The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-02-24


trio lights, 4 swan there was look
Ing glasses IN every rorner-blg ones.
mans size. ! reipember Cap'n iona
dab lollering to inc thur night when
be was getting ready to turn In:
"For the lands sake. Isarzilla." says
be. turn Out Them lights. will your /
amt over and above basbfui. but them
looking glasses make me feel d II l
was undressing uiung with all hands
and the cook :
The house was full Of conipny. and
more kept coming an The time. SweIIs?
Don't talk. We felt bout as much at
home as u COW IN dory. but we was
there cause Ebenezer had asked us to
be there. 50 we Kept on the course and
didn't signal for help travelling
through The rooms downstairs where
the folks was was i good deal Hike
dnd2llg ieebergs M on the banks. bit
one or two noticed " enough 10 dip
the coIors, ana one was real sociabie
He was a kind OF slow spoken city
Teller. dressed as II his clothes was
poured over him hot and then .eft 10
cool His lnsf uame had splice In
the middle ~ IL twas Catesby-Ssuart
Eynybudy-that b, most everybody -
rallied him Phli
Well. sir, i'hlr cotf0ned 10 Innadah
and Aig right away He'd get US. one
on eaa'i wing. and 10 through thar
house asking questions. lie pumped
me ansl inuadab dry about how we
come ~ i,r there aud told us more
yarns tan few bout Diliaway aud
how rlch he WAS. remember he said
that hr only wished he had the keys
10 flis cellar 80 he could show us the
money bins Said Ebenezer was so
Just welt. r"iiep with money. - you
might say. Tint NJ KEPT il IN bins down
cellar. silinr ~ lbuF folks kept coal
gnid In one bin. silver half dollars in
another. quarters III another. and so
on When he needed any bed say 20 a
servant. flames. fetch me up nod ~
change" This was onIy one OF the
fish yarns he told. They sounded kind
Of scaly to Joliadab and me. but II we
limited ut such thing bed pull him
self together and say. Fact. ! assure
you" In a way 10 freeze your vitals.
He seemed like snch good Teller that
we didn't mind bis telling few big
ones. We'd known good fellers afore
that liked TO Iie--gunners and such like
they were mostly
Somehow or mother Phil got Cap'n
Jonadab talking boat and when jon
adab talks boat there amt no stop
ping him. He's the smartesf Teller in
a catboat that ever handled q tilier,
and hes won more races than any
man ON the cape ! caI'Iafe. Phil asked
him and me IL we'd ever sailed on an
icsboat. and when we said we hadn't
be asks II we won't take sail with
him on the river next morning.
He introduced us to quite lot Of
the comp'ny -nen mostly. He'd see
school Of EN- In a corner or under a
palm tire or sonewheres and steer us
over In that direction and make US
@h'NH w us HAs21~ utu w BEkfA "
show Us "a. 40 to speak-get Jonadab
telling bout the boats bed sailed or
something like it-and them fellers
would laugh and boiler. but Phirs face
wouldn't shake out a reef. He looked
solemn rs fun'rai all the time. Jona-
dab and me begun TO think we was
making a great hit. Well. we WAS.
but not the way we thought. re-
member one OF the gang gets Phil to
one side after o talk like this aud
whispers 10 him. laughing like fun.
Phil says 20 him: MY dear Dor. I've
been 10 thousands ~ these things
waving his clipper scornful around the
premises and upon honor they've all
been alike. Now that I've discovered
something positively original let me
enjoy myself The entertainment by
the Heavenly Twins Is only begun"
! didn't know what he meant then.
do now.
The marrying was done about :
o'clock. ard done with al the trim
mIngS All hands manned the yards
IN the best parIor. aud Peter and Belle