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Show ship's bag, and Adventure cfj about firim"IUI the same tin Old Sail. was Billy Tooley," i.Tbat boy's name who was talking, mariner old :, WI4S the wus an imp of mis- ever ...mlifibe" was that boy. There wasn't any. but wuat thins in tbe way of skylarking . up to, mid it 'i'du't matter a piii he played Lis tricks upon ij him who or men Sometimes he, officers whether on deck of would catch ft chap caulking 'l(h and just pui the draw bucket somewhere overhead, on water full u the house, aud make or rail upon the a of end rope yarn to the buck fast one . . - . QAnn cu . um. Hie '0 Otnef lh tunp uaiccy, UJlJ when he jumped up suddenly he'd pull ont j himself or outo ,(Vtr the bucket theuiher chaps; sometimes he of s0me would make a chap's log fast, and when brace the yards ,ue order was given to in' take sail, the chap or make to ur would start euddeu and find himself in no time. Frequeuily ,(Jwn on deck on turning out would waicli whole ,l)e ot oakuin, or jiuJ their boots stufied lull turned inside their of sleeves jackets the that of and it sort, some or games out, fa always that whelp that did the job. Licked he wuk, of course, mauy times, hut it only made him worse, and the was sure to fellow that whipped Liu come off secoud best in the long run. lie was a great favorite too, was Billy, with ill hands, notwithstanding all his tricks, 'cause he was such a willia' hand when anv work wus to be done, and I've eeeu the tears stand in the eyes of that boy tfhen a man had got tthead of him to He had loose a royal or to gallon' sail. too, had Billy, and good booklaruia' cuulJ read aud write wonderful, and it's along of that same writin' of his that I got into the scrape that I'm going to tell Billy was alway load of me you aboat. anJ so was I of him; you see we was shipmates in two or three ships together, and of a night nothing suited him belter thaii to get down alongside of tne, and get me to spin hiw a yarn. I was always ooJ at yarnin', but then the twisters I used to reel off to him wa-- different from the stories I spin you, 'cause these is all irue;butluscd to lie by the fathom to him, and 1 do believe the bigger. 1 lied the better he liked it. " 'Spin us a yarn now.Tom.' he'd say, 'and let it be a reg'lar twister, as long and so I'd go as the main ahead, and tell him of all sorts of things I'd seen on deep water voyages round the Capes, and among the natives on the islands in the Pacific, and about whaliu' and all that; and he'd take it all in, as innocent as if 'twas mother's milk. That niffht. . I 1. A s learn, and 'afore he'd been six months to sea- there, warn't a to- a- - 'Mathew knot, from' .it ,Kt o'mfools' boy was sharp to- - - - but what he was np 'to; arid.! and I ' parted company for he could good, just put two eudsof a rope together as neat as most auy one. 'Twas in one of the 'double L' line where we was first shipmates, Billy and 1. but 'twas in a B.uck Bailer thp. Yorkshire when" the ' thing happened that 1 am going to tell you about. I was up at a public house that I used generally to up atef an evening, where the tenpenny ale would make you cry like a child for more, and you didn't need to take much more,"cither, afore you'd begin to talk of your . rich' relations. Well, I was up there, ks I te.lyou, one night, when the says to nie: "Tom. do you know a chap called Walker,' afore him fe-c- baf-ma- id Jem Williams T' '"Of course I do,' says I, 'he's second male of a bark that went to Glasgow.' "Exactly so,' says she, and he's just' - tliegof est chap I ever knew. He was we the voyage before this last one, and lip used lobe, up here continually. I didn't take much notice of him,' says ''cause there's a many that conies p here regular; but sec what a letter the soft fool has been a sending me.' "Along of my going to this Louse for couple of years or to, off and on, Polly, fhe and I had got to be pretty intimate-like- , and I didn't like to let her see that I couldn't read writing, which wsthe fact; so I says; '.Polly dear, just fill she, b.ir-mai- d . up my mug and briug-tnbccy, and I 11 just clap y pocket and overhaul leisure.' ." 