The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-08-07

things began to rip, an then l pulled
myself clear of what you might call
my sntwinin' conditions. What dye
think? When.I gets my bearin's right
ly | finds I'd been sewed up in old can
vas for a dead man, an then instead of
wcightin' my heels an skdin' me over
board they turned me adrift in an old
dory what I'd seen atop of the galley"
swell, 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 case as that"
continued the sitter, "but what does
a man think of when he comes to in hi,
burial robe, so to speak, and finds him
self drifting like chip in mid-ocean q
"Do we mean to ask what was think
in OFF"
eyes"
"I was a-thin4kin' how I'd knock that
shanghaiin' son of sea cook captain
galley west the next time 1 clapped
eyes on him, an I'd ha' done it, too, only
he saved himself by suicidin', as was
tellin' you.
"Hows'ever, to go on with the yarn,
was all adrift in a dory an when come
to take 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
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a windin' sheets the most distressful-
lest signal I knows on. An when that
ere was set turns in on the bottom OF
the dory for good sleep.
81 fancy it was nigh hard to two bells
O. the first watch that night when
wakes up an finds the wind had fell
an the dory was right under the bows
of Yankee clipper what was soal1in'
alongwith Storage way on an no more,
an the lookouts of her had their backs
ag'in the rails an there was voices
aboard as was indicati tin the presence o
ladies' what was enjoyin' of themselves;
likewise so was others.
with that turns to with an oar an
SOULS the dory to meet her an takes a
turn with the dory's painter around her
dolphin strikes an climbs up to the
knightheads, an what do we Think
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 a dory an finds himself climb
in ON to the one ship what's on the high
seas that he's lookin' for? I'll tell We.
anyhow. / was thinlxin' what lot of
fun I'd have with that ere second mate
if l found him a-shinin' of himself
around Nell
''But sonny. this ere is world O.
disappointmenta, as I've often heered
the dominic remark. l climb over the
forecastle deck without ever anybody
a-payin' any attention to me, so l
walks aft, like 7 was one o. the crew, an
keeps my eyes peeled for the water
butt, SEEM I'd been without drink
for an uncommon time. But jist as
clapped my eyes on. it what should l
hear but a gurglin' sort of chuckle
what I'd heered many time aforc, an
knowed it was Nell's. 1 didn't want no
drink right then, not much; but afore
I could locate that ere gurgle rightly,
because of the shadder O. the foresail,
I heered her a sayin':
az say, matte, you forgot to tell
whatever become o. that Yankee boy
Jack what l was tellin' of We was so
sweet on me he was for givin' me ali
of his advance from the Pineapple? 2 an
L. Il
mate rcplyin':
Him? Oh, poor devil, I was lool1in'
for him afore we hauled outen the
dock, an / see that ERE Crimp Dink
Sturgess, an he said the kid had got
roarin' drunk an tackled the hobbies
most ferocious, SO that one O. them in
defendin' O. the majesty o. the law
thumped him overheard, am they was
a-draggin' O. the dock at that ere min
ute for to find the corpse
Sonny, that ere lie was more'n l
could stand. I'd located 'em by that
time, an, steppin' out o. the shadder
where 1 could see them an they could
see me, / says, very quiet like an a
holdin' in o my temper till was ready
to bust, says:
"'Ye're u liar l says. 4 may ha'
been dead, but Pm resurrected an able
to knock seven bells outen any second
mate as ever chawed plug says.
"Hoorayi" said the sitter. "That
was lark, sure enough. don't see
why you should be growing about
hard luck on the Pineapple after such
luck as that"
Eye don't, hey? guess we don't know
much about natur' as it be to develop
of itself in the bosoms of female women,
am especially barmaids. Why, was
just a-finishin' of the polishin' O. that
ere face O. his'n when Nell somehow
took it all in that I wasn't no ghost
arter all, and with that she gathers q
belayin' pin from the pinrail an lays
it on my head like she was usin' q
an tells me she'll Farm
me not to interrupt the polite CONVEX
sation O. my hetters less they invited
me to first. UNI never see such
love-sick couple as Hhey was arter that
an when we'd reached port they was
married, an opened a boardin'-house
with money what she'd saved.
"As was sayin' to We, sonny, was
D trifie under the weather, an it's all
along O. SEEM them ere pineapples."-
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