The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-07-23
miscellaneous.
BAYFIELD,.

and cooked hats-the year 1881.
On Philadelphia lay the twenty-gun ship
Ariel, just arrived under command of Com.
modore Paul Jones.
There were in the city many persons who
had never seen that remarkable man, among
them the subject of this sketch, Ben. Wilson
q trim, powerful young Jack-tar of twenty.
llVe who had lately married Susan Gray, an
humble but beautiful damsel of eighteen
There had been another sutton, also a sailor
named Thomas Wright who hated Wilson
because Susan had preferred him, and who,
being of cruel, malicious disposition, longed
to do him some injury.
Having finished his term aboard one of the
vessels in the harbor, Ben shipped aboard the
Ariel, that he might serve under the renown-
ed hero who, with his craft, the Bon Homme
Richard, had fought the English frigate Sera-
pts.
Learning that Ben had shipped, Wright,
who like the former, had never seen Jones
also became one of the Arels crew. Neither,
however, could yet get sight of the commo-
dore, who was absent-would not be back
for week.
In few days Wright was chosen to act in
the place OF the boatswains mate, who was
at that time i'll. His duties besides blowing
on the call, etc., were to punish with the colt
"A coil Of rope from two to three feet long
and also with the cat-o'nine tails, usually
termed the "cat," such Of the sailors as "ofi
Tended" against the rules of the ship, and he
ardently hoped that he might yet have a
chance to fog with his cruel lash the man he
hated for winning pretty Susan.
One day some of the crew were granted lib
erty-that is to say, permission to go ashore
They were ordered to return to ship at nine
o'clock. The boatswain's mate, Wright, and
Ben Wilson were among them, the former
on the watch for the coveted chance which
might favor his evil designs Unfortunately,
Ben drank, and in state of partial intoxica-
ton he visited, a few minutes before nine
o'clock, when he should have repaired to the
boat, THE Dolphin" tavern not twenty
yards from the landing. Here the landlord
accommodated him with a glass of brandy,
which the young man lifted high, saying at
the same time in loud voice:
"A health to Commodore Paul Jones p
Then he left the place, not to go to the
boat, but intending to seek some other tav-
ern.
1t was dark night, but by the bright light
streaming through the windows of the house,
Ben could see middling sized, broad-shoul-
dered man, enveloped in shaggy overcoat,
watching him with a mingled expression of
hrnod ,yootbar haoton f,oo ~
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laying his hand on his shoulder "What's
your name, and what ship do you belong to ?"
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Wilson, and my ship is the Ariel, but blast
me II know what business it is of yours"
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