The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-14
= WCLARK RUSSELL
BOUT ten years ago." began my friend Captain Green

BOUT years ago. began nv friend Captain Green
IA y went as second mate of ship named the Ocean
HA hing Shed been an old Indiaman In her time and
N- bad poop and topgalant forecaste though atera
tons had knocked of the dignity chan
nes had been changed deadeyes rail-
and the eve missed the spread rigging
urally sought in looking craft with win
COWS It and checkeed sides rounding into that
made complete tub of spite
the Old fashioned would looked like
Suy who has better which
servants did for her in the times when she well OF but
who let her set her hand w that
ne breeng and the instincts still there and that she's
little to be vugazed by poverty and its struggles she
could be made truer lady than Ships like
beings their them
is strange and sometimes hard I think.
"The Ocean King had a collier,
second mate of her when she full with coal for South
African port Yet this ship that carrying of the
drtest cagoes could barring phosphate had
been reckoned In her fine vessel noble India
man. ndeedher tonnage something eleven hundred
with cuddy fitted royalty Many freight of soldiers had
she carried round the Cape old nabob had she
yeyedaye and Indian who smoked Of jeweled
hookabs and who crowds Of black
ants In trbans and slippers used morae her just
as would tomb when had the watch and was alone
and could let my thoughts loose.
THE sumptuols cabin seemed
weather side and when te breeze That blew along fresh
across thousand miles of but there good deal of the
fittings efthtings which, the
give long account of this ship she
aunchedque enough of them enable reconstruct
picture of the cuddy of the King in the days
of her glory when the
tables and sparked silver and when the old skipper
sitting with the mzzenmast behind him, would look with his
red face white hair
eating drinking
from the deck above globes swinging
roll of the vessel she with her stunsas hang
ing out the long blue swell wrinkled The
ship still afoa Where the people she carried the
who have worked her. the captains who commanded herr
There is nothing that should be fuller
ship and well remember that when first visited the
Victory at Portsmouth descended cockpit what
not well preserved ceanly OF
deck but of wounded and bleeding dying lit
erng the the hachway shadowed
figures handed below while the smell of English French and
Spanish gunpowder, down there srongphewI
could have spat the flavor out!
We'll the old Ocean King had time said
TO be haunted She had certainly been
hundred sores and she stanch that
superstition into her there chance of
ting out again. only remember these
old and knew the history of all
the Ocean King He said that in 81 think there
had been the Italian sailor stabbed
Engishman who bed death To the Englishmans
Italian into the forepeak him
When he asked for they reported fallen
board and this have been believed Whether
meant to starve him certain
galley out of the of the wind to light his ppe
four bells in the first watchcame
with his hair end and the pouring his
ing he had the Italians ghost This frightened
prefly Some of them
the italian lying there dead with of
scampered off when the dropped below
OF the his ghost constantly sometimes
lee wheel sometimes astride of the flying jbboom
the Of itI whether murder
and II what became of hemthe dockmaste
know. But be this 1t discovered shortly
that the had of this
the chief said had been brought aboard by the
ter, who had picked from of the dockyad labOrers
II well ecolect two uncomfortable circumstances
Friday the able ordinary
number the ides and ourselves aft bringing the ships