The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-04

and give HIM Christian burial
:" pursumeS, sir, As the second mate wantCl
the life presarvcr, and thought it would hc
mean thing 10 steal it from Jack and leave
him tloatin without it, and tins were one rci
son why he Suggc. cd as We should pull hin
into the boat, hnt he pul it on the principe a
he were too good icllcr for 10 hc left witbou
Christian burial.
We gifts alongside and hysts up the boa
with Jack into her, and he was took Oft an,
laid onto the main hacN for to hr scwcd up
Bill Johnson aud me brin Civ the iob an,
told for % git piece OF - old to gal Ian sal on
of the sall-rOOm for 10 do it with; he bcn
InOAin hut "a man aii RI the mast. OF colr>,.
new canvass wcr'nt 10 he allowed Jack hav
IN good 1T # d lnrarc onto him, We take
| 1t off, agrt elm for to divide il fair A. Bill
were II takin off hi un lerohirt he says to ne
as he were II flmblin around Jacns breast
He amt been d al Ion nohow, cause he,
warm yet
The dew he is say, |. 'Maybr lac amt
dead, ana puts IN hand over his heart, and
thought t,tas -nr bcalin'.
This he" OF do Bill says we must
have the dut a,c him.
"Don't you think he 5 dead enough = says
Bill, with Il peculiar look 1T me- a, under.
stood had reference 10 the dunnage we'd dI.
vided but | wouldn't have 1t nj no price, ami
says to Bill, 4 couldn't do il. my lad, much
~ | want the clothes" for which honest con.
duct I'm sue he thanked me afterwards, for
h" were II decent chap and only jist yielded t.
| su en- impuLc.
| Well | goes all and reports to the mate
/ We think as how Jack Amt dead SIR SAYS |.
'FIddlcstiCks, says hc-bcing IA religions
man, he didn't go turdcr than thal-tddlc.
IsliCks, GNs he he must he dead : but pass,S
The word for The doctor, and he comes and puts
his ear down onto Jacks breast for while.
q 1t then he saws:
Hes alive sure enough, and he orders hun
put into the tOrccaste, and SmOthered up with
blankits, and rubbed with spirits and wha, not,
and by mornn' they had Jack brcathin' away
like porpus.
by he next day Jack were allie to talk but
he funny part of it were that he didn't remen,-
her anything ~ had happened TO him, or where
he were or anything of the previous passage
There were another funny thing: he were only
alive IN his upper works, his lower parts helm
ca rs mutton. He couldn't move his legs,
nj didnt have no frclin' into 'cm YOU could
tick il sail needle into EN- and he wouldn't
feel it, nor would any blood flow from the place
when The needle WAS pulled out That were
not ALL He he to know everything rs were
,oin' on all over the ship, and he lnyin' n
his bunk IN the torecastIr. The fu,t WE know Il
of this peculiarly last was on night. when
Tom Field came for'ard from the wheel, and
one Of the Oh ~, says i[Dws She b en- "A 20
m? and up speaks Jack from his bunk and
says he: Well. she come mp at times Ia west.
IOu' west, and then agin she falls of To about
southwest, half west
How the devil do you know? saws Tom {,
hut Jack couldn't Tell only he says, Sam Walk
er as relieved you is "A steern' awful bad trick 4.
she amt l,y the wind within two pint.'
"Well, when we f.rerd that, we begin for to
git skecred of Jack 1T amt Jack 1T all, in
my idee says Jackey Short, chap ~ had
read good deal and had arnn' IT'S his
spirit The mate he allowed that wevc all
nonsense; but 'akin' u look ~ the compass he
comes fnr'srd and says he, 'IIou's her head
now, jack 'S0n'we.t by west, half west
says Jack, right off
"'Youre \ half pint out Of the way says
the mate; shes a headin wcst-sou west
She were, said Jack, when YOU looked in
to the compass, hut Sam has let her 30 off u
half pint since I'm real sorry to tell you,
Mr.. Mack SAWS Jack continuing the same
conversation, that your father has Just died.
well, to snv the mate were ilahhrgasttd, is
list Ia put il mildly His father were in Var
mouth, England you see. He wouldn't have
believed il neither if Jack hadn't been W righ,
onto other things
"Wcll, the mate reports il Ia the old man.
and he 90: skeered 'hiukln' that the mate
weren't all right aloft h"ws'ever, he comes
fnr'ard. and says he jist to humor the mate.
Jack IA it's said Won know everything, icll
me what detained the Columbus"
"'She were u scuddin,' says Jack, without
the least hesitation. in a hard gale Of wind
under three close.rrefcd torsalls and n rerird
foresail, and she got popped by sea The
captain and second mate WAS washed overheard
along with two of the crew, hn' one of 'em got
aboard agin. and the REG, was lost
"'Wherc are she nov y says the old man
"Jist acoin' in by ETolyhrad,' SAYS Jack
'hnt you'd better git along aft, sir for that
damned niger steward nf yohr'n is into your
room n hookin' your brandy and the old man.
Jest to try Jack, rushed nft. and sure enough
caurh the niger list comm out of his room.
"Wcl we weren't goin' for to stay into no,
torccaStle with spirit, and we know'd hv this
that Jnck'wcrc one IL were our opini0n that hel
ought tn he pitched overheard, but the mate
wouldn't agree to TINT nohow. One of theI
chaps said NJ he didn't believe we'd ever git
in as long as We KEEP him aboard, and the
mate says why dor Z you ask HIM how long
we're going 10 he on the passage? Ifhc 'nows
so much he can tell: and so asks him myself
Saws |, Jack, my no. how long afnrc we're
~oin' to r,t in'' and saws he AT once. Eighteen
lays We'd then been eight DAYS ont ana.
-urc enough, we WAS only twenty six days on
Ia the VOYAGE
But afnre that they had to take Jack att for
safety, cause il weren't no use we conldn I
sleep IN the forccas'le with a Thin" like that
YOU condn't Yourself sir and the doctor who
for some reason were delighted with hIm, vol.
"ntecred for to tasp him into his room and
look out for him, and h M and the second mate
they come tnrard and fetched him aft You
couldn't have rot one Of us chaps to bay e.
inurnnd him t'r Anvhin', Iou see. when
Jack fust went overheard some Of us went for
his chest, Of course. and his dmnnaec we're ap- !
40 rs when il were took Mt there
weren't much INTO IT, and Jack he saws Onpl
lay artcr he had hccn brought aboard agin |
See here, YOU chanS what's cot my dnnnageI
had better put il back and it are "A fact that
very one of rs was honest enough for Ia dol
il in less than twenty-four hours so we didn't
have anvthin' onto our conscience 81 far ~
f.ri. worn concerned huf ~. Il tra,,;