The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-08-08
"" BLOOMSBURY, Pa, FRIDAY. AUGUST 8. 1879
Mexican dollars explains the cap.

Mexican dollars explains the cap.
tain.
What lot of money the lady remark
ed.
Not so much as you suppose, but tidy
sum. Each box contains $4,000 and there
are fourteen of them--eb, Mr.. Mansfield p
This is the officer in charge, who confirms
the count.
They have got their first glass of cham
payne, when the doctor joins them.
We'll, how's your patient p asks the cap
tain.
All right, and clean for once in his life,
but rather weak, is the medical report upon
the Rat
Poor child sighs the lady, what ought
he to take?'
Il should prescribe something to eat,' the
doctor replies, helping himself to slice OF
tongue.
Captain, should like to give him some
dinner
1t is Unnecessary to say who speaks, and
the skipper would indeed have been stern
man If he could have resisted the pleading
of those brown eyes. The quartermaster Is
summoned again, ,and appears, leading Dick.
1t has begun to dawn upon him that he il
not going to be abused.
What is your name, little boy p asks the
lady.
Dick
Are you hungry, Dick?
Rather
Only rsther2' in tone Of disappoint-
meat.
Rather, explains the captain. 'In that
tone, means very
The lsdy takes the plate and fills it with
cold chicken, stutfing, salad, bread, and what
not adds knife and fork, and gives it to
Dick.
4 should keep some of that for to. morrow
if / were you,' observed the doctor.
'Then you'd be fool Dick replied with
a scoff. The big fellows on the levee would
take it fore you'd gone two blocks. To.
morrow amt here, but the grub is, and so
Pm going to get outside it while can
There is general laugh at this philoso.
ply. Dick gets outside his grub without
further comment, and is walking off, when
the captain calls him back with a
why you young rascal are you going
without saying thank your
Thank ye.'
No, not me. Thank the lady
Thank ye kindly nam, says Dick.
1t was the first polite speech he had ever
uttered, and heaven knows where he picked
it up.
The party remained on board till about 6
O'Clock, and by the time it broke up every
one had forgotten about the Rat but as
Mrs. Austin was crossing the levee he ran
up, much to the annoyance of her compan-
ion, who had had enough of him.
I say says the Rat do you like him p
with chuck of the thumb toward the steam.
er.
Captain Gilbert?'
'Yes-is he your feller?'
Get out, you scamp cries the gentleman,
Indignantly.
lie. him speak Fred, the lady pleads, No,
Dick, am married, and this is my husband;
but Captain Gilbert is our friend. crossed
with him once, and he was very good to me
when was sick
Was you ever sick p asks Dick. with a
face full of wonder.
often. So / can answer your question,
and say that l do like the captain very
much
You'd hate for anything bad to happen to
him
why, of course-to him or any one
else,
'Wot, to me p
Indeed would, my poor boy. o. Fred,
see how wistful he looks Mayn't give
him some of Charley's left off things? /
have little boy at home,' she goes on, see.
ing astonshment in her husbands eye
about your size.'
Does he get chickens to eat p asks the
Rat.
Yes
Every day?'
No, not every day. she answers smiling
it is we'll she does qualify her reply, fol
Dicks credulity was not yet sufficiently
elastic to bear such marvel as boy about
his size, who had chickens every day.
So they bade him follow them, and more
wonders we're in store for him. He see,
Charlie. He was taken up to the lady's room
where the promised things were produced
and tried on over his rags. Here he stood
lost in admiration. He gszed about him be
wildered, and some dim sense of shame stol'
over him as he saw his own reflection in th'
looking glass.
'Mayn't put'em on now p he asks, a
the things are selected.
Better not says the lady. Put them on
in the morning. Come here again about II
O'Clock and we will see what we can do witt
you.
He submits, and goes down very reluct
antly, with two whole suits of Charley
left.ofY clothes bundled up in large hand
kerchief and fifty cents in his pocket. A
soon as the hall door closes after him tn
brute instincts of secrecy and evasion pull
his jelly bag hat over his eyes and send hin
off at a run.
Captain Gilbert spends the evening will
his agent, and then returns to the ship sbou
II O'Clock.
Sorry to say SIR begins the chief Officer
| that most of the men are on shore.
Without leave?
A shrug of his shoulders is his only an
swer.
Whose watch isit"
'Mr. Andrews
Send him here
'How's this, Mr.. Andrews asks the car