Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-26
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COUNTY PAPER.
AN.sOLD SAILORS YARN.
eeety. lack-The Evensful Career q
AAeawaWay IN Board of the
sh Up Golden Fleece.
fFrom the Sunday, N. Y. world.l
"You can't almost always tell,
said the old sailor, slipping at his glas
OF hot rum, "when you fust ices
chap, what sort of q Teller he's goin
to turn out for to be. l mind as W
pulled a chap out of a coal bunker il
q ship as 1were into, as nobod
wouldn't never have thought as be-,
amount to anythin' more than ordi
nary, and yet afore we got to Sal
FraDcisco-that bein' where we wa
bound to-that there chap were
livin' in the cabin as big as a lord. amt
. eatin' his grub along with the oil
mans wife aud she a-thinkin' n1gi
hand as much of him as she did O
her lawful husband.
"Then, too. sir, I've seen cases jus,
vicy-vercy unto this, where chaps al
put On no eend Of airs on fust &C
quaintance, turned out for to be poo
s~hooks-afOre the wage were ended
SO, ~ l said efore, you can't most al.
ways tell.
"It were in the year 1851, or there.
Abonts ; least wise, l know I'd made
. v'yage to Frisco and come back
AND, IKE all the rest was dyin' for to
gltz6tt there agin,, and wonderin'
whatever made me come away, and
know she were a Iust-class ship, aud
It weren't till 80 and '51 that they
got to sendin' anythin' better than
old rattle-traps out there, the cap
tain name bein' Goodspeed, as had
his wife aud . five-year-old youngster
along, the owners thinkin' best. so as
he'd be sure to, stop by her in San
Francisco, somc skippers havin' got
b fever SO strong that they'd cut
their lucky and gone off to the mines;
her name bein' the Golden Fleece,
with three staudin' skysail yards,
built In East Boston and bein' her
hrst v'yage; twenty men afore the
mast, three mates aud Q bo'sen, ship.
pin. 312 g. month and no advance:
all hands bein' calculated for to leave
Tor the diggin's as soon as the anchor
were down but aigood set of men,
,causeIthey.J ist had the pick, every.
body them times wanting for to 90
to the land of gold. 80
Son account of her trimmin, by
the head aud beiu' also rather deep,
cause they'd just begun u shippiu'
Ail sorts OF machinery out then, thev
WEREN'T able to iii her, and a small
space were fitted up in the for'ard
'twixt decks,, for passengers, accom-
niOdatlnh seventy of 'em at $500 a
bead. They was a pretty decent lot,
but there was q halt-d.zen or SO OF
the toughest cusses / were ever ship.
mates with, and they bullyragged the
lite out OF the rest Of 'ein uni,l iual-
y. put q stop to as I'm goin' Tor u
tell
"This here chap, as / were a speak
nia6eDt, wefe found iu the eyes OF
her, where We had q lot OF coal aud
what not slowed, aud after we had
been three days At sea. The coal dust
hadn't improved his complexion and
havlu' been seasick, he were a most
miserable lookin' wretch when, first
discovered. Eve been with some
mates as would have Lhinked it their
duty to have hammered him there
and then, but the man what were
mate Of that ship, his name being
Norcr0ss, weren't much for hammer
tn,, although q good sailormau in
other respects, aud 40 simply says to
this Chap what the devil are you do.
In there p
"sWsil, SIR says this chap, which
went by the name of Sooty Jack on
account of his grimy looks when first
ssen, wanted to git ont to the gold
dfggin's; i hadn't money for 10 pay
my passage, and not bein' q seaman I
oouldnstgita chance for to work nv
WsI aud go l stowed away ; but Pm
strong sir, aud willin', aud I reckon
Ioenaearn my grub andsthat's what
Maata for-to do.,.And that you will
do you may bet your boots,' saws the
mate, Pm make you wish you'd gone
afore ever you'd slowed away
onto this ship ; but the fust thing YOU
do, gita bucket of water and wash
the coal dust of of you, aud then 90
% the galley aud git some grub You
sees Sis Inc mate were q awful hard
ewearer, an1 to- hear him talk, you'd
tnink e he were . regular hard one ;
me-" era aiM u hilaesi
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sIow cuu . Dlow u gives you the
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