Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-29
AN OLD SAILORS YARN.
a Spree at Lake POnchartraiu-H0w the Al
cient Mariner Missed a Wife and Forum

From the New York World.
81 came mighty near once" said the
old sailor, "not only of bein' man Of
independent forth, but of havin' besides
as nice a wife as usually falls to the lot
of man; and yet here I are, Waterman
along the dock, with lantern and a dog,
glad to come up here once in a while and
give you few stories as has happened in
my seafarin' experience, whereas, If
hadn't a-slipped upin several Of my un-
dertakin's I presumes as should at this
time of written have been a bloated
bond-holder, or leastways at the head Of
an elevated railway, with 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 chance which don't happen
to man more than once in lifetime and
I 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. came
into New Orleans in the ship Kate Dyer,
her as were after wards 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 givin' 800 advance to Liverpool
and $40 blood money in addition to the
landlord, and I'll 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 always used me
we'll, as likewise did both of 'em, and
weren't adrift three days before l was able
to ship into the ship Fairy Queen, Bob get
tim the 500 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 I wouldn't 90
| back onto him.
'Whatever it took me to it / can't say,
but sartin it are I gets onto the outside
of horse and away I 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 AFTER
wards I fetched up found -yself 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
havln' been shipped in my place.
"Of course, l done the square thing by
Bob Darlin', as had shipped me, and took
chance on board the Westmoreland, az
was shippin' when come out, the same
advance bein' Civ, and not havin' any
money of course KEEP sober and straigh
: and went on board of her and down tn,
river, the captains name bein' Ocean
We went out over the bar, and the WING
bein' light from southeast we anchored.
'sWell, sir, there we laid for week
) there bein' no show for us to make any
| thing by gettin' under way, and we hal
) a chance to git all to rights and work tn
rum ont Of all of us chaps forard, SO tina
, when we did at last git breeze from tn
north'ar we was in good condition tor t
begin our wage. Along down to tn
, rortugas we kept our fair wind and mad
: a good run, but of that pint we took tn
< regular trade wind from about east-no'th
| east and 1t were so fresh that we had t
put reef in the topsails, carrying tn
maint6'gallan' sail over that. Nothin' Q
8 any particular account happened afte
t that. We worked her along to the east
y ard, maxim the Double Headed Shots a
I right, and in twenty four hours more wa
off Maternilla reef. Here we catched
: stifener from the north'ard and the oil
r man let her go to the BASTARD at ono,
and did not try to follow the gu
: around
"The wind hung on to the north art
perhaps little eastin' into it, and the1
= weren't anythin' for it but to keep her
J, joggin' along onto the port tack and Il
G her fetch up where she would. The win
e continued fresh, and cotton loaded as "
0 was we could carry double reefs to it.
IS ut were | suppose about week artt
q we had left the gulf when chap of tt
i name Of Frank Patten, as was aloft
e mendin the parcellin' on the foreto' ga
Il LAM riggin' in the wake of the to.galla,
, sheets, sings out, Sail on the lee bow
d "'What do you make Of her?' says Il
Y mate.
n Crank did not answer for spell al
:. the mate hailed ag'n. sForetopmast hes
d there!
y "sHallo,' says Frank.