Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-10

| two hours and was deeply interested
in book as he sat in his rocking chair,
when the mate came down into the
cabin and said:
Jonathan, it's bankin' up in the
west and looks like power O. wind.
Better come on deck and take a
squint."
"But can't, Abner. There has been
putiny aboard the Nancy Jane, and 1
nin't captain any longer"
"But why did 1 mutiny?" protested
Abner. "If your wife hadn't talked
about my wife it would hev bin all
right. If she'll take back what she
said I'll stop the mutiny."
81 couldn't do it, Abner-couldn't t
never do it," replied Mrs. Spriggs. st
didn't say nuthin' agin Marian because
1 wanted to tattle or gossip. 1 jest
said it because 1 felt it my duty. And
didn't say there wasn't sum good
points about her as well as lots of bad
ones. Mariar is allus ready in case
of sickness, and if she hadn't but n
spoonful of flour in the house she'd
lend it to naybur."
"How much will you take back?"
"Wall, lemme see! I've heard that
she laid abed till ten o'clock in the
mornin', and that if she got her nose
in novel the house might burn up be-
fore she'd move. AS don't know fur
sure, I'll take that much back"
"Then the mutiny is at an end" said
the mate, and Capt. Spriggs went on
deck with him to take squint at the
weather.
For two days all went well. Then the
skipper's wife said to him:
Look here, Jonathan. 1 Jest hap
pened to think of sunthin'. Abner
Jackson's wife told Mrs. Lee that we
was so stingy that you let your grand
father go to the poorhouse. What are
we goin' to do about it?"
IF she told you anything like that
I'll mutiny agin Abner," replied the
captain, and he went on deck and put
the case to the mate.
"Mebbe she said it, but I dunno"
answered Abner.
"But you'd stick up fur her if she
dido"
"I'd hev to. of course. A husband
has got to stick to his wife, hain't he ?"
'Bnt how you goin' to do it? A cap
tain can't muntiy agin his own ship,
can he?"
"I guess he kin if he wants to. You
Jest consider that you are a prisoner,
and don't you dare give no more or
ders til; 1 say sol"
The 10 cot fo n i
a good rest, and the men of his watch
followed his example. The "mutiny"
began about nine o'clock in the morn
ing and lasted till noon, the brig mean
while jogging along over smooth sea
and under easy sail. Capt. Spriggs al
ways asked a blessing on every meal,
and on this occasion he added some
thing extra about brotherly love be-
tween all men.
"It amt brotherly love to be
p-wran%lin' and jawin'," said one of
the crew, as the skipper finished.
"Mebbe faint" he replied, with a
sigh, as he held his knife and fork
aloft. 81 kinder wish we was all jest
as we used to be-"
IF Nrncy Jane hadn't talked about
Mariar we wouldn't had any trubble,"
said the mate.
Land o. livin'. but what did I saw
about Mariar to raise a fuss?" ex-
claimed Nancy Jane, as she rolled her
eyes to the ceiling. "It's pity if one
cant open ones mouth TO breathe in
this world. I've lived alongside O.
Mariar Jackson fur goin on eight
years, and I'm free to say never had
better naybur. The time had lung
fever / know I should a died but fur
her nussin', She was up day and night
with me fur two weeks. Talk about
Mariar! Why, she's the last person on
airth I'd talk about!"
"But you said she borrowed things
and didn't pay back" protested Abner.
"And you said she stood out In the
road barefoot, and read novels, and
didn't comb her hair, and"
mercy on me, but hear him talk!"
interrupted the woman. "What If I
did say all that? Was that anything
agin her? And the reason said it was
because I'm threatened with jandice.
She's talked agin me, too, but it went
In one ear and outer the other. No
body ever means anything by sich talk.
It's jest a woman's way"
81 was goin' to mutiny agin to-mor-
rer," said the mate, "but if you didn't
mean nuthin' then I won't. ] amt no
hand to mutiny unless I'm driv to it.
Jonathan, you mutinied, too"
"Yaas" replied the captain. when
Nancy told me that Mariar was tellin'
around how stingy I was, felt that
I'd got to mutiny and seize the brig
agin ye. Mariar shouldn't hev said
that, Abner."
"Mebbe she didn't say it,"
"If she did say 1t, will ye make her
take it back?"
II will If Nancy will take back what
she said"
"Why, what a mani" exclaimed
Nancy. an the fust place, I didn't
say nuthip' tall, 'cept that Mariar was