Show at allaf I 1 at THE bouble r ESCAPE 1 TES 1 BY call T ISLEY LM pst k 4 iki I 1 V till 11 the lh etla it told aae rl r i IE ID nw there here never neier was as a class of met i re a nd enterprising mon inore S 1 white and aed larig darilla theila that class clas n aich the banh cc tar belongs Le longs 1 I to in auvy is lu let be 64 made yuu you nv v ill find Ts s larks jib boom poking saucily amy f mi atthe the poles or see his little liitle nut 6 idl 11 of a craft dading gallantly gallan lly IMI vf y upon u iknon n seas with uh allibe all the abiden ofa an n old trailer in ill na ie a sama pursuit ruit too toc you A will ill find aiudi M in in fearl fearlessly esly running tile the aa A an fleet w ad d if f captured cap lured chow or other most always alay can i in vawn ng like lae an ail eol cot to slip through filla ii ir lingers adgers we have bare a story to rh 11 S alne ate en this point idich which the reader his ri rely on as truth tile the facts as aa CO chave recorded them were ere de ad abw iad d from one ona of the per persons the ily y survivor concerned in jn tile the affair otaw g e give name and dates and we SS S S abt not there are many in in salem ml d providence who ilio will forni a of 0 our history pm 11 immediately after the declaration pa vill war ewar i in n 1812 ou our r i bhole hot e coast as a F pla tanning arming with nh antish cruisers and try ry craft that ventured to sho erff alf outside was pounced iak lick like by 0 our t ir watchful ful enemy re rig er i that a coastwise coain coat wise ise trip was ft as in fact iii U 1 mere running of the in in daf aich ich he was a luc lucity alky fellow who es 11 52 1 ped aped capture nd in the anas were so much against them hah hafie 1 any an were perfectly willing to run ran 4 ie e hazard in in consideration of the al 51 mense profits that accrued from a voyage boyage there was some soine ang 09 too loo in in the tha nature of the enter 1 I g n ke e that suited well the daru dai ug charr cier te of ahse engaged in in it they on oil being taken but they T r guessed as how they could 1 I to give john ball the tha slip ir it though ugh johnny is a pretty shrewd hap ap in the main main yet lie he is not a cir um uin siance stance to brother jonathan who ca I a outwit him with his eyes shut ithe in fall of the year some three r t four foil r months after the declaration war a fleet of eight or ten small aft was fitted out of salem by wil MI rd d peele and others intended for grao philadelphia flour trade among i an was the schooner fox it a little C re and after afier of about fifty tons 1 I W tu anuel hodgdon master george ler mate male an old experienced lot 0 t bythe name of eldridge and y aboy boy bill from whom by the way derive these particulars formed 11 compliment ament of men 0 OM a r I 1 in it hold snug snugly ly stowed slowed against agamet the bulkheads bulk heads beads for foe those were not strictly temperance li times iries aa artas as a barrel of Arlie american rican gin iii thus appointed the i fox topped her boom and was off with a fair x itil and a good promise of success for a late arrival stated slated that no do cruisers were NN ere to be seen in the bay for three lays days the little craft went jauntily on her course unmolested and at the close clo c of the third day a clear sea still lefore before them they took look a pull at the peak all round for the successful prosecution of their coage vo vae thus far on oil the fourth morning mornin they found themselves themsie hes off great egg harbor and much to their cli agrin in tile the close neighborhood oe a wange strange sloop of atar running a away ay as out ot of the question and in answer to one or two to rather pressing invitations by a messenger not over oer particular part cular in in regard to lo forms and ceremonies ceremonies tile the fox hauled her wind vind and stood for her bet unwelcome neighbor nabbed by jupiter said the old pilot squirting a small cataract of tobacco juice to leeward eard Ie as he saw a boat b put off from the sloop of war filled veth men in ill a few moments capt hodgdon had the pleasure of being told that he be nas as a prize to his Brit arlic maj ty s s sloop of war nar prometheus of seventeen en teen guns guns and that the com company parly of himself and mate was nas particularly requested on board with as good a grace race as could be mustered the requisition was tt as complied mth ith and i th the e captain and mate repaired on board they mounted the sides and stepped on oil deck with nh certainly ally an but agreeable feelings they avent aft and scarcely scared had they doffed coffed their tarpaulins to his Maje majesty representative than with true yankee spirit the skipper began to chaffe cluffer r with his hi ca captor endeavoring to strike a bargain for foi the beleise beleas e ol of his ci baft aft at first girat the commander would not harlon harken to his proposals but dealand d his bia intentions oas to bu burr J 1 c liy by dint of pe preference reverence however he si ap pp er prevailed ailed upon him to come 0 to o ter terms n is and lie ho agreed for a certain beram sum in in specie becie pe cie to the schooner not havins having the specie on aicard nit being provided pro aided N ith bills of credit it it vas as settled that our skipper sUpper