Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-03
AN OLD SAILORS YARN.
\ Spree at Lake Standardization the An
cient Mariner Missed Wife and Fortune.

Spree at Lake P0nchartralu--HOW the An
cient Mariner Missed Wife and Fortune.
From the New York World
81 came mighty near once" said the
old sailor, mot only of bein' man of
independent fOrtin, but of havin' besides
as nice wife as usually falls to the lot
of a man; and yet here | are, Waterman
along the dock, with lantern and dog,
glad to come up here once in a while and
give you few stories as has happened in
my seafarin' experience, whereas, If l
hadn't a-slipped up in several of my I'M
dertakin's presumes as l should at this
time of written have been bloated
bond-holder, or leastways at the head of
an elevated railway, with a heavy balance
in the bank and everything looking favor
able for a tremendous increase day by
day.
Now with regards to this particular
case in pint, which as I has always
looked on as shown as thing are reck-
Oned up for people from the start, and it
amt no use trying to buck agin 'em.
Here where a chance which don't happen
to a man more than once in lifetime and
| missed it not through any fault of mine,
but simply because it weren't reckoned
up for me and were reckoned up for
somebody else.
"Now here's the way 1t were. l came
into New Orleans in the shi p Kate Dyer,
her as were afterwards run down off Fire
island by the steamship Scotland. Times
was good in New Orleans, yellow fever
bein' plenty and sailors scarce, and ships
was a givin' 800 advance to Liverpool
in oI1 tO no
landlord, and III say this for Bob Darlin',
he being of course enc of the most sweet
scented villains as was ever in the bust
ness, as likewise were Wash, which were
the shipping master-he always used me
we'll, as likewise did both of 'em, and l
weren't adrift three days before was able
to ship into the ship FAIRY Queen, Bob get
tin the 800 and honestly givin' me $50
of it in solid cash, he havin' great conf
dence in me, my dunnage benz at his
house and he KNOWN as | wouldn't 90
back onto him.
Whatever it took me to it can't say,
but sartin it are l gets onto the outside
OF horse and away goes to Lake Pom
chartrain, and however it happened l
can't say, but it were probably in conse-
quence of histin' too much, sort of last
my reckonin', and when two days arter-
wards I fetched up found -nyself into
the calaboose, and before got clear of
the various legal complications thereunto
belongin', the Fairy Queen had gone
down the river and I weren't into her, a
chap of the name of Billy Edwards
hav1n' been shipped in my place.
"Of course, done the square thing by
Bob Darlin', as had shipped me, and took
a chance on board the Westmoreland, as
was a shippin' when come out, the same
advance bein' Civ, and not havin' any
money of course KEEP sober and straight
and went on board of her and down the
river, the captains name bein' Ocean
We went out over the bar, and the wind
bein' light from southeast we anchored.
"Well, sir, there we laid for week
there bein' no show for us to make any
thing by gettin' under way, and we had
a chance to git all to rights and work the
rum ont of all of us chaps for'ard, so thai
when we did at last git breeze from the
north'ard we was in good condition tor te
begin our wage. Along down to the
Tortugas we kept our fair wind and made
a good run, but off that pint we took the
regular trade wind from about east-no'th
east and 1t were so fresh that we had tt
put reef IN the topsails, carrying thu
maintG 'gallan' sail over that. Nothin' O
any particular account happened aftel
that. We worked her along to the east
ard, maxim the Double Headed Shots al
right, and in twenty -four hours more wa!
off Maternilla reef. Here we catched
stiffener from the north'ard and the ole
man let her go to the BASTARD at once
and did not try to follow the gull
around.
Z s 1.-THE wind hung on to the north ard
perhaps little eastin' into it, and Their,
weren't anythin, for it but to keep her
ioggin' along onto the port tack and lie
her fetch up where she would. The vino
continued fresh, and cotton-loaded as WI
was we could carry double reefs to it.
'H sit were suppose about week arte
we had left the gulf when chap of tn
name of Frank Patten, as was aloft
mendin the parcellin' on the foreto' gal
Ian riggin' i'll the wake of the to'gallaT
sheets, sings out, Sail on the lee bow
"sWhat do you make of herr says tn
9 mate. fE5
Crank did not answer for spell an
the mate hailed ag'n. 'Foretopmast hea
- therep ss1a ~
HALO says Frank.
whatever do you make of her
says the mate.
Il can't make her out, sir, say
Frank; seems to be ship under clos
reefs, with course hauled up and a-takil
of it easy.
"Well, the mate jumps aloft onto IL
fore-topsail yard with a lookin' glass an
takes good severe look at her. The oil
man in the mean time had come up an