Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-10-30


country. Passport was the harbor FOR thes.
their commercial city on 9 very small acale
Every old family could trace some degree Of
consanguinity more or less remote with
every other family through marriage, per
haps, In this century or the one preceding
Il vas no Idle throng upon that wharf, at
tractsd by mere curiosity. There were fathers
and mothers, sisters and brothsrs annts and
uncles, first second and third cousins grand
fathers and grandmothers, swoethears and
wives. The sailing Of whaler with score
OF townspeople on board was no new thing,
but the mission Of those leaving In this case
was different, and the seventy on board rep
resented, ~ 10 life and enterprise, the very
elite Of the place, myself excepted
had shipped before the mast, and coming
on board about nine In the morning, dressed
In my best, had been Immediately bounced
upon by Mr.. Pell, our second mate, and or
dered to ''take or them duds and turn to In
my working toggery." SO buried my broad
cloth suit in my chest, babe II adieu, and,
making my appearance ON deck In white duck
trousers and flaming red flannel shirt, was
ordered by Mr. Pell to catch the ships pig,
roaming then at win about decks, and ''clap
him In his pen-n t4
Mr.. Poll was Q tall, gaunt, tough, hard
ened man, with one eye, and hand and arm
tanned by exposure TO tropic suns TO the
color Of mahogany He seemed all bones
working homes, and the one impossible thing
for Mr.. PEN 10 do, while awake, was to SIT
still, and the next impossibility with him was
to allow others to sit still, II 1t was in his
power TO prevent them. s'i4lc atf
Mr. Pell belonged TO one Of our second
class families There were first and second
class families In and about PASSPORT, end a
certain unnamed, nntalked distinction al
ways existed between them, and had so done
for generations. More than one Of the older
families could produce well attested evidences
Of lineage with the aristocracy Of the mother,
land, and no change Of fortune or station
could ever rid them Of a certain bearing saw.
orng Of blood and pedigree. They might &c
before the mast, serve as boat steerers learn
the trade Of cooper, the principal mechanical
calling of the place, but the manner ever
chung to them. 12H 9a. H4
Now Mr.. Pell was not one Of these ID
prided himself on being q common mans
very common man Anything In the leas,
degrees bespeaking putin on aiT, as Mr
Pell expressed II, was very repugnhnt to him
The Pells had always lived in an implanted
frame house on the ''back street." and IL
their sandy back yard 'pig weedr seemed Il
grow more luxuriantly than elsewhere tn.
shore Pells nshed and dug CLANS for living
The sea Pells would rise to the position o.
second mate, ssldom any higher. As boy
The Pells learned almost In their infancy :,
chew tobacco. At tho district school theJ
received the hardest whippings with thu
most unoonceEz-
This was Sam Pell, second mate of the AM
Mary Ann, and / was one OF the ancien
house. OF Holders, scampering under hi
orders after an obstinate pig, and all this II
full view of various members Of the PROUD
Holder family--and not only the Holders
but the Talmadges, the Osbornes the Wester
bees, the Hillyers, the Carys, the Wickham
and the Rysamsi caught the brute at las
by the hind legs, which he worked to and fr,