The Irish standard., 1897-11-20

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every line of his body that our new
hand was worth his salt.
Forty PAGES further we came to the
edge of the wood and saw the stockade
in front of us. We struck the inclos.
ure about the middle of the south side,
and, almost at the same time seven mu-
tineers-Job Anderson, the boatswain,
at their head, appeared in full cry at
the southwestern corner.
They paused, as if taken aback, and
before they could recover not only the
squire and /. but Hunter and Joyce
from the block-house had time to fire,
The four shots came In rather q scat
tering volley; but they did the busi-
ness; one of the enemy actually fell.
and the rest, without hesitation, turned
and plunged into the trees.
After reloading, we walked down tho
outside OF the palisade to see the fallen
enemy. He was stone dead-shot
through the heart.
We began to rejoice over our good
success, when just at that moment
pistol cracked in the bush, ball whis-
tied close past my ear and poor Tom Red
ruth stumbled and fell his full length on
the ground. Both the squire and re-
turned the shot; but as we had nothing
to aim at, it is probable we only
wasted powder. Then we reloaded, and
turned our attention to poor Tom.
The captain and Gray were already
examining him, md l saw with half an
eye that all was over.
believe the readiness Of our return
volley Ind scattered the mutineers once
more, for we were suffered without
further molestation to get the poor old
gamckeeper hoistcd over the stockade
and carried, grooming and bleeding,
into the log house.
Poor old fellow, he had not uttered
one word Of surprise, complaint, fear,
or even acquicscence, from the very
beginning OF our troubles till now,
when we had laid him down in the log
house to die. He had laid like Trojan
behind his mattress in the gallery; he
had followed every order silently, dog
gcdly and we'll; he was the Oldest Of
our party by score of years; and now,
sullcn, old, serviccable servant, it was
he TINT was to die.
The squire dropped down beside him
on his knees and kissed his hand, cry.
ing like II child.
"Bc going, doctor?" he asked.
"Tom. my man." snd !, you're go-
Ing home"
II wish had lick Mt them with the
gun first" he replied.
"1nm," said the squire, "suy you for
give me, won't your"
"Would that be respectful like, from
me to you. squire?' was the answer
"lIowsocvcr, SO be 1t, nmen!"
After little while OF silence, he said
he thought somebody might read
prayer. Its the custom, sir" he add.
ed, npologeticnlly. And not long after,
without another word. he passed away.
In the meantime the captain, whom
/ had observed to be wonderfully
swollen about the chest and pockets,
had turned out n great many various
stores-the British colors, Bible, a
coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log
book, and pounds of tobacco. He had
found n longish fir tree lying fcllcd and
cleared in the Enclosure. and, with tho
help of Hunter. he had set it up ut tho
corner of the log house where tho
trunks crossed and made an angle,
Then. climbing on the roof, he had
with his own hand bent and run up
the colors.
This seemed nightly to relieve him.
He recntercd the log house and SGT
al, a
ing else existed. But lie hud an eye
ON Toms passage for all that; and as
soon as all was over came forward with
another flag and rcvcrcntly spread II
on the body.
Don't you take on, sir" he said,
sinking the spuirc's hand. "All's well
with him; no fear for hand that's
been shot down in his duty to captain
and owner. 1t nlayn't be good divinity,
but it's u fact"
Then he pulled me aside.
"Dr. Livcsry," he said, "in how many
weeks do you and squire expect the
conSurt? 2"
l told him it was question, not of
weeks, but of months; that if we were
IlCb bu'h " wv tll'l vi -Alit5 uoC, biulluly
was to send to find US; but neither
sooner nor later. "You can calculate
for yourself" said.
'Why, yes" returned The captain,
scratching his head, "and making
large allowance, sir, for all the gifts Of
Providence, ! should say We were pref
ty close hauled"
'lIow do you meant" l asked.
"lts pity, sir, we lost the second
lond. That's what 1 mean," replied
the captain. "As for powder and shot,
we'll do. But the rations ure short,
very short-so short, DR.. Livcscy, that
we're perhaps as well without that exc
trn mouth"
And he pointed to the dead body un-
der the flag.
just then, with Il roa.r and u whistle,
round shot passed high above the
roof of the log house and pumped far
beyond us in the wood.
"Oho!" said the captain. "Blaze
away! You've little enough powder
already, my lads"
At the second trial the aim was bet
ter and the ball descended inside the
stockade, scattering cloud of sand.
but doing no further damage.
"Cnptain." said the squire, "tho
house is quite Invisible from the ship.
L., H., q I,