Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-01-30
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long exhausted. and sill my father
never plueed MP the heart to insist on
having more. Ii lie ever mentioned IT,,
the captain blew through his nose so
loudly that YOU might say he roared.
and stared my poor father out of the
room. l have seen him wrinsing his
hands after such Il rebuff. and l am
sure the annoyance and the terror ne
lived in must have greatly fastened his
early and unhappy death.
All the time he lived with us the cap
tain made no change whatever in his
press hut to buy some stockings from
a hawlleT. One of the cocks of his hat
having fallen down he let it hang from
that day forth, though it was a great
annoyance when it blew. l remember
the appearance of his coat, which he
patched himself upstairs in his ROOM
and which. before the end. was moth
ing but patches. He never wrote or re-
ceived letter. and he never spoke With
any but the neighbors and with these.
for the most part only when drunk on
rum. The great sca-chest hone of us
had ever seen open.
He was only once crossed. and that
WAS toward the end, when my poor
father Was far gone in a decline that
tocil him Oft. Dr.. I.iNes,ny came late
ons Afternoon To sec the patient. took
q bit of dinner from my mother, and
went into he parlo, TO smoke pipe
until his horse should come down from
the hamlet for we had no stabling at
the old Benhow. ] followed him In.
and remember observing the con-
trast the neat. bright doctor, With his
powder as white as Snow, and his
bright, black eyes and pleasant man
ncrs. made With the coltish country
folk and above all, With that nlthy,
heavy. hlearcd scarecrow of q pirate of
ours, sitting far gone in rum, with his
arms on the table. Suddenly he-the
captain that is-rhegan to pipe up his
eternal song:
''iiftecn men on the dead mans chest
Yo-hc-ho, and bottle of rum,
Drink and the dsvil had done for the
So-ho-ho, and bottle OF rum!'
AT first | had supposed THE dead
mans chest TO be that identical big
box of his up stairs in the front room.
and the thought had been mingled in
my nightmares With that OF the one
LEGGED scafaring man. Rut by this time
| we had AL long ceased TO pay amy par
ticulal notice TO the song; it WAS new,
that night to nobody but Or. 1.iNosey,
ard on him ] noticed that it did not
produce an agreeable effect, for he
| looked up for y ne.nent quite anSrily
before he went ON with his talk TO Old
| Taylor Me gardener, ON Il new cure
:
captain gradually Enlightened up at his
5cvs1 muse, and at last Mapped his
hand upon the table before him in n
| way we all knew TO mear-silence. The
vol es stopped all al once. all but Or.
\ LiVesey's; he went on as before speak
Ing clear and kind, and drawing brisk
1 ~ at his pipe between every word on
Two. The captain islared at him for
awhile, tapped his hand again, glared
| still harder and 1T last broke out with
/ q viliainoNs. low oath: Silence, there
| between decks,
'.Wcre You addressing me, sir?" says
4 thu doctor; and when the rufian had
/ tod him. With another oath, that this
was so. 81 have Only one thing TO say
4 to you, sir replies The doctor. that
/ il you Keep ON drinking rum the world
will soon lie quit of Il very dirty scoun-
! d,e'.''
Tho old fellows fury was awful lie
\ sprung To his feet, drew ANA opened Il
sailors clasp knife and, balancing it
open on the palm of his hand threat
ened to pin the doctor TO The wall.
The doctor never so much as moved
4 He spoke To him, us before. over his
4 shoulder, ard in the same tone of voice
4 rather high, so that all the room
| might hear, but perfectly calm and
4 steady.
IF you don't put that knife this in
stant into your pocket, | promise, upon
my honor, you shall hang at the ieXi
Il aSsizes.
Then followed battle of looks be
tween them; but the captain socr
4 knuc'slea under. put UP bis weapon
A and resumed his seat, grumpling like
I Il beaten DOG.
'4Ana now sir, continued the doctor
since know there's such n fellow IN
my district, YOU may count IN have
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