The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-05-21

| Will S6TNo 8El0I mlUulgub anu may
conclude for to go instead of waitin'
till tomorrow afternoon says the old
| man.
"sIt don't look much like sea-goin'
night says the mate, and the glass
are pretty low, I notice.
"'Oh. it's summer time,' says the
old man, I'VE needn't be afeard OF
weather this time of year
''About eight bells the gig were called
away and we pulled the old man in as
usual 'Tom,' says he to me, Il am
goin' to trust somethin' very precious
to you, and if all goes well you shall
have ten dollars apiece for yourself and
the rest of the gigs crew. I'm a goin'
for to be spliced, and as soon as it's
over my missus will be Civ to your
charge, and you must pull for your lives
aboard of the ship. shall follow with
a tug-boat and pilot, and by daylight
we'll be well outside. As soon as you
git aboard show the lady right down to
my room and let the steward have
charge of her.
old man came scurryin' down to the
landin' and in voice scarce above q
whisper called for me. AYE, aye, SIR
saysI, and in another minnit we had
the lady in the boat and was off, leavin'
the other boats crew what belonged to
the bark arwaitin'. The night were
pitch dark, but we had pulled down
there too MANY times to miss our way,
and with the strong ebb tide helpin'
US. in about q half-hour we was along
side and got the shippers new wife
safely on board. By midnight the tug
come alongside with the old man and
the pilot, and in fifteen minnits after
that we was under way and TOWN.
down. The old man tells the steward
for to Keep the missis locked in his
room, so as the pilot shouldn's see her,
and then he takes him down into the
cabin for to have glass of grog, and
he goes into the mate room and shifts
hisself, putin on his sea clothes. You
see he were afeard if the pilot know d
as she were aboard he might refuse for
to take the ship to sea, he bein' well
acquainted with the old man as was her
father. ..tatasa
"When we got nigh down to the
mouth of the harbor the pilot went
aboard of the tug, which went on ahead,
and we begin for to get the muslin onto
her, sheetin' home and settin' all three
of the topsails. There had been a
heavy bank Of cloud at the nor west
from the time we started, and in this
the lightnin' begin to play, and at in
tervals there would be a muttered roll
of the thunder.
"'Never mind the to'gallan' Sails
says the old man, till we see what this
are are goin' to amount to- 1t were
about six bells of the mid watch when
we got outside and the tug let 60 of us.
and it were about as ugly lookin'
mornin' as one would wish to see.
"'Lay everythin' down clear for rum
nin',' says the old man, 'and have a
hand at each topsail halyards.'
"We'd jist got the foresail set when
with a tremendous roar the sound
struck us. rsy
".Let 60 the topsail halyards,' sung
out the old man, and send a man to
the lee wheel; keep her dead afore it.
Down come all three topsail yards by
the run, and we clapped on to the reef
tackles and bowsed 'em out as far as we
could git 'em, and then let her run.
She soon gathered way and were off
like a stuck dolphin, flying afore the
squan at the rate of ten miles hour. :.
"'Will you reef her?' says the mate.
"'No,' says the old man; let her
go; it'll soon be over and we'll have
fine weather arter it, but he daredn't
1nor hn 60 FIJI nod
squall and we KEEP right along in it al
the time, the lightnin' bein' so inces-
SAINT that the flashes seemed flashes of
darkness and the rain comm down in
torrents. In couple of hours, hows'-
ever, it were over, and as the day broke
we was able for to hist up the topsail
yards and give her the togallan' sails.
"Then, for the fust time the old man
were able for'to go below and see his
new-made wife. 1tweren't long, hows'-
ever, afore he were up agin and sendin'
for the mate. Iwere aft at the wheel
and heerd all that were said, the old
man KNOWN that I know'd all about it
and 50 not mindin' me.
"There's been q awful mistake
says he to the mate, 'and I've married
the wrong woman. This amt my wife
as is below, hut it's her cousin; that is,
she are my wife, because I'm spliced
onto her, but it were her that Williams
were to marry
"'How did it all happen?' says the
mate.
'"It were all arranged says the old
man, for the thing to come off at the
house ut the landin,' the
parson were let into the job and were
Civ a big fee for to splice the pair of US,
keepin' the whole house dark so no one
would suspect anythin'. We was to be
spliced fust, and then Williams and his |
gal, and how the two brides got mixed