The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-16

toys he's so fond of carrying around p"
The crew turned pale when she says
that, and Baby Tommy snorted like a
hog. Then they looked into her eyes
and the next minute Baby Tommy was
UP in corner fighting fer life.
Save him-save him fer my pas
yardarm," the Cap'n's daughter sings
out, laughing, and when Baby Tommy
heard her voice, both his arms fell,
and the next thing they had him
trussed up, lying at her feet
Nov" says the gal, Il seen a iron
cage up forward. think Wen put him
in that and keep him for pet
Sure enough there was a big iron
cage they'd kept a bear in, and into
it Tommy went, the gal still laughing.
Then she had 'em bring it aft and lash
it to a mast and three times day
she brought Baby Tommy his meals
A week later who should come sailing
up the horizon but Cap'n Wygate. The
minute he sighted the other ship he
says:
That's the vessel the last of them
bloody ruffians escaped me in. 1 know
| the hulk, though blame me if he ain t
changed her black paint to white and
| gold"
Just then the pirate ship changed her
course and put back toward the north,
and as she did, the Cap'n got three sur
prises. First a flag went up to her
| fore-peak and in stead of the black
ground and skull and bones there was
a white ground with a gold dove car
| rying q olive branch, and when the
| pirate showed her heels instead of the
Cory Scuttles'' on her stern they was
| painted THE Glad Tidings."
The Cap'n was so fiabbergasted he
couldn't get a gun to bear, and the
pirate footing away every minute.
| Then just as he was about to give a
| command to let her have it, they come
| a sound from thet pirate ship tibet made
him turn pale and grab a back stay.
Fer back over the water fioated a
| hymn tune. l don't know jest what it
was, but it was something like yield
Not to Temptation" The Cap'n stood
there a minute listening to them pi-
| rates allowing
Yield not to temptation, for weakness
is sin,
Each victory helps you some other to
win;
Fight manfully onward, dark passion
subdue.
Then he staggered down the COM
panionway without firing a gun. When
he come on deck again, dazed looking
and smelling of liquor, The Glad It'd
ings" was out of range, but he stuck
to her heels as she made fer James,
town, spending his days trying to make
out through his glass the queer things
that was happening on the pirate
decks.
They was queer. The first thing the
Capn's daughter did after they'd put
Baby Tommy in the cage was to have
em throw the big guns overheard be-
cause she said they spoiled the ventila-
ton of the gun deck. Then she had an
awning raised over Baby Tommy S
cage and a bit of deck alongside of It,
and a rug put down; and every fine
afternoon she'd set outside the cage
reading to Tommy out of a little book
while the crew went about their work
singing the hymns she taught 'em.
Baby Tommy ranged around his cage
like a hyena and chewed the iron bars.
| Tommy would a-laughed at yardarms
or slow fire, but the shame of that cool,
calm, beautiful, smiling, kidnapped
young lady setting there on his own
deck reading poetry and good advice
to him out of a little book was more
| than he could stand.
Take me out" he'd beg her, "and
hang me in cnans like you said. I'm
a turrible bad man and I've always
been"
Not at all, you poor creature she'd
say. keeping her finger between the
| leaves OF the book. i III gong u
take you home, where you can turn
over a new leaf"
Then she'd read him about not let
ting your angry passions rise, and end
up with a pome about iron bars not
being no cage when you've got in
nercent, quiet mind.
Il can't turn over no new leaf, he'd
holler I've killed old men and wo-
men and babies, and I've got neck
lace three fathoms long made of rings
/ snatched from dying young ladies.
Take me out quickly and have EN-
chop me up in small pieces and feed
me to the sharks, but don't let no
body else see me in this here cage"
No" she says, you amt killed no
women and children. and it was your
pa that had that shocking necklace.
Take a nap and you'll feel better"
You despise me-" he says, banging
his head against the bars which the
gal had had padded before she put him
4 in. you despise me and make a ca
nary of me in a cage. And I'm man,
God knows! I'm a man! I'm man!
I'm mani"
No" she says, AZ don't despise you.
AS the poet says. %, how kin beauty
conquer the most strong! That is to
say. beauty of conduck. The crew will
now sing, Pull for the Shore, Sailor,
to quiet your unforchinit cap'n."
And so with Tommy a-howling to
be took out and killed before some
body seen him cooped By a little pink
/ and white gal, and with the crew