should land lit great U begs cibor cz wi his bills aill and binig rhin j 0 landing in forthal for that purpose capt hol hodgdon don aund found that he could rut nt procure the specie until unil the next day most of the day was as spon spent in trying tring to negotiate and as it ab jacc inthe in the afternoon when lie he returned oil inboard onboard board he sloop of war the commander agreed to wait until the next morbid morning threatening threatening if the money was not forthcoming to burn sink ink s and de stroy as his orders ran with tl tie e consent con sent of the commander the captain and mate were permitted to go on board their own ves sel el for the dight n hi chas in in charge of a mi mild illy y and nine men during daring the night ll 11 the P two vessels eadels were ere to lay off a and nd on ill the e bar harbor bo r clos i in n corrll pany although with auh a force on board the schooner of co arse not the least suspicion as entertained of an attempt to recapture not relishing howe idea of making so unprofitable a voyage if the ransom money moncy was w as paid nor of scein seeing their little craft burnt nor them themselves seli es prisoners ers if it was vas not blesler the mate and the boy bill laid their heads head together to retake retae re take tae the schooner rather a formidable undertaking it it must bo be confessed with ten tell armed men on board and the guns gun of the sloop of var like sleeping thunder frowning upon them undeterred by the almost hopelessness of their task fast heussler and the boy arranged the plot div ing the captain caplain and the pilot a hint of their intentions which they readily acquis acquiesced ced in the night set in and our determined fellows set about the accini of their work at this time the two vessels having g made considerable offing were lying to tile the sloop of war under reefed beefed top sails and the schooner immediately under her guns with her helm la lashed h alee a lee her fore and main sails trimmed close aft arid and her jib hauled to windward about ei eight ht Ife heussler and the pilot turned in while the capt and middy a very gentlemanly young fellow by the way sat il chatting latting toge together ther in the cp cab b in over a dim ifa light the lids bb y bill 1 in i hafl doe ynh the sloop of wars men who were lounging around the windlass cracking jukes jokes telling ang yarns arns listening in apparently with ith the greatest in interest to the sto stones ries of old salts oc caio nally throwing in in a word arid and laughing heartily w at a t their relation of strange stran ge adventures I 1 say you DU spawn span of a yankee said one ot of them as lie he wound up his yarn arn you iou have 1 lie been sitting there chuckling this half hour had bad manners to you ou cant you ou do something towards toft aids helping out tho the even evening i ugly a entertainment 11 what can I 1 do ft val ai bills laughing in reply have you a plug of tobacco about you ou young youngster ster I 1 have been on a shot short t a allowance cnance of tarred rope these two months 1 I have no tobacco said bill if I 1 could get at the slippers chesi I 1 might smuggle a bite tor for you but i 1 till tell ti ll you novt noia lie he added lowering his hi voice theres there a barrel of gin on oil board and if lile like to wet your whistles I 1 guess I 1 can hook a drop tye the old man wont mind it seeing he is is going to get clear tomorrow to morrow morro N will talat do of course this proposition received recen ed the eager assent absent of all hands A bucket and dipper was vas soon found the hatches silently removed and bill crept slyly down dov n the hold after the coveted liItt liquor ur the men in the meantime raising their voices in in conversation in in older to drori dron a any n y noise bill might make in lit hocur securing n the prize after a hile bite he a feared appeared with the bucl bucket t full of gin and a hearty sig swi aft A q taken all round it may be supposed that such a goo good opportunity was not permitted t 0 pass and the main brace 1 I as spliced pretty ofte 01 old d salts Silt sare are proverbially chitty dogs and it was not ion long ere sou soundings n were found in in the bucket the sailors grew mol more e voluble soluble and many inacy a tough story was d each cach man ilian the h hero ro f his on tale p lutfu atae kuehny dry more ie than ihan one hi bl lit ht vias vas gien troll that a fresh nip bould not be ba dia agreeable gree able bill de inured at first but ty repeated urging at last ladt reluctantly consented to bring on another bucket it was brought replenished rel lenish cd again in fact isih bill plied them so brilly with liquor that though not over strong before loti ion they were all uia ina comfortable comfor able state of I 1 having assured himself that there was no danger to be alap apprehended reh ended from his late boon companions bill crept aft and giving a signal Ier leat left biz h i berth and I 1 sauntered aunt ered on oil deck with anith only a part p art of his dress on oil tor for fear of exciting the suspicions su licious of the L who hu sat sal half dozing doing over some newspapers which N aich the caplain I 1 ain had furnished him the rhe first object 0 of f the mate and the young conspirator was to secure the arms of the sleepers