Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-08-21
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pie" why, they think the captain
must be used to all such, you know
le and then, the moonlight is one to-
many for them anyhow" says he
p with laughing eyes; and we sail on
e begin to wonder if we are going t
t sail forever (am perfectly satisfied
= to do SOY, when the boat is turneC
i almost instantaneously and we drift
d down mile after mile until the har
if Dor is reached The hustle and
0 hurry of getting off commences and
a ceases, and as the boat belongs tc
!, the captain, we stay until he ties up
s for the night, when we turn home
r wards too, and follow the crowd as
a it surges and sways before us. !
like moonlight excursions, even ii
: we don't find the queen. I am con-
/ fident that we should have met her
> if these people had not yielded to
| the sly imp and his spells. Avast
: with all such!
} Now, girls, am going to tell Of
another excursion which we took,
which was very nice and curious,
, and on it we found a real, live hero.
So listen.
} One day this same captain and
wife invited me to go out to sea
with them, as his boat was going to
tow ship out of the harbor. We
went to Castle Garden dock, where
!, all the emigrants land, you know,
and waited for the boat to come in.
Here we saw a great many foreign
ers coming ashore from the ships
sick-looking, dreary and forlorn,
most of them, too. Then we went
on board of the boat and steamed
swiftly up to where the good ship
"The Queen" was lying. She had
been undergoing repairs, and as her
compass was not properly adjusted,
we were going out to sea with her,
that our boat might turn her around
until it pointed due north, We ran
alongside of her and made fast. The
decks were crowded with the people
taking leave of each other; sailors
were running here and there and
everything was animated. The
bell soon rang for all to leave
who wished to stay on shore, and
then amid cheers and waving of
handkerchiefs we sailed out into the
west. The clouds had been lower
ing all morning, and a drizzling |
rain now commenced. An awning |
was stretched on board the ship for
the cabin passengers to stand under
and take last, long look at home |
and friends. 1t was miserable,
sloppy-looking crowd at best. We
were in the pilot-house, nice and
dry, and could afford to commise-
rate those on the ship, you see: Af-
ter awhile a gentleman came on
board of our boat and invited us on
the ship to dine. Mrs. Emmens
and then went on board and were
served with an elegant dinner with
the cabin passengers. Looking down
the table, all at once Mark Twain's
description. of the going out of the
"Quaker City" flashed into my
mind, and we had it to the life-the
rain, the dinner, the hustle and the
people, for in the faces / began to
trace out resemblances to the chag-
acters he met. On my right sat
"the Doctor" opposite, ''Dan !"
below me the Interrogation Point"
and above, ''the Poet" whose igor
geous! gorgeous!7 for everything
was vividly recalled. Oh that din
ner! it fingers in my memory still.
Afterwards we went on deck and
Stopped around with the others.
We enjoyed it; we imagined aoe
We're going to Europe. If anyone
had limited that we were not profess
sional travellers, we would have
fiayed them alive. Didn't we have
on travelling garments of the most
approved cut? Didn't we handle
the articles on that dinner-table as
if they belonged to us? Didn't we
get small flow of "ship talk ?" and
didn't we keep perfectly well and (
straight while we wandered around
that vessel? OF course we did.
Then we are travellers, so don't dis
pute it. The captain of that ship is
the promised hero; 80 I'll bring
him in in good style.
Once upon time. not many years
ago, there came over in the good ,
ship ''The Queen" a most lovely
American girl who had been So
journing on the continent. Now, on
board of this ship there was a gay I
and handsome captain, with whom
this girl fell straight in love. This
was sad, for he, unfortunately, is a
married man. Well, when the ship
came in to New York, Of course the
girl must land. Instead of going
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quietly home and forgetting all
about the good-looking captain, she |
got on board of Sound steamer, {
and, when no one was looking,
jumped overheard and was drowned.
OF course this created great sensa-
ton, and at once the captain grew
into valuable addition in society
as "a lady-killer." The women ,
adored him and the men envied I
him, but he seems to go on in the {
even tenor of his way entirely un-
concerned.
Upon hearing all this romantic
story, / was quite anxious to see
him. Well, / did, and he is just
like allsea captains and Englishmen q
ever saw. His great attractions I