Weekly Messenger, Volume 4, Number 173, Vevay, Switzerland County, 18 April 1835 — Page 1

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' I - RETREAT, IXDIAitf A9 ATCTSFAY9 AFKOi T&9 1?3& VOL. EV. 1712

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: t'.;ia-' h-.'ca'io von cc l':ii:mJnli-jn ri-rcd in plain while taere was none watrii ncd to sav iic sot on his chi.t ldflho Tito, c plain wa a r:li

an 1 !t -u-o. in Va:ilerd:Tken hvcaiHe I havejiliat could keep way with her: her eyes were' night. and si-ld..m tnrtied in. It soon h lowed :;s we had

witij inv own ove-s w a'ched him Iromthe Ums'iiike 1 1 tat l.ov s tnerc. only they wercn t al-'over: t'ae peccn.t n::1: r.i.j r.e saw noininir doubt we

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llr-t !)a !e iiimoirthe lee-eathtad, till helwavs laus!iinu: when i'tiey did. all around .hut a studding sail ta-jc tliat hun to iho 'w." een could not .::;"(' , . 1 V ".

v.n ha!! down ri'ht to windward of us. and ; was as happy as herself. She was said the; of the ard. hut we- ob;erv.d he never sen! would stili sr c u- do . .: :. WJ 'r,,i ,

hut i.e ever went in th wi:;ds eve ? old man, as he drc.,' m rude liand atliwarl.the peotdo into the h wucn la: eouia helu ii'ioforc. ll- allowed sl.-o I u i

Tiiat was him in the old h:iur (hat went a- his brow such as I have Seldom seen. 1 j ell, things w-etd on a uual. and we ahnotjlau?hcd at it at iiit; but what he had ,., hore with us on the coast: and then again ; know little of these tine open phrases they j forgot the man in the maintop, til! o::e night :md heard, though he sfill hord it n'h'hVi... wh.-n I w.ii!i liie Sea (Jull.one morning just put in their shore journals; hut she seemed just before the watch was called at twelve: a nihtakc. he certain! v coi.v!fb.r...l .,',?.'''o.'

t ! ..ir ;pers "y after the wateli was turned up at seven bolls.: to me, as she tripM over her fathers farm,! the other watch was en deck, and the lad- nato. The second mate a k:iowleJ-.-ed "(1

jand while all hands were round the galley, like one ot your light built whale boats on the 'Had been spinning a yarn on the windlass.d.o had also seen a liure of the s:m 'escnn-

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-J re eii Mij-n was a sail on the other lac U close uauuuir a siua . iul i m laiuni; 10 leewaru Uie maie nau eaneu. ana uiev went ait. hut ; ihouirh he liad till now f n,i. ,,.,!

aboard of us on the weather how. The cap-. of the vara; I always does when I tells of just as thev i;nt abreast of the chest tree, the lives "denied it.

tain sun.; out fr his trumpet, and kept the; them times. I've seen manv a hard dav mate hailed out to know who was in the fore-' ""We went below, hut not tn el..,..,, ii ,

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hip away to keep her clear of us; hut before uch as being scant at sen, or going ashore b'P- The lads told him that no one had been .wasn't a hammock tumbled that wnuh a;'-. he. steward got the trumpet on deck, she was(hut that is nothing to the trouble that lays at aloft; but he was a passionate, man. and swore!almost every hell that noise was her-i d V; ( m u.t of silir, wlunall hands expected the man's heart, when his best hopes arc struck , they were trying to deceive him that he"d -ome part of the brig. Well, if continued icxt sea would hive brought her on board ofaback in his young days it's worse than he- heard a man nag out aloft, and he'd stop his this wav f,,r two ni-dds- nn 1 -.d f 1 - ;'t ?

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No. no. lad, I once laughed at the Flv- ingon a lee shore in a craft that goes one knot grog if he found him out. All the people , fresh all the time, and o!f the I-n v't. -l '

ing Dutchman mself: hutseeing is believing., ahead and two to leeward. :mu5tered aft. and no one was mi--ing. All (h-n on the coast of Pat(c"onv T! (,m-,i

.K)'!svskv " es. bat ("leu lev, 1 tedd that all to the ' A three year's voyage came to someihing.j die w atch was on deck but Lynn, and he'd day it freshened still more. and looked yen second mate, and he sas it's all a yarn, for and I made out to buy a cottage for mother: hecn sick below for some days. The mabvlirtv to windward; so the captain Vld t'..

