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FOUL WEATHER JACK." of the crew were, preserved and brought on per not wishing to lose time, weighed anchor, and I will bring you to good and safe an­ give them lamin’, but she taught us better between his giant fingers unaccomplished—yet denly into old age, and the light wind that stir­ board th e" vessel in which Capstan sailed, chorage.’ things than books can give ; to be honest, and yet were they done. The ‘ angel over the right red the green leaves, shook the gray hairs over but lay to in the roads until J ack returned. useful, and industrious. She taught us to be shoulder’ will have a longer column to set down BY HAWSER MARTINGALE. where they met with the most humane atten­ The sails were set, and the vessel cleared ‘If you do that,’ replied the Frenchman, his wrinkled forehead, as he sat there reading faithful and true ; to stand by a friend, and be to his account of deeds well done, than all the the village newspaper, with eyes that had be^ tion ;—the wounded being stowed away in the harbor; but before three hours had ‘ you will stand a chance of promotion.’ One moonlight night, as we were running generous to an enemy. It’s thirty years, rest of the passengers of that crowded caron that gun to grow dim. snug quarters, and put under the care of the elapsed, a gale of wind set in from the east­ But the elements saved them the trouble long, tedious, stormy night in January, 1856, down the southeast trades, I was keeping a Btrangers, since we dug her grave by the lake And every little while, fragments of some old- surgeon. ward which drove them back again faster of weighing anchor; for the gale increased, side with our own hands; and with many a tear lookout from the top-gallant forecastle, when fashioned tune floated out to the old man, soft, The weather, which had hitherto been very than they went out, with their rudder un­ and the vessel began to ride so uneasy, that and sob, turned ourselves away from the cabin sweet stray fragments; and flitting baek aud I was joined by English Harry, a bluff, hale The Mistake. fine, began to be rather boisterous, and the sbe parted from her anchor, aud drove be­ where wa had beau raised—the Indians had forth from the pantry to the breakfast table, was old dog, who had, of his own accord, taken shipped and other damage. The skipper third increased to a hurricane. The vessel fore the wind. Jack Helm was now the killed our father long before, and we’d nothing I ’ll never do it—never, so long as I live I and a young girl, not handsome, but with a sweet charge of my nautical education, so far as swore the deuce was in the wind. to keep us—and so we went to seek our for­ sprang a leak, and the men were kept at the only man on board on whom the safety of the boy clenohed his hands together, and strode frank rosy countenance, whose smiles seemed to related to the noble art of yarn-spinning.— ‘ No sooner,’ said he, ‘ do we get the ves­ tunes. My brother, ho took down to St. Louis, hover naturally as sunshine over June skies. pumps night and day ; but after great exer­ the vessel appeared to depend. He took the up and down the room, his fine features flushed, Our conversation turned upon the supersti­ sel clear of the coast, dan de vind chops and got married down there sorn’e r; and I just and his forehead darkened with anger and She wore a pink calico dress, tho sleeves tuck­ tions they got into Barbadoes, with loss of helm, and the captain asked him if be kept tions of sailors, which I, of course, ridiculed. right in our teeth and blows us back again.’ went where tho wind blowed, and when I ’d shame. I ’d ask the minister’s pardon in fath­ ed above her elbows. Altogether, she was a bowsprit and foretopmast. bis reckoning right. scraped money enough together, 1 cum hack fair, plump, healthful looking country girl. This irritated my honest Mentor, who ex­ Two days were lost in repairing the dam­ er’s psesence, of course I would ; but to go be­ ‘ Yes,’ replied Jack. ‘ make your mind bought a few acres of land around my mother’s And while the old man read the paper under claimed, “ That’s like you, John ; you young Capstan was of a humane disposition, and age, and in order to expedite the business, fore the whole Academy, hoys and girls, and do had often wished to go down below to see two ship carpenters were hired from the easy, captain, and in a few hours you shall old cabin, for the place where I’d laid her bones this ! His whole frame writhed at the thought. the hop vine, and tho young girl hummed and land lubbers, you know more about sea mat­ was sacred, like. Well, in the course of time, how the sick men were getting on, but his shore. One of these men, happening to be safe in harbor.’ Ellsworth Grant, you’ll brand yourself as a fluttered between the pantry and the kitchen ters than a sailor like me, that’s been afloat, it turned up right in the middle of Chicager. I table, a young man opened the email front gate duty as master’s mate and been so hard dur­ eateli a glimpse of Jack Helm, clapped bis Jack Helm kept bis word, for in a few coward and a fool all the days of your life. man and boy, for thirty years, when you couldn’t stand that—I loved my old mother too But father never retracts, and he said I must and went up the narrow path in front of the ing the late unfavorable weather, that he had bands tofiether, exclaiming— ‘ B y jingo, hours more, they dropped anchor, and when haven’t been aboard long enough to get a well to let omnibusses rattle over her grave, so do this or leave the school and go out on the house. not an opportunity. Being, however, now at that’s him.’ The skipper bearing the excla­ the fog cleared away, the Frenchman found drop of tar on your genteel hands.” I cam back about 15 years ago, and quietly farm to work ; and the whole village will know Ue went up very slowly, staring all about him anchor, he went down below. The first per­ mation, called the carpenter aside and asked himself safely moored—not where he expect­ moved her away to the burying ground ; and with an eager, wistful look, and sometimes the ‘ Why, Harry, you certainly don’t believe the reason, and I shall be ashamed to look any­ him what be meant. The carpenter myste­ ed, but within gun-shot of Portsmouth Plat­ then I went to , and wrote back after­ body in the face. I ’ve a good will to run away. muscles, of his mouth worked and quivered,, as in lucky and unlucky ships, days and men !’ son he came near was a seaman who had been severely burnt in the hand; he saluted riously pointed towards Jack, and in a low form ! ward to sell my land. What cost a few hun­ The boy’s voice grew lower, and, a troubled, one's will when strong emotions are shaking the ‘ In course I do, you ignoramus; I ’d as dred dollars to begin on. I sold for over forty heart. ° him in his usual hearty and encouraging voice said— ‘ That’s him ! The puzzled and J ack gave an account of his adventure to bewildered exprsssion gathered on his flushed soon not believe I ’m my own mother’s son.— thousand—if I ’d kept it till now. ’twould have He had a firm, sinewy frame, of middling style, with ‘ Yeo ho .' messmate ! cheer up, surprised skipper impatiently exelaimed, the Port Admiral, and the consequence was features. Why, there was Jack Helm who always bro’t been worth ten times th at; that’s so, but 1 got It would be very hard to leave all the old height; he was not handsome, but there was lad, cheer up !’ But as the wounded man’s that he received a largt share of the prize storm about every vessel he was in, so that Veil, and who the tyvil is be?’ enough for’t. I soon turned that forty thou­ places ; and then, never to see Nellie again ; it something in his face yon would have liked ; countenance met his astonished gaze, he start­ ‘ Foul-weather Jack !’ replied the carpen­ money, which was due to him ou account of every body called him ‘ Foul-weather Jack,’ sand into eighty thousand, and that into twice would break her heart, 1 know it would. And perhaps it was the light away down in the dark ed back as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes ter. The skipper started back in amaze­ his having been the occasion of the capture as much, and so ou, till I don’t know nor don’t his face worked convulsively a moment, but it eyes ; perhaps it was the strength and character and ^ r e as afraid to sail with him as I of the French ship without, bloodshed. care what I'm worth ; that’s so. I work hard, foreshadowed in the lines about the mouth I should be to swim a mile race with a shoal stared wildly and his hair almost stood on ment. settled down into a look of dogged resolution end, as he exclaimed. ‘ Then, that’s de cause of our peing plown Old Capstan soon after .got back to E n g ­ am tha same rough customer, remember every the next. I musn’t think of that now ; though cannot tell; it wa3 as intangible as it w&d cer­ of ground sharks.’ land with the exchange of prisoners, and on day of my life what my mother taught me ; it’s only ten miles to the seaport, and I could tain you would have liked that face. ‘ Foul-weather Jack aboard ! Now this ac­ back again !’ exclaimed be. So saying, be never drink nor fight; wish I didn’t swear nor The door was open and the young man walked ‘ Come, Harry,’ said I, ‘let’s hear the yarn. reading the list of prize taken, he let the pa­ walk that in an hour, and get a place on some counts for the hurricane. I wonder we are called Jack Helm aside, and thus acsosted chaw ; but them’s got to be kind a second na­ ship about to sail, before father was any wiser. into the wide hall. He stood still a moment, Who knows but that it may convert me to per drop in astonishment as he ejaculated— your way of thinking?’ are not all blown to the devil. him—‘ I tell you vat, mine friend, you may­ tur’ like, and the only thing that troubles me Some time I’d come back, of course, but not staring around the low wall, and on the palra- As the vessel had to discharge her cargo be a tyvjlish good seaman, but if you zail iu ‘ Three hundred pounds prize money to is my money—havn’t got no wife nor children, leaved paper that covered the side. Then a thick ‘ Well, I will,’ said he, ‘ if you will strike until I was old enough to bo my own ma^fer, and reload before sbe returned, some days my vessel, I won’t leave port at all?’ Re­ Foul-weather-Jack. I vow!’ and I ’m going now to hunt up my brother and Tho boy sat down and buried his face iu his mist broke into his eyes, and he walked on like ‘ one bell,’ and then belay your talking tacks were passed on shore by the crew; aud Cap­ monstrance was in vain ; the skipper was in­ Foul-weathe-Jack had mos; confessedly his folks. If his boys is elever and industrious, hands, and the sunset of tho summer’s day one in a dream, apparently quite forgetful that till I get through.’ ain’t ashamed of my big boots and old fashioned this was not his own home. stan, knowing that poor Jack Helm had lost exorable. ‘ No, no,’ said be, ‘ although I made a fair weather voyage of the last, and poured its currents of crimson and amber into When 1 was mate aboard one of the Rot­ ways, and his gals is young women and not tho chamber, and over the bowed figure of the I think those low sweet fragments of song un­ his all in the burnt ship supplied his wants don’t know you personally, I know your was now about to reap the benefit of it.— terdam traders, who had smuggled poor Jack ladies ; if they help their mother, and don’t put hoy. consciously drew his steps to the kitchen, for a ashore, and gave him a trifle of money to name well enough; when I hired you I did Strange to say, his good fortune, iu being the on more’n two frocks a day, I’ll make ’em rich few moments latter, he Btood in the doorway, Helm onVIA as *4.0 oneVAAV VAof theLlAV crew, V iL H , we HO 1AU.OAhad U>a goodiiUUVl ! * . 1 • . • II I 11 . 1 • Ta At last he lifted his head—there was a look _ , , assist him till he could get a ship. It was not want to hire a storm at the same time ; cause of the French ship’s capture, had every one of ’em. of quiet resolve in the dark hazle eyes, and ' watching the fair girl as she removed the small many passengers, and, as it was near high 1 • ±, . n , , 1 , „ one evening that Capstan went ashore with so, von vord for all, you don’t zail with me. wrought such a powerful change in his favor ‘ Now gentlemen ’taint often I'm led to tell about the usual smiling mouth, which in youth j ro“ s °‘ yellow butter from a wooden box to an water, we were preparing to warp out from c 0 * , , r 1 ? -j r a .1 some of the crew that he met with Jack I will pay you half your wages, and that that his old cognomen of Foul-weather Jack on myself after this fashion. But these old is so paiuful, because it always indicates mental1 0arth_eu plate. 1 can hardly transcribe the ex- the pier where we lay alongside, when the IT , , , , , • ■ ,, . • , • sufferin"’. pression of the man's face. Iu was one of min- „ ,r • ,, j , , J e°.. . , Helm, and took him with them to give linn puts an end to de bargain.’ no longer served to debar him from entering places, where I trapped when I was a boy, make captain called out to one of the men to know 1 ’ , , , , , ,, , , *? , c on ship board. On the contrary, the good mo feel like a child agin—and I just leit like EHsworth Grant was at this time just fifteen, doubt, surprise, eagerness, that at last all ,7 ,1 „ mi „ a treat. Most of the crew had heard ot Jack Helm, finding it was no use cavil­ telling these youngsters here about the changes ho was his father’s only son, and he was moth- ; conYerSeo lnt0 one joyful certainly. it any one was looking alter the boat. Ihe , ,, T , , -r>, , , . fortune of Jack Helm was now the talk man answered— “ roul-weather Jack aud the Black man, ’ but ing over the business, took the money and and chances a feller may meet in life, if he only erles3. Merciful man I The words broke from tha along shore, aud Jack might have picked his ‘ Yes, your honor—Foul-weather Jack.’ they much wished to know the cause which returned on shore. He bad hardly left the tries to make the most of himself.’ Tho deacon wasa stern, severe man, while j 8^ slips, and the last roll of butter fell from prompted him to such a scheme. Where­ own berth among the fleet, so much was he ‘ But boys,’ said he, turning to a party of No sooner was the dreaded name uttered, boat live minutes ere be was stopped by sev­ Ellsworth inherited his mother’s warm, sunny ■110 Uttle hands, as looking up, she saw tha upon Jack replied as follows; sought after; but he was determined to have young men, ‘ there’s something better than temperament. His father was a man of un- ’granger standing in the doorway , and her rosy than the whole of the passengers rushed to eral rough looking seafaring men. 1 You see, messmates, ‘ give a dog a bad Now, my lad,’ exclaimed he that appear­ about on shore for a few months, or as long money, Get education. Why, boys if I had as swerving integrity and rectitude—a man who , ohenks actually turned pale with the start of the vessel's side, declaring they would not much lamin’ as money, I could he President, in name and hang him at once,’ is an old say­ ed to be the leader,— ‘ what ship ?’ as his money would last him; and as old would have parted with his right hand sooner : suyPri9ei . sail with us, and insisted on going ashore, as Capstan .had been absent from England a 1856 just as e-a-s-y. Why, I could buy up half than have committed a dishonest act; but one1 10 ^clamation seemed to recall the young they said the ship would either be wrecked ing and a true one. Now it so happened, No ship,’ replied Jack. of the North, and not miss it out of my pile. who had few sympathies for faults indigenous to ^0 himselt. He removed his hat. or meet with some mishap at sea, if thatun- tbat altbouSb 1 have bee“ a t.s®a ten >'eaf 3’ Oh, bo, is that’s the case,’ replied the long time, he offered him the shelter of his But get lamin’; don’t chaw tobacco ; don’t take peculiar temperaments and character ; a man ‘ Excuse me, ho said with a bow of instinctive fortunate fellow was allowed to be aboard. !1 haXe hardly met au-v bu boisterous weath- fellow we’ll find you a berth in bis Majesty’s roof as long as he liked to stop. Capstan no liquor; don’t swear, and mind your mothers whose heart had never learned) the bight and g.r0ce’ hut can you tell me, if Deacon Grant re­ Well. there was no alternative ; so the cap- 1 or, ; consequence was, that one morning, fleet, for we want men.’ accepted it, and the two messmates deter­ —that’s the advice of a real live Sucker ; and if depth, and all embracing beauty of that might- [31003 lere ; tain was obliged to unship poor Jack, lie . whcn 1 had J®* entered a new ship, we were Stop,’ said be, ‘ I have a protection.’ mined to pass tho winter of life ashore ; and you mind what I say you may be men, (and it iest text, which is tho one diamond among all , • ^03 31? :T. ‘ Y0'1 walk into the parlor and gave him a trifle of monej‘ and sent him I PrePanng to ^.1 from England to Holland, Have you ?’ replied the press master let’s although Capstan had formerly obtained a ain't every feller that wears a goatee and the pearls and precious stoacs of tho Bible, ‘Be . 0 a 30at Uncle, here is a gentleman who promise from Jack that lie would never at­ breeches that’s a man by a long wajs). Follpr ye chat Hable.' I wishes to see you. And in a flutter of embar- ashore. The moment he was gone, all the ' and w asa ,1,ost s“ fiae breeze aft, see it.’ out her counsels ; never do a thing that will Ile was a hard, exacting parent, and Ellsworth ra3™ent 8110 hurried towards the door, passengers were satisfied ; and we sailed I and everything promising a swift and easy ‘ My name is Foul-weather Jack,’ replied tempt to sail in the same vessel with him make you ashamed to meet her in heaven.— wasa fun-loviug, mischief-brewing boy, that Ihe gentleman did not stir, and removing ais away to Rotterdam with a breeze aft. I PaS3aSe’ that. 1 said to ni^ elt’ ‘ J ^ k Helm, be. again, yet, on shore, he met with none of Why, boy’s, I never done a bad thing but I everybody loved, despite his faults, and the silver spectacles, the doacon came in ; and tha About six months after, we were hired as ^or the dr3t tlme ln J ™ ;hfe > 7 V1’1 >iav0 ‘ Foul weather nonsense,’ reiterated the those storms and raging seas which had so heard my mother's voice reprovin’ me; and I 6Crapea he was always getting his neck into.— two men looked at each other, the older with a transport to take troops to Spain, and we I flDe yeatber at sca ' b“\ /a d not go press-master. ‘ I know better. He’s gone constantly followed in the wake of ‘ Foul- never done a good thing, and made a good move There is no doubt that Deacon Grant loved his some surprise, and a good deal of curiosity in landed them all safe at Bilboa During our ! from Harwich before the wind aboard the Dutch trader, safe enough, so weather-Jack.’ but I’vo seemed to hear her say, ‘ that’s right, son. but he was not a demonstrative man ; and 1113 ^ace ’ t^1? younger with a strange, longing that gammon won’t do for us ; if you really Jack,’ and that besn tiie best of all. Nothin’ then—it is the sad, sad story that may bo writ- earnestness in his dark eyes, that seemed wholly passage we had lost two of our men ; one ®hoPPed f*Sht roundel our teeth and blew a like a mother, hoys ; nothin’ liko a mother.— ten of many a parent—he didn’t understand his unaccountablo. bad been Foul-weathcr-Jack I wouldn’t died on board, and one deserted at Bilbo.