The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-09-19

&. tns, were on u tug-boat with Corn
Chlpperton and her servent Cell
y They are in search of Corny's pi
p rents, from whom they had bee
; parted during an escape from shil
+ wreck off the Florida coast. III
captain of the tug-boat turne,
. homeward early in the search, il
=. spite of the protest of Win Gordel
the only one Of the young people
; then awake. Win says.
Everything was quiet on the wa
ter, and everything, except the en-.
CINE, was just as quiet on the tug.
Rectus and Corny and Celia were
still asleep, and nobody else seem.
ell stirring, though, of course, some
OF the men were at their posts. |
don't think the captain wanted to
be about when Corny came out on
deck, and found that we had given
up the search. | intended to be
with her when she first learned this
terrible fact, which l knoew would
put an end to all hope of seeing her
parents again; but | was in no
hurry for her to wake up. | hoped
she would sleep until we reach,
ed the city, then we could take her
directly to her kind friends.
And she did sleep until we reach,
ed the city. 1t was about seven
o'clock in the morning, / think,
when we be gan to steam slowly by
the wharves and piers.
The city looked doleful. There
very few people about. Some
men could be seen on tho decks of
the vessels at the w~harves, and a
Olg steamer for one of the Northern
ports was getting up steam. |
could not help thinking how hap.
py the people must be who were
going away in her. On one of
piers near where we we're going
o Stop-we were coming now
we're a few darkcy boys sitting on
| wliart,log, and dangling their
lare feet over the water. | won.
Tered how they dared laugh and
50 Jolly. In a few minutes Cor
~ must be wakcned. On a post,
rear these boys, a loungcr sat fish,
hs with Il long polr,-actually fish
nS away as if there were no Sor. s
ows aud deaths, or shipwrecked t
nd broken hearted people in the !
ORD. L was particularly angry Z
t this man-and | was so nervous '
hat all sorts Of things made me S
ngry, because he was old enough a
know better, and because he L
'oked like such a fool. He had "
n green trousers, dirty canvas :
loes and no stockings, a striped Il
nen coat, and an old straw hat {
hich lopptd down over his nose. {
ne of the men called to him TO >.
itch the line which he was abont II
throw Oh the wharf, but he maid 20
attention, and a negro boy came b.
I'd caught the line. The man had \ III
te and couldn't take his ewes from
S cork. | wished the line had
t him and knocked him off the ~
'St. "
Just as we touched the pier, the II
an caught his fish. He ierked il 70
:, and jumped off his post, and as or
looked up in delight at his little ar
h swinging in the air, | saw he di
Mr.. Chipperton!'
made one dash for Corny's lit. 4,
!cubby-hole. l banged at the
or. l shouted:
'Corny! Here's your fatherp
She was out in an instant. She -.
d slept in her clothes. She had pr
bonnet on. She ran out on deck ;
4 looked about, dazed. The the
ut OF the wharves and the ships BE
med to stun her. AZ
where :" she cried. inc
took her blythe arm and point. full
out her father, who still stood sPe
ding the fishing-pole in one hand n
lie endeavoring to clutch the =
fish with the other. "A
he plank had just been thrown
from the little deck. Corny wh'
de one bound. l think she f far
lex the plank in the middle. like W.
India rubber ball, and then she 7
on the wharf; and before he |
ID bring his eyes down to the nv f
ID, her arms were around her Age
ler's neck, and she was wildly any
ing and hugging him. mon
+. Chipperton was considerably +,
tied, but when he saw who il -
who had him, be threw his q
s around Corny, and Rugged "
kissed her as if he had gone
sctus was out by this time, and
G and l stood on the tug we III
d not help laughing, although -
Tere SO happy that we could Is BY
|. cried. There stood that ridi. Suid,
as tgurer Mr.. Chipperton in pIetei
hort green trousers, and his best :
striped coat, with his arms and c
nd his daughter, and the fish. matio
ole tightly clasped to her back tops al
tue poor little fish dangled book
'oooed at every fresh hug. better