1 m-.s -If had been talhhvj-iwnen vou thought vot. saw hi n th: first time,. and w hen she was snug, I took leave of Mol-ls'ill swore it was a trick, and bid them take! mate to get the brig snujr before dail- c0 -

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"..lengin o! oar v" age. when ibt.aad t'aemen bch-w were fnt nig'it watch. .Not he- , . ... i .i.

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ae s;n u was a .-mp on uietacu as vou were: m .om nei. ana weui uown io i ioiueaie. uiiun. nun u.euei eome mei r sciiemes o- not 10 semi the people aiolt alter ni'dit-fth' but your old brig made so much lee-way, that' was hard to leave the old woman, for herver him. When the hell s!ru k eight, I he ! We w ere then tinder double reefed tv-ps-di'", . vou brought him oa our weather how: and voyage of life was nearly up. Well. I ship-j watch w as called, and the captain came or. No we took in the jib mainsail and j'retoas to the Sea (iii!!, the (bgs were so thick that h'd in the Rambler, for the coast of Chile:, deck. As il looked rather dirty, the old mnnjsail. and close reefed (lie main one. and -ot

you om not M't! the snip till she was close a-, ami a man ot the name. o l.vnn, w ho had .tnuugni we o better shorten sail a bit, (or thc;hor snug before four bells in the doo- u--iff ii. .hoanl. and then she seemed nearer when sheicourtcd Mollv. shipped in thesr.me. He'd ; hrig was walking along with lower tmmast ', The mate had the first wateh. and l"r! Pi'. I . i . . . . . . . i i . . ..... . i . i . , . .... . i . . . . . c -w ,i

had the! was on the top of the sea than she really wp.s.;hcen in a slaver, and people spoke hard ofhim. mid top-gallant stunsails. We hauled in lhc'lcn heard the ohl man tell him, that if ariv

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e ., d a moderate breeze: the shipjhe was on one tack, vou on the other; voir hut lie was mv townsman, and so we agreed ;slunsaiK and clewed up the lop-gallant sail, thing uncommon took place, to call him a-i l 'I

r -I b the wa.ter at the rate of a- kept away, and the fog being thick, two mie.-ito css together. Before we sailed, he got By this tunc we had it epiife fresh, so the old hands at once, but not to send anv one aloft 7:, kjn.ts: everv sail that would draw ates in a ship that sailed like the Sea Cull, hberty to see his friends, and offered to take a 'nan sung out to let the tops.iii halyards run. if he could possibly help it. The old m.aa i V . 1 , .. ...... I v,-,l 1 1. 1 . i ii f ..... r - ! .. I.i IT. l."iff..l.r ir.m m, i r niii 1... .ml I . .1 :l 1 Ii I I r. L' . ri l-Ki.Tin 4 Ii .... ..l..ll.J.. 1 'if. nl 1..1... .... .11... J .. II i ....

iriiMl'O'ii iKT.mi in ui iiKin. unuM "..'.in inn... (.-.ii .uii ui:i m M"iu. i ie S roil 11-. 1 iu iiiuun.1) mvi uuiiun on .i ... i . u unin. i; iei uie ioi)-i;ai-1 iii ii ion . ,i ii (j iue maie ca lieu all I he wateli

'served the same s',l0al'1 knife that I had with my name on it. 'hint sails hand, and laid aloft to reef the top-! aft. Lor the last two nights we had In aid .The night before we sailed, he came on board , sails. 1 went up forward, and after we'd gotjthe screams through the first watch, but too mav talk- he's a;and said he'd lost the knife, and that mother the reef in, Jack Bladen and myself went un night all was mike. About ceyrn !w!L

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!i waves, wliicii looked as they dan-!:d seaman, 1 allow, and has rounded the; was m bed, anu he could nt wait lor an an-,toiou up the lop-gallaiu sail: w hile the rest, win:l lessened, and the 3ea being high, and

in i;;v ye.vages l.a 1 1 w itnessed a scene more ;ded the cape often, and obs

oil ort)autilul. ' Tin sea was moderately thing.

