| Show U AT 1 sit SIU Blundering along without ony any r lookout a big Italian bark came calli IT Ir IrIng t r ring Ing down upon a 0 Grand Bonk Banks fish schooner and anti cut her h l In two Tt Th schooners crew of ot five tumbled Ira itu I I Ittle title dingey as their boat sank I li them And yelled tor or a it rope rap rapI big bi lully covered cor up her name anti And J a point pOI lit ore off the I wind rind drove swiftly on in III terror 1st I SI et her criminal carelessness should hay hav to 10 be pall paid for tor In III hard cash The Tire roil rob d c men muen might drown fur for or all slut she card care Hut But others taw saw the time crime A little sma Sire k Ii cracked on every hit bit of ot canvas cultures cm r J steered In pursuit of ot time the cruel crupI Hall n In tim vain tho tire latter set every evet tall call IV it In little fishing boat Jont wire was too nel could not be he shaken ort oft Mill Mile r mile lade pursuer and armi pursued spun saw ly y on our tho ta Atlantic and ns as the breez tIre the smaller craft crept up UI and amid up III nt itt lant an nil hour before dusk dud she mitre over overhauled overhauled hauled her big quarry rind and made sUr sure of vt her Identity Her Hel plucky chase ChAHI w SS d s ft In Its vain for tor the tIre Italian was for COt j il to 10 pay 1500 In damages The rite captain of ot tho hue a owned sWain steam launch plying on tho thu th WEt Vet Ve t river near Canton had no rio idea idra ib ti I IJ h hind had shipped a n crew cre of ot pirates th y rose one OM morning tied lied him In hm Ins i ii I In imi and turned the tire little n s for Cor the lie pirate It t so RO happened that on tin th arnie morning the time revenue launch Firman Furnan was WIlS passing up till tho river ilver It r tho Esan and suspecting corn thing wrong gave gore chase chaNe Next tIre the s1 mm 8 am air Sal Kong Rong from 11 11 I lI ur d joined In iii time the pursuit All day tiny ih th three craft hung luring close tog it r r I Ithe the tire I ang IH a n knot the ire th fast si o oIt I crl rn It WAS only the superior handling of or th the British manned vessels that hint III that In sight night of ot her herThe herThe herThe The oily estuary boiled In long sir str alts ahus ot of while foam roam and n a constant of ot title rille shots was sas OS exchanged between the hue revenue cutter arid and the time pirat JUcht out to 0 sea sen the tire steered arl then lien turned toward tIre the th Island i fuse p The flie revenue launch was lIIS within M tiO yards YArd when the tIre pirates reached th tiu saul sand sandbar bar at nt tIme the mouth of ot their creek ll ran ian the tire stolen craft high and anti dry anti and ashore without losing n a man maim manIt manU It U sounds strange to talk of ot pirat s son on the tire coast of ot civilized England yd yet 1 only ear earthree three years ears ngo ago four tour Dutch 1 CulT Jur starving anti and desperate stole stoic the he 0 o ton ten cutter Sibyl from ruin rom her hoc moorings at nt Si S 8 as Jr a borough nut and started homo home across iho h hi North sea Ilea IleaH It H was vas three thre hours before the was discovered and then their the tug Me Mee maid went In pursuit Hut the tire breir lire F z was from rom the Ire west arid the lit Sibyl was cutting the tho waves es at t I n I knots knols nn art hour It H lW was II C G In tire the evening before the he tug till sighted the chase and only two turn hours of ot daylight left lett Tire Th Mermaid watt was logging 12 and by IJ 6 G s was vas close clo to time the th yacht but her tier coal roal was almost t gone The Tire owner of ot tire the Sibyl thereupon offered to make mak good Hood anY damage It If the tugs tUlIS skipper would us usher usher her fittings an nit fuel At 1 half halt past Inal 7 1 1 a mere empty shell of ot Iron with engines drew abreast of at tire the Sibyl ml r her crew surrendered Tire The cos cost of lb 11 chase challe to Mr Ir the I Ithe the Sibyl was over orr 1500 but It ws itS s well II worth the tire money mone The Time Atlantic was the scene of ot the time greatest race on record when t I giant steamer and the thi then lien holder Raiser Kaiser m rn t tIn tIn In a five 1 days contest The TIll Raiser Jol er left her hr p rr r In InNe New Ne York harbor at nt 10 In th the he morning 11 12 th newer neW craft left Ifft her ber berth she was wal 23 knuts out to neri yet el next morning the time second vessel sighted the first Uy Ily lJ 1145 th lu two wore were neck neck the passengers on the Kaiser Raiser could s I i but a 11 trail trait of ot sooty vapor apor Punting men shoveled earth coal for tor df dr r life Eventually the ho newer vessel l reached Plymouth 7 1 hours nerd 17 rain utes utts ahead of her ber rival rhal Immuring having burned tons of coat coal aud nut achieved a worlds record recoN of ot ESS SS miles in n a single day or lr C miles on nn hour |