by time time also the pilot came on deck with his assi assistance tance the men were bound and bundled down don the fore peak this accomplished the captain abo vho had a hint of the progress of afra affairs irs immediately addressed the astonished atoni shed middy at the same time cry coolly taking a brace of pistols from th the c capacious pockets of his pe pei jacket and cooked cocked thern them saying he hoped I 1 he be would make himself as comfortable as he could for he be was his pr prisoner iso at the same time begging be geling to be excused if he be left him for tae the present to his own meditations as duty cat led him on deck we cannot stop to describe the wonder of our middy at this unexpected speech suffice it that seeing how howa affairs dairs had t turned he submitted as philosophically as lie could chile the captain went wen on deck fastening his bis late prize prie master be ow it was now getting towards midnight so far everything had succeeded well but the worst was yet to come coine how to get away from the sloop of war was their next study the schooner as we have said was lying in close proximity to her guns and if she attempted an escape one broadside would blow her to atoms their first endeavor was to increase I 1 the distance between the two vessels this they did by the pilots cautiously 1 assuming the hlin hilin I 1 and taking liti advantage vantage of every favorable favor ablo cirr circumstance cum u estan stance c e by yawing and filli fill fillad fD ng so that by degrees the distance dis lance as ii insert n sibly increased 1 E 11 g a I 1 in I 1 w way J found ou nl h he e nad hda gai got in the ahe fa 0 la c nii L nf akin oana may the others in m the mean meantime time having secretly got everything r ready for a stall stait suddenly made sail and ran tox towards ards the boals they had scarcely filled away hen crabl came a gun an from froin the slop of war laze aay iny good fellows sa said i the supper slipper exultingly exulting gly it will require require good eye sight to hit the little litlie fox this di distance tance in the night and blaze an uway ay they did dida though ollough every shot flow flew high over the fugi ati tn e craft doing aloi ng her not the least damage hil hull spar or rig rigging in Alean meanwhile hile in in an incredibly short space of time the sloop of war had packed on all sail and was mas blowing directly hie cily in in the wake ale of the runaway the only chance chanc 3 of our yankee was to c creep in among the boals where her pu pursuer rauer could not from her draft follow ler this she he did having a good start and being t a good aller callei until the sloop p of f wa war r thought it 11 prudent to haul off finding she could neither cripple nor overhaul her the fox still continued her course running running for the rip raps inside of which i is s a passage passage way while the prometheus pi ome the us bore up with the ilten I 1 tion of running round the shoals and hea heading diug her off bat agthe as the fox had a straight cut bite her he pursuer had a roundabout round a bout passage the former got the start of her herlind tind tin d succeeded in in getting safety safely into the Delar iare at new nev castle axas a depot 0 of gun boats stationed station Fd there to guard the mouth of the river nver running into this place our yankees delivered deev cred up their chopfallen chop fallen prisoners boners and then I 1 proceeded on oil to phila eipl i in noti no a little proud of their daring achieve alent amentt havin giai ing talen in a full cargo of our k 1 halll ln ilcy H I 1 bained about three replis our oui yankee friends started arted Sil for salem the they waited 1010 a very ery dark night ere they left lliel lelaa re in the hope of escaping 1 1 10 ail enemy it 1 na hofere prowl nig lilys atmil at ant qu maltis riv alit cat ayes es a rat at hot ho e ready to pounce upon u po the first that ilat attempted egress taking aking ti e of an unusually dark evening itna abid having a very ery stiff breeze they started start td the schooner wasa as a good E hiler in ex excellent cellena trim and aixa they cracked rached on oil to lier her towards morning ming having haling g had bad a fine nights run ran the skipper turned in in condrat clatin elating himself that abany at any rate rate he had slipped by one dan dangerous arous point not a little anxiety was felt fell by all on board to avoid tho enemy and more I 1 particularly the sloop of war for they well knew if they should fall ag again ga in into her clutches it it would go ba liard they knew boiner no iner cy w would lie be shown shon them the little fox fo will baffle them thi this 3 time lime said tile the old pilot turning the enormous quid in his mouth illicit lie he had been chewin chewing g with an activity that plainly showed the anxiety of his mind waln a sailor has any unusual care on oil his mind the I 1 way he uses up tobacco is a caution here you bill he contin continued ded leep keep your weather cather eye open look sharp youn youngster pter it is getting toward daylight gin wont save us this thi time what awful sn illers those fellows were he added in a sort of parenthesis bill needed ab nb no the idea of being carried across the big pond and then thrust into a crowded prison was any anything thiD but |