The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-10-30

We were under all plain sail, leaning
away from the wind tritle, and the wa
ter washed along under the bends in
lines through which the starlight ran
glimmering. was thinking over the five
OF six months voyages which Old wagons
after the pattern of this ship took in get
ting to India, when, seeing d squall COM
ing along, sung out for hands to stand
| by the main royal and mlZzen topgallant
4 halliards. 1t drove down dark. and not
| knowing what was behind, ordered the
| main royal to be cleWed up and turled.
| Two youngsters went aloft. BY the time
they were on the yard the squall thin
ned, but | tancied there was another
bearing down. and thought it best to let
| the ordinary seamen roll the sail up. On
a sudden down they both trotted, hand
over hand, leaving the sail Tapping in
| the clutch Of the cleW lines roared
out:
What dye mean 10y coming down
| before you've lurled that sail 2"
"ThcN stood together in the main
rigging, and one oi them answered =:
Please, sir, there's ghost somewhere
up alot on the foretopsail- yard
"a ghost you fool = cried.
e9' OH ne answered ne 'dl 5
JLlilnlH, yer lilothef wants yer say s.
ildt ana ne says ~ our mother
",'iits ei' IL iht HoiinWeSt NoieeS'
Dich' mere heafa H. ihefoS no one
"loiG i'il"i"S' Sil'
sung out to 'htiI To Jump aloit
again, and finding that they didn't move
l., 1 mage " spring on Whlch theN dropped
I'he l9hllilng on uecN' ana oegah 10 Deg
"Hu pray oi iiie ~ the eaSereSl manner,
to' ~ Neilo 'lieiI dIoiI' as tHeS were 10"
| - Shleleu 70 uoiu OK iHuted' tht lel-
10" ll"ii'eu JIiE actuaiIY began 10 ShlNeF
diIl cIH "leH | thea'ehed man 50 as lht
~" al 'i"o |" "t lul!eU' S@llt IL couple ol
t"t SAN came Ho"I' ana Satd tIiar 20
VOICE haN caiien To thfm, mat theY
rather reck"ned It was hIt OF shylark-
NJ on tht part Oh tne ooys' " get OUT OF
sYo"lng liie Sai'' however, | h"'ceu
'haI ti'e I'VE men We're WondeflullY quick
over Ihe JGo' ana that altefW 'fd lie
N"Icii Oh deck SIoo1 talNlh9 III row
FoictS III lIlt waist jim was lool ol Il
/ l0ulh' Out DICK was smart iau, aged
do""t llille'eeN' ana g""H LOOKING Wltii a
NtiA toI2ue' ana iietfu 2i'er"aiu lhat
Lc couid SPIN alafn TO peflect!oh aII "ut
ol ms ma Slhatlon. l called MN [" me,
'li'' 'SNeH LII" II ne "1" Ie"H'| near" "
'oiEe, anu ne S"Ufe ne ila"'
Dio 1t say Salu Il 'JlIhlhH' your
iilotner wants you
| AN, SlF' ne answered WIN nlJ "l Il
Shudaer' as pam as NGu yourself say IT,
IL seemed 10 come OH tle lofelo gallant
Ea'G, "here lancied sd" something
dark moving but | was too 1rI9hten-
ea TO 'ake particular hotlce.
e'i, IL was not long after TINS about
tieEen cioeh III tht ihoFilloG' tnal' lie
| captain neihs on utck, the COOK steps
| out ol Inc galley comes waking along
me poop, ahd' gong up 70 the captain,
| loUcheS MS cap ana stands looklhg AT
MN.
wv mar aye want q sald the captain,
eNelnS nm as Il ne TOOK MN To be mac
Dldnt You call, SIT q asked the
COOK.
"Call. cfied the skipper. NertalhIN
not me man looked stupid WIN sur
PRISE, ana nutterlhG something 10 nl!il-
stli, Went lor"aru' len minutes later
ne came up AGAIN 10 the skipper, ana
| Salu eS' aiF as d man uli9hU VINO
answers call ne skipper began 70
| swear at MN, ara called MN !unatlc,
ana SO on bul the man, 1lhdlng he was
wrong again, grew white, ana sWore that
II ne was on his death-bed, he'd nam
tam that the Captain had called him
Twice ne captain, VINO was ra'he' a
nervous man, turned to me, and SaId
nat 90 you make "l thls, MI.
Green cant DOUBT the COOK 5 word.
VINO caIllng MN In my voice
On, IL some Illusion, SIT, saiN l.
ieellh3 fathef puzHled lor all thal. but
tlie COOK, win Tears actually standIhg IN
ms eyes declared that IL was no Illusion;
hed hno" the captains voice II 1t was
nhe lHlleS OH ana men he walked III a
ua|eQ way toward tile lofecaSt!e, Singing
out thal "hetheF the voice ne had hearo
belonged TO ghost or Christian man,
II mlSht 90 on calling, COOK . Tor the
| next twenty years without his taking
iuftnel ioIiee oi It,
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Il louhd crowd OF men standing Ii
aWed postures near the hatch, and tht
most lilShtehed OF all looked 10 me TO DC
the Ordinary seaman DICK, VINO nae
backed away on the other SIDE OF the
hatch, ana stood looking on, leaning VIII
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