The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-19
me CRUISE or the BUoABoo
An Old Salts Tale IAnont tho Fitting Ont %
Peixot0's Fleet.

| An Old Salts Tale Aoont tho Fitting Ont %
PeiNOto's Fleet.
During the hustle and confusion OF getting
| Pcxoto's imrrovised fleet ready for sea at the
! Morgan Iron Works yesterday. very old salt
sat upon tho strin&ricce OF the dock squirting
tobacco juice into tho water below and smiling
sardoncally at the warliEc preparations.
In nigh on fifty year O. buildin'. nttin'. an
sailin' ships" ho said. II never see nuthin'
like this 'copt Pat Canty's cruise + tho BuRaboo.
! Mover hear OF tho Bugahoo?" the old man
wont on. shifting his auid rs salormen do
when nbont to spin yarn. We'll. that ID
singular Thought there wasn't no one hero.
! abouts as hadn't heard OF Pat Canty and the
| cruise OF the Bugaboo.
1T was in II" lie explained. tho year O.
the big fro in st. John. l was there in .
square rigger for load of deals for Australia
I'd been in the lumber trade between St John
and Liverpool of and on for years. and got to
know most that mndo their livin' about the
wharves. among 'em Fat CAVITY. the scow-
man. Pat had been in Canada about forty
year. II. had dirty old scow. and him and
his half-witted Mickey did pretty we'll
scowin' deals and buying junk. The old man
didn't know none too much at that. and he'd
never been out O. st. John harbor from tho
time he como there in an immigrant ship.
He was mighty fond o money. though. and
WAS wei hHOWn 10 inc SuliOTIngn as como 10
the hluenose port by his sharp way o. drivln'
bargains for old rope and odds and ends.
We'll. when the fire come an burned the
whole town there was a big boom in the coast.
in trade. Thorn blucnoses started right in to
build up the town. and there wasn't schooners
enough to carry the bricks. lumber. sand. and
mortar rs was needed to do 1t. Freights
jumped right up. and all the old condemned
hnlks that was n-rottin' at tho worm eaton
wharves along the Bay o. Fundy Was showed
into the water. manned with any mer that
would co. and pressed into the brick carryin'
biz. Ye never see SIGH fleet in yer life. 'cept
this here Brazilian lot O. criprles. and that's
what made mo think O. Pat CAVITY and the
BuGaboo.
Pat he near went crazy whom he heard
about the big freiaits: an I reckon he didn't
sleep nights thinkin' how no could get out o.
the scow business and have share O. tho
brick carryin'. Well. the upshot was that Pat
he set lot o hatchet-an'-saw carpenters to
work ilttn' out the BuGaboo-that was the
name OF his old scow. They decked her
over. cut matches in her. put rail
round her, and set up couple O. crooked
hay spruce sticks. rugged with old fore an aft
sails gu t often his junk shop. On her counter
mark that tho counter Of scow-he painted
in her name in big white letters. and her hail.
In port. Then. dumme IL he didn't get Q
charter. Some one had bricks in New York
they wanted took to st. John. and Pat got the
Job. He an his simple son Mickey was the
BuCaboo's crew.
This was in July. the weather was good. an
by nosin' along the coast. never losin' sight O.
land all the way. the Bugaboo come into port
the hind end O. August.
Pat he took on his cargo all right enough.
but when he Vas ready to sail gin he thought
he'd have to make better time if he was goin'
to make anything out o carryin' brick that
summer. So he leaves Mickey to keep ship.
an away he goes along the docks a-searchin'
for n craft bound for st. John. Pretty soon he
comes on British bark. as the people along
the dock they says was for st. John for orders
the next day. Pat goes back and warps
the Bugaboo UP alongside her. When the
bark cast off her hawsers in the mornin'
Pat an the BuGaboo was close astern. Now
scow. fore-au'-aft riECed. amt none too slow
afore the wind in fair weather: in the wind
she'd 20 ahead c:ab-lashion: in a blow-well.
] guess they amt no sailorman as ever tried
one. Down the bay an out to sea Pat, Mickey.
an the Bu=aboo dosgel that bark. an they
was astern when night fell. That cherub I'D
a!oit that looks after sailormen must kep'e
sharp eye on Paddy for when day broke them
on he bark spys the BuGaboo. close astern.
Naturally they thought it kind O. queer to
see that sort Of laHd turtle headin' out to sea,
hut Yankee coasters know their biz. and takin'
her for some Yankee li&hterman. they paid
little nttentio ion that day to the BugabOo. She
kcp' on With good wind astern all day. an
there shc was jas under tho barks connter
when the sun come ~, on the second an third
mornings out. Then the bark & skipper begin
to think something was wrong. His men
aiore the mast didn't like that old raft with
the dirty salts H-dOggin Of the ship in that
a an as fhey could soc oGss
dnmmed like dead mans craft
TO make II long story short the skipper he
hove til" lark to. and waited fer the BuCaboo
to come abeam OF her When she come
n ,poundin' alongside. the Cap'a!n hailed her.
"'Ship uhny! What crafts that: said he.
THE lIuGaboo.' was Canty's reply,
where ye bound seZ tn" Captain.
To 81. John. with brick says CAVITY.
Then there was II wait, nm CAVITY comm
onto tho ocas,le o the Bugaboo. shouts:
Alloy! What ip's yuursT
The SkvIark o dundee came hack. and
right thing hail IN n ship at sea. ycs:
Where ye bound ?
~ Fer Mnrs"ille- an Mediterranean ports.'
saws the bark r Captain.
Then there was II rnmpus on tho Bugahoo
somcthn' like guess thcre'Il be on these hero
ships when thcV runs foul o. Mrllo, Down
r0Ho the scoW' 5 snis on the run. an CAVITY h0
ianr"l M an down the deck H-wringin' his
hands. while Mickey lie sits on the poop
,-howIn' Ike n log horn. The bark's folks sec
here WAS s"mcthin Lr an sends awaya b6at
70 investigate. When they. f"un' the mistake
'anty'd uAte they took him an Mickey of.
pu' they hnd II dryll Of a time tryin' to- make
lim ahanHOn tho HugHboo an the big freight
l-cOGling tohlm in II. John. Pat and Mickey
Nas taken to Aarsriiles on tho bark. and sent
back to IT. John by tho british Consul They
got tEe.e aturo Christmas"