Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-15

Bniy TooIeys, either with or without EN-
could have brung you TO terms in another
way if had wanted to, but thought th.a
would be the pleasantest for all hands BIZ,
l want you now-all Of you-distncty for
to understand that | can't afford to los,
three days agin on this passage, and /.
Rrter this any of you chaps is mutinnus
I'll put bullet through his head iist IS
quick as I'd shoot cat. And now, M
Jones, call all hands and make sail
Well says Curly, gon on with tn
yarn, there weren't any more mectiu'i
and no more resolutions, and one Of th,S,
chaps a few days arterward, talkin about
1t in the forecastle, said as how democracv
did well enough for shore use, but out Oh
blue water weren't worth cent
81 might as well tell you the end of this
lint stock consarn, for when you've heerd
the end Of one you've heerd the end of pref
ty much all of 'em what went out in this
way. This old man, you see, although he
weren't a nav gator, were sailorman and
know'd what | were 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
some went off without gittin anythin for
their share, and others took jist what were
offered, and at the end of 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
Sandwich Islands and fetches BIZ tx Il cargo
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 Calforny, that
they ever had to import any, but I've seen
onions and potatoes sellin for 81 pound
and as for wimmin they was always high
there. And so you see this here skipper
done well even if he didn't know naviga-
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 20 over and
above fast.
well, about six bells in the AFTERNOON
watch we made a brig away to windward
with the British ensign 1yin, half mast
and union down. The old man were very
provoked, you may be sure, jist 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 nyin jib furled and we braced
up sharp or wind for to beat up to him.
"'Now, says the old man to the mate,
it's more than likely she is oEt of provi.
sions, and we mustn't lose a 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 rs to supply her at once, or if they
want to be took off we can transfer 'em
without delay Well, we washes out n
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 a
crew for both of 'em. Then we clews up
the to'gallan' sails and hove about on the
port tack and let her lay with the maintop
sail to the mast.
1.-THE brig all this while had been runnn'
down afore the wind, and soon came down
across our starn, and the old man hailed.
Brig ahoy! w hat can do FOR you flrstY
'There was about a seconds pause, and
then come the reply, what is your longi-
tude?'
You ought to have seen our old mans
face jist then. Drink less rum and buy a
chronoIneter' says he to the English chap,
and then to us: Fill away the mainyard'
Down main tack! Gather aft the slack of
the sheet Put your helm upl So-steady-
as you go, jist full and by! Stations now
for stays! Down hem Hard a-lee Rise
tacks and sheets! Main to- bowline! Main
sail haul Head braces! Fore bowline Let
go and haul"
well, the minute we got her around we
piled the muslin onto her and soon had her
trottin toward Sandy Hook agin with stun
sails allow and aloft, leavin the Britisher to
find out his longitude from some one better
natured than our old man. '-EXchange.