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nr. could ! "Ah, bov! the second mat

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red m the m on-t)-ams. like irosteu stiver on ,-p- mitn ioo, uui oe m one oi these men llmi, "-' au x l"uu.s"1 Ilu nun u oi u. nun-, ..v. w losou n.u ,im,, w e lurieu me "e uni; n.iv ing no sail to steady her. she r !- a dark s-jri;;ce of poHshcd steel, lmmediate-'regulate things according to books, and be-!evcr we n;u' win f n the next morning, sail, and Jack went down. While I put on fed heavy, and the captain came on deck, h ar an. 1 us the s.-a was filled with animalcu!a-..lieve them instead of th' ir own eves. Now,':uul wc Sot under way at day-light, and soon the. rolling rope, Jack had got half way down;' Mr. Frnnsom.' said he. 'you'd belter send a an 1 f.r down beneath our keel we could seejas to navigation, or a lunar, whv he's as good,c'carc l'lc nd. 1 found that he was not: the topmast rigging, when 1 heard him ask',hand or two aloft, and loose the foieton s-el

tar-of t'u? ocean shooting out in ditter-. as ever stepped, lor l heard the captain say mac.'1 oi a seaman, anu tne laus man t nice " "o w .imu ine top ; anu i looked dow n, and . againsi trie other wafcfi corre un .-'id'hcvil .... ' . i . i i 1 . i .- . -Ml.;..-. !...- t 1 i.. I 1 1 ... :..i ;il,rn - - . -.1. l ; i . .. : I J t , . i ' "'

ections. with a bri'litness thai seemeu ,o, .mu no man can csan a gang ol rijrtn- o-i""" uul 1 "iiue uui io Keep onu aiong uioei- a ui.in, nun nis iae;,et on, in l ... .. .. OO l " ' -1.1 .... I 'll. ........

t awe the dazzlia"- or!s that were shining a- ver a masthead in a more seaman like man-! v 1 ou miSlu nave sccn the Kambler, lad?; icesiue, nut no one answered J.u I;

hoc- and oar -allant shin, as the moon iaer, or work a ship better, l're been afloat I tncrc wa"t a finer cralt ever swam the

. aa-'bt on her well trimmed sails and tapering long enough to he able to know asalor. and I .cean; she was one ol your long low clip

st- looked liked a baroue of silver plough-;say he s one; but lie wants years, and when bnaS with a broad beam and a clear run: I b"t stai tied, and my blood w as hilled thro':

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ol lire. Na bright was the spray ;--s oiu a me, lie ii nehevc his eves and , U!CI 1 lew nngs oi ncr lonnage that vou "oi o.h.k pmipca into trie too, and 1 alter him.

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the;lfnd you a hand to gef it to the mast head.

, ladsjdeeside, but no one answered Jack's hail. lThe mate sung out 'loose the foretop snii a the o-'was soon along side of Jack, in the rigging:! couple of hands,' and (wo of the watch jurapppiiig he was no fhiieher, but one of yiiurtrue !)lue.ieil info the shrouds. 'One is enough,' srnd

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rag a sea

the captain 'there's a hand aloft, .Mr! Fran-

om.' 'Where?' said the male the watch

that i" a ned leen-ath her bow, that the under; not books. 1 know, boy, what he savs about could put alongside of her as to length; and and as 1 turned round, there was a face star I are all on deck, sir.' Come down, hotlV of part of i he bowsprit was a strongly illumina-!' rvearg-iliod the matter with him when!1 never saw the vessel yet, let her be what ing through the doublings of the mast. It j vou,' said the captain; and the n:'-n l,-.,Vih' t,; -u the vide oa which the moon fell. It 'he was like you, for old Charley first showed ; rate sllc mig't that the Kamhlcr couldn't looked I don't know what it looked like, un- rigging and rmw .-,' ii i ' .' , V.,.C..! ." "

was iad -ed a nig'it so beautiful that it had it;hm luw to put two ends of a rope together. leave astern eithet going large or on a bow jess it was- a strangled m in. l'C seen faces' on the quarter deck no 'one was ni'iohiT, but ft -, t even on the rough natures of our hardy 1 laiow le don't believe in ships being man-llinc' Sllc hecn a slaver, but now we m anger, in sicknes-, in batlle, and in death.'. they all saw a man ct(inr oii'the forA'a-d trs: f r scarce one of them as they camV1;1 wth crews from the other world, though jw;cre on ,a trading scheme on the coast ofhuj; 1 never saw a face so honid as that was 'close out by tl.- ,race Mock. ' Fore van ! gram!. ling up jh hatchway, but made some ! sailors but what know that it rs so. There's:1'''0. You've seen the coast, lads, and you when the moon would shine upon it through I there, shouted the mate but no "one amwe'icd! . i i r ' . i. . .. -l riTiifin..- KI.v ...1 ..CI: I.I . :.-HAtr Ivlif if ij W1 1 irn li.l c I....... ..C'l llf lil-..-. I. i i, 1 1... ... ...I I ....!- . : t i '1 i 1 T-U .' 1 i . ...

