Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1880, Page 3

ry | * m herself, she stood at bay, like | blue eyes peeping through its long silken | “Captain Molly.” She wore her title zayly; but CAPTAIN MOLLY. cae wink are. 4 taenese The Czptain Deemed delight ag she fwitiebevaiee income left it to her husband LUMBER! fagill, of the good ship Barnacie, | _.“Don’t tech me!” she said, In a low, pawion- | paraded joyously to tell how she had won it. ‘Was braving the difficulties of land navigation ‘Without a pilot. Stee for Telegraph Hill, one minute he saw It rising directly before him; the next it had disappeared, as it by en- chantment. Well, at any rate he was sure of the lamps of Estrada’s auction store, behind bim. He turned—they were utterly gone. Truth fs, this human vessel had a heavy liquid cargo aboard. His veins were throbbing, nis head buzzing. The soberest of captams at sea,he was the most maudiic of revelers ashore. Good heavens! where was he? For that matter, who was he? The sudden disappearance of expected landmarks aroused disturbing queries as to his own identity. People in their right minds, finding themselves in unwonted plight. have been ‘upset in some such fashion. The old Woman, of childish memory, awaking from her roadside nap, to diseover, with Saul, that, her skirts had been curtatled, ¢ out in bewilder- ment: **Laws a mercy on me, this can't be T:” They are not wanting happy strokes of buman nature in contemned nursery rhymes, The Captain's wandering step: for the ensu- ing two minutes stamped a somewhat intricate braiding patternon the mud. His indecision Which way to turs bility todo aught Were piteous In the extreme. At last deeper mire than ordinary, glanes sweeping helpk bulbous eyebatls staring at him ver Dinked. The castaway Jaughed aloud. Nothing on earth was the mat- ter with hin. Those were Estrada’s lamps, and he was Misyill. of the Barnacle. The om i ous disapperances Were die to a natural phe- nom"nos—tog. Had he not been so heated by Internal tres he would have felt its plerciag Git Out O° this ‘er mud hole, turn your bacs n them tamps, am g+ ahead. You'r? all right, old chap’ The proprietics of language forbid exact transcription of the Captain’s grief solfloqay. Scarce a stbstantive tn it but Was doomed to yerdition before it lett his lips Odeying his ¢wn fandate. he was presently rewarded by finding himself going up hill. In reality, tue stratum of vapor wa3 not very thick. But’ a little fog may do a vast deal of mischief with poor dw: upon earth, shut- Ung out sun, moon, and stars, how splendidly Soever they roll and shine. In spiritual things & mere whiff of smoke—the fdlest of tdle opin- jons—is quite enough, for a time at least, to annihilate a prospective eternity. . Now and again, Misgill looked around to Taake sure that the beacons gleamed In their Places. he went higher, they sank lower and lower—seeming to roll up toward him som2 Very sanctimonious glances; and, as he uttered a subdued curs? upon the sifppery hillside, all at once the lights went out, as if concealed by Vigorously dropped eyelids. A moment later, @ pair of hot Itps became eloquent In the lan- guage of execration. In pariteular did they cover with infamy, too dire to hint at, the nau- Heal flend who had advised Miszill to citmd ti Yill and take lodgings with a raysterlous indl- | vidual whose sole attractio’ from irom the years ago Mise. Ss were refle wife and daughter he had 1 ates.” The Californta of thir Was not rich In wives and dat had ters. . When Porteous bad had far rather enter the magic owever humb) to put up with the grégarious discomforts of a lodging-house. So. armed with explicit direc- low to find ind further Ss to m) name, Mis- ghed anchor from the ol and had attered The night blacker and grimn A cri! wind, ladea with Moisture, rushed across the hill side and swept through and through him. He shuddered to his very_marrow, and conciuded to retrace his steps. Hardly had he turued to put his re- solve into execution, when his feet slipped from under him, and he went down, down, down, until something started beltgereatly out of the misty darkness right in his way. It was tne tide wall of a house. and Misgill beat on it furi- At length a candie fickered faintly ver hls head. raat do you want?” “ It's Misgill, of the Barnacle. If you're Jim allen, Porteous sent me. Come, now, don't put me clean through the blasted catechism. t me in! Next door!” were the uncompromising ac- cents of the reply, and the light vanisaed with unrelenting celerity, Next