Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-03

Billy Tooleys, either with or without 'cm
Icould have brung you to terms in another
way ii had wanted to, but l thought this
would be the pleasantest for all hands, but
want you now-all of you-distinctly for
to understand that can't afford to lose
three days agin on this passage, and if
arter this any of you chaps is mutinous
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 few days arterward, talkin about
it in the forecastle, said as how democracy
did we'll enough for shore use, but out on
blue water it weren't worth cent
Il might as well tell you the end of this
jint 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 navigator, were sailorman and
know'd what he were about, and be 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 of 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 back cargo
of onions potatoes and wimmin, on all of
which he done first rate, that one v'ya9s
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 I've 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
done well even If he didn't know naviga-
ton.
Il mind once comm home from Liverpool
in the ship Atlas, and we'd had 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
We'll, about six bells in the AFTERNOON
watch we made brig away to windward
with the British ensign fyin, 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 fyin jib furled and we braced
up sharp on wind for to beat up to him.
"'Now, says the old man to the mate
it's more than likely she is out of proyi-
sions, and we mustn't lose 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 I
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 a
couple of beef barrels clean and fills 'em up !
with fresh water. We gifts up couple Of |
barrels of beef and couple of pork and
about half dozen barrels of bread, and we
clear away both quarter boats and selects
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 runnin'
down afore the wind. and soon came down
across our starn, and the old man hailed:
Brig ahoy What can do for you firsts'
There was about 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
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 helm! Hard alec! Rise
tacks and sheets! Main to- bowline! Main
sail haull 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
Ind out his longitude from some one better
naturcd than our old man. "-Exchange