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

'fH' "a 'ANll an PiNi lDhldllul III uti lii1t,
and had poop and top gallant forecas-
tie, though alterations had knocked some
OF the dignity out of her. Her channels
had been changed into plates, with dead
eyes above the rail, and the eye missed
the spread Of the lower rigging that it
naturally sought in looking al a craft
with a square stern and windows in it,
and chechered sides reaching out into
curves that made a complete tub of the
old hooker.
Yet, spite exchanges, the old fashion,
ed grace would break through. She
looked like a lady who had seen better
days, and who has got to do work which
servants did for her in the times when
she was well off, but who, let her set her
band to what she will, makes you see
that the breeding and the instincts are
still there, and that she's as little to be
Vulgarizeu by poverty and its coarse
struggles as she could be made a trupr
lady than She is 10y money. Ships. like
human beings. have their careers. and
the close OF some Of them IS strange, and
sometimes hard, think. The Ocean
King had been turned into a collier. and
| went second mate of her when She was
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her ton age was something over eleven
hundred a cuddy fitted up royalty.
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grnaninp tigures handed below. while
1be smell of English. French. and SOan-
ish punpovder. even down there. was s.
sIrong-phew | could have spat the
flavor out.
"Well, the old Ocean King had once
upon a time Been said 10 he hat1rted
She had Certainly been LONG enough
atIoat to own hundred ghosts, and she
NHs 50 stauch and trn4 that if eyer ,
superstjtion gnt into her. there was nc
chance OF its getting out again. | only
remember one Of these vans if WAS tod
I'd me by tine dockmasfer. who had beer
at sea lor many wears. was AN old man
ana knew the history of ALI surh craft as
the Ocean Kiug.
.sHe said fiat in 81 think if was
| there had been row amonp the crew
an Italian sailor stabbed an Enolishman
| who hled to death. To avenge the Eng
! lshman's death the rest of the crew
who were chiefly English. thrust the
| Italian into the torepeak. and LET hin
lie there in darkness When he wa,
! asked for. they reported that he haf
| fallen overheard. and this seems TO have
| been believed. Whether the crew mean
| to starve him Or not. is NOT certain bu-
J after be had been in the forepea5 thre.
or four davs. fellow gojng behird III,
galley. out of the WAY of the wind f,
LIGHT bis pipe-!t being then four bells il
the first Vatch-came running into tn,
iorecastle with His hair on end. and tb,
sweat ponring off his face swearing tha