door! He might as well have said next lanet. Misgill knocked again, more furious! put was rewarded by no further parle Finally, he made another plunge into the sur- tter groping about tn rounding vacaney, atid. a rage, succeded In fad! as he en stp but th ‘Y same, which stol- idly withstood another assault. The humilia ing factis, that this process was repeated sev- eral times before Misgill, astonished that tue hill-side was so well batit up, devoted all its residents to fiery torments, and gave up in de- spair. ‘The following day, he avoided Porteous as h> Would tne plague; but that jolly personage found him at last. A watery twinkle in bis bioodshot eyes led Misgiil to believe that he an- Ucipated a confessicd. “ Hallo, Cap! Wher’ ye ben aes’ las’ night. eh? “Pin all day? How'd y to fin’ anythin’. jes’ What T said cobolie mneertaint Rants. She's asp s always an al- Ponteoas's conso- he had rashly on T Da Bill; but, having to acevunt to no one, sive hin. self, for "a broken res@lution, be set out b éark to tind Bal army Street westwar hat S it re: nb! ahi & = but Mise’ in climbing. wa upon slopes, greet aad soaked by hea s. Where be hid been wandering the ni e. he could not poss! biy make out. He saw nothlag of the houses among whfch he h Here a rude tent, the He began to think that he must have b Grunk, indeed. Ballen’s was n Porteous’s descrip bize it at on ouncing himself loudly at the front en- trance. Misgili was unexpectedly walted upon by somebody who darted around the side of the > lt man, whose y 4n abundant red bristles standing out cheeks—ears, even § heat acd choler trom e growth of vigoro Straight from Fadiat — do you want down over his head us query, put forth 1k isgill, of the Barnacle. I want a land d Ballen. and go to — with you, iB his best chest npies. you do Want me, you needn't and of the v ptting his voice fall » Porteous's friend, I ‘3; lied the other, “You'rs diggin’. Gvor; So it's barricaded. Women folks skeery. And rabbits were “‘skeery,” too. One fled here, another started there at the Captain's appro: making, with long, soft leaps, for the sheltet ing hogshead. This gaining, they turned to in- tigate, with wonder-strica: "5 and trem- ulou Mrs. Ballen excited Misgtil’ noses. profound aston- ishment. ~What a spare rib sue is!” thought he, chuckling. “Blast me f 1 don’t think her dys would pinch my thumb!” (A reflection which he afterwards repeated to Porteous.) So withered a creature was she, Indeed, that her shriveled appeai seemed ta some mysteri- ous way to bold ard her husband’s tnflam- mable temper the relation of effect to canse. One might be pardoned the fancy that she had undergone a process of physical Shrinking so as to present less surface to the tury of his wrath- ful explosions. For wrinkles. the poor soul's her close-drawn lps xactly as if worked round in button ch. What scanty ted into a th about her household di vity, She seemed like wound up. Before’ dinner-time Misgil DB heartily to regret being quartered there. He had seen no- bedy save tue two disagreeable eliers—Mr. Bal- jen scolding tne: ad Mrs. Ballen stlent— “but that sour, countenance was a marvel; looking cure a whole siip's erew of the scurvy Just to look at her onct.” ‘The young person to whom Porteous had re- ferred came In, swinging a calico sun-bonnet Dy the strirks, wiitle they were at table. A more Feitecs Uh of unconcern it had never been the ‘aptain’s hick to see. A shrewd observer, It Struck him that this nonchalance was assumed. Filnging her head-gear across the room, the girl tock her place at the bumble board, saylag e7elly: “Hallo, Pa! don’t bust your biter.” Then Misgill tayoluntartty gian and found if prom aoe pose cuffs of his rough jacket. He wast to sit by and see & “gal like that” beaten In “hig presence—“ "twas agin human natar.” The j}ouBg person Regge Uae same strain: “ Let off steam now, before you git tau do. Ma don’t want to pick up my fragstonts, do you, ma? Whew! how hungry { am! That she had been able to say so much with- out interruption was 4a evil portent. Ballen’s teeth He looked zerous. Toe last word had — the girl's lips when he few from lace. But was as ‘quick ag bee With ber back to the wall, againeg ate tone, “or you'll repent of it. I won’t be teched:” ith. tense 7, awaiting “You can bully ma, but you can’t bally mo. a eat or a Tm not a rabbit, to take nee eee choose. You've give me beating. ler courage Was 80 fine in the face of her father’s fury ballos ‘Ballen was a powerful man, too—that the Captain's blood tingled in every