aaii pauseu ior a iiionii'iu 10 traze on. "'.-! ""ri oui "i i.nn nooi uias never;"'-"" "' .,-.,. v. n,ni imi sii.uu oi . v.... ,,, i,.,, .,,,1. jao, u iou. anu i 'niin naiicii, and the i n-ino fou K- ie-.

ni br-autv

carries a maintop gallant-vard across, becau-e! "001 weather, and we soon got into the trades. :c were both stiff: I hung to the weather rig-! ned bis head, but all w.-m 7,s ,r.h r'n

whose turn was no-.v below. hen on- man has Uo to furl or loose the sail. then; was no grass grew on her bottom, ging. and liie man or de if, which ever it was "P (he luher watch.' said thr nni;n ;ai7.-

.JV lvTcd on deck, an 1 mixed with ti;ellll(-r always another io lend him a hand.;sheJ have gone along well enough with a.K-t up a low laugfi, and grinned as if to see and all;' and all hands ahoy iun' at 'Acrv heV,",-, .ma '1 -roup. It was too fine a night A,ul wasn't there the whole crew of an Ihig-; merchantman's spars, but she was as square, two able-bodied seamen pallM. M heart hatchway. But there it sat: it seemed like ; !Ti,!oi there is little to do 1'me of battle-ship, officers and ail, swore rigged and as taunt as any eighteen gup brig .welled in my thioat; I thought it might be a a man w ith his j.f,jrt .ecyes roiled up 'and his ;-".-.. ;i -.- iber. so thev preferred lv- lhey heard the ship hailed in the Tacitic O- hi the sarvice. It's no use to say what sail joke, hut I could have grappled with the de- face was either hhcV r,r 1.1,.,. ,K. Tf '. '.',

i'e.- od (k. to li. n to the tabs which the'cc:'il when nothing was in sight? and did'ntiw took in or made, them are tilings as comes il: and I dai-hcd round 'forward of the mast, tunes turned his head, but wr heard no oand 7.r"' .J. (V, .,rs o'ea-ions aie always lhey afterwards find that a ship bad lost some of course; but I'll ju-t observe, that some pen- Jack at the same lime crossed abaft, hut we but the spray under the bri-'' bow- U'iC r -I'v to relate. So:e --auVi tlienv-elves on-en just in that latitude and longitude? You P!c 'm t believe, as I said before, in their met on the Ice-ah: el the top only to see his sea breaking round m. At length all ha-uls the 'ibreeastie'. other oat..'1 bifts. and some -ee ils just a? true as that one. ship is lucky being extra hands sent on hoard sea-going hot rid grin and Lear his low laugh to wind- wire mu-h red. except Lvr.n: "ho' wai' still oi the .'s." Tie- most -dr group was and another unlucky; and that's what no man' craft. I don't say it to ou, lads, because ward of us. Jack slaved, and I U.k"d over, sick, and said he wa not able to get en; but - n tbo to h-ew.-irJ of the b.much: it con-wiil douht. I have lived a long while, and here's few of you but knows better: bat hut he was gone, rm.i a m. meat aiVr wo. both tl.e captain ordered ln'm carried carefully in

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1,.,-u-d thr bis .riTbf'ioes. ,. ""ood , " u,lL 1 Mn iny-eii, anu u was mat wineii pro

v., ., t... r..i ! .i-.-o.l , .a old veil to me that ships have sometimes more; "figs company.

i iri,i oK; ii m irked, and in uiUU,- l,1:m are down regularly m the books.. " " air .-em on uoaru regular v.-s-rjs among ;imi ni v.um me inr.i; nut u was gone, and mm en the ho .by-hatch, " he figure had hi iii- i ..- .i . T niOPi' f bail In 'loll nr l.i 1 !iii ,i ,ir!,l ..I 1 1....- IlV'iWill" SeailKMl: hut SO it is I'll! l.-,l 1 I, tile CllrSed loW !ail"b I'.irnc nmr,. t mi. I ir.ir " . i.i 11. ! ITi!l!,i! -. ii. J I...!. .. 1 .1 l-l .- r,

