fore-spence1
brailed up, hauled up the crochircl
and mainsail sung and hauled dowl
the head sails. Havin' lot of pig
iron into her, and no coal under it t.
raise it up into her, she be to rol
very heavy as soon as the wind go
aft and she lost tho steadyin' powe
of the sails. The word had been Civ
to ring ont the starboard booms, ant
| were ,iist onto the shear pole of TIT
fore-rigsin' going a]oft when there
F. come the most onarthly screech
ever heard in my life, and startled
me so l were nigh loosing' my hold Q
the riggin' and goin' overheard.
"The voice were that of woman
seemingly in mortal agony, and the or
5 were .Murderr-not all to once like "
} told it, but as if it were two words, thl
t way: 'Mur-der! the sound being pro
. lonycd like as though tho woman wer
in extreme terror. The second mat
+. were staudiu' on the for'ard part OF tn
, poop and lie came a-runnin' torard, til
+ Slack of the fore spencer rang catchll
' him under the chin as he come and tetcl
in him up all standn'.
"Why in the--don't you haul thcl
e rangs taut " says he as he rounded dow
the slack of it and took {; turn under tt
. pin; who the WAS that sung ont"
Y "That we're exactly what we all wan
q ed to know. Everybody had heard
, and all hands had been CALLED by it.
were still standin' onto the shear-rol
the strength bein' all took out of me: b'
the strangest thing of all were the etie
l. it had onto this here stowaway. Wht
e he heard the cry he jist dropped dow
e into fit, frightened clear ont OF his sci
j. SEES. 1t weren't no wonder neither, secl
'. as how it had frightened even us o
# sailormen, and We Iii mt think it at ;
e strange as it should have keeled hi
20 over entirely.
- - Draw up bucket of water al
Al 'chuck over him. says the secondz mat
Is and then go below, one of you, and S
if anythin' is wrong with any of the p;
N sengers it's some old maid down the
n, as has got the nightmare and dream
II she were married. says he a-tryin'
. laugh it off; bus he were jist as m'l
&c trouble over it as any ofus. Well, t
vi chap come up, and said as how ever
g thin were right below there was sol
as Of the passengers awake, and they s;
Ie they heard it, but it weren't down the
4 "'Well, 60 ahead and git the stun sa
out. anyhow, says the second mate.
it's the devil We'll try and outsall hi
and accordin' we done it, and save a
n, except that ono horrjd cry we hcs
nothin' else.
"At eight bells when the other $
ST. como up we tcIled them, and tust
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