admiring vein. “She could front a mutinied foksl, she could!” bo onane) and eagerly watched to see what “How d-dare you stand there a-d-daring ma, Molly Ballea!” The man fairly stutte! astonishment and rage. Sera “I aint a-daring you. I'm a- tins es Self, that’s all Al noe ith a sudden aoseas ot foo! Tesolution—T'il do that so long as I draw “You've been off, n know: morning.” » Obody ‘3 where, since {Every body ken know where, if they want. I've been to Jenny Gregg’s. If you don’t belleve me, ask her.” “You've been a-neglecting your work, an’ leaving your ma to peg at It all alone.” “Much you care for ma!” Molly 1 So temptuously, when her mother, think him, soften her husband by siding with up in a whining tone: “Yes you hev, Molly, I’ve been hard at it all pat oe Pan she got ne cans. Bal- mg a ee a usly told her not to put “You're only @ child.” he said, turning to Molly again, ‘‘an’ needn't be putting on no airs. you lay yourself out for a flogging you'll git it. heehee thirteen. Cap,” he Splsived, ioe ing toward Misgill, with some hin: at an apology in his tone. returned Molly, steadily, teen.” con- to ped “Tm near fourteen,” “and am bigger than sixt The Capt Was thunderstruck. He could fully indorse Molly's last assertion. She looked every day of sixteen, and finely developed for that. He stared harder, and wished he had more eyes. What a splendid girl she was, to be sure, with her nobie curves and dauntless car- ! ‘There was no trace of her mother’s Pinched features in hers Her hair was red, but hot her father's color—paler, and gloriously soft and abundant. “ Well, well; I'll see to you by an’ by,” sald Fallen, with a sort of deprecatory growl. '“This ain't being very polite to the Cap'n.” “You should have thought of that before,” cried Molly, with a saucy laugh. on But Ei see that you don't go a-maundering ag’n.”” ‘rhe scene ended as unexpectedly as it had be- gun. Captain Misgtll resumed his knife and Tork, finding Spportunity to convey secret glances of upprobation across the table to Molly, By the dancing of her eyes she enjoyed her triumph immensely, and she dreaded no later reckoning. ‘tue Cuptain and Ballen lt thetr pipes, and took a stroll to the top of the hill together, That gal thinks she’s gittin’ too much for 1d Molly's fatner. ‘d a given her a cking if it hadn't beea you was it on while I'm ‘round,” muttered the ore Captain, “an’ 1.1 make lime-dust 0° your bones.” bed-chamber of those days was a primi- t air, The Captain's was hardly larger than his snug cabin on the Barnac! nd as the Wind tore furiously all night across the bleak hi, the cloth partitions billowed and shook like spread sails. In bis dreams Misgill was at sea; and waking wita a start in the dead of night, he had some difficulty, owing to the rocking and creaking of the rude shanty, to dispel the Ilu- sion. He soon became aware of a flashing and failing of light, not unlike a beacon fire on a Windy headiand, but in reality a flickering candie-flame in the next room. Gathering lis Wits together painfully, as if cach bad been on a separate cruise, he Ustened intently. There was a soft intermittent sound of some rhythmical movement. The floor qui ered as if to unheard music. He rolled over cn his side and stared hard at the frall part- tien separating his room from the next. Who- stirring there was unconsciously gtv- ing the Captain the benefit of a sort of mazic lantern representation. A shadow, now elon- gated, now dwarfed, now silently posing, now dancing, quivered up and over the cloth ced Uon iu fantastic play. That shape could be- long to none other than Molly. What was she up to? With a nautical oath, tremendous tn quality, if subdued in tone, the Captain resolved to findout. Crawling cautiously on all fours to the partition, his vision was cheated by aspread- ing whiteness, through which the candle giowed ifke the flame betel ore In an agony of cau- ton Misgill pos himself of his jack-knife, and with it punctured a small hole, to which he fastened an investigating eye. Molly, sure epough—in white night-gear, with a large red bandanna fastened about her waist, and strang- gllng odds and ends of color fantastically knot- led here and there; her bright hair flying like a shining mane, and her. graceful ankles white and bare. Now she toox an attitude of mock suppilcation, how of command, now of scorn— = — gl’ aa sani beige on one knee, as in the “eachucha,” waving castanets over her head. So childlike, $0 ab. sorbed, who could believe her the same girl who had flashed out such splendid defiance