'l'm fure I don't care some more this letter in it when I get . what you do it,' says Polly; the eofty, to write '"ch a thing to ine.' "Well, I takes the letter down aboard the ship, and the next day I asks Billy -t- his boy that I told yeu about if he thought he could read it. .t" 'Of course I can, says he; 'let's have th "So I puil8 the lctter out 0f my pocket n that there boy read it right off the 'eel the first time he tried, and without missing a word. . . "'1 say. Tom.' snirf TlHW .nA. oft . inj 'ue 'the chap that writ that flat.' ' W court he is,' 'and that's Jst what Polly gai.i; says I, youo8 woma he's sweet on!' is an awful ,,lhn ,a?3 Hilly. ;;Of course,' says I, Nie won't answer -- ot " 'whatc-ther!-' it,' says Billy. I . she,' says I. thl.a,by'8 genius for mischief , camIh;Cn we'll ppt tnX lime that he will, and we'll see how he'll take on when he gels the letter; it will be a sell,' and great he young varmint actually danced for joy at the idea. "'Go ahead, my bo',' says I, for 1 didn't see no great harm in it at the time: and so Billy he gets pen and paper and fires awsy. "Well, Jim's letter was soft, sure enough, a tellin' Polly how much he lov- ei ner, aud how lie d never stopped a thinkin' on her since last he clapped his eyes on her, and a proinisin', if ghe was willin', to come right on straight and splice her out of hand, and so on; it was soft and no mistake; but it wern't noth-in- ' to the one which this boy writ in reply. He read it all off to me when he'd got it done, and it was a gusher, I can tell you. He didn't stick at nolhin', didu't that boy, but just.tellcd Jim how Polly was on the very verge of the tomb for love of him, and if he wanted to see her ulive he'd better make all sail in her direction and carry a hand. It was writ reg'lar small, like a woman's writing, and the boy just claps Pol y Jones to the bottom of it and stows it away snug in a cover and directs it lo Jim to his boardipg-housin Franklin Square, New York, aud then that boy's mind was at ease. "Of course, I didn't tell Tolly anything about this, and in good time our sailiu' day come, and away we went and .arrived here at the foot of Beekman street in due course. "The bark what Jim Williams was second mate of got in two day after us, and Jim came up to the house where Billy and I was boardin', and he got the letter, and he wa just as pleased as a dog with two tails. Billy and I was our weather eyes open all the while, and was tickled a'most to death to see the way that chap went on. A boat every fifteen minutes he'd get away by himself and pull out- the lctter and read it all through, and then he'd come up to me, or (o some of the other chaps in the house, and insist on standing treat, so that by bedtime, what with freshenin' the nip so often, Jim was more n half seas over. As soon as he was paid off Jim leaves h'sbark and chips afore the mast in the 'John It. Skiddy," and away he goes to Liverpool to get spliced, as he thought; and Billy and I, having swayed away on all taut ropes till our money was all gone, we ships in the "New York," and away we goes, too; and so it happened that all three of us got to Liverpool together. Jim got there, as it might be, a Monday, and we got in two days after; and the first night ashore I, of course, calls in to see Polly aud have a mug of ale. W ell, Polly, arter saying how d'ye do, and so on, goes on to tell me how she really be lieved Jim was adrift in his He's crazy, sure,' says Bhe; 'he will have it that I writ him a letter and told him to come on, and that I would marry him; whereas you know, Tom, I never did anything of tbe kind.' She said he really took on awful when she told him she never wrote to him, and she was quite sure he was crazy. 'Well, when I told Billy all this, I thought the boy would go into convulsions with laughter. 'Tom,' says he, 'I ain't quite done with him yet,' and-hwrites him another letter, signing folly 8 name, of course, and makes an appoint ment. to meet him by the Nelson monument, in the Exchange, the next night at 7 o'clock. Billy and I went through there about 8, and he was a walking back aud forward as industrious as if he had been a standin' watch at sea, and I don't believe he left that blessed square afore midnight. "Well, the next night arter this he goes up to Polly, and they had a reg'lar row. He produces the letters, ana asks Polly if she will deny her own handwrit-in- '. She got as mad as blazes, and she wouldn't look' at the letters at first; but after a while she overhauls them, and then she sees that somebody