Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-08-31

would aggravate instead of remedy the evil.
BY the time the flask returned to its owner 1t
had been pretty we'll emptied of it's contents,
though feel confident that no one took more
than quarter of the dose prescribed. But
the rain now began to fall in torrents, and the
gale and waves to increase, until the boat was
tossed to and fro like bubble. Sometimes a
wave would strike her with such violence as
to drive her sidewise several feet at time.
Some of the lady passengers began to look
pale. from the effects of fright and sick2essss..
And it was not long until nearly every Ipassen-
ger on board began to be very much troubled
with qualmy sensati9nfss,or or had commenced
paying tribute te-51d Neptune the god of the
sea. Our little man began to sit, bolt upright,
and thosseseated near him sat still and remain
ed sileRt, until the little flask was called for
again, when it was slowly produced and the
same instructions given, which were strictly
obeyed until the medicine gave out. But the
wind and waves pitched the boat to and fro
in such reckless manner that nearly every
man on board was put to work, and to hear
their peculiar groans while thus exercising, one
might easily imagine that they were "calling
spirits from the vasty deep"
I discovered among the afflicted several of
the newly married pairs, with scores of bellies
and beaux that I had noticed the evening be-
fore, in the park, distance from the crowd, en-
gagged in sweet converse with each other.
Numbers of these beautiful and georgeously
dressed butterflies were down with the same
complaint and had to play the same low role
in a vulgar comedy with the common herd.
This seemed to worry and mortify some of the
ladies wonderfully. The boat heaved and all
on board heaved too, but in in different
manner. The newly welded pairs kept closely
together. and it was pitiabe as well as amuse-
ing to witness such tender lovers in such deep
distress.
But too was forced to rise, and in doing
so, I found our little doctor and all who had
taken his medicine, gone. Cropping my way
to another part of the vessel, l again met with
our little gray-headed doctor; but now how
changed! He was in the deepest throes OF
agony, which, considering his previous boast,
was amusing, even to one suffering as | was
could not refrain from accosting him. and
suggested that even with his panacea he was
not able to outride this storm. He confessed
that for once he was conquered ; but on the
principle that fellow feeling makes us won-
drous kind, poured out my sympathy, though
his idle boast, in view of the sequel, could not
but be amusing.
After the toughest of the storm had over
blown. and the sickness had measurably sub
sided, it was diverting to see how upright all
sat and to note the profound silence they
preserved especially those predlsposed to
gaiety when they first came on board.
Towards night the fog commenced gather
ing and it soon became so dark that it was
determined by the captain to make Toronto
and there cast anchor, which he did, But no
sooner had the boat been made fast to the
wharf than nearly all the passengers who came
on the last train left the boat and bought tickets
by rail for the rest of the journey. The little
lady who was so disgusted with the railroad
that she had only short time before left,
and was so delighted with the boat when she
first stepped on its deck, was among the first
to leave the vessel, closely followed by the
loquacious land speculator and doctor who
had defed the tempest and boasted that with
the contents of his talismanic flask he could
outride any storm that swept the seas.
At 10 the next morning we weighed anchor
and left Toronto; though the fog was so
heavy that we made slow progress, cropping
along through it until we reached Kingston at
about P. M. The pilot here refused to at
tempt to lead us by the Thousand Islands by
night, and we remained here until morning.
When morning came the fog was so dense that
no object could be discerned ten feet from the
vessel; but nevertheless the captain decided to
move on, and we proceeded as slowly as on the
previous day. Slowly the boat made its way to
Port Hope, the monotony of the tedious not to
say perilous day being relieved only by the
sound of the trains on the Great Trunk Rail-
road, heard occasionally in the dim distance.
The fog alarm at Port Hope guided us
to the wharf, where VIC remained for some
time, discharging and receiving freight. When
the vessel was ready to move the fog had lift
ed, and for the remainder of the lake royage
to Prescott we had comparatively pleasant
time-though we rode rough sea for near
sixty hours. GUILFoRD.