Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-12

I can phonetically pronounce it). Tho first day was almost bitterly cold, and one had to wrap up warmly and keep moving on deck in order to be at all comfortable.
 A young man with Q slight knowl- edge of music and the remnants of 0 quiet jag played upon the piano tho first 36 hours out and attracted our at- tention away from tho horrors of the extreme cold. Many who might other wise have remained in the social hall and refrained from the sea air and exer- else were obliged to go outside and ex- ercise on account of the agony expressed by the piano. cannot bear to witness the sufferings of a dumb brute like tho piano when its tail is twisted by heartless young man, and so went on deck, where l could not have my sym pathies worked upon.
 Later on, when the sea got corrugated on the back and bumped itself, the pi- anist turned away with 0 wan smile and left the instrument while he went below to think it over. When saw him again, he was sobbing gently in his stateroom, and his complexion was like that of nice green lawn.
 was somewhat late in securing my stateroom, so had to take one extremely aft. I was tho last ono to get quarters, and that is why they were so aft. No one was after than r
 l speak of this very fully here be- cause when we were afterward wrecked on the coral reef ill a southern clime the reader will sec that by running the prov of the ship high on the rocks the stern was sunken almost instantly and my room filled breast high with salt water.
 We had a pleasant and happy party of genial people-fifty and odd passengers all looking gayly forward to a vaca- ton under the palms and cocoanut trees and amid the pineries where the pine apple grows, while in New England the shivering farmer with an icicle on the end of his nose chews his tobacco thoughtfully and spits anon a yellowish hole in the snow.
 There were several meals when one could detect lots of vacant chairs, and quite Q number who had rooms on the steamer decided to take their meals out One man who had crossed the At lantic, he said, moro times than I had fingers and toes acted real naughty on the way out of the Narrows, but while in the smoking room bragging to me | about his ability as a mariner sudden ly asked to be excused and went away. When he came back, he looked so white that I thought he must have seen a specter, but engaged him in conversa- tion and held him by the coat collar while speaking to him confidentially, so that he could not escape, and all tho | time he acted liko ono who is trying to l learn to smoke.
 Once saw bride and groom start out for Europe by boat. Friends came in to bid them bon voyage and bring in a lot of candy and flowers. Forty five pounds of candy came in lots of two and five pounds each. Oh, they were popular, and their eyes were bright with keen delight. Their love for each other was something to gaze upon in wonder and admiration. He laid aside his new silk hat as we passed Governors is- land and put on a new big white Tam O'Shanter that looked like a massive yarn pie.
 They nestled toward each other fond ly as we passed Robins reef. and she gave him a playful swat across the nose with an orchid. He wore Q pair of highly unframed morocco slippers, and his trousers were rolled up so high that the officer of the boat had to speak to him about it.
 She was a sweet girl graduate who hal kl,n s,. ok, she said, Here. dear friends, our path ways fork. ." They are still engaged in forking as write
 But when the sad sea waves got upon their hinder feet and caused the good ship to Huff she looked responsibility at Bartholomew as who should say, "You got me into this trip, Bartholomew. " He, too, seemed estranged, and .lookinl nt her sickly hue said to himself to draw me from my unfettered bache lorhood?'
 But let us not digress.
 Those who were seasick were rathe
 in the majority with us, and so no on
 can claim any glory in that respect
 Mir. Taylor of Philadelphia stated on tn
 start that he might return by Tampa
 the ocean happened to be at all rough
 The second day, as he turned ghastl
 face away from tho rail, he seemed pret
 ty positive that ho would return b
 Tampa
 Also there were others.
 When we retired on Sunday night
 however, the sea was moderately calm
 and no ono was i'll. All the maj de me of tho trip was forgotten as we went ] bed knowing that we would land at ou Bahama port in the afternoon of Mor
 day.
 1 could not go to sleep readily.
 read and smoked and rolled about in m
 berth till o'clock and then slept ratf
 CT lightly. At 4;45 Q. m. there was
 scrape on the keel of the vessel like th
 low. hoarse growl of bulldog in tt basement. and awoke thinking WI
 at home and that burglar below, hunting for my cider barrel, had steI ped on Towzer.