— I heavy gale. I was so chagrined and disap- Chances and Changes. that’s so.’ child, and there was no mother with her soft Do you know me, sir? he asked, after a mo­ Just as we were about to return to England, I that when our steward remarked to have bad you at any price; but as I hap­ All thia had passed while waiting to wood, ment’s silence, and there was a shaking in his BY FRANCES D. GAGE. voice and soothing words to come between a black man came to the captain, and say-I m0- ‘ 1113 ls.f?ul weatber> I pettishly repli- pen to know better, you must go along with just out of Chicago. The great man was swel­ them. voice. ing he had been several years at sea, wished , ed' ‘ 4 yC’ l l 3 s°llle °,f my, old luck.aSaln ’ us.’ ‘ I say, Mr, Conductor, when will the next ling with emotions called up from the dark Ellsworth’s last offence can be told in a few I do not know that I ever had the pleasure of to get back to England, and offered to work I *fever 1 ,Bat foot aboa[d a ve3?el ltseems So saying they took Jack on board the express train go out to St. Louis 1’ shadows of tho past ; his rough frame heaved words. The grapo vino, which, heavy with pur­ seeing you before, sir, said the deacon. But here a change came over the features of his passage over. The captain, being two ' ‘ 16 S,lSnal for hurricanes, shipwrecks, or some Tender and be soon after sailed in a brig of “ Eleven o’clock thirty minutes to-night, sir,’ like a great billow upon the ocean. Tears sprang ple clusters, trailed, over the kitchen windows to his deep set and earnest eyes—they swelltd the girl, who had been watching tho stranger war on a cruise in the Channel, but here was the gentlemanly reply to the rough query. of tho school teacher’s residence, had been rob­ men short of his compliment, agreed to take I evl “l.ent or ot ier' ‘ Eleven o’clock and thirty minutes I Go to to the brim—and swam asking to be let fall as bed of more than half its fruit, one Saturday intently all the time. A light, like that of a him, and we sailed for England. We had 1 ‘ Tlus soou ,sPread ,am°nS tbe crow’,and as Jack Holm’s old luck followed him. A Texas ! Why, its ten this very minute. I ’ll tributes to his mother’s memory—tributes to the afternoon, when the inmates wore absent. long buried recollection seemed in break up from, some queer weather in the bay of Biscay, w,ere1 near1^ wreckad at tbe, ln,ou1tb th,e storm came on during the night, and tliey bet my bouts against a jack-knife the morning love of the past. But he choked them down, The perpetrators of this deed were, however her heart into her face. Her breath came gasp­ but arrived safe in the Channel. i rexe1’ the report of Jack Helm s bad luck were driven ashore aud wrecked near Bou­ express is off.’ and humming a snatch of an old ballad, ho discovered to be a party of the school-boys, ingly between her parted lips, her dilated eyes I t was a bright morning when we arrived I ,so°n £ ot arao.nS the ot ieT, sl**PP>“g- until at logne ; and those who survived became pris­ ‘ Yes, sir, it has been gone half an hour.’ thrust Lis hands down into his pockets, walked among whom was Ellsworth. were fastened on the stranger; and with a quick off Falmouth, but it blew stiff from the west I las‘ / was u n n am ed I oul-weather Jack oners of war. Jack with some ot bis mess­ ‘ Why in natur didn't you get us here sooner? back to the end of the car, pulled the gigantic The rest of the scholars privately solicited cry, she sprang forward. Uncle, it is Ellsworth ! it is surely Ellsworth! which kicked up a deuce of a sea ; however and became, 80 "'0l1 knowu, tbat u° shlP give mates, was conducted to the prison, where to Fourteen hours in Chicager is enough to break collar of his shaggy coat up around his ears, and obtained the- school teacher’s pardon, but a fellow all to smash Fourteen hours in Chica­ buttoned it close and leaned back against the 0 I if you had seen that old man then ! His the captain was obliged to go on shore with !lae a berth' ' However, by some fortunate his great surprise, be found bis old friend tho deacon, who was terrtbly shocked, at this ger, pulling and blowing! I've been told they window in silence. evidence of his son’s- want of principle, insisted cheeks turned ashen pale, his frame shivered; he dispatches, aud the long boat, was hoisted ' cha“o a I S.ot on board a vessel that was go- Capstan, who it appeared, bad been taken keep a regular six hundred boss steam power all The ears rattled on, What a mind was there; that he should make a public confession of his tottered a few steps forward, and then the great out for that purpose, and among the boat’s 11U° / : phe was nrisoner bv a Fr.ench privateer. Jack Helm the while a running, to blow themselves up with, what a giant intellect, sleeping, buried away fault before the assembled school. wild cry of his heart broke out—Is it you, my , 1 r • 1 , . 0 ai 11 i wrecked on Bilboa, aud being recognized by was now the richer man oi me uvu, ro*, .... r x -- --,r„lov tn nav boy, Ellsworth f pcrew rp w tthat h a t flfiftnmaccompanied nnniftri him wwas a s t.hp.the blackhln.Plc I p ° ° t , 1 from light anil uscfulocoo by a rubbish of nre- TT-f” f'AY1 Ellsworth explained and entreated.