had beeu a hoaxin' of Jim, and she told him so, and then they made up and purled, good friends. She made him understand that he must sheer off; that she couldn't keep company with him for the long voyage; and so he took so many mugs of tenpeuuy oh the strength of it that he lost his way going down to the docks, and found himself in the lockup in the morning, and was lined 10s. and, costs for being e top-hamp- e drunk and disorderly. "I'm afeard, sir, you find this rather tedious, but 1 had to tell you all this to get in the fair way for the yarn I sot out to spin you at the first, which was to tell you how I came to get spliced. "When we got back to New York after that trip, Billy had got the idea into his bead that nothin' but a voyage would ever make a sailor of him. 'it was no use, he said, going these coasting voyages I want to go round the Cape;' and all I could say wern't no use, go he would, and two days after we arrived "Sea Witch," he shipped aboard the with 'liully Waterman,' for the East In dies; and. as I' heard afterwards, he came mighty near losing the number of his mess in a gale of wind, just aforo they got up, with the Cape. .. "If you don't mind my going off, on a hhort board,', after him, I'll tell you how it was,- and then I'll resume the yarn I've been a spiniu'. "As I was told, the ship was pretty well upSvith the Cape, when " one.nighl it breezed on rapid from a wholesale breeze till it blew great guns, and from having three royals tn her for you see tall-wat- er . - foM o8,.nW Itt ?' 8a8 I: 'wc 5n,t roily;' but 1 write a ' s.gu Lcr name and put it incur lnf-'?- they had had fine weather up to this, and hadn't stripped ship for the high latitudes they were brought down to a maintopsail and foretop-mastaysail, with scarce a pause in the shortening sail. The sea got up very rapid, and by morning it was as ugly as a man would wish to see The ship began to roll heavy and labor a good deal, and at tlaylight the word was passed forward to send the royal and topgallant yards down. "Well, Billy, as I told you, was always ready when there was work to do, and he and another boy jumps aloft to send down the fore royal yard.'IIe takes the end of a topmast stun sail lack, and goes up and stops his halliard to the backstay abaft, casts off the end from the ynrd and lets it unreave, shins up and reaves his yard rope through the sheave at the masthead, slides down again, gets his bunt gas't clear and his sail secured, bends on his yard rope and puts on his quarter stop, and the other boy having got the trippling line on and the and sheets cast off, Billy cuts the 'parral lashing and sings out 'Sway away the yard' as proud as a peacock, for neither of the other masts was ready yet, and he was tickled at beating 'em. Well, he gets off his lift and brace and sings out 'Lower away,' still ahead of the other masts; got his other lift and brace off, and was a putting on his 'yard-arstop,' when the chap that was a tejiding the yard rope on deck surged it suddenly, and the ship giving a heavy lurch just then Billy lost his balance and away he went. Well, the ship lurching so sent him well out to leeward, and the wind caught him and whirled him round and round like a feather and blew him so far to leeward, and the chap that told me this said he fell onto a curl of the sea about a ship's length to leeward as softly and easily as if he had bad a parachute over him all the way down. The ship, of course, under that short canvass, was laying right dead in the water and making a clean drift to leeward, and so she soon drifted right down atop of Billy, who was a striking out like a Sandwich Inlander. When the chaps on board seen she was agoin' to fetch him, a half dozen of 'cm was over the side in bowlines ready to grab him as soon as they got near enough, and one ef 'em got Billy by the scruff of the neck and he was pulled aboord agin. He wern't a bit daunted, weren't that boy ; for as they were pulling of him up, he sings out to the rest of the chap's that was over the side to look out for his hat, which had Mowed off his head and was a float in' some distance to leeward. "That was ft tight ' squeak though, wasn't it! "fain't everybody that cap. tumble from a ship's to'gallan' masthead and get off with onlya wetting; but, you see, 'twas the wind as done it, and he wern't much heavier than a good sized