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s un-iii ius iranie, v. t there was1'"1 - - --" " j p , - : .,

lain and all hands, when we returnee!, belore! "However, ns l was saying, we were run

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nn, tnouim everv sea 1 ve seen miw o m iue nisi waicn. the breeze began to ircMi- inan one severe on

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i,,,.,! t".. sour thing ol these tilings; and I do knowe1'0" sucn. anu to them I 11 sav tnat what 1 iiru

there's some here that mayhap have nevi r -s w him close into ihe 'ing .f th.; Ihreva.-J. his hammock : he pleaded hc-d but T.l,-

). am going to tell, was sworn to by the who

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f n:un ,U1 :i,.,;n;' "'I at the other, kr.ou how it w;,;. all hr.nds looked to him fo .I.uk and nnseli looked at each other for a unravel this horrid business. i J(.,H,, moment, and then du-h, d through liie lop got him on deck, and took him aft and laid

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bjO use for me to talk to vou or him, that are! books allow it was so in old times, and 1 know above

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,.., ). .,i . .m, .,. book-.'earned, but 1 can tell w hat 1 saw. and to well thatit.it 1 can believe mv ow n evcs,'de.vil. lor that low laugh belonged to no good was there

sr na-l well pr-mor.ioixM mam liis.'1

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v e inougut it was no u-e cha.-ing a captain called the roll fince mere--all hands

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spiiit, if so he it was likely that one would will all be cxpecled fo swear to what vou haunt (he ship. We made for the dock: il have seen, so -n) i.lV vr...p.-nl..n, .u.

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(hat time, lads, in more, aloft is not one of you.' There one wauro !i f: .,.1 .......... 1.1 i I- it - it: ...-.t T r . . . i " .

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irk grey, and though iis general expression "is goou-numorea siu.ic w a. gone, anu mat ii j ; in. uji on ui'i.u, wih-ii iiiuu mni! uie,o.. " os:, u n u.u w e meani nv nena. ing.on uie man on the yard. This was the work as md h vet at liar's, when anarent! y in ' '"replaced by au expression of the deepest ; hoy comes down the topmast back stay on j like boys, and dif urbing the brig's company. ;f a moment ; the ik xt. the wild woman like -ea thought, it would brighten 'with a wild melancholy. The san'o." pressed him to conlin-i'lcc k, ami there he stood hanging on. and hisj We told the captain how it was, and oiiercd j -cream rung thrcugh the brig. I.vnn lhiti""

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of derangement. His dressibid him go on with his ghost story.

as is gon-:r.tHv worn by sailors1' It's a long while since, lau's, and many dark

frock, irovvsers. andpl;1.vs have come when I only looked for bright

his head'was covered by a flat blue. ones; hut it was to be, and so it is. It's a

(! ,;'i( ;i! from under which a few locks of i long varn. and to me it's a heavy one; for

h Jn.rrV.I r ,v..-tl. .,,..-... ! when I tell of them limes, thev cotie back to

t ',' !. ' lirwas res.u rted bv il-.e !iWrJme as though they had only happened yester- so the mate laughed, and told him to go up a-

f I,;, . .,',.- nA r ,A .un;... -, c..m blav. Years have rolled bv and I am an oldlgam, but the boy beg d so hard,and the mate

..i !,;, .i,;',. looL-e.1 n t(i li',,,, vVhh ihmau. vet I never tells this yam but I talk like knew he was no skulk, so he told me to go

d fere-ace that his age and experience dennn-la boy. I did say I'd never tell it again, hut 1 led. I observed that in their arguments and j don't like to say no to an old shipmate, though disputes, he was generally the umpire; andjs;mg yes should even chafe my old heart a that when old Ch u l -v told a tale, be was; hit. Well, you see, after I'd sarved my time, .always surrounded bv the bct of the crew.!' shipped in a whaler for the northwest, and 'The boy seemed to be his favorite: he vual-pvas gone for three years. HowsoiTievcr, lowed to take many plav ful liberties with him 'that's nothing to do with the story. When 1 which the generality of old tars consider as'ame home, I found mother had been hard derogatory to their dignity. But to my (ale.P!'t to; hut old farmer Spencer's daughter Curious to hear the conversation, which Molly, had helped her, and tended her when with the low er class of seamen is alwavs amu-hdi, and so she'd made out. This made me

sing, and anxious to know more of one intake a liking to Molly; and after some telewhom I fell an interest, I approached their; graphing and manoeuvring, it was agreed we circle and seated mvself on one of the guns of; should be spliced w hen I came back next trip.

