The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-04-29

BOUT years ago" began my Captain Green.
~ Il went second mate of ship named the Ocean
~ King her time and
had poop and opgaant forecastle. though atera-
had knocked of the dignity of her Her chan
ss changed above the rail-
missed of the lower rigging that nat
nrsy sought hooking and win
sd cheekered sides rounding into that
complete ub Of the cid hooker Yet spite of changes
grace through She looked like
lady who who has to do work which
od for her in the times when she well off, but
who what viii makes see that
breeding the instincts s there and that she's as
vulsar by poverty and Its struggles as she
lacy than she is by money Ships like
and the close of Of them
sometimes hard. / think.
1.-THE Ocean King had been turned into collier ana went
when she full with coal for South
Yet this ship that carrying one of the
barring phosphate had
rekoned fne vessel noble India
ndeedher something eleven hundred
cuddy royalty Many freight of soldiers had
she carried the Cape old nabob had she CON
veyed-aye potenates smoked ont of jeweed
ookahs and who waited by crowds OF black se
slippers. used moraze her Just
would tomb when had the watch and was alone
could let my thoughts loose
sumptuous trappings aud seemed
TO the wind when my head over the
weather side and when the breeze that blew along came esh
there coed deal Of the
niags which doubt made the newspapers
give long OF this tine ship when she was
hedite eeueh OF them enable TO reconstruct
picture the cuddy the Ocean King in the days
Of her glory when the soft Gil lamps shone bright on he aapeo
spaed silver and when the old skipper
sitting him. would look with his
red face and white hair down the rows OF ladies' ana
eating drinking stewards running about trays hanging
goldfish swinging the
i OF tie vessel as she swung stately with her snhsa hahs
the long blue swell wrnkied by the wind The
she carried the
her captains who have commanded her?
that should be fuller of ghosts than old
| wen remember that when first visited the
Victory al Portsmouth and descended INTO her COCKPIT "ha
a well preserved and eeany length OF massive
wounded bleeding and dying lit
riG daFk apd the hatchway Swallowed by groanng
handed below while the smell of English French and
Spanish gunpowder down there, srong-phewl
spat the a8yor out!
s"Wei. King had time been said
be She had certainly been long enough ahoa to
she stanch and that
her there chance of its
ting only remember of these Ii
told who had been for
history of all such craft
said that in 81 think IT there
among the Italian sailor stabbed
Engishman. bled death To the Engishmans
death Of the who chiefly English thrust the
fofepeak him lie darkness
When fallen
believed Whether the
q bad been
forepeak four days. fellow going behind the
wind light pipe-it being
running the forecase
the of his face
he This frightened the
prett of them down into the foepeak and found
deaa with of him. which
dropped below. During all the
ghost constantly sometimes
les wheel sometimes asrde OF the flying bboom What
whether the confessed the murder
and So them--the dockmaser
this discovered shortly after had
this
the chief said had been brought aboard by the
picked the dockyard aborers
uncomfortable circumstances We sailed
Friday ordinary thirteen
ourselves aft bringing the ships