Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-08
AN OLD SAILORS YARN.
IFrom the New York World

lfFom me New L Ork w Orla.
81 think, SIR" said the old sailor,
"that the more combiguous-like l
make this mere yarn, so tar as lOcali-
ties ana personalities are consarued,
the better it will be, because there's
them liVin' at this blessed minnit as
would tumble to it, so to speak, and
might have hard feelin's ag'in me as
givln' 'em dead away in matter as
wasn't none of my blessed business.
Whether, therefore, it were The James
river, nigh hand onto City Pint, or
whether 1T were Mobile BAY or wheth-
er Galveston roads, or whether not
don't matter. Neitherwise do it mat
ter whether him as were skipper of
he craft | were i'll were called Smith,
Brown or Jones the way cali him
will be Clarke, young chap apd
awful spooney onto gal, she beIn' a
ship, with fore and mzzen stump
o'gaiiam'mAsts,b bound to Havre with
terba"ker, not benz able to load
along side ofthe warf on account OF
draught and obliged to drop down
| When half loaded to u pint, some touI
| miles below, and insistin' on goim' u,
| every night to see her.. bein' COX.
swain Of the gig and frequent KEEP
waitin' till two bells of tho morpin
watch afore he'd make his appearance
'Hows'ever, il happens, sir, as mel
will go free and 90 free, and 90 free
under most bewitchin' an 'cnticin
! circumstances, and all of 81 suddin.
like, when it are least to be ex xpected
some woman will Grlft ath wart theil
haws, and they're foul in a instant
So it were with this here skipper
He'd run the rag down in Londo,
and gone through the seductions OF
boardin' houses in Liverpool snd
New York, and beyond temporary
beguilemcnts had 'scapsd unharmed
spoeney as he was. but here in = lit
tie twopcmy-ha' penny bit of a vii
lage, he come athwart his fate.
Wed been g lty;l' there for p.
week | suppose '" itan away come 6
bark to load for nio 'rhe s,,inno,
of her want named Wiiti..ns- whicI
arc why [ calls him Sc. al,,i aim snd
| our old man they glts acuuainted
and this here Williams he prOposcs
10 our old mau for TO % IN 10 the
hotel and have a game of hi;Ii,rds
"Fve been here a weak !" s,vs on,
old map, ,"aud | don,t bclieve os tbar,
are sich II place.
go. YES. thrra ora ,, save fiji,
tother skinne, conio .,rrng,. a,,c
away they no.s nnd fe,ches nr-as
Pve often hesrd our I'D ,nun teII tht
story-at tho h;n,aSt house, -, ~,
place bio WIT I,,,,.s a,,tn LII
"This dem. Innls Iita hata,, M
saws our old man
ayes it are :, savs .o.har srin,or
| pu,iiu, nr tho MI ..;,,s oii X, ;,,,,t
mt IN conn,r,, ,,I>,'.os III, a.. o.,
shut mn earlv,,
WsIi thn:a c,,,os dr,..o. o.,
door and his sI.i,,,I.,, ..{v|ona,' w. .n'
ali the f,.irs5 -, fo' says "n'io
"C;on to hsi s.., =, sa,s,h i,,nor
"C.II ,e,n ~, - -" ,. - i.iS5o, So
boln -. hr,cS a,,, 80 ,',,'ioh tto' ~
wnli-turnisL.d ~ n.r,o =, Wv .aI,ol nc. I" ~
ou- old ,,n,. 'o'' "1 y,
"Blowed think this ara +. bo,.l ,
saws our old man and Tho tntIn,
cham heyiu for tn no do,,,,f,i. ~,
hnth an e., ~ " os at, uoun'' a., va
gasted when or,cr ,,y.,it,n, :, haIf hnm,
there sailed into the room e.twc
of the most beautiful creeters. {" so on,
old man always said when tellin, INC
yarn, 'sas ever were seen"
"Well, sir, | Deedn'L for to tell that
sailors is the bashfulIest folks in the
world, and neither our ol,, man No,
the tOiher skinner cn,id COW . n,c,d
if it was to save 'enl. The gals stood
waifin' for explanation, and the
two shippers stood sheepishlv, no,
kn0win' what to saw. At last one OF
the gals asked what it ali meant, and
Ihei our old man, though he were
oeaa mashed with her rs asked, mus
'eleu up courage !or 20 say, III are nj!
ton santi . ,naf'n, ih" tlil oe lesson
iot me ali the days OF my life never
W s''et my BOAT ov any other mans
compass but this here chap up and
telis me as nc Know a OF good hotel,
l oeln; mere week ana knoWin' moth
iu OF IL, ana like muii comes with
hIm, ana we fetches up here a-reusin'
you out oi your beds at an uuseemly
hour, though for the matter of that
IL amt yet gone four bells, and so aint
'elX ia'e.
ou see, iauies, TINS other skip
pei '','tn's H. so L We hecra our old
lilah ven, were strangers mere, bcln'
hlpPefs OF Inc tw" craft down at the
"och' anu tigle ha'Sln' heavy onto
'ut hanus we ihnuSht game or two
Vi oiiiiaI"s Woulu he about Jonnuck,
an" Dclh t8td as the motel are up this
way -
- see" says one of the gals, "you
mistook the stree; the hotel or wha,
passes ior one i'll ;nis little place, are
Two streets below.
J;sl then there come in old chan
as were the father of one OF tha roI.
and the uncle sf the otnar .nd 49,
thing had To he alI cxnl.iuod ,a 49,,
and he invited the Two skin,srs fn,
to set down, and they doue 80 and
was soon draw'd out fHrto snin som.
yarns as to yales of wind tbey,d san,
and dangers they'd been into and Nv
and bv the gals oof the nj ,lrv ,u,,i,,,
and il were ei1hr Lille .ft,o 7.,'a,
come away. .ou,. ola ma. alr,.rs t,'a,!,
willin' fortn srycara te fi,a,Gd ,,nr.r
to the shin tLrnuob th.. ai,. ,aro,
touching tie groun; al ali
sunnosn +y.o,o ,,.,,,..
hettor rnni. .,.l t,o'.,..I, 80 "''eh nc
Onto onr shin and ,t,n 81 H;,i - ,'i"' we i'a"
yot nv, ,uhn,, t,a " ', I',I ','i4'I: as tie!
old rh,n md tho on,In'.i,i.r 80 t,e'' ltii
and his wife amd @ Io',eIIo' onn ~, .. 'he por'
list to vlvn ,au, ,.n,I,,f,,,o',' o''''' .
Thing TO he rrIarn,harnJ o." ~, Iao - i
in, went ON .1o,yj,. -, ,.,,.l.''... ..o .o"'''
OF a rise il, the r,6r<nf th,, .f,,.,, w
had chartered the shin bein, ,pon, -,
for the French government NOT hn.