The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-01-09
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was the captain suspicious? thought the
mate as he walked with a grave and
sober face to the athwartship rail to
watch the fellows washing down the
quarter deck.
small gloom overhung the spirits of
the breakfast table that morning. A
dead man was in the ship, and he was
to be buried.
At half past 10 they dispatched the
dead body over the side. Nobody knew
whose child he was. No man TO have
saved his own heart from breaking
could have given him his right name
The ladies were affected by the oere-
mony, and Mrs. Peacock dropped tear-
The hole the body made in the water
did not more swiftly fill than did the
memory of the mailman fade when old
Benson closed his book and passed into
the cuddy for his sextant.
1t was the afternoon of the third day
that the sparkling, fiery blue breeze
which had driven the ship, forging
through it till the lift of the soft cloud
of foam on either bow was often as high
as the catheads. 1t was on the after
noon that this sweet sailing wind fail
ed. 1t dropped on sudden, like the talk
of blast out of an electric storm. The
lofty sails came into the masts with am
eager report, as though the ship herself
snatched voice out of this shock of sur
prise. The run Of the seas fell into a
smooth swell, which rolled foamless-
like liquid glass, against the dark green
~ kn
that ON looking over the side you saw
the reflection blushing like some waver--
ing dart of sunset on the pure round Of
water. About two miles on the port.
beam lay q whaler. The Queen had
learned, with the help of flags and =
huge blackboard, roughly written ON
with chalk, that she was an American,
almost full up, almost three years out.
now bound round the Horn for the dis
tant port she would probably take six
months in fetching.
A clumsier old wagon never dipped
her gangways in a swell, and every
lift Of her square stern hid from the
sight Of the people who were looking at
her on board the Queen the moving and
shining heights of tall ship huH
down. The mercury in the captein'E
barometer had been steadily sinking.
since noon. The sky slowly thickened
all round, and no sound came from tha
! sea. The swell rolled in breathless heaps.
and the white birds vanished. 1t wass
the most uncomfortable time the pas
sengers had passed. The ladies could
not stand and the gentlemen staggered
though old Benson observed that most
of the men STROBE the Keeling deck With
very easy legs-legs of the sea, plant
elastic, swift in recovery and a walk
that is pleasanter to see than dance
Nobody could have supposed that thes
Queen would roll go abominably. She
sank to her covering boards, and "A nerv-
Gus ear might have found a direct
threat of storm in the cannonading of
canvas aloft. in the cracking of strained.
| rigging, in noises of breaking crockery,
heavy goo.ls fetching away. little
shrieks of women, loud calls from the
poop and answering curses from the
forecastle. They clewed up and furled
down to the topsails, in which they tied
two reefs. At one time when this was
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stood near the mizzenmast looking up
at the main. They swayed easily OH
their legs like a boy straddling the mid
die of swaying soesaw. The reef tao
kles were then being hauled out, the yard
was on the cap and few hands were
slapping their way up the weather rig
ging.
"Shall we lend them hand?" sai6
Mr.. Burn, turning to observe the cap
tain, who walked on the quarter.
"I'm game for one, said Mr.. john
ston.
Quiet said Trollope. Don't stare
! aloft. You never seem TO know when
you're watched. "
"I'm getting blistered sick of wait
ing" said Shannon.
Thunder, how that whaler rollsr|
cried Burn.
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