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

QUELLING A MUTINY.
However some shippers gifts anywhere
at all, " said the old sailor, sis a mystery to
me- for many of em don't know no more
about navigation than does about preach
in, which amt much. Talk about sweet
little cherubs a-sittin up aloft,' lookn out
for SIGH as these, l think they must have
full grown angels to act as supercargoes,
and navigatin ones at that.
Il know'd a skipper once as we were
a-goin from New York to Caiforny, and a
chap what know'd him says to him, why,
you don't know how to navigate NO.
says he, 4 don't but l guess I'll larn afore
l gets there / don't know now whether
he did or not, but he got there anyway
He'd been captain of coastin schooner run
min down to the capes of Virginny, and put
him anywheres onto the coast of America
with lead line into his hand, and he'd tell
you where he were fast enough, but as for
doin anythin with the sun, moon or stars,
his eddication in that respect had been neg
lected
''Ile took out one of these here lint stock
affairs what went out to Calforny in 1913
and 1919 in the first of the gold fever. Ev
erybody were crazy to go, and Il lot of chaps,
hundred or so, would club together, each
putin in so much, and they would buy the
vessel out and put their own traps aboard
of her and start. They generally Civ the
skipper share Of the consarn for his serv
ices, and maybe the mate got the same.
Well, of course a skipper that were good
for anythin in them days wouldn't 90 on no
SIGH lay as that, and in consequence they
had to pick up anythin they could git. Gen
orally, however, the shippers was smart
enough for to git possession of the vessel
after arrival-leastwise this here one Pm
tellin on you did anyway.
IF he didn't know anythin about navi-
gatin, he were q good sailorman, and that
these here greenhorns what had lived all
their lives on shore found out. When they
got down into the neigh borhood of Rio, they
holds meetin and passes resolutions for to
go in there, and they appoints "A committee
for to present these resolutions to the skip.
per. He tells 'em that he wern't short of
anythin, and that he wernt a-goin in. Then
they tells him as how he were only their
sarvant, that they were the owners, and
that he must 90 in. Then he tells 'em that
thcy were only passengers, and that he
were the captain Of that there ship, and
that if they were mutinous he'd put 'cm in
irons.
Then they gifts out their shootin irons
they all carried revolvers in them DAYS
and they tells him for to try it on. Then
he turns and calls all hands, and takes the
stunsails off of her, clews up and furls the
royals and tOgallan sails, close reefs top
sails, furls the courses, puts the helm IA
spoke or two down and sends all hands be-
low, tellin 'em That the passengers had
taken possession of the vcs-el b. force. and
Ell, Us hey outnumbered the crew SO LARGE.
u ard were so well armed. for to sllrrcu
der rather than to have bloodshed.
well, the sailors seen the Joke right
away They know'd that they and the Off
GERS could have whaled every one of these
chaps if they had IA wanted to, but they
know'd that this here plan of the old man
would bring 'em to, and they liked that
better Well, the old man tells these chans
that, havin mutinied onto the high seas.
and bein too strong for him with his force
he had concluded for to surrender. and him
and his officers were prisoners. and they
could take the ship into Rio or anywhere
else.
"As the only charts or Instruments on
board was in the possession of the CAPTAIN.
and as there wasn't a soul of 'em as know'd
where they was. they would have had ~ nice
time findin Rio or anywheres else
well, they tried blusterin at first but
the skipper and his mates had their revoly
ers. and they lust told these cbans that
while they would not begin the fuht they
were agoin for to defend Themselves and
as there happened to be one or two LAWYERS
among this lot they told the rest AS how
it wouldn't do; that notwithstandin their
bein owners they wasn't nothin else here
than passengers. and that the law wonld
consider them as mutineers and nothin
else if they used any force
$50. arter "a hours. they holds another
meetin and passes some more resolutions ms
how they had civ up the idea of coin In
Rio ana orderin the captain for to nroceed
on his v'yage, and they appointed another
committee for to let the old man know