of her father’s brutality? The old Captain knelt spell- bound. His palms itched to applaud. Suddenly Moliy’s steps, light as they were, stepping on an i-fitung board, made a smalf earthquake, and a preliminary grunt announced that old Ballen was waktag. Instantly the candle went out, and the play was ended. The following afternoon, Misgill climbed the hill earlier than before. He went around the back way, as he had been taught, and found Moliy and her oe ee on an exten- sive scaie. The disposal of these dyspeptic con- trivarces to a migers’ restaurant was the fami- iy’s ehiet source of Income. Dozens of shining, empty Uns stood in a plie; other dozens had oven filed, and with pale, doughy resignation waited their turn in the oven, whence issued spicy edors of bubbling insides and delicately brown- ingerusts. Huge earthen bowls of dried apples and peaches—fresh fruit was out of the question then for such purposes—and another of soaked cracker yawned hear, the latter so doctored with lemon extract, Sugar, and nutmeg, as to meet the palate with a deceptive flavor of green apple, Rnvited by Molly's eyes, the Captain sat down and ulted bis chalr back against the wall. The kitchen was hot as a furnace; he perspired pro- fusely, but still seemed bent on studying pie- making processes. Perhaps the roiling and neat fitting of the under crust; the delictousty pulp sound, as the stewed fruit was ladied tn, the persuasive pat, pat, pat of the spoon,smoothing down the little hillock to a level round; the deit Whirl With which the upper crust was cast like & pall over plate and contents, revived forgott: heinortes of a far off home, and ot days before the boy had become an ocean rover; but cer- tainly the display of Motly’s fine arn the shoulder, She poised the plate in air to cut away the surplus drapery of dough, had a charia peculiar fo the moment. Happily, Ballen was absent on business, and Mrs. Balien was kept busy tending tne oven and plenishivg the fire with brushwood—th only fuel True, the old lady, relieved from the clogging cffect of her husband's presence, made ceaseless complaints In a whining way, but neither Molly nor the Captain seemed to ‘care one Whit. They kept up a rattling gossip. The Captain told his best stories in a Characteristic vein of humor; of shrewd tricks played at smnugyling; of scrapes he had gotten into ashore in a Gozei ports, abd he Wound up witha ban- lering description of a burial at sea, where he ad officiated, to his own influite jest and pro- ane otsacred text. Molly laughed at every- Unlng up to this last. Then she tlew into a tem- per, «nd Called Misgill a miserable, worthless old heathen, which so delighted bim that he could scarcely speak. Preparations for dinner having superseded the general baking, Misgill went away to his room. He laid the great coat he had taken off in tae kitchen on its back across the bed, pring- ing Into view an inner pocket, bulging with | something done up in a thick wrapper. T! unrolled, revealed to his admiring eyes, as for the first time, a China erape shawi of vivid yellow, heavily embroidered in colors. Having held it out at arm’s lengih, he went so far as to cast It over his shoulders, ‘where it gleamed in gorgeous contrast to a shaggy grayish beard and rough nether garments. Startled by a step in the hall, he Hung it aside with a shame-faced air. Molly’s step. It passed into the adjoining room, whence he presently heard a profound sigh, as Of weariness, “Poor litle thing!” thought the old fellow commiseratingly, “a wonder them pretty feet ain't broke Clean off, she’s on ‘em to that de- gree. & He lstened awhile. No sound of further Movement. He stood irresolute, his ear toward the partition, his eyes on tue suaw! where It lay ina careless heap. Another Sie gaye him the sympathetic im- pulse need “ Molly! No answer. “Ts that you, Cap'n?” Me. Come ‘out in the hall a minute. Molly’s face, still blazing from the hot kitchen, was heightened in color effect by a generous daub of a across = eo nee Ml twisted up, carelessly, but p: x soos rere curtosity fost yeven, in her “expression a8, stand fnher doorway, she saw Misgill waiting with ometnin exquisitely bright and soft wrapped nee Na TS Pa or two toward her, a gesture as if it aw ; eowere oe pe rere oo Kis hee, as who should say: “Take it. Itisn’t worth a thank-y How to bestow a gracetully Is @ rare ex- pression of tact. fwhetaer too great careless- hess or undue impressiveness be more offensive, Who shall decide? But Molly was not critical. Sen St Cities Satie See