The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-09

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....tol. 1906, by Joseph Il. Bow
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.. SCHUYLER Crown:nshieId. wife
... ADMIRAL CrOwninshield, by
..t her talks is quite as we'll
gu. the public, as is the dis
...l naval officer, who's name
.. Following the success OF
..r books, Mrs. CroWninshield
.t#I wider recognition in the
.#-.I by her The Archbishop
... Lady" and its attractive
-~Hulaucia's GaTdcn.'D
you said, Sir, you'd like to
spin We z yarn / really
believe my ears. That any
."I5 want to hear the maun-
If am old salt like me would
..... entered into my calcula-
.... .>&nI me what heroic deeds
ana if | couldn't tell you
..... M AN I've been layin' awake
.uc. that and ]pondcrin' ana
......'i il. the daytime as l smoked
A.. and wonderful what ] could
.a. hut Lord bless your soul, |
..... alI u. heroic iced in my whole
49, / was tryin' to think up
....#ai.. just to show you that /
.... Ike To- please you. it suddenly
r,u. my mind that | could tell you
...rsic deed of somebody cise's.
.... ....t would be much better worth
......' about than anythin' I ever
. when / set through youH say
..r. 4.tuu' that | could tell would
...... more for mans dash. courage
#..r of adventure.
.w.u man / speak of was Lieut..
Nr.am Gushing. God forgive me for
....Ig him just a man. A gentleman.
.E..< inch Of him. An officer, every
..H. of him! And Il daredevil. flesh,
r..1I. mind. heart and soul, Now. ]
#.rrrnel to be shipmates with
rs.r- Gushing when he commanded
f.. Monticello in 1864. Sh:pmates?
vua think he wouldn't like me saying
..o EIcSs y0ur soul. An officer and
..rtIan7a1 &c 1ovar too hiob and
..s.ntv to speak to an old sailor who's
w".1thcred danger with him. nor to
rnIf him old shiDmate when lie meets
Ii.l ashore after a cruise is up.
".\- sea- it's a different matter, dis
.i,I.ue must be maintained. and I'd
Nuow better thar even to hin that an
officer should treat me Familiarity,
whil. We were actin in our relative
positions Of officer and man. Why,
met the lieutenant after the last
fight ~" was in together and he patted
me ON tn back as friendly as YOU
please, n he handed me the Dan |
asked Of him. just as if he owed it to
me-. though, God forgive me, n debt
was on the other side Of the pair
Of us.
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"WolI, sir, to get down to my
story, Lieut.. Cushing was commanding
the Monticello in February, '64, and Of
course. he was her cap'n. | wont &c
into the h~ackneycd talk OF how we all
loved him. That sort of talk makes
"a real oId-timcr sick, but | can tell
You just this much: There wasn't a
job that the oId man put up that we
weren't in for, nor an adventure that
he planned that we wasn't all fran
tic to take q hand in. / call him the
old DO YOU know now old he
was" Just "a, as I'm q lIVln SINNER
Wen, When we uscd TO scent some
thin af0Ot we sent in petitions that
we be allowed to go and as we pulled
ashore in the cutter, or whatever boat
he chOs" for his expedition, We used
To put u finger politely up TO oul
noses as a areWeIl TO the doWncas1
looking fellows who were gazing long
5ugIy over the rail at us as we rOWeC
away.
"t,n,. some tin,a ,,o hadn't founC
auvthing 10 DO. and he DAYS had huna
rltnar heavy ON o1r hands. We was
aLqa,s lonkin' ont for somethfn' t.
rur, am but tbouob we were under
u:.s- ana ut arfbor poin~ in clos
and dr4[yir~ off again. lodging aroun,
lr<ira pan sbna7s ana stcamina M
..f dawn off Fort Fisher and New
In.ut threa vrctcbad blockade run.
r..- ururd dousa the clim and sliI
r.. .- i,' IA, rfaht n,er ana over
aE. lr,,tirnI7o ,rac moi , vnrv bis
...t hIt ghn wax rImckv" and beI
........ [,.,. ,,.,tcb f,,. hnr o..
..t' -.ntireT Nv taan,ad to ~
..rrs and 1yhan Saw men in th,
...t- rIr1nina en- ouf and looking
..#. 10. tb.' r,7c ar bo1rd ro1 n2av III
.... ,l.+ tn,,t nv Weather ov.
...faf f.. - tha,a VA. TO NO an OK.
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