Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-29
AN OLD SAILORS YARN.
ASpree at Lake POnchartraiu-HOw the A
eicnt Mariner Missed Wife and Fortul

ASpree at Lake POnchartraiu- the An
eicnt Mariner Missed Wife and Fortune.
From the New York World. '''
Il came mighty near once" said the
old sailor, 'snot only of bein' man of
forth, 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 a lantern and dog,
glad to come up here once in while and
give. you few stories as has happened in
my seafarin' experience, whereas, If I
hadn't a-slipped up. in several of my un-
dertakin's I presumes as / should at this
time of written have been 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;
CHOW with regards to this partic lar
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
aint.no use trying to buck agin 'em.
Here where chance which don't happen
to man more than once in lifetime and
I missed t: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 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 givin' 500 advance to Liverpool
and $40 blood money in addition to the
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, aslikewise were Wash, which were
the shipping -master-he always used me
we'll, as likewise did both of 'em, and
weren't adrift three days before was able
to ship into the ship FAIRY Queen, Bob get
tin 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. s
"Whatever it took me to it 1 can't say,
but sartin are I gets onto the outside
of horse md away goes to Lake Pom
chartrain, and however it happened ]
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 I found nyself into
the calabooe, and before l got clear O.
the various legal complications thereunte
belongin', the Fairy Queen had gone
down the river and weren't into her, {
chap of the name Of Billy Edwards
havln' been shipped in my place.
,"Of course, I done the square thing b!
Bob Darin', as had shipped me, and tool
a chance on board the Westmoreland, a
was a shippin' WHEN I come out, the SAM
advance bein' Civ, and not havin' an,
money of course KEEP sober and straigh
and went on hoard of her and down tn
river, the captains name bein' Ocean
We went out over the bar, and the vino
bein' light from southeast we anchored
"Well, sir, thtre we laid for week
there bein' no show for US to make any
thing by gettin' under way, and we hal
chance to git al to rights and work tn
rum ont Of all of us chaps for'ard, so tina
when we did at list git a breeze from tn
north'ard we was in good condition tor +
begin our v'yage. Along down to til
Tortugas we kept our fair wind and mad
/ good run, but off that pint we took tn
regular trade wind from about east-no'th
east and 1t were 50 fresh that we had t
put reef IN the topsails, carrying tn
maint6 'gallan' sail over that. Nothin' 9
any particular account happened afte
that. We worked her along to the east
ard, maxim the DOuble-HeadedS Shots al
right, and in twenty-four hours more wa
off Maternilla reef. Here we catched
stifener from the north'ard and the oil
man let her go to the BASTARD at once
and did not try to follow the gu
around.
s'The wind hung on to the north'arl
perhaps little .eastin' into it, and the1
weren't anythin' for it but to keep her
| ioggin' along onto the port tack and le
her fetch up where she would. The win
continued fresh, and cotton-loaded as W
was we could carry double reefs to it.
i sit were suppose about a week artt
we had left the gulf whena chap of til
name of Frank Patten, as was aloft .
menciin the parcellin' on the foreto' ga
lam riggin' IN the wake Of the to'galla
sheets, sings out, Sail on the lee bow
[ asWhat do you make of her?' says Il
mate.
sFrank did not answer for spell an
the mate hailed ag,n. sForetopmast hes
| there!'
"'Hallo,' says Frank.