The St. Johns herald., 1890-11-20
A NOTORIOUS BEGGAR.
Some of the Wild Adventures of
 Moore Carew.
The Scion of Good English Family Who Became the KIng of Meni ci s of the Day A Daring Deed T.iich
 Brought Him Large Rewards.

Brought Him Large Rewards.
 There were great men before Aga memnon-beggars as well. Mendicant tricks of the trade have not changed much since the beggar lay outside the gates of the rich and showed his sores doubtless painted on every morning and washed off every night. At all events that was trick in Luther's time. One reads of it-in the ''Liber Vagatorum," 10 which he wrote preface. The trick is still in vogue.
 Of all clever rascals undoubtedly Bam- fylde-Moore Carew was the cleverest, says the Chicago Tribune. He was born in 1893 Of good old Devonshire fami- ly; his godfathers were Hon. Hugh Bam- fylde and Major Moore; his father was rector of Brickley-by-Tiverton.
 In short, the youngster was well launched. At school he was an excel lent student; an all-round athlete and good horseman-of course the son of the rector of Brickley kept his hunter. One day he and three schooimates-sons of Devonshire gentry-in a harum-scarum mood raced through farmers wheat field. The master of the school was one of the birch-rod sort. He ordered them up for logging tho next day. Where upon these four hopefuls levanted and joined a gypsy caravan. Time and again they were reclaimed by their families Carew and one of the lads named Escott always made off again to the gypsies.
 At last they were left to follow their own devices.
 Carew after many adventures was taken up as vagabond and sold as a slave to Virginia. He escaped and made his way back to England before the Captain who had carried him out. A second time he was sent over; second time escaped.
 He was made ''King of the Beggars" and played the rascal until he was sev- enty-two years of age. Then his cousin, Sir Thomas Carew, died and left him competency.
 Of all his wild adventures undertaken for the sake of gulling humanity, one deserves recalling. At the time it oc- cured he was about thirty. He was drinking one night in maunder's-pcn in the parish of Fleet, near Portland Race, in Dorsetshire. There he chanced to hear that ship had been driven on the shoals and was in danger of going to pieces. He ran down to the coast. No boat could live in the sea that ragged up the rocks; a few fisher folk fingered helplessly on the sands, seeing the sig nals and hearing the cries of the wrecked hut 1,1 +, ~,;, ,s1 away from these people, stripped to his shirt and trousers, and under cover of the darkness plunged unseen into the sea. Twice he was tossed back on the shore. The third time he made shift to get out of reach of the undcrtow and swim to the ship.
 1t was nearing morning, and in the gray light he clambercd on board. He found only one of the crew-a poor wretch lashed to the mast. The others had been washed overheard or drowned in trying to swim ashore.
 What ship is this?"
 ''The Makesure," answered the sailor: ''she belongs to Bristol, Captain Griffin, master, bound from Hamburg to Bris- tol with cargo of Hamburg goods"
 As they were talking the ship parted; every wave dragged away great pieces of her.
 Make fast that rope to my waist" said Carew, we'll get ashore together orgo down"
 The fellow was a coward-hc had not had pluck enough to make trial of it with his shipmates-and refused.
 Still Carew urged him.
 The poor wretch was half dead with fear and suffering, and clu1g to the mast, shivering and weeping. In moment more he was carried under by 9 sea that broke over the wreck. and swept it off the shoals into the deep.
 Carew fought his way to shore-spent and bruised, with broken arGl and leg.
 Day had dawned and there was a great crowd on the beach. It need hardly be said that Carew got sympathy enough and aid moro substantial. The neighboring gentry vied with each other in relieving the poor ship-wrecked sailor-only survivor of the Makesure. He was given clothes and money; for two years lived on the strength of this one affair. Indeed, one of his biog- raphers-there is quite a Carew litera- ture-states that the adventure brought him in over S, 1000.
 Never mind that--it was plucky act. To some extent it illustrated the cynical Frenchman's remark that we would all be rascals were we not, by chance, towards,
 4 Duck of Boat.
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