— some 01 my old companions on shore as r oul when be found the storm increasing, be the firemen and engineers all, I guess 1 can judioe,------'Habit----tic ana custom—Going out hail worx, Ills lather was invuineraoie, uuu tUC uuj-o n la r latho- : ynn aim? to see me ? And man we had picked up in Spain. The boat weather Jack, I was left behind, every ves­ stowed bis money safely in his handkerchief, stand i t ; I've a twenty that’s never been broke, for want of culture. haughty spirit entirely mutinied. that strong man asked the question with a sob, bad not quitted us half an hour, ere the I think that will put me through, Why didn’t ‘ A mute inglorious Milton,’ or rather Web­ and a timid voice like that of a child. sel absolutely refusing to take me on board and lashed it round his neck, and by that Ellsworth, Ellsworth, where are you going? wind, which had blown a stiff gale all the you fire up, old brag —give your old boss another ster, going about the world, struggling with his Gome to mo ! Come to me my boy, that I for fear of accidents. I began to fear 1 means preserved it. He therefore gladly There came down the garden walk, an eager morning, dropped to a dead calm, the sea peck of oats. I tell ye, this fourteen hours will own soul, yet bound by chains of ignorance, quivering voice, that made tho boy start and tiiought was dead, that I have seen every night should die for want, and I thought if it ever divided his little stock with his old friend was as smooth as glass, and we rode at an­ knock my calculations all into the middle of which precluded his doing but a moiety of the turn round eagerly, as he stood at the garden for the last eight years, lying with the dark eves come to tbat, I would sooner die in my own Capstan. It was about this time tbat the good it lay in his power to do. of his mother under the while waves. 0, Ells­ chor with hardly any motion. next week.’ gate, while the light of the rising day was flush­ country than among foreigners. Therefore French were fitting out an expedition against ‘ Very sorry, sir—we’ve done our best; but All the way through our long, tedious jour­ ing the gray mountains in the east with rose worth, God has sent you from the dead ! Come The captain and his boat’s crew did not I got some blacking and mixed it up, and col­ the British settlements, and running short as we are not clerk of the weather, 1 hope you ney, he had been ever on the watch to do good, colored hues. A moment later, a small, light to me, my boy. return till late in the day. and had received oring my face and bands, passed myself off of able seamen, endeavored to inveigle will not lav your misfortunes to our account.— lie gave up his seat by the fire to an Irishwo­ figure, crowned with golden hair, and a large And the old man drew his arms around bis orders to go round to Plymouth-, and bring Snow-drifts, and the thermometer sixteen de­ man and her children, and took one further son’s neck, and leaned his gray head on his for a blackamoor, and by that means got a some of the English prisoners into tlie ser­ shawl thrown over its night-dress, stood by the up there. He bad not been aboard an hour grees below zero, are enemies we can’t readily back ; soon a young girl seated herself by his boy’s side. strong breast, and for awhile there was no word passage over to England in Capstan’s ship.’ before it began to blow great guns, and we vice. overcome.’ side ; as the night hours wore on, and she nod­ Why, Nellie, how could you ? you’ll take spoken between them. The crew bad a hearty laugh at Jack’s One morning Capstan took Jack aside, were obliged to close reef our mainsail; but ‘ That’s so,’ said the first speaker, with broad ded wearily, ha roso. spread bis beautiful leop­ cold, iu your bare feet among these dews. You have forgiven me father? asked the contrivance, and each man offered to contri­ aud with an air of great mystery thus ad­ emphasis, and a good-natured, forgiving smile. ard skin with its soft, rich lining, on the seat, young man at last. go we must. I can’t help it, Ellsworth. It was a tear- bute his mite to assist him to get fresh rig­ ‘ Fourteen hours in Chicager I’ made a piilow of his carpet bag, and insisted swollen face that looked up so wistfully to the Do not ask me that my boy. How many times Our ship's carpenter turned to me and dressed him : ging, or that he might be in good trim to get 1 Jack Helm, it is now iu your power to TheBtentorian voice, sounding like a trumpet, that she should lie down and sleep. boy's. You see I havn’t slept any, hardly, all I would have given everything I possessed on with a knowing look said : earth, to ask, Forgive me, Ellsworth! and to a birth on board some ship. Capstan set a do your country a great service. The had aroused every sleeper from elysian dreams ‘ What will you do?’ she said naively. the whole night, thinking about you, unci so I ‘ Mesmate, one would suppose our captain into which he might have fallen after his long, ‘ Never mind me—I can stand up and sleep hear