chaw of lerbacker. close-reefe- st d letter; and so, what's writ is writ, and USTotice. can't be unw rit, no how; therefore, if so be as how after undemtandin' the subject in all its bearings you still continue of HAVE IN MY POSSESION THE; FOLLOW, the same mind, we'll go this very next ing dcritdanlniil, whih if mt ilniin.st witUis tdovi ftvtu proM it Sunday afore a parton, and tie a knot ml taken beaway wild to the highest responsible., with our tongues that we can't never un- ditto, atwill th District Stray l'ouud, at Ogduu City, tie with our teeth. Tueday, Jim 10th. It73: HKDAND WHITE OX Estray I bid-do- r, "Well, Polly said as how she was convenient; and so, sure enough, that very next Sunday we was spliced in an old church out at Everton, aud I got her a passage home here in the same ship 1 wag aboard ef, and have never repented of the same. 'Is she still living?' Why, of course she is, and a wait in' for me at home this blessed minute. While I was agoin' to sea, Bhe lived in a house in Cherry street; but when I got this here job of night watchman on the dock, we moved up iu Sixth avenue, where I lives at the present writin'." "Certainly, I was glad to hear that Billy was safe.but if he had been drowned it would only have served him right, for the trick he played on me before leaving New York, which was to write a letter to l our ana sign my name t it Thomas Peters' a tellin' Polly as how I had intended to speak to her afore leaving Liverpool, and was willin' forlo splice her if so be as how she was ef that. mind, and a lot more of trash of the same sort. Well, of course ' I know'd nothing of all this, and I ships in the "Hottin- ger witn old uaptain uurseiy ana away - Ogden City, May 31, W.N. KIKE. Pintrlct Pjuudkeeper. 1G7S-41-- J Here is a curious story of the old Slav ery times, which we pick up from a Western Carolina newspaper. In the gold mining regions of Burke County o uvea an lnaustrious, free colored woman, named Nancy Boyce. She was engaged to marry Jack, a slave, and in order lo have everything plensant.she put her hand ii her Docket and bought 1UIK MONITOR HAS OAINED A No higher encomium ijuii him of his master. But she was shrewd flowed tlmf upon a Cooking Stove tliau to who ue It peak In itn prai-enough to lake a bill of sale of him, for- every and reooinnioiulu It to and' Jiu-her neighbor friend, turn. tunately, as it hannened. far cd out to be utterly worthless, and a for economy, cloanliueea and reliability iu all it., operationi. periect sot. liut little need was there 31,314 MONITORS now in IX for Nancy to eo to the Courts for relief divorce. She knew a belter way than by ALM, THl CKLKBRATKD mat. sue owned her man, and she simS.1HA CLAUS COOKlXli SIOIL who car ply sold him to a ried him off lo the far Souih-Wesso Tor 4'onl aud WmmI, that the sharp Nancy was never bothered Which wioh ft Demand through the Territory liaa by him aznin. Husbands have been tor Deauty and ExcelUm-ecannot sold badly before, though not in this iurpud. 1. Jleralu. particular way. All oiirfilovM are krnt and for Sul well-to-d- VAR-K- hou-.-wiJ- e. IS slave-deale- r, t, .. hy Married. C. V.. .n. I. and all Us Uritt-- AIho by ail the At the residence of Dr T. L. Anderson, t)gden, U. T., June 2, 1873, by Kev. D. G. Strong, W. If. Williams, late of Washington Bar, Meadow Creek, M. T., and Sarah M. Adams, of this city. Virginia City and Bozeman papers ' please copy. Ntortva. Cooperative Storea in thf 3iM.ni Twriory. BllIGIIAM CITY WOOLENANDFACTORY QuWlinjr Ztlittrlilm are iu futcwufui operutiou, In this city, at ten minutes after twelve a.m., the 4lh inst, of Jiptberia, WOOL WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR Brigham K., son of Brigham and ElizaCLOTH. beth Wagstaff Shupe, aged nine months and twenty-twWool rnrded into roll in a urvrior'iQakB(r bv days. The funeral will take place aud experienced Curder, K. Ilu (Thursday), at 10 the ley. a.m. Friends are invited to attend. wool! Bring .. o well-know- n your Mill, JS.tar please copy. 93. A YALUAULE IX AN ENTIRELY ETIO.J 85. NEW " SEWING MACHINE '0B DOMESTIC; VIE!.' ! 3-- HOWE SEWING JACIIINE. BEST IN THE M'ORLDr rER F K.CT K D the Inventor f tbe fcwiug Machine ELI A 8 HOWE, Jua. I ; ; THE OXLY FlVEl)OLLAItS. With tbe Xew Patent Button Hole Ail . Worker. 