The Grenada gazette., 1888-02-04

ing his lost money In one Of his capa-
cious pockets. he seized the Greek by
the nape Of the neck and the hinder
part Of his scanty clothing, and so ran
him up the cabin stairs on deck.
"Philee-ee-p"' cried the pratical
Grecian, as he went swiftly and UNI
pleasantly through his cabin.
But his cry for help only elected q
lugubrious groan, for "Philee-ee-p,'
his mate, was lying somewhere under
the cabin table, holding on TO his
wounded arm.
An extraordinary scene took place
when we got on deck again. Handing
over his victim for me 10 hold until he
was ready, Captain Dodson stripped
of his upper clothing, gave the bag of
money into cur mate charge, and then
told our man, who spoke Italian, to tell
the Greek to stand up and defend him
self
The fellow understood what was re-
quired of him well enough, and his
black eyes glared ferociously as his
right hand instinciively made futile
movements to where, no doubt, he usll-
ally carried the formidable stiletto,
now safely slowed away in one Of his
enemy's pockets,
Come on. yon parley-woo, long
shore son of sea-cook"' yelled our
''old man." Come on, will you, you
numbering, piratical, inhospitable lub-
Der! Come on, till take satisfaction
out Of your black, ugly, skulkins car
| cassr
As our skipper squared up to him
the wretched Grecian cast glance to
where his crew were held completely
at bay by the cleaning weapons of our
men, then he sprang upon his antag-
onist, endeavoring to dash one fist in
his face and seize him by the throat
with his other hand.
The poor wretch's pugillstic knowl-
edge was sadly at fault and he received
a sound thrashing He lay still at
last all resistance had been knocked
out of him.
"Well, you plundering foreign vag-
abond, I've given you fair play said
the cold man. "now I'll teach you
to beware of interfering with British
skipper again, for you re not going to
dodge punishment by lying down like
that Here, Jack, pass ME the end Of
that main-brace. y
Dear. dear, what a rope sending
that Grecian skipper did receive! He
must have been black. blue, and ten
der for a couple of months at least.
Such terrible fagellation | never saw
before or after, He was almost naked
| too!
At last Captain Dobson was salts
fed, and ordered us into the boat. Be.
fore daylight we were safely on board
the Mary Jane, and things settled
down again as though such an advent
ure had never occurred.
Within week we were loaded and
under weigh for Liverpool, Havine
| heard no more of the affair. The Greek
captain, no doubt, had good reason for
not troubling the authorities on shore.
As the brig was his own property,
Captain Dobson was able to take hel
where he pleased, and l have heard that
he went back to Taganrog more than
once after the incident described; there
was a great and unusual attraction al
that gray uld lighthouse. have heard
too, that Russian Finn is keeper Of il
now, and that its former master, with
his dark-eyed daughter leaning between
him and a stalwart, fair haired mariner
has been seen on board a certain Brit
ish brig. Well. she was q good-lookine
girl. No wonder old Dobson thought
it capital opportunity to take part
ner in the Mary Jane. To see her in
her smart native dress. which gave, per
haps, grandeur to n perfect figure
would have gone far to captiyate {
much more practised ladies man than
Captain Dobson. NJ Y World.