The Saint Paul globe., 1900-11-11
VOYAGE OF PHEBE ANN
RETIRED SKIPPER OF MAINE WHO
SAILED FROM BANGOR TO
HTNGHAM
He SPINS A COASTIEG YARN
Tells OF Capt. Jabex Perkins, Who
Laid Wager a. ParsOn
Could Not De-
eide.


Bangor News.
They were talking about long passages,
with parueu.AF reference to the where
G4bouts of Capt. Jabez Perkins. who had
been three weeks on the way from Ban
goT to Boston in the schooner Phebc
Ann, whereas he should have made the
trip inside of week with the fair chance
he had. The towboat men, the sailnaker
and two StCHedOreS. who composed the
jury on this occasion. had unanimously
agreed That Capt. Jabez had used uu
enough time to get to Gibraltar and that
he was dead slow, when in came a. red.
whiskcret coaster captain and squa.
hinsen down on a bale of oakum. The
skipper filled his pire ref1ectively as he
caught the drift of the talk, and then
he had his say concerning Capt Jabez
Perkins. Said he:
Hes a safe man, but he's cussed long
winded' said the Oldest retired coaster
who frequents Casstdys store referring
to Capt Jabez Perkins, whose strange
disappearance from the haunts of men
ana tie eyes of ship reporters has been
the subject Of debate by several of the
bes~ gucssers in port ''Yessir. he's
wose'n a G0go sometimes takin' month
o Sundays to sit nowhars This amt
the fCSt time he's gone and lost hisself
either; its Jest such a trip as he made
two years ago IT, the Glory Ann Bate
pan, I'm here to bingham
CARRIED A CARGO OF. SHINGLES
HAD a middlm' load o short stuff.
mostly shingles, and a good chance out.
so he'd ought to get up there and back
an ten days at the outside, but he was
gone and gone without ever word f'm
him, till near Thanksgivin', and the Bos-
ton papers said the Glory Ann Bateman
was 'missin'. So she was, but finally. at
long ana at last she turned up and him
as cool and satisfied as if he'd made a
flying trip and beat the whole fleet.
Where WIS he? Well. [ got some wind
of his doings next summer after that
when I went down the bay mack rellin'
Never heard the like of it; pears he
clean forgot where he was bound or what
for.
Well first ! heard was he stopped
down off Crow Cove-this was in Septen1-
Der, just fore eIection-to get a mess Of
unkers, and while he was there he got
into an argument over politics with
tssiier that owned a weir They set an
talked an talked an chewed 1t over
till they got SO deep into it that the argy-
ment sloped over into religion, an that
led TO contradictions on a. certain pint.
They bet each ether $40 on this, an the
only way to settle it was to leave it out
to minister, an there wasn't no min
lister for ten miles; but they were bound
to settle it then and there, and so they
hired team ana druY to tother end of
the island whore the parson lived.
4 WOMAN COULD NOT DECIDE BET.
''ParsOn wasn't to home an his wife,
though she said she knOwed Scriptur
pretty middln' well, lowed that so was
TOO much Of a bet for her to decide, and
she said they'd have to wait till the
gdfson got home, an he was off to
Swans Island to hitch a couple Likes
not he wouldn't get back for two or three
days, or praps, if it shut in thick for a
week
-."Well, SIR. stead. O. Iettin' it go for
the time bein', them critters Jest camped
down there an fished and smoked an
sWapped lies for four solid days till the
parson come back, an then they was as
wise as they was in the beginnin' The
pint to be settled was what kind O. fish
they used To kctch in the sea o GaIliIee.
QS some o them waters you read about in
the Bible. Cap'n JabeZ he said they was
coolest the same kind o. cod as we got
Oft Matinicus, only, praps, q little small
er, while the weir feller ne said the sea
of Galliee was fresh water. an whoever
heard of cod bein' caught in fresh water?
The minister said he'd be blessed if he
knew what kind the fish was-there want
nothin' bout them in any books he'd ever
read, and it didn't make no difference,
neither-they was jest fish e.s
''WeI, Cap'n Jabez said 1T made $40 DIFF
ference. and that he'd like for once to
meet parson who could answer a
straight question on p'ints O. the Bible