1 Thf. Mont Simph and Compact in Construction. The Most Durable and Economical in I'sc A Model of Combined Strength and Beauty. IX ALL ITS PARTS, WES'TUg COMPLETE Eye I'oititeu Nodle, direct upright poHltlve motion, nw teiition, tl and cloth guider. 0Mrate ,&y wheel iwl mi a table. Light running, (inooth and nolwU-- like ! nmchiui'K. ' IIa atntit t hwck W e docked in all good goes to Liverpool again. to prevent the whwl bHng turned the wrung way. the Waterloo dock of a Sunday forenoon, I'm the thread direct from the RMul. Muki--i tli and that evening I rigs myself 'up and goes upas usual lo see Polly and to- get mvbeer. There wasn't nobody in. the snug when I went in, and as soon as ever IIKIFKR. SPOTTED old, twullow fork in right fur. illogibltr. bruud ou loft liOuMer, hu a young calf. IS 3 year Sold Again. clew-line- s fore-roy- - mlf-feo- hi(b-prire- Elantie Luck titc)i (flufwt and Btronnt Mitch known:) firm, durable, cluM and rapid. W ill do all kind of work, fine and coaie, from Cambric to heavy uoth or Leather, and uvea all duacrip-ioti-d ' of thread. The bet mechanical talent In America and Europe, hat hoen devoted to Improving and iimplil'y. ing our machine, containing only that whU.Ii in practicable, and ditpeninir with all complicated lurrounding gcnorully found in ether machine. !L:iul term and extra Indncementi to aiule and female apnnt, etc., who will ewtaMiMi apencin) through the country and keep our new machines on exhibition and "le. futility right given to "mart agent free. AgMit'i com plete outfit fumndiftd without any extra charge, Hainnlee of newing. descriptive circulifw contain ing term. tovtimoniuU, engraving, fctc, vent free. 1 IIOMIST ItXACIIIXTUmt not subject to FITS. POINTS OF SUPERIORITY; S7i7Zofy and I'erfrrthm of Mechanism ' a Durabilitywill lastLifetime. llatiye of Work without a I'ttralUl Perfection of Stitch and Tension Banc of Operation and Managements Polly came in and clapped her eyes on Take-u- p Self Adjusting me she come and put her arms around Adjustable me in buss neck true a and ship my gin i I was deal a good Call and Examine iar Stylea aad a; shape fashion. Well, took aback by this, cause Polly hadn't T. W.JON K, Tailor, never been so fanulitr before; but as Third W from & C. M.3., Cv:n. such things are always acceptable aft er a SAMUEL MILLER, JUN., sea voyage, I just returned the broad-sid- e Agent. to the best of my ability.- - After ' tb f.t a few Also, Sale Room., me nwhile Polly heaves to alongside of doors west of Z. C. M'. I., Salt Lake AdUre, t aud begins to tell me hew glad she was BROOKS SEH IMI MACIIIXR O., City. r when she got my letter, and bow she No. Broadway, New York. I that idea never had had any thought so much of her, aud all that, until I was Completely befogged, for I couldn'tmake Out what she was at, at all. .So I says: 'Polly, my lass, just belay , them s of yourn for a and Co. bit, and let a know what all this is about, " for I'm blowed if lean make it all out . AG EXT FOK THE she: "Don't i Says you anyhow. rightly, know the letter you sent me?' ! " 'Me!' savs I. 'I didn't send you no lettcf .' " 'You didr says Polly, 'and hero it is, ana she uove uown into ner . pocicei JUSTLY CELEBRATED WAGON" IS MADE OF THE BEST MATERIAL and fetched it up. " 'Read it, says I, and sae done so; THIS througliQut and ii warranted. and I seen how the land lay at once, aud A FULL SUPPLY ALWAYS OX 1IA.VI). shaped my course accord in . I know d Also Dealer iu it was Billy's work at once, but I see that I was in for it.. " 'Polly,' says I, 'put roe down on a ' JHucUeyc ship's deck any day, and put a' marlin-spik- e in my fist, and I'll turn out a job ISakeN, of work equal to any man; put me on a NUitiblc ship's topsail yurd, in a gale of wind, and I'm equal to the situation; .but as for readiu' and writin', Polly, that I never AND 'ALIV' 0 F VAHM M AC H IXK R V learned in my youth, and it hasn't "come to me in age, aud consequently that, letter I never did write; but it'a. got, my A Complete Assortment of name to the bottom of it, and 1 never name own as near went back on my yet; as I can make out, it's just eich a letter AMI STEEL. ETC. as I should hive writ if I'd been able WAGOX MATERIAL, HARDWOOD, INK idee of eich writin' a to, and had any It tad ?rl-u- More-kwper- v . 13-J- ... 8.28-lj- M. D. HAMMOND, jaw-tack- gum-shee- Main St., Ogden, and Main St., Logan, Cache ts . 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