The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-09-08

I'll put bullet through his head jist as
quick as I'd shoot cat. And now, Mr..
Jones, call all hands and make SAIL
"'Well,' says Curly goin on with the
yarn, there weren't any more meetin's
and no more resolutions, and one of these
chaps n few days nrterward, talkin about
it in the forecaStlr, said as how democracy
| did well ENOUGH for shore use, but out on
| blue water 1t weren't worth cent
81 might rs 0ell /. u ~ the end Of this
jint stock = RI. l"r wh,'n you've heerd
the end ul one you've hecr1 the end of pref
ty much all OF 'em what went out in this
way. This old man, you see, although he
weren't navigator, We're IA sailornan and
| know'd what he We're about, and he chimes
| in with one of these lawyer chaps, and no
sooner does the ship git to San Francisco
than they puts some sort of paper onto
her and throws her into law.
well, the chaps what had come out in
her they wanted to go to the diggin's, and
some went off without gttin anythin for
their share, and others took list what were
offered, and at the end of a couple of weeks
the skipper and the lawyer chap owned the
whole of her. Then the skipper he gifts a
small crew into her, and he goes over to the
of onions, potatoes and wimmin, on all of
which he done first rate, that one v'yage
maxim him rich man.
"You wouldn't think, sir, if you seen the
splendid vegetables raised in Californy, that
they ever had to import any, but Eve seen
onions and potatoes sellin for 81 a pound,
and as for wimmin they was always high
there. And so you see this here skipper
. l.. I. In /
ton.
81 mind once comm home from Liverpool
in the ship Atlas, and we d had a head wind
for weeks and bid fair for to make terri
| BILE long passage of it, when one day, just
arter noon, the moon changed, and the wind
shifted from west to nor'west to nor'-nor'-
east. Well, we got all the starboard stun
sails set and soon had her a-goin about
| nine knots, which were fast for her, for she
were full ship and didn't go over and
above fast.
well, about six bells in the AFTERNOON
| watch we made a brig away to windward
with the British ensign nyin, half mast
and union down. The old man were very
provoked, you may be sure, ist as we had
got this fair wind to have to stop, but there
weren't no help for it, and all hands was
called and the stunsails took in and the
royals and Gyin jib furled, and we braced
up sharp on Il wind for to beat up to him.
"'Now,' says the old man to the mate,
it's more than likely she is out Of provi-
sions, and we mustn't lose u minute more
than we can help of this fair wind. So git
up some bread and beef and pork and have
some water in handy casks ready to go in
| the boat Git both of our boats cleared
away, so as to supply her at once, or if they
want to be took Off we can transfer 'em
without delay Well we washes out d
couple of beef barrels clean and fills 'em UP
with fresh water. We gifts up a couple OF
barrels of beef and a couple of pork and
| about half dozen barrels of bread, and we
| clear away both quarter boats and selects q
crew for both Of EN-. Then we clews uT
the to'gallan' sails and hove about Oh the
port tack and let her lay with the maintop
sail to the mast
1.-THE brig all this while had been runnin
down afore the wind, and soon came down
across our starn, and the old man hailed
Brig ahoyl What can do for you firstY
"There was about seconds pause, and
then come the reply, "What is your longi
tudef"
you ought to have seen our old mans
face jist then. Drink less rum and buy 9
chronometer,' says he to the English chap
and then to us: Fill away the mainyard
Down main tack! Gather aft the slack Of
the sheeti Put your helm upl So-steady-
as you go, jist full and byi Stations now
for staysl Down helm! Hard a-leel Rise
tacks and sheetsl Main to- bowlnel Main
sail haul Head braces! Fore bowlinel Let
go and haulI'
well, the minute we got her around WE
piled the muslin onto her and soon had hel
trottin toward Sandy Hook agin with stun
sails allow and aloft, leavin the Britisher tC
find out his longitude from some one better
natured than our old man. "-Exchange