had worn every Dut that conventionally acvepted. Now Ag fos; bow it surouded her’ bright Bal, F = and down. “ Give us the caci fucka. Momly!” he whispere3. “I saw you atit last oe Dia’ your” she cried with subdued em- phat Misgill explained hilariously. Molly laughed. @ little, too. “You were so Upsy,” she sald,“that Iwas sure you would sleep sound.” Not last night. I wasn’t tipsy last night. I hadn’t drank a drop”—so protested the Captain mendaciously. Molly ignored this. A flery earnestness came into her manner. “Tm to be a play-actress, that’s what T'm @-going to be!” “ A—Kicker?” queried the Cs illustrating with afoot never designed by nature or the boot-maker's art for any pas. “Well, I'm to learn to dance, too. But that ain't all. There's some pantomime B people a-go- ing to South Al soon. Jenny Gregg knows one of the women. I’ve most made up my mind to run away with ’em.” These last sentences were safely delivered into the very of the listen . “On accounts of your pap, eb‘ las poctee rors ly. “Two a day, if he an’ me was alone. I tantalized him a-purpose 80's to have itout beforeyou. Butnow I've begun, I ma-going on withit. 1 work early and late, most days; a pity I can’t hive one off now an’ then. He's give me as much of har knocks as I'll take, has pa. I kind of dishe him yesterday—I could see it in hiseye. [i was an ent. Now I'd fight ma’s batiles, too, if ‘twould do any good. But shed ouly knuckle under!” At that nioment a strident voice seemed to was gainet, ladder by which the second story was “He’s come home,” muttered Mo'ly, tarily clinching her hands—“the beas' ‘The Captain did not look horrified. He wished he might fully express his feelin 53 toward Bul- len. He considered that the sigaal had been given for him to slip quietly into als room. “Stop!” whispered Molly imperiously. “I hayen’t thanked you for this beauty.” The Captain had wished she would not; he changed bis mind when he felt a pair of plump arms around his neck. “There! you spiendid old darling!” cried Molly, with a squeeze, and vanished. Like onein a dream hestood, feeling her warm breath against his grizzled cheek for full five minutes after. Then he shook himself roughly, muttering: “You old Bray: ship-rat, you! 7 b’lieve you'd sntvel for the moon! Week after week the Barnacle lay in port, Waiting for a crew. Hands used to ropes had taken to pick and pan. Part owner of his own vessel, such delays commonly made the Captain anything but mild-mannered. But now, beyond rebuking bis drinking habits and laying an em- bargo on his worst oaths, Molly Ballen found iim both agreeable and entertaining. His so- briety of palate and tongue astonished nobody more than the Captain himself. He was con- vinced, a ee a bad word did slip out now and then, that he was turning frightfully pioas. He Joaded his young friena with motely gitts— shells, a Spanish guitar, a dress-length of smuggled English silk, bright enough to glid- den any girl's heart, a silver-mounted opium pipe, a Chinese wt box, full of useless bob- ins, and a clumsy ivory thimble, which Molly, called a bee-hive; and, besides, countless costly edibles. She shared all the good things with Jonny involun- Gregg; but would show nothing to father or mother, tearing to lose them. “Girl-like, she rejoiced secret y in her treasures, riag the giver that she would carry every precious one of to South America with he mention of which possible journey Misgiil’s foolish old heart would sink down untold fathoms, He had been Introduced into the home of the Greggs— only a rude little tent It was, on Clay-street Hill, Mrs. Gregg was often absent, doing a day’s work wherever she could get it, and Jepny—a bright girl, two years older’ than Molly—kept house. Many a lunch Jenny spread there with unheard-of luxuries provided by the Captain. Then, too, the trio made a stolen visit to the Barnacle, and another, over sand- drifts and wastes of wild lupiae, to the old Mis- slon Church. One fine morning Misgill was startled out of his fool’s paradise. He must bid good-bye to Molly at ouce—perhaps forever. Soine drugged and intoxicated wretches had been smugzled aboard the Barnacle, to fill out a meagre com- plement of satiors, and he must put to sea before they came to themselves. He climbed to Ballen’s house as if going to the scaffold. To See Molly an instant alone was the best he dared hope. By token of that harsh volce, issuing from the kitchen, the master was at home, but Molly was nowhere to be seen. Having hastily Dee together his few per- sonal effects and paid his bill for entertainment, ae looked around stonily. Was this the last? he ventured at length. “ A-maundering off ag’in!” cried Ballen, with afuriousoath. “I'll squeeze that gai’s brains tacong her ears, but I'll break her of these t ric Misgill ground his teeth with raze and pain, thinking “I'll not be here to protect her.” Bat, at the same moment, a ray of hope shoi into his heart. Where could Molly be but at Jenuy’s And there, indeed, she was. Misgill siartled her with an o1 id good-bye. “What, Cap’n! A- going “ Good "Lord, Moily! me— “Forever!” Molly spoke in, promptly. “Come, I must be off,” he muttered, getting suddenly hoarse. **Moily, do you remem?