San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-04
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| GAS passengerS''
mo; want to go to sea and work, and
stay till am man. / have heard they
take boys" =.
! ''They do take boys, but they amt apt
to take fellers like you. They takes some
of their own kin or some OF The owners
kin, and never takes strangers what
hasn't 10 infioCence in them Kind o. deep
| water craft. You might get on a coaster,
| p'raps."
GLOW long do coasters stay-I mean
away from land?''
"Oh, two or three months at a time"
"That wouldn't do for me. want 70
90 in one that stays away from America
about eight years.
"You won't get your accorledati'n,
youngstor, less she goes to the bottom.
The most is whaler and thems rs goes
around the Horn, stays in the Pacific
about three years, and then you could
ship agin if you liked it, which / don't
'spect you will, for take it from your
looks as you are your mammy's boy, and
you'll want to see her''--
Georges heart syelled suddenly and
tears wellcd up in his eyes, but be choked
them back and said with unconscious
| pathos:
81 have no mother, she's dead, and so
| is my father. I am alone in the world. "
''Wcll. little chip, SO am I, and. though
| I've no love for whalers myself, III ship
| in one and take you long. ] haint got
no ship Just now, and did expect to stay
ashore Z week, and then take Liverpool
liner. I'll 20 on the brig Kohola with
you. They're q wantin' hands and
guess we'll do. The brig is stanch one,
but the capn he's a shark, hut, if you
| does yCu. duty, you're all right. Shall
we go?"
S'If you please, said George. and soon
they were walking over 70 the other side
! of the city, where the Kohola was wing
| out in the stream only waiting for crew.
ac George and his friend. wiSo SAID his
name was Pug Maxwell went Gcwo TIE
cock a dozen runners surrounded !Eecl,
| and each tiled 20 pull the two toward lie
boarding hoGse which he represented aid
they followed, descanting upon The spler-
did chances which they could have Il they
would only allow them to make all the
arrangements for their shipping on any
kind Of O aft!hey wanted.
They promised any amount Ct sad
vance, of credit, and invited hem 20
| drink. offered tobacco and cigars, sat ali
TO no purpose. for Maxwell 2aG termed o
sudden and profound affection for sh:s
brave little bog with iGc Sea -::ifci brown
| eyes, and the persuasio2s tha: cl:gst savp
| enticed him had he been a:c3e now had
Nd effect, but he knew that II would not
| do to anger these men, who we're :hen. as
now, of the very vilest type II scoundreis
| who ever proved upon innocent people,
| and they would have killed the two, hut
Maxwell managed to parry their demands
this time, and partly from surprise at the
| unusual sight Of a common sailor walking
soberly along with q nice looking little
boy, they ceased their opportunities.
Maxwell hired yawlSont a23 Ivas soon
rowsd alongside the whaler. ani here ~
called !oadly for the captain, who came
| to the rail and told he two to come on
| board; but Maxwell now had another
| than himself To guard and would not, say
| ing that il would be time enough by and
| by He knew that it was safe to stay In
\ his own boat until preliminaries were set
| tied.
| What do you WHnt thenr' said the
| captain, angrily.
''Weil, me and the little 'un wants to
ship with you" -.-
"Are you an able bodied seamant'
| "Been around the Horn twice, Cape OF
| Good Hope three times, and made sixteen
| other trips; some Of 'em to Liverpool and
| Havre Just Off o. the Limpet."
| 1.-The boyy''
| "Never been to sea before, but he's a
| plucky little chap as wants to go. Boys
is useful in the cabin, and likewise in the
galley"
| az ,lon't want boy; I'll take YOU"
az don't 60 without the boy, nor he
| without me. / wouldn't go whalin
without him, so If you want me you must
take him."
"Well, come aboard and sign the
| papers, both OF you"
| ''We'n be here in two hours for that
SIR" ...
Don't you want IN advance"
| "No. I've got my WAGES, and when
come aboard it'll be TO stay. We will gel
! our dunGage and be back in two hours. '
'If you are not here in that time N
not wait for you. Do you know any
| other able bodied men who want to gUy'
| 'I'll see, but 1 won't have much time
| to look for others in two hours"
"Well, take three. What house ar
| you at?'
"None of 'em; I'm at my sisters. The
usual pay, s'pose?'
"Yes, and little more for good men.
want to drop out in the morning on the
ebb, but need more men,"
] "Well, I'll try, but don't know how
I I'll make ont"
| And Maxwell rowed back to the shore
with George, and they went for their
clothes, and on the way Maxwell asked
about what George had that Yas suitable
for SO long and rigorous,a voyage. Find
| ing that he lacked all the necessaries be