The Irish standard., 1886-11-06
YACHTING SLANG.
An lnquisicive Boston Maiden VIII
Wanted to Know All About 1t.

Wanted to Know All About It.
s.Oh, Charley' she exclaimed, as
the young man took seat on the
yeranda, .I'm 50 glad! I've been
reading about those yachts you know.
It's so interesting! Tn really quite
fascinated, you know. But there are
some things don't clearly under
stand. And I want you to tell me
what they mean.
.'ln one place it says the Mayhower
had a handicap, and {; little farther on
it says she had a capful Of course
she couldn't have capful unless she
had a cap handy; but what puzzles me
is that the paper talks as though a
handicap was bad thing to have.
while a capful is just what was wanted.
Now do explain it 10 me, tliat's dear
good fellow.
'sAnd then it says i'll another place
that one of the yachts, I forget which.
had her starboard tacks aboard. 1
; suppose they forgot to leave them on
shore in the hurry of starting, Wash t
it mean? They must have been dread
fully overloaded, for just before that it
says she had no difficulty in picking up
the buoys'' -
..Edith!' exclaimed Aunt Maria, who
had caught only the last sentence,
'I'm ashamed OF you, talking after
that manner. Picking UP the boys!
You know I detest slang. And pray
how can you take any interest i'll what
that hussy did?'
.'Why, aunt, I'm not talking about
any woman; only about these delight
full yachts.
''Oh yes, Charley: There was an
other funny thing. 1t says that one of
them stood out on the other leg. Only
think of it! I never knew that yachts
had legs before; though. come to
think of it, it does speak of their heels,
and Of the yachts running before
the wind and outtooting each other.
OF course they couldn do that withort
| legs. And they must have arms, too,
for it tells about their hugging the
| shore. That must have been so nice!
'sBut, Charley, how awfully cruel
the yachtsmen are. The paper says
| the Priscilla was hard pinched,
and that the Mayhower was iammed
for all she was worth, and it says
there was no ueed of jamn1ing her so
close either. The paper, however,
says she didn't seem TO lose her life,
Tn, glad OF that, but no thanks to
those great hateful men that did the
jam1nlng and the pinching.
''And the paper tells about losing
time cruising in stays-.to think they
should mention such things! And then
about bla1lketing one another-it came
Up cold. l. suppose: and in another
place it says all the sloops were sailing
under the same salt don't see how
they could do it without getting all
tangled up; do you?
sand how funny the Mayfower
cted. She WAS SO capricious, you
! hltoW' iAt olaC Gl1lAEs 81 oAAC l'aPCA
says, she was hauling on the black
sloops-evideaatly with the intention Of
helping them along, which was real
kind, I'm sure; and d little while after
it says the May1ower had a magnet
ON all those before her, and she was
| pulling them back to herself. Don't
seem though she could do it with q
magnet, does it?
| 81 was real glad that the Mayhowe,
beat, though my heart was right IN my
mouth when I read that the captain of
the Atlantic kept OF getting all he
could out of his yacht. But shouldn't t
you have thought he'd been afraid to
| tighten her so? Wonder she didn; f
capsize.
'.And Charley. what do they mean
| by outpointing and outstretching and
lutfing and all that sort Of thing? And
do they always have Shippers OH board
yachts? Come from the cheese they
have for lunch, / suppose. Ugh! it
makes me crawl all over.
''Really, must you go? And you
haven't told me a single thing: and I
lotted on seeing you and getting You
TO explain it to me, SO could under
! stand all about it.
'.But, Charley, do tell me one thing.
Is the May1lower the same vessel the
! Pilgrims came over i'll
81 declare! if he hasn' gone without
SO much as opening his mouth. don't
care; Ill ask Fred when l see him.
Fred III tell me, T. know. ."--Bosion
transcript,
Domestic life in China.