The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-04-08

like swearin'; it are high art, and like
other high arts requires fust of genius
for it and then long and patient ap-
plication. Good cooks, sir, isn't appre-
ciated as they ought to be, either at sea
or ashore and very few people recognize
the fact that more lives are destroyed
by bad cooks than by the sword.
"We helped the new doctor all we
could-split up his wood. brung up his
coal and water and peeled his spuds,
but it were banyan day continual
aboard OF that craft AFTER we lost the
cook. We sto wed away his fiddle, the
the innocent cause of all the trouble. in
it's box, and that and the rest of his dun
mage was took aft by the mate soon ar
ter the accident. He also took aft boy
Bills chist, but strange as it may ap-
pear, there weren't no dunnage into it,
although when the boy come aboard in
New Y rk he had awful nice lot of
clothes. The mate said as how some
villain had gone through the chist afore
he got u it, and it We're reported round
the shir that chap of the name of
Whitley had puckerowed all of poor
boy Bills dunnage while the rest of the
chaps was a gittin'' the boat cleared
away for to 60 to try to pick him up,
and only for the cooks room bein' lock-
ed this here Whitley would a.got the
old cooks dunnage too, for he were a
awful big thief.
"Whatever made the old cook jump
overheard arter the boy we couldn't
make out. Whether it were from re-
morseness at chuckin' him overheard,
and with the intent Of drowndin' HIM
self, or whether he wanied for to save
the boy, we couldn't make out. Hows'-
ever they was both gone, and that was
all there was about it. From this
time on we had nice weather and mod
crate westerly winds. We got pilot
off Nantucket, and three days AFTER
wards got in. Takin' steam off the
Hook, we towed up and made fast at
the foot OF Dover street. AS we draw'd
in towards the dock, I were startled
by hearin' this here Whitley sing out,
We'll, Pm blowed! and lookin' in the
direction where he were pintin' who
ever should I see among the crowd
but this here boy Bill and the old
cook we had dropped overheard in the
Atlantic Ocean. As soon as the ship
come nigh enough, this young whe]p
Bill climbed aboard and were soon in
among us a-tellin' us of the way they
got home ahead of us, and then we
found out that this here schooner
that we'd nearly run down had
picked up Bill and the cook, and it
were that the skipper were arriving
for to tell when he passed by US.
1T seemed that the old cook, repen-
tim Instantly of havin' chucked the boy
overheard, and KNOWN that he were q
fust-rate swimmer, had jist jumped ar
ter him. Bills daddy, who was pretty
we'll fixed, had presented the old cook
with one Of the most splendldest fidd]es
that could be bought, but for all that
the old man rejoiced to recover his old
cremona, *sayin', as he took it carefully
out Of the box, the new fiddle am a
very fine instrument, but think I hub
this one the best arter ALL
"This here chap Whitley were kind of
disappointed to have Bill turn up agin,
but he done the square thing, aud Civ
him back all his dunnage besides claim
in ali sorts of credit for havin' taken
care of it for him. I'm told that this
here cook and boy Bill continued for to
be shipmates long arter Bill had crowd
up for to be captain of ship, and that
the old darby were never arter that
know'd to have cross word for a
boy"