you answer, Yes, father. good example; be set down two guineas say­ Mouuseers want to gammon some of our was up, looking out of the window, and saw you hud taken a leaf out of Foul-weather Jack’s tedious, cold night’s travel, Every head was like a hufi’alo ; I’m used to it. That's so.’ go down the walk. So there was peace between those two, such log book, for I noticed wc had fine weather ing- countrymen to join their fleet. Now, my turned, every eye was fixed on the man who had A little boy pulled up from a sound nap to Well, Nellie, pushing baek the yellow tang­ peace as the angles who walk up and down the 1 Here friend Jack, I give you this freely, hills, crowned with the royal purple of eternity, all the time he was on shore; but no sooner advice is, if they should make you a propos­ broken the silence, lie was standing by the give place to incomers, was pacified and made led hair, aud looking at her fondly, you see, I and I will eudeaver to aid your fortune, and stove, warming his boots. To have warmed his happy by a handful of chestnuts and a glow'mg tune their harps over I has he got on board again, than it comes on al to be sure aud accept it,’ can’t do what father says I must, to-day, and so I hope you will soon get a ship, but I wish Jack stared at him with astonishment as feet through such a maBS of cow-hide and sole hit of candy out of the big man’s pocket.— I’m going off And this—this is Nellie ? How she has alter­ to blow like the deuce.’ When he left the cars for refreshment he brought ed ! Buc I know the voice, said Ellsworth at . a . , , • i t < 1 a a1 ?a the LUU LllAVcrew U.11L1and passengers UdooLUl/LlS »•»a IfUUG.good UkUVCiitUkL.deliverance. be exclaimed : leather, would have been a fourteen hours op­ 0, Ellsworth, what will uncle say? cried the ‘Aye, true, true, said I; ‘but they cant , 1 T • » , i r eration. Six feet four or five inches he stood in back his handful of pies, and distributed them child, betwixt her shivering and weeping, what last, as he took the girls hand in his own, and y? • i e • j a n i ai t i » There is only one iavor 1 wish to ask or you ‘ W hat! turn traitor to my country ?’ lay this gale ot wind to b oul-weather Jack s , , T i m a ? those boots, with shoulders (cased in a fur coat) among a weary group. A mother and seven lit­ will uncle say I How long shall you be gone ? kissed her wet cheeks, adding very tenderly— ; . 6 a a , and that 1 hope you 11 grant.’ ‘Quite the contrary,’ said Capstan; ‘you My darling sister Nellie. account, at any rate. , , T •>, -p-5 • , r j t i that looked more like bearing up a world than tle children, the oldest not twelve years old, I don’t know, ho said evasively. I shan’t be w i ] i - a • i , n •, i a , ‘ I will, if it s in my power, replied Jack. will do her good service; because if you whose husband and father left the ears at every And at last they all went out under the cool We had a boisterous night ot it: but at , J r , • j n you will meet ordinarily, in half a lifetime.— back to-day, though. But you musn’t stand i i n i P i I p ai Oh, it is in your power, said Capstan, enter on board one of the enemy’s ships she llis head Websterian, his shaggy hair, black as stopping place, and returned more stupid and here, talking any longer. Father’ll he up soon, shade of tho hop vine, and there Ellsworth told vbreak i j of, day /. we, were within mi gunshot • j ol i the i ‘ Say what i a it-a is - then,ai , quoth a Jt act ’ ‘a andi it •*. beastly each time, scolding tho little tired rest­ his story. Jbddystone Lighthouse. Ihe wind was heard j n / , , 1 will be cast away, or meet with some acci­ jet, liis whiskers to match, dark, piercing eye you know. Now good bye, Nellie. dent at sea ; and that, you know, will be and his jaws eternally moving, with a rousing less ones with thick tongue, and glaring his There was a sob in his throat as he leaned The merchantman, in which he had sailed from the southward, we kept her head off ' ue* -n . + -i • n furious red eyes upon the poor grieved victim of ai i j a , i v • 11 i That you will never attempt to sail in the serving your country.’ quid between them, while a smile of cheerful forward and kissed the sweet face, that had from home, was wrecked, and many on board the land to prevent her being blown ashore; i J .. , r r i . good humor, notwithstanding his seeming im­ a wife, like a tiger upon its prey, ‘ because she perished ; but some of the sailors constructed a but all wouldn’t do. Our sails were cut to Same VCSSel Wlth me aSam’ ’'cphed Capstan. Jack Helm looked wistfully at Capstan, only seen a dozen summers, and then ho was patience, attracted every one’s attention did not keep Iier youu’ ones still;’ ‘ they would gone. raft, on which the boy was saved, with several Next morning the crew returned to their ribbons, and our vessel was so crippled that and although there appeared something rea­ ‘ Fourteen hours iu Chicager, eh ! Wall, I disturb everybody.’ No bite of refreshments, others. They were afterward rescued by a ves­ several duties, and Jack went to lay out she would hardly answer the helm. We sonable iu his advice, yet lie did not like the eau stand it if tho rest can ; if twenty dollars no exhilarating draught, no rest from that fat, Go and call Ellsworth to breakfast, will you, sel bound for South America. Here Ellsworth __. „ i „„ „„ „ i • a - j some of his money in the purchase of clothes, idea of sailing in an enemy’s ship. How­ cross baby, camo to her all the long night, save snipped a heavy sea, which carried away our , c i won’t carry me through, I’ll borry of my friends, Ellen ? said the deacon, two hours later. had obtained a suitation in a large mercantile j I ’ve gi?t tho things that’ll bring ’em. That so.’ when the big man stretched out his jfeat hands Ho isn’t up stairs, undo. And then, as they establishment, first as a clerk,.afterwards as a r„iL„bulwarks i „ and„ -m „ another u ihour ibump we .,and whatever . x , else , be x stood in i- need ix ot, and ever, when he reflected on the hopeless plight , „c,in_x 1 i then went to look out for a ship. It must in which he stood, with the certainly that no And lie thrust a hand a little less in size than and took her baby boy for an hour, and let him two sat down to theirs, Ellen related what had junior partner. play with his splendid watch to keep him quiet. " r A . i a i i i i be allowed that although Jack had the mis- English ship would give him a berth if they a common spade, down into the cavernous depths transpired. He had written home twice, but the letters bome of the men had been washed over- r r x ± , ,, , of a broad-striped, dashy pair of pants, and ‘ I’ll give yer a thousand dollars for him,’ i „ , i , • r .1 • r I fortune to be proverbially noted as the har- know him, together with the offer of a full Tho deacon’s face grew dark as sho proceed­ had been lost or miscarried. As he received na board, and had to swim for their lives— n . 1 , J brought up that great red hand, full as it could said ho as he handed him back to iier arms. ed. answer, he supposed his fathor had never for­ ,1 „ vi i i t biuger ot storms at sea, yet lie was as able purse as bounty money, J ack’s loyalty wa­ among them was our black man, whom I ° x a x i hold, of shining twenty dollar gold pieces, ‘ You may have the whole lot for that,’ lie thinks to elude the confession and fright­ given him for running away, and tried to rec­ n _ Io cnomonseaman oa as nvor ever vronr went ntlnnt afloat, nnrl and nn no ninn man found lying on the beach half drowned; but vered, aud he consented to go on board. ‘ Don’t yer think I can stand theso ere Chi- answered the drunken father with a swine-liko en me, by running off for a day or two, ho said; oncile himself to the estrangement. was more fit to take charge of a vessel; be The French captain soon discovered tbat grunt, judge of my surprise, when I went to wipe , , , , , cagers for one fourteen hours ?’ he will find he is mistaken. But he had of late found it very difficult to the wet off his face, to find that he was o f' wa3 a capital helmsman, and knew every Jack’s capabilities were of no mean order, A nod of assent from three or four, and a ‘ It’s a bargain,’ said the big man, ‘ providin’ So that day and the next passed, and the dea­ the mother’s willing.’ do this, and at last he had resolved to return to inch of the Dutch as well as the Spanish and, being a capital steersman, be was^often smile of curiosity from the rest, answered his con said nothing more ; but Ellen, who was his his home, have an interview with his parent, the same complexion as myself.’ question in tho affirmative. ‘ lndade, sir, it’s not the one of them can he adopted child, and the orphan daughter of his ‘ What, does all this m e a n s a i d our Coast so well, that he was as good a pilot put to the wheel. The Frenchman was had for money.’ was the quiet yet determined and try whether tho sight of his long absent son for those places as could be had. Jack ‘ You must have been in luck, stranger,’ said wife’s most intimate friend, noticed that be be would not soften his heart. shipmate, Capstan. pleased with the adroitness of the English­ an envious looking little man. ‘ You’ve more response of the mother’s heart. gan to look restless, and to start anxiously at went to several vessels, but at each of them ‘ I ’m your old friend and messmate, Foul- man, whom lie considered a great acquisi­ than yonr sharo of gold.’ How kindly ho helped her off the cars when, the sound of a foot fall; but still Ellsworth 0 ! it was a happy trio that sat under tha he discovered some of his old companions, tion. Jack also felt pleased, but tbat feel­ ‘ I have, eh? Well I reckon not. I come at the break of day, they came to their journey’ came not. green leaves of the hop vine, that summer morn- weather Jack,’ says he. iug. It was a happy trio that sat down in that 1, Thatm, s enough,’ says I. . ‘ Now-XT I ve . cfound i an