Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-09-25
The Captains Daughter.

>~Dh. pa" said she, ''bui love him sc
i love him 50 dearly"
u don't care, said /. "A common
SSilor Ike him." and then she beloved
and wipe6 her ewes, rs might have been ex-
Vecfed Of = girl
Nv girl WAS beauty, and she was the
only one 1 had-the only one | ever had
and owned a boat, and | was known
everywhere IS Captain Parker, of the Saucy
Jane, and al | had Jennie would have
sGne day; and WAS it likely I'd give her to
Jack Blaze, n he WAS before the mast ?
No
Wei. set nv foot down. and supposed
the girl wORld obey. But, 10 and behold
what should l see one day when l came
home from the river but couple of people
swinging on nv gate!
Il was Jack Blaze and Jennie, and his
Srm was around her waist.
bolied In between 'em like shell, and
ordered Jennie to her room, and ordered
Jack away. and / told him what would
happen If / saw him swinging on my gate
again
If you weren't her father, SIR" said
Jack. Il q not bear such words from you;
but, q i lS, and you're an old man"
With that fired flower pot at him and
called him q confOunded mutineer, and he
sneered of.
Jennie. saws I've done we'll by YOU
your old father has done well by you, and
what have YOU done by him I've taught
yOu 10 play the pianner, or had you taught
which Is the same thing. and you've got
one You dress in silks. and keep a ser
want for YOU, and We got You down In my
viii for all shall leave, and how do you
use me While I'm away following the
water YOU mutiny. Now, I'm sorry to
punish Won. darent leave YOU alone, and
In lock up the house and take you along
with me on nv trips The cabin is COM
Portable and You'll not suffer, and if you
don't like il YOU shall lump it. Keeping
company with fellow like that. Ugh!'
sDon't be cross, papa, said Jennie.
I'D like to 90. I'm sure. As for Jack,
he's the best fellow know, and I'll keep
company with no one else but if you
don't ike it yet Wen wait"
S|Wait - saws /. ''Wait Why, if
wanted YOU to marry, Jennie, there's the
captain of a steamer told me last week I'd
the preitiest daughter of any man he knew,
and that he WIS tired of single life. The
captain of steamer, Jennie, think of that ~
1 don't believe he's as nice as Jack, "
said Jennie: 'Hand love Jack"
Then shook her. I'm sorry to say
shook her, and the next day | had her
trunk sent down 10 the boat and took her
under my arm to the same place.
The cabin was good enough for queen,
and the little stateroom picture, and she
seemed 10 ike it.
You'd have thought was giving her a
trea1 instead of Furnishing her.
She uqed to sit out on deck all the fine
davs. with knitting and sewing, or a book,
and she sang TO me evenings.
But she didn't give up. not even when
she saw the captain-siX feet three; hand
some as picture.
No. she stuck 10 Jack, and | stuck out
against him as stiff as she, and so we sailed
up and down the river, and Summer went
and Autumn came, and Winter was a-com-
ing but my girl was obstinate as ever.
Ii was my last trip
All Win.er, after the river was frozen,
the Saucy Jane Law at the dock.
eff YOU were a good, obedient girl, saiC
]. / shouldn't have locked you up; but a:
il is Imust-
So I kissed her-I was glad to remember
afterward that kissed her-and L vict-
ualled the cabin, and locked the door and
put the KEY in my pocket, and off L went.
/ had To 60 distance out OF town, and
there, when settled my business, | dined,
and it was evening before l got back to the
Saucy Jane, or, rather, to Poplartown,
where she lay.
I thought to myself, as came down,
that had never seen the place so busy, but
as / neared the dock, saw that something
had happened.
There was crowd there, and people
were talking and shaking their heads, ano
somehow couldn't see the smoke-stack ol
the Sancy Jane peer through the shadows
As might. nor the red and green lights a
her head. nor any sign of her, and grea
fear crept into my heart, and | began tC
shake and shiver.
Its only the fog" said /; but there wa
mo FOG.
Its dark said l, but the darker it wa
the brighter the lights would have shon'
out
Then all trembling and shaking like al
old man-like my old grandfather, who hat
the palsy, used 10 do, l remember thInkln:
i caught hold of man who was passlH!
ing and said:
%-IsoOk here, man, what's the matter
What's the crowd about What's hap
penedg"
Its the little steamboat down there,
said the men; 'the Saucy Jane. She
been run into and sunk by a coal boat. Sh'
went down i'm thirty minutes. The cap
tain was away they say, and the men wen
on spree. Only the cabin boy was there
they picked him up. You can just see he
smoke-siack above the water. The Goa
boaa was hur1 hit, too. She's lying on
there
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