The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1897-10-16

under his arm. and at once broke out
in the air and words knew so we'll:
Fifteen men on the dead mans chest"
And then the whole crew bore Choir
"Yo-ho-ho, and u bottle Of rum!"
And at the third "ho!" drove the bars
before them with will.
Even at that exciting moment 1t car
ried me back to the old Admiral Ben
bow in second; and | seemed to hear
the voice of the captain piping i'll tho
chorus. But soon the anchor was short
up; soon it was hanging dripping at
the bows; soon the sails began to draw,
aud the land and shipping to fit by on
either side; and before could lie down
to snatch an hour of slumbcr the Ills
PAMELA" had begun her voyage to tho
Isle of Treasure.
am not going to relate the voy-
nge in detail. 1t was fairly prosperous.
The ship proved to be good ship, the
crew were capable scalncn, and the
captain thoroughly understood his
business. But before we came tho
length of Treasure Island. two or three
things had happened which require to
be known.
MIR. Arrow, first of all. turned out
even worse than the captain had feared.
He had no command among the men,
aud people did what they pleased with
him. But that was by no means tho
worst of it; for after day or two ut
sea he began TO appear on deck with
hazy eye. red checks suffering tongue,
and other marks of drunkenness. Time
after time lie was ordered below in dis
grace. Sometimes he fell and cut him-
self; sometimes he lay all day long
in his little bunk ut one side of tho
companions; sometimes for n day or
two he would be almost sober and at
tend to his work at least passably.
In the meantime, we could never
make out where he got the drink. That
was the ships mystery. Watch him as
we pleased, we could do nothing to solve
it.; and when we asked him to his face,
he would only laugh, if he were drunk,
and If lie were sober, deny solcmnly
that he ever tasted anything but
water.
lie was not only useless as an officer,
and II bad influence amongst the men,
but it was plain that at this rate he
must soon kill himself outright; so
nobody WAS much surprised, nor very
sorry, when one dark night, with
head sea, he disappeared entirely and
was seen no more.
'Overbonrd!" said the captain. "Well,
gentlemen, that saves the trouble OF
putting him in irons"
But there we were, without II mate,
and it was necessary, of course, to nd
vance one of the men. The boatswnin,
Job Anderson, was the likeliest 1lMn
aboard, and, though he kept his old
title, he served In II way nsmntc. Mr..
Trelawney had followed the sen, aud
his knowledge made him very useful,
for he often took II wutch himself in
easy weather. And the cockswain, Is.
rael Hands. was II careful, willy, old. ex-
perienced seaman, who could be trusted
ut n pinch with almost anything.
lie was IL great confldant of Long
John Silver, and so the mention of his
name leads me OH TO speak of our ships
cook, Barbecue. as the men called him.
Aboard ship he Carried his crutch by
a lanyard round his neck, to have both
hands us free us possible. 1t was some
thing to see linn wedge the foot of the
crutch against IL bulkhead, and, proppcd
against it, yielding to every movement
of tire ship, get on witllhis cooking like
some one safe ashore. Still more
strange was it to see him in the heaviest
of weather cross the deck. lie had
line or two rugged up to help lnim across
the widest Spaces-I.ong Johns ear
rings, they were called; and he would
hand himself from one place to another,
now using the crutcl, now trailing it.
alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as
another man could walk. Yet some OF
the men who had s;ilcdwith him before
expressed their pity to see him SO re-
duced.
Hes no common man, Barbecue"
said the cockswain to me. "lIe hnd
good schooling in his young days, and
cam speak like book when so minded;
and brnve-lion's nothing alongside OF
Long joint see him grapple four and
knock their heads togcther-him UNI
armed"
All Of the crew respected and even
obcycd him. lie lmd II way of tulking
TO each and doing everybody some par
icular service. To me he was UNI
wcnricd1y kind, and always glad to see
ane in the gllley. which he kept as clean
as new pin; the dishes hanging up
FURNISHED and his parrot in cage In
the corner.
Come away, Hawkins" he would
say; "comc and have II yarn with John.
Nobody more welcome than yourself, my
son. Sit you down and hear the news.
Here's Cap'n Flint calls my parrot
Cap'n Flint, after the famous buc-
caneer-hcre's Cap'n Flint predicting
success to our wage. Wasn't you,
cap'n?"
And the parrot would say, with great
rapidhy: "Pieces of eight! pieces Of
eight! pieces Of eight" till you won
dercd that it was not out of breath, or
till John threw his handkerchief over
the cage.
''Now, that bird" no would say, 'is,
maybe. 200 years old, Hawkins
they 1.-Two forever mostly; and il any
body's seen more wickedness, it must
be the devil himself. She's sailed with
England-the great Capt. England,
the pirate. She's been Mt MaClap asrar