The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-11-17
VOYAGE o. PHEB[ ANN
RETIRED SKIPPER OF MAINE WHO
SAILED FROM BANGOR TO
Ia
HE SPINS A COAsTING YARN
Tells of Capt. Jabez Perkins, Who
Laid a Wager q PnrsOn
Could Not De-
eide.


Ann, whereas he should have made the
trip inside of a week with the fair chance
he had. The towboat men, the saimaker,
and two stevedOres, who composed the
jury ON this occasion, had unanimously
agreed that Capt. Jabe1 had used up
enough tfune ITO get to Gibraltar and that
he was dead slow, when in came rcd
whlskereG coaster captain and squa:
himself down on a bale of oakum. The
skipper filled his pipe rei1ectively as he
caught the drift OF the talk and then
; he had his say concerning Capt. Jabez
Perkins. Said he:
Tiles a safe man, but he's cussed long.
winded," said the oldest retired coaster
who frequents Cass1dy's store, referring
to Capt. Jabez Perkns, whose strange
disappearance from the haunts of men
and the eyes of ship reporters has been
the subject or debate by several of the
best Suessers in port. "YeSsir, he's
wose'n dago sometimes tal1in' a montl.
o Sundays to git nowhars. This amt
the fCst time he's gone and lost llisseIf.
either; it's jest such a trip as he made
two years ago ir the Glory Ann Bate
man, FIN here to bingham.
CARRIED A CARGO OF SHINGLES.
Had a middlin' load e. snort stuff.
mostly shingles, and a good chance out
SO he'd ought to get up there and back
in ten days at the outside; but he was
gone and gone, without ever a word FIN
him, till near Thanksgivin', and the Bos-
ton papers said the Glory Ann Bateman
was mfssin'. So she was, but finally. at
long and at last, she turned up, and him
as cool and satisfied rs If he'd made "a
flying trip and beat the whole fleet.
Where WIS he? Well, l got some wind
of his 'doings next summer after that
Nyh no how IL vail ir,'
Never heard the like OF it; pears he
for.
Well first T heard was he stopped
down off Grow Cove-this was in Septen2-
Der, just fore electon-to get a mess of
thinkers, and while he was there lie got
into an argument over politics with a
Teller that owned a weir. They set arr
talked an talked an chewed it over,
till they got SO deep into it-that the argy-
ment stopped over into religion, an that
led to contradictions on a. certain pint.
They bet each other $40 on this, an the
only way to settle it was to leave it out
to a 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 a team and druv to tother end OF
the island where the parson lived.
WOMAN COULD NOT DECIDE BET.
"Parson wasn't to home, an his wife,
though she said she knoowed scriptur
too much of a bet for her to decide, and
she SAID they'd have to wait till the
parson got home, an he was off to
Swans Island to hitch couple. Like
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. lettin' it go for
the time bein', them critters Jest camped
down there fiShad rod ~
snapped lies for four solid days till the
parson come back, an. then they was as
pint to be settled was what kind O. fish
they used to katch in the sea O Gallilee,
or some O. them tiers you read about in
the Bible. Cap'n Jabez he said they was
coolest the same kind O. cod as we got
off Ma tinicus, only, .p'raps, little small
er, while the weir Teller ne said the Sea
of Gallilee was fresh water. an whoever
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 1t didn't. make no difference,
neither-they was jest fish.
well, Cap'n Jabez said it 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
without any backin' an film, but that he
never had, and didn't expect to on Long
Island, anyway. =
CONVERTED TO METHODIST FAITH.
well, sir. as theytold it to- me down
there, the parson, stead of gettln mad
at Cap'n Jabez Jest talked to him good
Teller to the house where they were
ssoin' to hold sort Of revival. Cussed If
Jabez didn't. get so interested ne stald
there a week after that, and when he
come away he was bowling Methodist,
and him a. Baptist o the first water
when he landed. All bets on the fish of
the sea of Gallilee were declared off all
made the parson present of six punches
of shingles right off the top of the deck
load to fix the roof of his barn. He SAID
there was more. shingles where them
come from, and it was cheap religion at
that shingles of that kind being then
only 1925 thousand.
IN such foolery as this Cap'n Jabez
had then wasted ,'leven days, but that
didn't count much with him. He owned
the old hooker and lowed he'd go and
come in her when he pleased; After he
up his mind that he'd oughter 90 home
to vote, an it was bout ship an up the
eastern bay to Capn Rozherway (Rozier).
where he lived. There wasn't much of
anything up that lection, but he said it
was every mans business to vote, an if
the consignees couldn't wait in peace an
patience for that little load of shingles
he had in the Glory Ann Bateman, they
could walt. Uneasy and be damned. 's,..
HELD ON TO HIS MUDHOOK."
u
wait for the return. and by the time the
bangor papers had got it all figured up
ana the papers had reached as far as
cape Rozherwav five days more had gone
into eternity Then the wind came ahead
aDd there was nothing to do but stay
there to an anchor or made dead beat
agin It. Not bein' fond of work Capt
Jabez held on to his mudhcok and took
life easy, goin' to huskins and such like.
We'll, sir, it was four days more be-
fore the weather come right again, and
ihen hayin' snapped three kits of mack
rel for two bushels Of potatoes and lot
OF onions and other truck. Cap'n Jabez
got under way, sayfn he'd land those
blasted shingles in bingham inside of TWO
Gays, and then he'd have some peace to
go somewhere and do somethin'. n
ell. he tucked sail onto the old sled
Gnd she went down past Owls Head
1iyln,.s It looked as IL he really would
make straight streak for bingham this
time, but off Georges Islands he fell In
with fleet of small boats and hove to to
have some CAB y!ith tie1ss. They all said
8 how n1ack're was just crowd.n' the
water IN them parts, and a man could
make more money catching Ell than he
q :ould d1ggin gold. Cap'n Iabez used To
Z be mack relman, you know, and this
set him right on edge. He clean forgot
about the shingles bound for HinghaTn
Z hnd got out all his mack'rel gear and set
all hands at it. The fish took hold pref
" well, and 1T looked like a good thing
q Detter'n luggin shingles-wfen all Of b a,
sudden It shut in thicker'n hasy puddin'