The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-05-23
A JOVIAL PASSENGER.
Covering a Rogue's Tricks with 6
Pleasant Smile.

1t was lovely afternoon toward the
close of September when we weighed
anchor and sailed out of the river Mer-
sey, bound for Melbourne. We had a
good ship-''Janet's Pride"-loaded
with miscellaneous articles. On board
were fourteen passengers, and take
them all in all, a pleasanter lot l never
steered across the stormy seas.
There were three old gentlemen who
We're going out to share their fortunes,
come what might, and which, poor old
souls, they seemed to think fashioned
in the brightest colors, long before the
English coast was out of sight.
Then there was solitary old gentle
man, who judging from the general
tone of his conversation, was seeking
the new world for the ostensible pur-
pose of finding fault with it.
There We're young married couples,
all full of hope and activity, bent upon
making new home far away from
their native land.
There were also a very jolly elderly
brother and sister, neither of whom had
ever entered into the bonds of matri-
nony, but, instead, had stuck by each
other through life.
There were three old Australian set
tiers, who had been over to have a peep
at the old country and who were now
returning to the land which, to them,
'fhrongh long communion, had become
the dearest to them of all others
-'HOme, sweet Homer
LASTLY, though not least, there was a
solitary passenger, who soon became
the pet of all on board. He was a man
of eight and twenty years of age, pos
sessing very clear complexion, very
handsome, long, flowing beard and a
very silky mustache.
His name was Reginald Moore. His
given reason for taking this sea voyage
was the delicate state of his health
There was not the least doubt that the
poor fellows chest was considerably
affected, for his voice, though charm
ingly sweet, was one of the weakest /
ever remember hearing; and it had a
certain hollowness in its sound that.
IN my mind, is invariably associated
with that terrible disease commonly
-acrmed consumption. He always wore
Il thick muffler round his neck to pro-
1ect his throat and chest.
In all my perience-and it has been
n pretty wide one-I never knew any
one with so many friends and such un-
divided esteam, in so short a time, as
Reginald Moore. There was not, | be-
here, sailor on board who did not en-
certain the warmest possible liking for
him.
AS for the passengers, they never
seemed so happy as when listening TO
iIis amusing anecdotes, of which he
seemed to possess an inexhaustible
store. And this delicate young English
paragon of passengers had made his
conquest over all our hearts before we
had been three weeks at sea.
He was, too, such clever fellow with
his hands. He could cut and shape you
anything out of piece of wood, from
.Mn oyster TO an elephant, and at MAX
ing models of ships / never met with
his equal He was, besides, such a
kind aud considerate fellow toward his
fellow passengers.
When the three elderly gentlemen
who imagined their fortunes made were
afflicted with sea-sickness, he was the
first TO come forward and help them
about while they slowly recovered He
would insist upon their taking his arm,
weak as he was himself, and he would
Head them about ON deck, with firm