the waist, appearing to he gazing on the beau-! I had teen many girls before I saw Molly, but tie3 of liie. night, while I listened to the foj-'l never saw one before or since that looked

lowing conversation: as she did. I can see her as plain now as " You dr.nb K. n ( 'li:irb-- in tbr D vin -v ' though 1M made but one cruise. She was

J.M- hm .nr -ud he lov. laughing. " "Wt so tall that I could kiss her white fore-1 lonn grew more sulky after tlth, and h.

like children, and enmnrr r..f..--.f.i

lop. Well, the second mate came up, and , the captain all hands had a notion the brig breast the mainmast: his slrct"th!eft him. and wanted to know what was the matter; but j was haunted. lie offered to go into the top,1 as he sunk down, he called foru fo help him, he could'nt get him to speak for some time; and would have g ne. hut just as lie put Ins. hut no one stirred every heart was thilicd at last he made out to say that there was ajhand on the rail, there was a voice like thatjhis voice was too much like the tri'-diip-man in the top. By this time all tiie watch .of a man in a .struggle, and shortly after ajone in the (op, for him to be an innocent mam l.o.l ..v,r ., ft I, ... 1 I,...-.., ,Il I.- . I kliru.1.- lil.-oll.-. 1 ..(" All I ...... I I ... I ,.f, 1 l. 1 i - . .

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trembled, and you couldn't hear a breath for! the brig. He laid then' and groaned, and. some time. The mate stopped a moment.! for the first lime that night the low Iaii oi but he was a brave fellow, and he sprung in-!c.ame from the figure on the vird.ir... V.

aft and mind the helm. One of (he green, to (he rigging; but the c aptain c alled him! stood like men fi zen (o the deck, and looked hands was there, while he went himself to back, and as lie stepped on deck we all heard j in each other's faces, but no one" spokcail furl the royal, to show the boy bow foolish j that low hellish laugh. The mate came afi. was silent excepting Lynn's eronns arulYh. he was, and shame him. Well, 1 went aft, land 1 heard him w hispe r to the captain that'eursed low laugh which came oft' nor and and just as I got to the wheel, I heard the'this was (he time to stop the men's fears, fori more fiend-like from the yard. Athn'ihlbo

mate sing out, to leeward there,' anu l look-.u tney unm t iney would get no work out oPcaptam spoke. '.My lad. said he 'it ct rnw ed up and saw him run to leeward of the mad.'thcm aloft the rest of (he voyage. He then! too true thai this retched man is th. r-.n

nil ne iuneu me sail ana came ciown. jieiiurneu rounu, anu nsKeu n there, was a man ot lius Horrid atlair; but Jilt him in'o bi lnM,

laughed at the bov and some of the crew w -ho. on board that would follow him. lie jumped

were talking about a noise they'd heard be- into the rigging, and half of us were with him low; but wiVn he came aft, and looked in thel in the foretop before he could have eased oil

binnacle as the light shone on his face, I saw-

all was not right bis face was pale, and when he spoke his voice pecmed to tremble, and all the watch he kept his rye on the fop. However, no more was said, only the youngsters laughed at the bov; but he told a straight

yarn, and the old hands tided with him.

the foresluvt. There was no one there, and

the mate was running us about our ghost, wher the voice and shriek came from the maintop. 'My month's pay for the man that will cross up the main-topmast stay,' said the mate. '.Vot for the brig. said half a dozen. Tin

mate offered, but the captain haihd 'I.av

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moci; anu iaue mm nciow. It is not for us to say what he has done; but it i too plain h" is not what he should be, and I trust some future day juslice will he done; it i a dark deed, and I shall do mv duty to find it out" I .vim groaned, and tried to speak, but ih'n laughcame as ifahundrcd devils were m . kinmerry in the hrig. and :iCslin he fainted. We took him below, but the figure still remained.

ami hi intervals that thrilling srre.itr. the

Ir. Fran-om. youhe done vour duh, stin;.H'mg voice, and hellish laugh, utn.; thro'