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all his glory. In my cpf on, many an d IDQny II; first cIaea nJavIer" l os t his bardea
r-ned Levr-eLs through the unfor-tunate cfr-cura et.ance of havdng tho jinker smuggled
on board, e1 t.her- through the influence of the merchant J
t o whom he owed a large
amount, vhfch accum ulated spring after spr i ng , or otherwise t hat the sid.pper vas
impo sed on by his tidy an d he althy a ppear-ance , lind vas thereby induced to give him
II; berth to the ice-fields .
I knew one fellow in pa r-t d.cu'lar , vho, to look at, one would think to be II;
first-class man on a pa n , well qualified to drag his "toW!1 of eight or ni ne whi t o­
coat.s ( i f t.hey got them) 51B 'Jell as any man on board , The ship in which he would
eet a berth and sail 'Would sail with fbg:'! flying and cheers echoing and r -e-enact.-,
ing o'er hill and t-hrough dale , an d would return \lith so many dozen vhftecoat.e ,
that i s, if s he did return all and not be Le et, in the Lcef'L oe s of f the \:a dha ms or
i n t he strain of Bac ca Heu ,
Rea Hy, for about twen ty- five ye ar-s he tt j i nked tt ev ery se.al1ng master he vent,
\lith, an d I distinctly remember Don Lander-s a nd t he rest of the boys, while in
c onver-eatdcn 8t t.he co r -ne r , exclaim , "Just vs t eh the Sisters , Wav f , Confederate ,
aa bhe case mli.Y be J Jonah baa a berth in her, and h" is sure to j i nk her-I" And
sure enough, it vou 'ld aIvaye turn out right . When I grew up a bit, I determined
to keep my_eye on this fQ~ ;"j1'n ke~ ; .~nd ""one Spring he- ;ent wit~capt . J a e-. L.
Keefe in the j·larill, and I'm b'Le s se d if Cap t . Jim didn't miss the rat ,
Another year, however, he ma nage d it, he vent, \lith the greatest ~eQl-killer
of them all, C.a:pt.a:in Daniel Gr e en , in the brigantine Su sa n ; an d sur-e Capt ;' Dan
hear-d
that his brother Tom vae jam.illed in 'White Bay in the brig ....1lliam Whalen,
Capt . Dan, left the seals, an d hurried t o hi s e asda t ance , got jammed, and
for the
first t.f rae 1n my remembr-ance returned t o port vith a smAll trip , lind to mak e
mat .te r-s vo r-ee , 'ther-e \I:.I S no truth in the r e por-t, of bfs brother bedng jammed at all.