The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-08-24

and we can make them do the heavy work for us" The jib was got out without much difficulty, and the running rigging for 1t was rove. Then 1t really did begin to look if the "Avenger" was in fair way to make start upon her career of devastation. The pirates were greatly encouraged at the close of the day that saw all this accom- plished, and tho next morning they went at the rigging of the foresail with much spirit but here they had another set back. The foresai 1t Is true was not so heavy the msin-sail, but after they had worked at 1t all the morning, they forced 10 admit that 1t was too heavy for them to manage.
 They knocked off st noon, to go home to their dinners and as they walked up together from the Point, were pretty low in their minds. The cap tain to be sure for trying to sail down to his proposed cruising ground off the Spanish Main with just the jib alone. but the more prudent officers and crew rejected this proposal as being altogether too hazardous.
 When Teddy got home, the first thing that he noticed, he entered the house prodigious smell of camphor; and when he investigated the cause of the smell, he found that his mother had been summing her blankets, and then putting them up in camphor again for the rest of the summer Her pair of best double blankets still the clothes line in the side yard. Mrs. Radford thought the world of that particular pair of blankets, and wanted them to have an extra good summing
 Just as they were finishing dinner, the Radford household all were very much upset by telegram that came to Captain Radford telling him that his married daughter, who lived in Wareham, had tumbled down stairs and wanted her mother to come to her directly. There was just time to catch the l:45 train, and of course Mrs. Radford hurried of in 1t. The captain was worried that he went along with her.
 Mrs. Radford had not even time to wash up the dinner things-let alone to finish putting away her blankets. All that she could do was to tell Teddy to tidy up little, and to bring in and fold the blankets, and lay them on the bed in the spare room.
 Teddy was inclined to believe that good deal of fuss was being made about very small matter He had tumbled down stairs so often himself, and without being seriously the worse for 1t, that he did not why his sister Susan should put his fat her and mother to so much trouble because she had taken a tumble of that sort, especially the telegram did not say that she had hurt herself. It was just like girl to go on that way, he concluded with contemptuous snih. But he set about the tidyiDg up, and did 1t in very lick and a. promise sort of way, for he was in great hurry to get back to Nye's wharf to continue the work of getting the "Avenger" ready for sea.
 Indeed, he was in such hurry that he forgot all about the blankets, and it was only when he happened to see them as he was going out through the side yard that he remembered what he had been told to do with them. There & sound of chopping on the other side of the fence, where the Barkums lived, and Noah called to him to wait & minute till he had finished cutting some kindling
 Teddy was not sorry to ind that his first mate also, had been detained from his piratical lsbors by domestic duties. So when Noah had finished cutting the kindling and climbed the fence he asked him to help told up the blankets. As they were folding them it struck Teddy that the two double blankets were just about the size of the brig's foresail, and yet here he and Noah were handling them without any trouble at all. At once the brilliant thought occurred to him that these blankets, if sewed together,-and there were plenty of sailors needles and twine board to sew them with,-would make a foresail that would ansWer every purpOse until the "AVenQer" had made her way to southern waters and received her complement of muscular runaway | slaves
 | Teddy was fully awake to the extreme irregu- larity involved in making this of hes mothers best blankets but he also was awake to the fact