, 1882-09-08

sponsibillty, for she came around into
the wind without baking, dived her
hose piafully into the orine, and
skipped on on the short hitch to clear
Tuubler island, all i'll the properest
fashion. The Pig steamed ait,r her.
The crowd on the wharf aud the boys
in thu small boats checred this uuex-
pectedy orthodox behavior, aud they
now saw tor the first time that Capt.
Cram had painted the side of tho
vessel III conspicuous white letters, each
three or four feet long, the following
legend:
THIS Is THE SCHOONER JUDAS IsCARIOr !:
S.B.-GIvEHER 4 WIDE BERTH
Hour after hour the schooner bound
ed along before tue northwest wind,
holding her conr1' ~ straight as n ar
row. The weather continued tine.
Every time the Captain throw the log ho
looked more p.rpl,xsd. Eight, nine,
nine and u half knots fle shook his
he'd rs he whispered to Dcac N Plrmp-
ton: "She's mpd,tatr' mischief o some
natur or other" But the judas led the
Pug II wonderful chase, and by halipast
IN the afternoon, before the dcmiiOhn
which Andrew Jacks ms son Tobias had
smnggled On hourt WIS thrCa-uuarters
empty, an | bsfo'e lawyer Swauton
had more thtn three .Qiarters finished
his celebrated story about Gov. Parilg-
TONS cork leg, the schooner and the tug
were between fifty and sixty miles from
land.
Suddenly Capt, Cram gave a grunt OF
intelligence. lie pointed ahead, where
blue line just above the horizon
marked Il distant fog bank. "She
smelt it an she run for it" he remarked
sentontiously. 4" line for business"
Then eusued singular ceremony.
First Capt. Cram brought tire schooner
to, and transferred all his passengers TO
the tug. The wind had shifted to the
southeast, and the fog was rapidly APP
proachinP. The sails OF the Judas Is
CARROT tapped rs she lay headed to the
wind; her bows rose and fell gently un-
der the influence of The iop@ swell. Tho
Pug bohbed up and down half haW-
ser's length away.
Having put his guests and crew aboard
the tug, Cap. Cram proceeded to put
everything ship-shape on the decks Of
the schooner. He neatly cooled loose
end If rope that had been left in euorl.
He even picked up and threw overheard
the stopper Of Andrew Jackson's son
Tobias demijohn. His face wore an
expression Of unusual solemnity. The
people on the tug watched his move
ments eagerly, but silently. Next ne
tied one end of a short rope to the wheel,
and attached the other end loosely by
means OF running bow-iine to cleat
upon the rail. Then he was seen to take
up an AK and to disappear down the
companionway. Those on the tug dis
tinctly heard several crashing blows.
In moment the Captain reappeared on
the deck, walked deliberately to the
wheel, brought the schooner around so
that her sails filed, pulled the running
bowline taut and fastened the rope with
several half hitches around the cleat,
thus lashing the helm, jumped into
dory and scu!led over to the tug.
Left en!irriytO herself, the schooner
rolled once or twice, tossed few buck.
etfuls of watrr over her dancing bows
and started off toward the South Allan.
tic. But Capt. Trumbull Cram, stand
ing in tho bow Of the tugboat, raised
his hand to command silence and pro-
nounced the following farewell speech,
being sentence, death warrant and
funeral Grafton, all III one
~ amt advancin' no theory TO count
for her cussedness. You all know the
Judas. Mebbe there WAS too much fore
an aft to her Mebbe the inickerty OF
o vessels in the fore an all, an the var
tue in the squar' rigg1n'. Mebbe two
masts was masts enough. Let that 60 ).
bygones is bygones. Yonder she goes,
carryin' oil sail on top. two hundred n
odd ton O stone fence in her holt, an
hole good two foot acrost stove in her
belly. The way Of the transgressor is
hard. Don't you see her settlin'P II
should be a lesson, my friends, for us to
profit by; there's an end to the long-suf-
ierin'est mercy, and unless. OH yer
maxim straight for the fog. are We?
Well, it's your last fog bank. The bot
tom Of the seas the fust port you'll
fetch, you critter, you Git, and be -
to yer
This, tho. only occasion on which
Capt. Cram was ever known to say such
q word, was afterward considered by q
committee of discipline Of the Congre-
gationnl Church at Newaggen and tho
committee, after pondenng all the cir.
oumstances under which the word was
uttered, voted unanimously to take no
action.
Meanwhile the fog had shut in around
the tug, and the Judas Iscariot was lost
to view. The tug WAS put about and
headed for home. The damp wind
chilled everybody through and through.
Little was said. The contents Of the