Evening star., 1902-03-15
OLD BR1sKET LET OUT A ROAR.

as I am! I might have been a different
man If I'd had the chanst. If I'd known,
for instance, woman like YOU"
She looks at him over the top Of her
book and says, soft as girl to her lover:
I'm England we hang 'em-in chains. Go
up on deck and blow your brains out like
a man while there's time
That minute seemed as II sOm-p'n broke
inside Baby Tommy.
1.-TWO men down here lively" he roars
up the companion way, and two pirates
was standing beside him before his voice
died away.
"since you don't like the cabin" he says
to her, I'm going to send you down in the
fo'c'sle 'mongst my gentlemanly crew.
Mebbe they'll set you up as an ornyment
on their mess table. Off with her!" he
barks at the men, and they drags her. out.
They took her down to the fo'csle and
put chain about her neck by Red
Boards orders and chained her in cor
ner, and every manjack OF the crew ex,
cept the man at the wheel come In and
set down and looked her over. She looks
back at 'em as II they was so many flies
crawling up the wall. Purity soon big
chap with bloody rag wrapped around
his head goes over and takes her around
the waist
NOW for kiss, my purity dear" he
says
Fright away outside the fo'c'sle door
they was sound like the breathing Of a
whale in q furry. At the same time half
OF the crew Jumps up and whacks bloody
rag over the head with their pistol butts.
After that he wasn't caring for kisses, and
they lugged him out and dropped him over
board Then a nigger gets UP thet was
the biggest man In the bunch.
permiskous when dey was bigger boys den
him around" Then he walks over to the
gal an says. Nov. chicken"
He didn't say no more, but he was a
powerful man and got three Of the crew
the four overheard. The girl put up her
hand and put back whisp Of hair. That
minute Baby Tommy hops in the door as
quiet as a bird He had a cutlass In one
hand and a pistol in the other, and they
was half dozen more pistols In his belt.
''Js they any of you laid finger on her."
Tommy whispered.
Two I've tried 1 IT, says one Of the s'a,,,na men
through his nose as he breathed.
"and they're dumped overheard"
"Unchain the lady," says Tommy.
They'd turned her loose before you could
think.
Madame" says Tommy. ''may have
the honor of escorting you to your cabin?"
"Tm afeared," she says to the crew
"If this here wild man IL allowed to run
loose any longer, he'll be getting into
mischief. Won't some OF you gentlemen
kindly relieve him Of them toys he's SO
fond of carrying around?"
The crew turned pale when she says
that and Baby Tommy snorted like
hog. Then they looked into her eyes and
a corner fighting for life.
"Save him-save him fer my pas yard
arm" the cap'n's daughter sings out.
laushing: and and when II. Baby, y, Tommy heard
thing they had him trussed up, lying at
her feet.
Now" says the GAL "I seen a iron cage
up forward. think Wen put him in that
and keep him fer pet"
Sure enough there was a big iron cage
they'd kept q bear In, ard into II Tommy
went, the gal still laughing. Then she had
'em bring 1t aft and lash 1t to a mast. and
three times day she brought Baby Tom
my 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. know the hulk,
though blame me n he amt changed her
black paint to white and gold"
Jest then the pirate ship changed her
course and put back toward the north. and
as she did. the cap'n got three surprises.
First flag went up to her fore-beak, and
instead Of the black ground and skull and
gold dove carrying a olive branch, and when
the pirate showed her heels instead Of the
Cory scuttles' on her stern they was
painted 1.-The Glad Tidings.'
The cap'n Was SO habberga0ted he
couldn't get gunto bear and the pirate
footing away every minute. Then. Just as
he was about to give a command to let her
have 1t. they come q sound from thet pirate
ship thet made him turn pale and grab q
back stay. Fer back over the water neated
a hymn tune. I don't now Jest what It
was, but 1t was something like "Yield Not
to Temptation" The 'cap'n stood there
minute listening to them pirtes showing.
Yield not to temptation, for weakness La
sin.
Each victory helps you some other to win:
Fight manfulIy onward, dark passions sub
Gae. ....x aas.ysnc ..n.n,,,,-