The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

understood that but for his insistence upon an
Immediate trial and sentence, the villain might
have escaped. At dinner that day Sir Charles
gave many anecdotes OF the deceased pirate;
and anabIe was he and so skiIlfuI in adapt
ing his conversation TO men of lower degree
that captain. mate and governor smoked their
comrades should.
And what figure did sharkey cut in the
dock asked the captain
He is man of some presence said the gov
Il had always understood that he was an ugly
sneering devil remarked the mate.
Wei, daresay he could look ugly upon occasions
81 have heard New Bedford whaeman sew that
he could not forget his eyes said Captain Scarrow.
They of the ightest lmy blue. with red-rimmed
lids Was that not so, Sir Charles?"
Alas. my own eyes win not permit to know
much OF those OF others: But remember now that
the adjutant general said that be had such
you describe and added that the jury were foolish
as 10 De Vislby dlsconposed when II was turned upon
them 1t is we'll for them that ne is dead for he
man who would never forget an injury and if he had
ana hahls upon any one OF them he would have stuffed
him with straw and huns him for igurehead"
The idea seemed TO anuse the governor, for he
broke suddenly into high, neighing laugh and the
two seamen laughed also but hea-5y for they
remembered that Sharkey the last pirate who
sailed the western seas, and that gr0tesque
might their own Another bottle was
preached 70 drink to pleasant voyage and gov
Vhor would drink just one ofher on the top Of A. SO
that the seamen glad at last to stagger on-the
to his watch and the other his bunk But when
AFTER ms TOUR hours spell the mate came down again
he was amazed 10 the governor in his Families
- = ~ NJ sO'. sum seti-su
seoateiy at the lonely table with his reeus and
six black bottles by his side.
Il have drunk with the governor Of 81 kits when
he sick said he, forbid that L should
ever try to keep pace with him when he is we'll
The voyage of the Morning Star was a successful
and in three weeks she WIS at the ,out,
Of the British channel From the first cay the infrn
governor had begun recover his strength and be-
fore they were half way across the AtIanc he was
save only for his eyes well as any man upon the
ship. Those who uphold the nourisnng qualities of
might point TO him in triumph To- never \ night
passed that he did repeat performance of his
first one Ard yet he would be upon deck i'm the
early morning as fresh and brisk as the best of them
AK inc
tons about the sails and the rigging for was anx
ous to learn the ways of the sea- And he made mn for
the deficiency of his eyes by obtaining leave from the
captain that the New England seaman-he who had
been cast away in the boat-shouId lead hin, about
and above al that he should sit him when he
played cards and number of the. pips for
unaided he could not tell the king fro.r the 5nave
Tt natural that this Evauson should do the
of the vile Sbarl<ev and he otbar - RI i . In
one could that it pleasure to the big Amer
lean to lend his arm TO the invalid, and night he
would stand with all respect behind his chair in the
cabin and lay his great stub nailed forehnger upon The
ttIe in the roc[Sts ,,ii ~ mere W -
Morgan, the first mate, by the time they sighted
Lizard
And it was not Ions before they fou q ,nat all thew
had heard Of the high temper of Charles EVAN fell
short of the mark AT a sign Of opposition a
OF argument his chin would shoot from his cravat
more insolent angle and his bamboo cane would
whistle up over his shoulder. cracked it once
over the head OF the carpenter when the had ac
eidentaIy josted him upon the deck once, too when
there was some grumblins and talk OF mutiny over
the state Of the provisions Of opinion that they
should march forward and Set 11,C7 49, Ia t
had uOunced the devilment Of them. Give me a
hardly he vtb6oId from sTt IN oaI I ana c3ulG
with the spokesman Of the seamen
Yet for all his vaporing and his violence ne was so
good companion, with such stream OF strange
anecdote and "Reminiscences that SCarrOw and Morgan
idu never known 2 voyage pass so pleasantly
And then at length came the last day. when after
passing the island. they had struck again at the
hIsn Wnlte ellis at Beachy Head. As evening fell
the snip lay rolling in an oily calm league off from