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

\ seamyfaccd old salt with tiny
gold rings in his ears and bushy hair
hanging well down over the back of
his neck was sitting astride the string
piece of the Old Slip pier watching a
gang of men discharging n cargo of
pincapples from neat little three
masted schooner. 1t was n busy and.
on the whole, a cheerful scene. for the
men were not only hard at work hoist
ing and sorting the fruit, but they were
at frequent intervals actively engaged
IN heading off a half-dozen laughing
boys who were bent on getting good
pineapple, in place of the rejected ones
to which they were welcome. But the
old salt frowned and puffed vigorously
at his pipe while he watched the scene,
and SO attracted the attention of a
sitter of rumors, who happened along.
Il say, Jack, you seem to have some
thing unpleasant on your mind, said
the sitter, land that isn't right. How
would a change of tobacco do rs a med
icine. under the circumstance and
the sitter offered the old salt a cigar.
''Thanll'ee, sonny" said Jack, as the
crinkles deepened about his eyes and
the droop in the corners of his mouth
became somewhat less marked.
''Thank'ee. | was trifIe under the
weather, an it's all along o. seein' them
ere pineapples. Never heered of a
ship o that name, did ye, sonny?"
What, Pineapple? No"
That's what | thought. 1t was afore
your time by nigh hard to 20 year that
the gallusest packets atwixt Liverpool
Ia
which they all had names like Pine
apple an Lemon an Orange an
Banana Huh, In them days | was
Jest CROWN the first hair on my face
an thinEin' / was some pumpkins fer
looks, but the way.I got the starch took
outen me when shipped into the Pine
apple out o Liverpool so as L could he
in the same ship along with right
pretty barmaid as I'd made the ac
quaintancc of some time afore an what
had determined to emigrate in hopes
of betterin' of herself-huh, Say, SON
ny. when / think o. that ere wage it's
more'n | can say rightly whether on
not | died an have been a animated
corpse ever since or not. I.eastwise, if
l didn't die all hands an the crazy skip
per thought l did, an they buried me
this ere wonderment o mine had ended
then an thar"
1T was all along of Dink Sturgess,
Il 'hloomin' old crimp, gettin' the jOo
TO furnish a crew for the SNOWFALL
clipper, what was in the opposition
line. | didn't suspect anything when
re happens along an ne says: I say,
Jack. do We want Ship?' So | says to
him in fashionable language:
IAN if | did, do We fancy I'd let Il
bloody old thief like yerself draw the
advance for me?'
with that he laughed somethin' bois-
ferrous an give me Il wink an said there
was no pullin' the wool over the eyes
OF 4 Yankee. an then he says:
Jack he says. 'you'lI be after com
in to my house yit,' he says, so come
away an have drink
An there was me that young an
green I must needs go an have drinlc
with him. So had drop of Scotch
an then he says:
'''Jack, what ship have you signed
into?' An says: Into the Pineapple
in' he saws: What ever did We sign
into her for when the SNOWFALL ii make
the passage in 20 days an give W
a months pay for it?' An l says: It's
none of yer business
With that he laughs most uproari-
GUS an gives me another wink an says
tD the Earmaid: Another Scotch, my
dear an then he says to me, he says:
Jack, yer sorry dog. Don't 1
know that Nell Blyeston i sweet on y",
Jack? An don't l know that she's to
sail in the Pineapple, ,Iaci,? An fancy
JacI, is sweet ON Nell an is layin' his
course for to bring to alongside O Nell
when it's his watch below an she's
a-sittin' on the combin' of the maiE
hatch.
With that had to acknowledge that
was sweet on Nell. for | was tickled
TO hear that she was sweet on me,
which I'd bad my doubts about. because
OF the prime attentions the second mate
% the Pineapple was a payin' of her
I was n calculatin' that was as likely
lad as there was in the trade, but |
llnowed that women was powerful took
with rank and there the second mate
had the start of me. | reckon that
thief of crimp llnowed about the sec
ond mate, too. for he gives me another
wink and he SAYS: let's have another
to the decentralization of all rivals il"
saws an when we'd had il we had one
to the health of the lass an another
to her brown eyes an another to some
thin | cant remember an another an
that's all | know till L found myself
afioat on that ere Snow ball instead of
the Pineapple, an my mates was Il
sayin' we'd got away n tide ahead of
the opposition. but somethin' had to be
wrong on board because the skipper
had ordered grog served twice day
with dried apple duff an soft bread for
every dinner.
Il say, sonny, thai was gallus grub
an the ruination of all hands-lenst-
wise of me, for | sized him up as n
s:ofty when | should ha' known he was
crazy, an 50 | lay for to make trouble
sudden Why, he was that crazy he
hung himself in his cabin before the end
Of the wage: but that's neither here
Der there-wait till tell We what he did
To me.
You see, sonny, L lowed I'd been
shanghaied out o my liberty an the
pursuit o happiness, which was allus
worth fghtin' for, an I done ii.
guess YOU might say there was mis-
upderstandin' on board the SNOWFALL
and IL was me that was adrIft- The
mate he begin to order me around in
a way that hurt my feelin's, and seem
| was n misunderstanding of the sitns-
1ion T entered into a conversation with