Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-20

Captain Wait. "Thc brig won't fire till
shc, gets little nearer. must get into
that shall water ahead. where we can
have plenty of Ice room, for when
luarc away want q clear sea y
Five min les more PASSED away,
during which time the scho ner lad
reach. d tie clear water alluded to,
while the brig had been gradually OPEN
ing her s;arboard battery.
''Now, stand by, boys exclaimed
Captain Wait, as he cast an anxious look
towards the Englishman's guns. Let
her come up"
In an instant the Polly came into the
wind, and as her sliS began to flap
and Ilutter, but before her Roadway was
wholly checked, the cd anchor was
dropped overheard from the starboard
quarter, and dozen heavy water casks
were instantly rolled over on the same
side, which gave her quite q heel to
sarboa d.
"Schooner ahoym shouted an officer
from The Engishmnn.
BLAST the cussed rocks" roared
Captain Wait, springing to the helm just
as the short cable tautened and brought
the schooner up. ".Iump to those head
sheets. Haul over the starboard jib
sheer, quick Catch hold of the la--
board fore sheet, and haul it taut."
The order was quickly obeyed, and
the result answered twofold purpose
1t not only served to keep the schooner's
head to wind, but 1t also appeared to the
Englishman as though the Yankee were
making great exertions to get oil from
some hidden rock upon which they had
struck
For a few moments the Polly bravcly
headed up against the wind, by the aid
of her back winged forcSail and jib; but
the fore of the anchor coming upon the
quarter, it was evident that she must
soon swing round, unless some cxpedient
could be adopted by which to pre.eutlt
AS fortune would have it there were two
long logg ny poles, with sharp iron
pixies at the cad, on board, and in mo-
ment they were got out over the lar.
board bow, in which direction the
schooner inclined. This, again, an.
swered two purposes, for, as the water
was shoal, the poles easily he'd the
schooner in her position, while, to the
eyes of the astonished Englishman, it
added another evidence of the supposed
calamity.
81 thought so, exclaimed Captain
Wait. as he rubbed his hands in high
glee; ''lhcre goes the i nglishnan's top.
sail to the mas. Sand by to sh that
cable the moment give the order. Get
those txo big rocks out of the boat, and
luy EN- down under the quarter rail. y
The Yankees suppositon had proved
correct, for no sooner had the schooner
come into the wind, hcclcti over TO tie
starboard, and laid perfectly inlino :ablc
before the fresh b.cc c, Than the English
Ulcers naturally supposed that she had
run upon rock, and instead OF running
the + own brig into the same danger, they
had we to, and lowered boat, into
which some fifteen men Immediately de-
scended, and pat oil for The unfortunate
schooner.
Lift that heaviest rock UP on to the
rail, sa d Captain Wait, rs the boat APP
preached the schooner's larbOard quar-
ter.
4 block of granite Weighing some
eighty poundS-a regular down cast
boulder--was lifted to the rail, and two
of them stood by to throw it overheard.
1t was now quite dusEy, so that those in
the approaching boat could not see dis
tinctly the nature of these minor move
ments on the part of the Yankees.
'llallo, Jonathan got into o bad
sclape. haven't you hailed the officer
of the boat, as she began to round to
under The quarter.
Darn il ali-ycs," roared Captain
Wat, in perfect fury Of passion and
chayrin. ''But CT l hadn't run onto this
cusscG rock, I'll be blasted eff yeou'd
ever ave etched US, you thunderin' old
Britshcr'
We'll" returned the officer, with a
laugh, ''f am sorry for you but we've
got you now, certain Stand By with
The l..hoo.l, forward"
The man with the boat hook never
obcyed that order, for hardly had the
words escaped the i:cer's mouth. when
-pump-smash came the heavy rock
tearing and crashing the bottom of the
boat.
&c. ct 20 that cablem shouted Captain
Wait, as he showed the helm hard IL star
botrd. "lIaul over the jib. That's it;
now ease OF the fore and main sheets"
The schooner paid off in an instant,
and with good full she darted off
under cover of two small islands that
stand between the Cape aud Segu;n, aud
which projected her from the guns Of
the brig.
The last that our Yankee crew saw of
the b ut that had been after them. was
Just as she swamped, with the frantic
men still clinging to her sides, and in a
moment more another boat came to her
assistance. The gloom, however, shut
out further observation, and whether the
Englishmcn were any of them drowned.
our heroes never knew. All they knew
was that their clipper schooner got
safely out to sea- and that they had
caught "'l he Englishman at Faultm
4 Mia Deposited in Bank.
Joseph Cannon. the young man who