The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-25

arms tight to my side with parcellin
to hold 'em an parcellin' over my face,
an me bobbin' around in somethin'-
1 couldn't make it ont, nohow. So
tarned to an stretched myself, an
things began to rip, an then l pulled
myself clear of what you might call
my entwinin' conditions. What dye
think? When | gets my bearin's right
ly | finds I'd been sewed up in old can
vas for n dead man, an then instead of
weightin' my heels an slidin' me over
board they turned me adrift in an old
dory what I'd seer atop of the galley"
well that was tough" said the sitter,
You were all alone and adrift in the
dory without any food or water or any
thing, eh?"
sonny, you've got it straight as a
string when it's stretched
81 never heard of such a ease as that,
continued the sitter, but what does
man think of when he comes to in his
burial robe, so to speak, and finds him
self drifting like a chip in mid-ocean?"
"Do ye mean to. ask what was think
in off"
Yes"
II was a-thinkin' how I'd knock that
shanghaiin' son of a sea cook captain
galley west the next time / clapped
eyes on him, an I'd ha' done it. too, only
he saved himself by suicidin', as l was
tellin' you.
''Hows'ever, to go on with the yarn,
was all adrift in dory an when come
To take a severe look around / found
they'd forgot to take the oars out afore
droppin' the dory over. an one o them
oars with that ere windin sheet I'd
had round me Sarved elegant for a
Signal of distress-true for it, sonny.
Il windin' sheets the most diStressful-
lest signal l knows on. An when that
ere was set turns in on the bottom of
the dory for good sleep.
Il fancy it was nigh hard to two bells
o. the first watch that night when 1
wakes up an finds the wind had fell
an the dory was right under the bows
of a Yankee clipper what was soakin'
alongwith steerage way on an no more,
an the lookouts of her had their backs
ag IN the rails an there was voices
aboard as was indicatin' the presence o
ladies' what was enjoyin' of themselves;
likewise so was others.
With that | turns to with an oar an
sculls the dory to meet her an takes
turn with the dory's painter around her
dolphin strikes an climbs up to the
knightheads, an what do We think-I
seen it was the bloomin' old Pineapple
what I'd shipped into an was shang-
haied out of.
Lord, sonny, why don't We ask me
what man thinks of when he's been
adrift in = dory an finds himself climb
in on to the one ship what's on the high
hot ha-s - alI
anyhow. I was thinllin' what a lot of
fun I'd have with that ere second mate
if | found him a-shinin' of himself
around Nell.
but sonny. this ere is n world q
disappointment.j. as I've often heered
the dominic remark. / climb over the
forecastIe deck without ever anybody
apayin' any attention To me, so |
walks aft. like.T was one o the crew an
keeps my eyes peeled for the water
butt, seein' I'd been without a drink
for an uncommon, time. But iist as
clapped my eyes on it what should |
near but gurglin' sort of a chucklc
what I'd heered many time afore. an
knowed it was NelIs. | didn't want no
drink right then, not much: hut aforc
/ could locate that 'ere gurgIe rightly.
because of the shadder o. the foresail
! heered her a sayin':
81 say, matte, you forgot to tell
whatever become o that Yankee boy
Jack what l was tellin' of We was so
sweet me he was for givin' me all
of his advance from the Pineapple? p an
then l heered that ere measly second
mate n rcplyin':
Him? oh, poor devil, I was loollin'
l.
dock, an | see that ere Crimp Dink
Sturgess, an he said the kid had got
rdarin' drunk an tackled the boobies
most ferocious. so that one o. them in
defendin' o the majesty O. the law
thumped him overheard, an they was
a-draggin' o. the docL at that ere min
ute for to find the corpse
sonny. that ere lie was more'n |
could stand. I'd located 'em by that
time, an, steppin' out O. the shadder
where | could see them an they could
see me. l says, very quiet like an
holdin' in q my temper till was ready
to bust, | says:
''Ye're a liar / says. L may ha'
been dead, but I'm resurrected an able
to knock seven bells outen any second
mate as ever chawed plug L says.
''Hoorayi" said the sitter That
was lark. sure enough. 1 don't see
why you should be growing about
hard luck on the Pineapple after such
luck as that
'Ge don't, hey? guess We don't know
much about natur' as ii be TO develop
of itself in the bosoms of female women.
an especially harmaids. Why, / was
just a-finishin' Of the polishin' o that
ere face o his'n when Nell somehow
took it all in that / wasn't no ghost
arter all, and with that she gathers a
belayin' pin from the pinrfil an lays
1T on my head like she was usin' n
bungstarter, an tells me she'll Tarn
me not to interrupt the polite conver-
sation o my betters less they invited
me to first. UNI never see such n
love-sick couple as they was arter that,
an when we'd reached port they was
married, an opened a boardin'-house
with money what she'd saved.
''As L was sayin' to We, sonny, I was
trifle under the weather, an it's all
along o. seein' them ere pineapples.''-
\. Y. Sun.
Tragedy Ayerted'