The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-11-29
DICK AND
CAPT. JACKH,
By A. T. QU|LLER COUGH
By A. 7. CUTLER COUCH
Copyright, 1898, by A. t. CUTLER Couch.l

ed the great figure and its loud WAYS.
He's a cap'n, anyhow" he told his
wife; "'twon't be all fellows to foot
ball while he's in command. And I've
seen him handle the Good Intent under
HOckin.'
Mrs. T~ackabird said nothing. She was
busy making sausagcs and setting down
4 slug Of butter for her mans use on
the voyage. Blu he knew she would be
Il disappointed woman if he didn't con
trive in some honest way to turn the
tables on the company and their new pet.
For days together he went about whist
Ing Tho troubles assail Y X Y X
and the very night before sailing, as
they sat quiet, n each side Of the
hearth. he made the old woman jump
by saying all Of a sudden. Goals o
fire."
What dee mean by that*' she asked.
"Nothin'. / was thinkin' to myself
and out it popped"
We'll, It's like a providence. For. till
you said that. I'd clean forgot the sitter
for our cuddy fire. Mustn't waste Gin
ders now that you're only 4 mate"
Being a woman, she couldn't fOrego
that little dig; but she got up there and
then gave the old boy a kiss.
She wouldn't walk down to he uiav.
~ itAt trA " Z H1ll OIL. Ie1ils>
certain (she said) to lose her temper at
the sight of Capt. Dick carrying on his
big as bulls beef. not to mention the
sneering shareholders and their wives.
So Capt. Jacka took his congees at his
own door and turned halfway down the
street and waved Il goodby with the Gin
der sitter. She used to say afterward
that this was providence. too.
The Unity ran straight across until she
made UShant light, and. after cruising
about for Il couple of days in moderate
weather lit being the first week in April
Capt. Dick laid her head east and began
to nose up channel. keeping an easy little
distance off the French coast. You sec.
the channel was full of our ships and
neutrals i'll those days, which made fat
work for the French privatecrs: but the
Trenches own vessels kept close over
on their coast, and even SO the best oun
boys could expect. . times out of 10 when
they'd crossed over, was to run against
Il chaSSe-marce lodging between Cher
bourg and st. Malo or Morlaix with
naval stores or munitions of war.
However, Capt. Dick had very good
luck. One morning, about three leagues
\. W. OF Roscoff. what should he see
but Il French privatecring craft of about
81 tons thew measurement. with an
English trader in tow-a London brig,
with Il cargo of all sorts, that had fallen
behind her convoy and been snapped up
III m~ld-channcl. Capt. Dick had the
weather gauge. as We'll as the legs of the
French chaSsc-maree. She was about a
league to leeward when the morning
lifted and he first Spied her. BY { o'clock
he was close, and by s had made himself
master of her and the prize, with the
loss of two men only and four wounded,
the Erenchman being short-handed, by
reason of the crew he'd put into the brig
to work her into MorlaX.
This was first-rate business. To begin
with. the brig (she was called the Ma
tina Edwards, OF L3nd0r). w.tIld yield 4
tidy little sum for salvage. The VIM
being fair for Plymouth. Capt. Dick sent
her into that port-her own captain and
crew working her, of course, and so
Frenchmen on board i'll irons. And at
Plymouth she arrived without any mis-
hap.
Then came the chaSSc-marcc. She was
called the Bean pheasant,* an old craft
C*Probably 'Bienfaisant.)
and powerful leaky; but she mounted 1G
guns, the same as the Unity, and ought