Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-22
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CAPTAIN BARNSTABLE.
He Outwitted His Sailors, But Was
No Match for the Ladies.
Il Sailor Spins a Yarn About Gallant Cap.
tain whose Love Expedition Came
to Sudden and terrifying
Termination
Nautical Gazette.1

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tain and part owner of the packet Mary
and Ellen, trading to Liverpool in 1920
NV dad was bos'en into her. The first
mate was Hezekiah Needham. from New
buryport. I've hearn dad tel many and
many time that there weren't no man
crossin' the Western Ocean as could get
more work outen crew than Hez Need
ham. But oncet be like to met his match.
The old man had shipped two Dagos what
was determined they wouldn't do no more
nor what they was obleeged. Hez was
onto 'em to oncet, and when he'd made 'em
make up their mind to jump when they was
told they had three ears and two eyes
atween 'em as was good, cause Hez he
know'd enough never to cripple man
entire.
''But the Dagos was layin' for Hez. and
be never came nearer to kingdom come
nor he did that trip. The Mary and Ellen
was to sosthard OF the Banks, just about
as nasty place for weather as ever you
see, when it came on to blow great guns
about midnight, and all hands were kept
on deck till the old packet was snug for to
meet it. Hez he was on the to'gallant
fo'k'sle havin' a look aloft, when one of
them Dagos fetched him one across the
head with pump brake, and t'other one
hove him over the rail. There was nasty
cross sea a-runnin', and any one would
said that that was the end o. Hezekiah
Needham, which it was not, for the next
wave washed him up alongside the coun-
ter, and the old man as was having look
at light on the lee beam hauled him
on board agin. There was a cash onto
his head as was six inches long, but it was
glancin' blow as made it.
~ believe you said you never know'd
Captain Barnstable. Well, he was jist the
smartest man you ever see. He hustled
Hez down into the cabin, and there didn't
nobody but the second mate and the stew
ard know he was there; not even dad, and
dad never liked SIGH want of confidence
neither. In course everybody ford sup
posed Hez had accidentally tumbled over.
board, 'ceptin the Dagos, as was sure
they'd done for him.
"I've hearn dad say many and many a
time that that was the wust passage he
ever made for weather, and when they got
h pilot and was gettin' ready to shorten
sail it jist made him ache to have old Hez
back again to make things jump. While
he was achin' about the hardest to see the
way them Dagos was a-sojerin' on the
staysail downhaul familiar voice as took
the breath most outen him, yelled:
81 ump up thar and INST them to gallant
sis. three of you. Hump yourselves, darn
YOU
"You should have seen that 'ere crew.
For scartness there never was their equal.
and the Dagos pumped down on their
prayer bones and began CALM on the
saints awful"
''Is that what you were smilin' ats" said
the listener.
mo, it wasn't. It wasn't no laughin'
matter, cause when them Dagos see Hez
maxim for 'em, one on 'em jumped over
board, and the t'othsr one was carried into
port and sent up for seven years.
'Oh, wellg"
well, as | was savin', Captain Barn
stable was a most powerful smart man,
powerful smart, and he'd wife as was
powerful smart, too. The Captain he
weren't no match for her. The Captain
he was like good many other smart men.
He had such an affectionate nature that
he could love his family as much as ordi-
nary men loves theirs, and still have some
affection to spare. While the
Captain was sightin' around
TO lind somewhere to put his
extra affections a handsome wilder moved
into his neighborhood, and when ne got
hack from Liverpool that ERE trip he was
introduced to her. He concluded to oncet
that he needn't do no more sightin'. Cap
tain Barnstable was struck all OF a heap
when he see her, and it wasn't three days
sfore he'd axed her wouldn't she take a
drive outen the country for 60 enjoy the
syenin' air, and she'd said she would the
next night.
$50 the Captain he hires a gellus rig,
and tells his wife he's got 10 90 over to the
snip-yard at Peck slip and see about get
tin a new foreto' gallant mast for the Mary
and Ellen. And Mrs. BarnStable she SAYS
she was awful sorry, cause she'd been uo-
ticin' that he'd been worryin' and stewin'
over somethin', and had intended to brew
him sbowl o. punch as would cheer him
up bit.
THAT made the Captain sorter con-
science strick, for he'd weakness for
punch as his wife brewed him. Howsever,
he gets under way for the ferry and disap-
pears around the corner, and bimeby goes
TO the livery and gets his rig. 1t was
glttin' duskiSh when he reaches the place
where he was 20 meet the wilder, ard no
sooner does he get there than be sees her
Led sack and bright feather a-bowliug
along to meet him, with veil over her
face, so that no strangers wouldn't recog-
nize her If they ever seed her agiu The
Captain he was all OF q fiutter. He Jumps
out and helps her in, and calls her his dar-
lin, and puts his arm around her, and
snakes the lines, and away they goes like
clipper snip IN gale of wind Bimebv
they comes to little hotel as used ter |
stand at the FlathuSh crossroads, and he /
asked her If she wouldn't like drop o,
suthin' 10 drink, and she whispered that
she would, hsvin' never spoken a word so /
far, and all the time a-hslf -tremblin', as if /
she was scarf to death by what she'd done. /
So they gets out, and boy be holds the
horses, and they steps into the parlor, /
where there was three candles burnin, on /
the mantel
The Captain, he goes to the bar for
two glasses of mixed grog, not noticin' of /
another carriage as drove up just then,
and when he'd got 'em he carries 'em to !
the parlor and gives one to her. She bows |
low and takes the glass in one hand. while |
she raises her vail with the other, and |
saws: Tanks. massa, don't ker eff | does |
ard the Captain he sees it was the wild |
der's maid rugged cut to deceive him. He |
was Just gaspin' for breath to express his |
ieelln's when the parlor door opened and
IN walked the wilder and mis- wife togeth-
er' and after that he didn't have no feelin's
TO express"