The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1879-04-10

dllu NIIHSlHS tllc water from HIS lllltk
beard and m0ustache. as he claWed his
way along the banks of the carefully
lashed and ceated benches to where we
We're seated at the cuddy table Of the
Queen of the Baltic. mo, gentlemen.
I'm sorry to spoil sport, specially such
an evening as this but can't have any
Of that aboard of my ship. Anything to
obhge, in reason, you know. Wen screw
down the valves, if YOU like, and see
what her plates'll stand or you can 90
below into the splrlt-room and play pitch
and-tOSs with box of luctcr matches
and Ill have the donkey rugged and the
hose stretched along, and chance it. But
I've had one lesson of Just such another
little Internal machine rs you've got
there and please the Lord don't want
another"
II was certainly, as the Captain said,
the sort of evening that might excuse a
good deal in the way Of an attempt at
mitigating its horrors. have been at
sea often enough when it was blowing
great guns, but nov, for the last hour
OF more, it had been, as the skipper him
self acknoW Icdgcd, blowing regular W ool-
wich infants. The wild aud stormy
steep" Of EIsinore about rs fiat and low
lying piece Of coast, ~ the way, as any
within my acquaintance lay under our
lee, only a very few miles OF, as we knew
bat fairly hidden from sight 10y the low,
driving clouds. that seemed to touch our
Very mdst-heads, and press the thick
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Ieck Mad been taken ot1 ana eyerythinr
Ione 10 maLr. existence as nndnr3hla nn-
der He circumstances rs was N anv NV
pursuit of pleasure under djttjruIties. and
when one of onr number snddrn1y rn-
rnafnhara1 tba+ he had . to,- rn,,Iatta or,
board. and offered to Start \ bank Min d
tiyp-shjlinr maximum. the nronosal was
hailed with deljGhr hv tbe whole Marry
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first time The little hail had hnen starr
ed an IFS trayaIs and the inevitable 1urrh
had srrairhrway semi II With cylinder
stakes ana nIayers neII-meII into thn len
scupDers. where two or three IF the more
enthusiastic of the latter we're chosino
arrant shilGnrs and sivnnnres wbila the
resi- of ms were enraoed in an animatnd
discussion as to the best means of avoid
jng a similar catastrophr IN the fltnre
when a louder howl than usuaI from VIM
1i1t nntlpp that tha door Df tho
nanion Ma hean onanad far . momant
and amid a hissinT shower If SaItlwhito
snr9v the Cantain made his annnaranre
ornnn'r ~
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- eis aoi y 6eiisie'l!ei'' ! ~ llluee'',
ny loPo"leu' % " lltI'H Seliei d! cllol Us
" irliipiis'l ''t'.o Sloete" ms '' II ooel-'
ou' "'iiel ~: di pItiaiS NGVo upon our ahIIc-
iP"'ou uI't' ACTON i Iln hol dil ulldc
colllllloudtili5 hliid oi chap' now am |
2elll'eIliah ana "leil | ASK you Us y
I"Noi
ndf no more captain, ciltc lhe oM IL
q VI VIC lou'e.t7' tuiHlil7 'ile niue cSiI
u9! I oo,'oih up" %Iu III toheii oi suIltliuef
va navy 'Ic'tc" us wen, |ll' " you
pu' ~ ~ 'il'. way hut zen Us now
"Il"O lnahG' YOU 50 sct against my poor
10Y "lleei iie'e' Diu you ever 'iy your
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~ never uiu' ana please Uod, heF-
ef WILL But lhat niue Wheel-or the
t"lI- oIoIner oi lt-ioSC me Iile oeS0 irieEd
eNel llIG' 'liu tllo llieSt snip ever sail-
ea ~ \ you gentlemen IKE 70 heal
ABOUT IL II olt clearer now, ana can
ie"SG an; tn9 uech io' ali llour OF So "o'l
''i''li l,,I teai'llS you tne me story.
an ,'' l,e"l' iieal me yarn ,aptaii' ny
,tli ino''lIs ~, 7le"Ilo glass ol SroS mere
y, nl' lie onPta'n, u,l
1 N'P'' "','elS"h Slilileu, 'ooh d ioilg
~" pui az n'5 Gro3 WIN u 'houShliu
''' '',i' 'esaIi ms STORY
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n'illr :, pn''Gh o's trlhI oeen III my cal'
oli''"i oNei olioo, ""o " Houls9'er tlien
as ou may auppo9o ~ idct' !. was my
III 81 tos "se 70 se'' ''iiu ,, toay llSn II was
u p1i.iS NY i"ol' @ 10 you aii''ii iio'i -,
tlllhh We liealu you say, 9ll, lit
went % on 1hiri turning 10 me, % tllae you wer'
~ - w ! li',ip.eiia. i'to'," t'loy %, 'n,