The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-24
Tho Wreck Of The "AVslgeT. :"
THOMAS A. LAWYER.


 Greyshes stood just at the mouth of & little river, and was tucked away snugly at the head of one of the many small bays which make up into the land from BuZZard's bay.
 It had been quite & whaling port in old times, and one of the old whalers still survived,-a sort of monument to the memory of the others,-so we'll settled down into the mud at Nye's wharf that she foated only with the spring tides. Under the broad overhang of her old fashioned stern her name still could be made out, in battered white letters, "Trusty Jane" Captain Wye, who was a very good natured captain, used to let the boys go on board her whenever they wanted.
 The only other vessel that ever came near Nyes wharf was Skipper Hiram Huddy's little schooner, the "Merry Maid" but the "Merry Maid" did not hail from Grey shells and only came into the harbor now and then to tic up for the night to take in or discharge cargo.
 Greyshells was & very quiet place, now that the whaling business ended, and the Greyshells people were steady, respectable people, who lived along easily and comfortably from year to year in the quietest way. Now and then baby was born, or somebody got married, or somebody died, but these events did not stir up the placidity of the little town very profoundly.
 Much more exciting were the returns, st irregu- lar intervals, of the young men of the town from long voyages at sea, for all the young men were sailors, and all the old men had been sailors and every boy in Greyshells was burning for the time to come when he might be 8 sailor, too.
 The boys were adventurous lot, with sailor
 
 sometimes happened bit of genuine excitement overlook the town, the boys usually were st the bottom of it. The discovery usually followed that Theodore Radford, better known Teddy Radford, was its first cause.
 Captain Radford - who, like Nye, had con- manded whaler, and was a real captain, not 8 skipper-was one of the most respectable towns men of Greyshels, and Mrs. Rsdford was the eldest daughter of a Congregational minister. 1t did not seem very reasonable, therefore, that Teddy Rad ford should want to be pirate.
 But he did. To do him justice he did not want to be & robbing and murderiDg pirate. His modest desire merely was to command long, low, black, rakish schooner, manned with very daring and reckless crew, and to go sailing up and down between the West India islands and the Spanish Main in search of adventure generally.
 He expected to realize a handsome fortune from his piracy, though he was not very clear in his own mind, since he did not intend to rob any body, just how this was to be accomplished With this fortune he intended to make his father and mother comfortable, to erect a suitable monument to his grandfather the Congregational minister, to buy 6 melodeon for the Sunday school, and to acquit himself of various other public and private bene- factions
 Teddy had made more of start toward accom- plishing his practical plans than might have been expected, for he really had organized pirate band ship. The band consisted of Noah Barkum, first mate, Lem Harbud, second mate, and Tom Nye, boatswain, and these officers had permitted Sam Wyburn, who was only ten years old, and was a good deal looked down upon because of his extreme youth, to join the "Avenger" in the capacity oi
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