The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-08
HOW POLL SEQ.

uON IO1f& ~ NOLD'
"Hii r. Skti An right Now
we aha Ne louslH said the gray par
u say that the irrepressible
IkAn that brings the daily milk
Ae tutor of my parrot in the latest
Np-to-date slang of the day.
: am an old sea-captain-at least, not
old, perhaps the word slipped out un-
pwares. | am the right side of so, any
how; but being in receipt of a pension
hnd a small private income to boot,
have cast anchor in my present abode in
the expectation of weathering many
winters storm yet.
Being without a known relation in
the world, willingly fell in with the
suggestion that ! should pick up my
moorings alongside my old friend and
mess mate, Capt. Travers, late K. NJ,
who, having left one of his legs on the
west coast of Africa while capturing a
SLAYER, was pensioned off at an even
earlier age than myself, and now lived
with his sister a most comfortable
party, fat fair and 40 or thereabouts-
In the adjoining house to mine in the
neighborhood of London. We had al
ways got on well toge Their, our tastes
and dispositions were similar, and we
had often met during our naval careers.
His sister had not previously been ac-
quainted with, but, being in many re-
spects like her brother, we were soon
firm friends.
Capt. Travers and myself had each a
favorite parrot-his the common Afri.
can gray, with a red-tipped tail, and
mine the purer variety, without trace
of color, but otherwise similar.
l had not long settled down in my
new quarters, and got everything ship
shape, or what seemed so to me-a very
Important difference, as l know to-day
when, almost unconsciously at first,
began to feel what lonely old bache-
Tor was, and what a set-off to all my
other belongings the figure of Miss
Rachel Travers would be by my fire.
side. But just here the curse of my
life began to make itself felt. Inherent
Ehyness in the presence of the opposite
sex has logged my footsteps from my
earliest recollections. Give me a gale
of wind in the Bay of Biscay, tornado
in the tropics, or 20 hours duty on deck,
wet through TO the skin, and Capt. Man
ley, late of the p. and o. service,
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J ~ tf;qr ,-r...i awe tegn my bad
, 4rj.srlans lin. rcrouc afternoon saw
~ ulllay C..elly walking up the low
fence t1iat divided nv back garden from
Cant. Traye-y
The opportunity was too good to be
l. t. and quietly getting nv air-gun.
took STEADY aim and fired. There was
no mistake tins time, and without a
sound moor puss dropped on to my
rs dead as the proverbia
door nail.
Nv exltltation. however. was of short !
duration, for to nv horror and dis.
NAV. on proceeding to pick I'D his un-
carcass and give y decent
burial. | saw that my shot had passed
,i0bt through the unluckv animal and
,illed INV reigbbor's parrot, which had
been nut ont to sun itself in little
that stood at the bottom
# the Garden.
was s4apoered at my position; |
now the norrot was a supreme favorite
iii Miss Travers. and how could ever
.xnIaip INV carelessness | could not
,oaoine. Suddenly way out of my
lilemma presented itself to my mind,
md | fastened to put it into execution.