Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-11-09
MOUNTAIN HOME REPUBLICAN, MOUNTAIN HOME IDAHO.

nal, and here come Flint by himself
in little boat, and his head done up
in a blue scarf The sun was get
i ting up, and mortal white he looked
about the cutwater. But, there he
was, mind you, and the six all dead
dead and buried, How he had done
il, not a man aboard us could make
out. 1t was battle, murder and sud
den death ~ leastways, him against
six. Billy Bones was the mate;
Long John, he was quartermaster;
and they asked him where the trea-
sure was. 'Ah,' says he. you can go
ashore, if you like, and stay he
says; but as for the ship, she'll beat
ip for more, by thundern That's
what he said.
We'll, / was in another ship three
years back, and we sighted this
island. Boys said /, here's Flint's
treasure; let's land and find it, The
cap'n was displeased at that; but
my messmates were all of a mind,
and landed. Twelve days they looked
Tor it, and every day they had the
worse words for me, until one fine
morning all hands went aboard AS
or you, Benjamin Gum, says they,
here's a musket,' they says, and a
spade and pick-aX. You can stay
here and find Flint's money for your
self they says.
Well, Jim, three years have !
been here, and not a bite of Chris |
tian diet from that day until this. |
But now, look you here; look at |
me. Do | look like man before the |
mast? No, says you. Nor l weren't, |
| says"
And with that he winked and
pinched me hard.
Just mention them words to your
squire, JIM" he went on Nor he
weren't, netherlands the words.
Three years he were the man of this
island, light and dark, fair and rain;
and sometimes he would, may be,
think upon a prayer (says yOu), and
sometimes he would, may be, think
of his old mother, so be as she's alive
you'll say; but the most part of
his time was took up with another
matter. And you'll give him nip,
like l do"
And he pinched me again, in the
most confidential manner.
Then" he continued, then you'll
up, and you'll say this: Gum is a
good man you'll say), and he puts
a precious sight more confidence-a
precious sight, mind that in a
gen leman born than in these gentle
men of fortune, having been one his
self"
Well" l said, 81 don't understand
one word that you've been saying.
But that's neither here nor there;
for how am I to get on board?"
"Ah," said he chats the hitch
M Wall fhnraac ha
made with my two hands. I keep
her under the white rock. If the 4,
worst come to the worst, we might
try that after uark. Hill" he broke
out, whats that?"
For just then, although the sun
had still an hour or two to run, all
the echoes of the island awoke and :
beloved to the thunder of cannon. Y
They have begun to fight" l cried.
Follow mel"
And l began to run toward the '
anchorage, my terrors all forgotten;
while, close at my side, the marooned I
man in his goatskins trOtted easily l
and lightly.
Left, left" says he; keep to your
eft hand, mate JIM Under the
-rees with you! There's where | {
killed my first goat. They don't come a
Town here now; they're all mast 4
headed on them mountings for the
ear of Benjamin Gum. All! and a
here's the cetemery' -cemetery he t
must have meant. you see the
mounds? I come here and prayed, t
lows and thens, when / thought may t
,e a Sunday would be about doc. IL j
weren't quite a chapel but it seemed a
more solemn like; and then, says p
-ou, Ben Gum was shorthanded-
10 chapling, nor so much as a Bible
nd a flag, you says" a
So he kept talking as l ran, neither t
nor receiving any answer.
The cannOn-shot was followed, af- d
er a consider able interval, by a vol K
ey of small arms. 2
Another pause, and then, not a D
uarter of a mile in front of me, Al
beheld the Union Jack futter in
he air above a wood. Il