Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-08

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low there. Hain't the starboard watch got
their dinner YETI Tumble upl Tumble upl
The winds drawed ahead, and the yards
want trimming"
Tumble up" exclaimed Black Sam.
Don't you be holding your nose too long
over the hatch or it'll be you as'll be tum-
bling down Can't ye smell it, Oh, it's
nothen but us mems dinner There's
plenty left If ye've mind for a bite"
Who's that a-jawingS" exclaimed Mr.
Chips, who combined the duty of second
mate with that Of ships carpenter. "Tum-
BILE up I tell you. The winds drawed
ahead"
/ Catch it and smell it for yourself"
shouted a seaman, plunging his hand into
the mess kid and hurting lump Of pork
through the hatch. The sailors heard the
hurried steps of Mr.. Chips as he went aft.
/ Hell betelling the old man." said Black
Sam; Tets go on deck and have 1t out.
lads. Pll do the talking part, with your
good leave. We don't want no language.
Civiiity's trump card in these here traw-
erses We all knows what we mean to get.
and I'll say it for ye."
He led the way; his shipmates followed;
They gained the forecaste and stood in a
group gazing at the after part Of the ship.
The vessel was the Rose, from Liverpool
to an East African port She was an old
fashioned composite ship, but her lines
were those of a yacht, and there were few
vessels then ahoat which could look at her
on a bowiine. Her yards were immensely
square, and she carried swinging booms
and main skysail mast, and her burden
was between 600 and 700 tons Such q ship
rs this demanded twenty Of crew at the
least, not to mention master, mates and
elders" Instead of twenty the Rose had
sailed with ten men in the forecastle and a
cook in the galley and the others were a
carpenter, who acted as second mate, an
Only Mate and the captain. OF the slender
crew two had been swept overheard in a
gale of wind. They were foreigners, and
the English jacks did not lament their
shipmates' end, but on the contrary grinned
HeHdishly when IL was discovered that the
foreigners were gone, and they hideously
wished that all Dutchmen who signed arti-
Giles for the red ensign Of England would
90 aud fall overheard as those two foreign
, ers had and as promptly, too, so that no
body concerned might be kept waiting.
During the gale ia which the two Dutch
, men had persisted the ship had been 50
, strained as TO oblige the hands to serve the
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, leaky, the provisions rottonl There must
be limit to patience aud endurance, even
, though the sufferer be sailor. The seven
, seamen Jumped together on the forecastle
of the Rose stood staring aft. The cook, a
pale man, lounged in his galley door, halt
, in aud half ont, and his face wore an ex
! preston of sour expectation. The carpen
ter, as may call him, was talking TO tbs
, captain, and the Only Mate was SLOWLY
I rising through the companion hatch as tn
body of seamen stood staring.
/ The captain, whose name was Jones, wa
a tall, lean, gaunt man. his face Of tn
color Of ulphur, his appearance decided
I Yankee though he happened 10 belong I
4 Limehouse He wore square toed boots
, CLOAK that might have been taken from tn
shoulders of "A stage bandit and a suga
loafed hat The hair on his face consiste'
!, of beard that fell from under his chi
A like a goats, and his eyes were black, bri
4 liant and restless.
I. The Only Mate, whose name was Johr
son, was about half the captains height
a The ocean had done its work with hin
v had withered up his face, dried the marro'
!. out OF his bones, put "A turn in either LEI
a so that his walk was like a pantomin
d clowns Instead of being an Only Mat
v he should have formed the eighth part Of
d mate. You would have thought th'
IS eight at least Of such men as Mr. Johnso
a should go to the making Of an Only Ma
% for the Rose had you seut your CLAM
from the dried aud kinlsed figure to Il
body of men forward, more particularly
lie the giant Black Sam who with the re
r continued to gaze aft.
The carpenter, or second mate, was
ne brown faced man Of about fifty, but brii
h, had taken the place Of blood in his vein
" aud he looked sixty, with his white loci
An and rounded back aud long, hanging arm
TO whose fingers were curled in the mann
- of fish hooks. At the wheel stood &
he Scandinavian seaman, Peter, the like
whom YOU may see any day blowing in
r. German band in the streets Of Londo
le veal colored, freckied, yellow haired, Il
~ ure loosely put together, and as meanin
70. less an expression Of countenance as
at dab's.
1T The captain was putting at long Gig
~ that dropped between his lips. Present
Elf he pulled his cigar from his mouth al
shouted: I'VE don't want all hands i
he starboard watch can trim sail. Trim sa
ok starboard watchp' and replacing his Gig
At. he fell to swiftly strding the quarter de
DIS 10 and fro.
The seven sailors marched aft and cal
he TO stand little abaft the mamma
III Black Sam advanced himself by ST.
it and exclaimed:
me "Capt'n Jones, us men don't mean TO
be no more work until our wrongs
righted."
'as The captain, speaking with the cigar
fol his mouth, halted opposite the men a
& said: What are your wrongsS Are ye
int well fedi Are We growing too fat for
al want Of work. Say the word ard I'll rag
them wrongs for ye fast enough
me "Ye've got a SOW under that there 10
a boat, Capt'n JONES'" said Black IA
er; Would we give her the whites us m
get have TO live on and work hard on' J
nat And whyp Because the life and health
Ike a SOW is Of more consequences to the iii
ust of such men as you and the owners Of {
D." vessel than the life and health Of a saiIo
OF Captain Jones clenched his fist 0
d plared. But what is the use of one N
81 clenching his fist and glaring at se'
a | savage. hairy, resolved British Seamen, q
d the captain might well know that he '
r but one man to the whole ships compa
md for the Only Mate stood at the rail look
n" over the side as though he were pass
md ger, willing TO listen, but rather anM
ing not to be "in,olyed," while the carp
lg's ter had stepped aft, and was dividing
led attention between the compass card
int the main royal. The captain looked aro'
the him. He then pulled few moments
up his cigar, while an expression entered
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