Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-04-09
A sURRY TEMPERANCE TALE.
Temperance Lecturer Got Good
Story He tonidn't Use.

horrible examples having been recited
many times before. So he was greatly
interested when some one asked him why
he didn't go and see Capt. Solomon
Treworgy, down at Surry, and learn how
the captain got rich by not drinking
pint OF whiskey presented to him by
Boston shipbroker some years ago.
"By not drinkir' that pint" said the
informant, ppm told the cap'n jest made
his everlsstin' fortin. He's rich as mud
now owns his own house'n got morgid-
ges ON two or three others, an owns
pieces of two three-masters, N I'd know
what more"
The lecturer thanked the man for this
good tip, and said that when he spoke at
Surry he would get the captains story;
and be did. 1t was good story, but pro-
baby will not be used by the lecturer on
the cold water circuit.
"Yes," said Capt. Solomon Treworgy.
as be slid down from the top of a sugar
barrel In Chstto's store to meet the
lecturer, "I'm him-Cap'n Treworgy,
though don't go to sea any more, and so
Amt SO much a csp'n's used to be.
Pint o. whiskey? Oh, yes; s'pose
that story's true enough. II I'd drunk
the stuff p'raps l mightn't have any
prop'ty now, IN befuggin' lumber out OF
Bangor for one fifty a thoussn'. 1t was
this way;
"Thanksgivin' eve, 'ss. / settled up my
freight In Boston an was comm out that
night on the last trip home. 1t was cold,
with whistiin' NORTHEASTERN blowin', and
Mr. Searles, that's the broker, he give
that pint o. whiskey, saying 1t would be
handy to warm up on, that kind o.
weather. Good stuff, he said.
~ put II In my pocket and went aboard,
thinking no more about it till we got to
Boothbsy, where we had to put in to
dodge northeast snowstorm, the wind
comm round sharp after we left Boston.
"Well, sir, while we was layin' in
Boothbay, and that was a good week,
waitin' for chance to get BASTARD, some
felIers come aboard of US from anot her
vessel, Nova Scotia woodboat that was
Iayin' astern, and wanted to know IL we'd
anything to drink. They'd been on a
spree in Boston, end was all burnt out.
Couldn't get a thing in Boothbay, and
was willin' to give their shirts for Que
good drink.
"a Here says 1 to myself, here's a
chance to make trade So l says:
How much are you fellers ready to give
up for pint o. the best Ticker that ever
come out o. Boston?'
'"'Five dollars, says one.
"It's your Ticker, says /, and l handed
II out to them-the pint l got from Mr..
Sesries.
II got the s., all in American quarters
and halves, and we set there talkin'
while they drank the pint dry. Finally
one OF the Bluenoses, he says:
"Got any csrds?"
Certain says /; and pretty soon we
was playing pitch.
"After a while one OF 'em says: Let's
make IL interestin' and have a little poker
game, five-eent limit.
"All right says /, and We went at it.
ITO cut long story short, when those
Bluenoses went back to their woodboat
had $50 of their money, not countin' in
the five for the whiskey, and they had
just enough whiskey ia 'em to be aggra-
Vatin'.
wind come around after while and
We got home to Surry. Coin up from
the wharf met old lilly Dunbar, sort OF
a jack Of i-trades, who makes spars
summers and goes trappin' winters, and
he had a big bundle OF fox skins.
lyon take 'em 10 Boston and sell 'em
for ms and I'll give you c'mmission,'
says he to me. Or says he, 'I'li sell you
the LOT right here for $50.
''Give you So says l, and take my
chances
Well says Tilly. comm on Christ
mas and / want the money, SO We'll split
the difference, and you take 'em.
II got twenty red pelts that WAS worth,
say SI50 apiece, and that would have lei
me out all right, but there was few
squirrels and rats, and, down at the
bottom of the PACK, as pretty silver grey
fox skin as ever | see. l sold that one
skin to a hfgh-toned Boston fur dealer
for 600, thr0wln' in the rest for $50
That was q good spec, but nothing to
what come of 1t.
"FeIIer down home wanted me TO GO
up to Boston early in the spring and get
a load OF -four for him, me to pay for II
here and him to pay me when | put IL
on the " hart at home. I bought the
-four and started, but of all cussed times
you ever heard OF l had 1t tryin' to get
east again.
I'ii oct / bad that anchor of mine
down in every hole and corner between
Gloucester and Rockiand, dodgin' In snd
out till we was sick and tired of making
sail and takin' II in, and paying out chain
and heayin' 1t up again. Never ssw
the like of 1t.
"Weli, twenty-seven days after VT
come out of Boston we managed to gel
home, and then l found that the felier
I'd bought the -four for had failed, sno
couldn't take IL. Just as well for me,
though, for while we'd been monkeyin'
around with that -four in the "Mas
Queen" the price had gone up quarter
a barrel, and l sold out quick at the
advance.
''That, with the natural profit and the
freight, cleared me about S40o, and i
hanur mnrefn got the mOuey lore Wuru