Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-24
THE STOWAWAYS.

Suppose" suggested Tommy Hilton, bright and early one Saturday morning. that We 20 down to the dock on the East river and see if We can't find some ship that will take Us away to the other end of the world"
 This proposition mado q favorable i'm precision on Charley Wines, who was also of an adventurous turn of mind, and so the two little bows decided to em bark without delay. and to take no bag gage but dark lantern and large package of sandwiches and cake. which they begged from the cook.
 So early did they start that it was not much after 3 o'clock when they appeared on the dock and looked about them for vessel suitable for the proposed trip.
 'Iwish. said Tommy, that there was a good pirate ship in the harbor now one of those long, low, rakish looking craft such us We read about in The Pi- rates Brilr' and which arc always rae ing up and down along the coast of China on the lookout for rich merchantmen.
 Il don't believe there's a pirate ship here, said Charley. but there's brig antino that sails for Cuba today for a cargo of oranges anl bananas, If we were to ship aboard her, we'd get lots of good things 10 r;.t and have no end of fun"
 of cou~ee We wuuld," chimed in Tommy aVY~oviuGly. Il am glad to see you coming round to my ideas. Why, Fatty, there's Tot only oranges and ba- nnnas and coruanuts down there, but there's Iuuva jelly and yams and sugar cane uHl pinvapplrs and an elegant beach to % swimming on and monkeys and parrots i'll The trees and everything else till You can't rrsJ. Now, I'll tell you what we'll do. If We like the looks of the captain and ma;r.-l particularly the tmate-for hes the one, don't you know, who Is always cruel tu the sailor boys in the stories. and if we like the ship her self we'll just Suil in her today. Maybe We could find n place i'll the cargo that we could fit up for ours,l Ives, as that boy in the Maynr Rid story did, bring in food enough to last through the voyage and not show ourselves till We felt like it."
 Fatty had always hUd q weakness for sweet things, and thc prospect of going to a land productive of every known delicacy fired his imagination and drove out from his mind for the moment all thoughts of tho brilliant career of ad- venture that he had often planned for | himself as a scout and slayer of Indians. | Aboard the briEantiur, which was called the Mary Jane. they found themselves i'll tho midst uf thc hustle and excite mcnt incident to tho l!IjnE of large cargo. The sailors wrro huisting mum Der of boxes from the dock and lowering l Il Nf an apparatus ris,-,od 10 inc mainmast, | while the officers vf the ship were 50 busy that they paid no attention to the two well dressed little boys who were roaming about the ship, now pcrpinS into the cvuA'S galley and now appear ing in the fvrrrI~tls', running about the deck and making th,m>rlvr> thoroughly II home after liuts~,..ru of young Amer ican boys -,mvr.llr.
 IL w.ls uut lou-s l..urr they contrivtl Jo slip aw,y into :.,.Ny>-,l's hold, where the sailors W,rr >;u>,j:., uway tine boxes aul barr, ls .'S I.y-c :~ they were lowered from h.. Lerk. Th,y grouped around alnvuI iAs ,:..,, :t.... >..~., and big cases uN;N .tc u:.to ;.-.y ,..i.., t.Iuu al open space between tWu v:-,r.uvus NuXeS, wEirh Was just liz enough to accom- modate them uv,A sI.I reminded them instantly of thr place in which the stow away in NIay:.y RcIi's rr:uuuce had made his famous voyage.
 "Euryha." yr!rl Fatty, who knew the Greek n,p,aI.t l.:l was proud of his classical 0ttuiumuuts, all We have 10 dc nuw k 10 hide here until the ship is vel out to sca and then show ourselves or | deck"
 And so it happened that when the lad ing of the cargo WAS finished two smal
 boys with 10 other equipment but a darl lantern and package of sandwiche:
 were snusly slowed away i'll little oper space among: the biz cases and hogsheads
 It was not cold down ill the ship
 hold, and there was a smell of sugar
 which was not Ut all Gis2 Ereeable. The,
 could hear the water flashing against tn
 dock outside, and then something shu ? out the few rays of light that had pene : trated their hidins place. The captain
 ordered the cover put over the hold ant 1 fastened down. Whether it would b
 reo3cned tA9 next morning or whethe
 they would be kept there until the shil
 reached Havana they did not know. Al
 awful fear came over Fatty Wines, an, he said ill a voice that trembled in spit o of himSelf
 Were in for it now, Tommy. sur
 pop"
 , We'll sail Tommy, "we might a
 well make the best of 1t here, and not le
 these rats frightcn us to death Vel
 have to keep a stiff upper lip now tha
 we arc out for life of adventure"
 They were "in for it" and no mistake
 but they did rot lose heart. For awhil
 they lay listening 10 the scampering c
 rats and the sound of waves dashin
 against the vessels side. Before lon
 their eyes began to droop. and they fe into deal sleep, from which they wer
 awakened by the jolting of the shiI
 which told them that they had started o