°r how you served me the day I broaghtyou that Chiny shawl?” “Don’t I, though!” “Serve me so ag’in. this'll be the Jast Um: She waited no urging, but threw her around his neck, und, unexpectedly, beg: cry, like the child she was, on his shou} “You've been so good to me, Cap'n. ventured to lift a hand to me sence you've been in the house. There’s no teliing what he wil away?” how long would you have dear. That was the first, arms do, DOW; and—and I don’t want to go with them Sout e Amerlky pe IT want—to go with Don't. don't, my dear! Dry them pretty s. Would to the Lord you was my own litue gal, Molly.” ‘Take me with you, Cap’n “¥tcan’'t be, Molly. It can’t be. Leastw there’s only one mortal way, an’ I’m too old you're too young for tha’ “ One way?” she echoed, seizing upon his mo: hopetul words, and looking eagerly into his ta “Why, you're crying, too, Cap'n Misgill! “1 know what it is,” said Jenny,who had been Standing by, patlently walting ber adieu, “it's to marry the Cap'n, Molly. “To—marry the Cap’n!” echoed Molly, laugh- ing aloud, with the tears still on her ‘checks “Why, of course! Your mother married at tour teen, Jenny.” “But not toan old grey turned Misgill, putting Molly away trom him with a reugh decision. “You'd repent of it vit- ter enough before you was twenty.” No, I wouldn't,” contradicied Molly; “I'd nk of pa.” Mention of Ballen had brought th lcoks and threats sharply before Could he leave the dear gir f aud every tone were sunshine and inus ard like mei” re- my Ti me bat find my old friend, Porteous, Expec' Hal hour, at must, 1 must be aboard int Within the specified time he returned, and with him Porteous, whose jolly, rolling eyes beamed anticipation of wedding liquids. “ Where's the minister?” said Molly, looking impatiently from one to the other. “I thought you'd bring one.” . Whereupon Porteous roared with triumph: “Hooray! hooray! Changed her mind, has she, Cap’n: Never see a man so sorter Um’rous as Thad, all on asudden! Parson's wiltin’ out- side. ‘Then he ran to wave his hat at the opening of the tent; and thus conjured, the Reverend Ed- ward Grass—so Porteous introduced him—en- tered. For the same reason that he had been ted without, some suspicious biack bottles ad been Jeft in his keeping. Porteous ppoligiaed for his incongruous pres- ence by telling that although he nad been a Chaplain in the British Navy, he was just back trom the American River diggin’s—dead broke. “But he kin tie the nuptual,” Porteous de- clared, “jus’ as tight’s if his heels kicked his coat-talls, an’ his neck was done up in a pillow- case.” But for Porteous, the wedding would have been a dumb affair. " The bi mwas sober even to solemnity, the bride was silent from intense excitement; Jenny awed, and the Rev- erend Edward unconscionably stupid. Porteous leered very tenderly at Jenny, aud whispered, “Le’s us stan’ up, too; I'ma widower this twenty year.” And the ceremony over, in view of Molly's shining eyes and flushed ch he as sured everybody present that she was a “fin g and “sech spirits as hers wasn’t made t tied up by a cruei dad.” But his was greatest when he had filled everybody’s cu. and raised bis own, to cry, “Here’s to the Thad deus Misgill! Forty years rust’n an’ roll’n ta the harbor of old bachhood! now conv’ye through the Golden Gate of Matrimony by th stanch little steam-tug Molly. Drink hearty! No doubt Porteous fibbed, forty years Fi ty would have been nearer the truth, Bu he set the example of drinking deep, and looke ! Stand ag’n him yester- | to see if the Captain had done the same. As- | suredly, the Captain’s mug was empty; to tell the'truth, Molly had Slyly- poured ies wore tents out on the floor, her new-made husband meekly consenting Jenny having though: rovided a few in- le chan) of raiment, from her own scanty store, for had no sooner screamed with Tecol “T never, never can leave all the beautiful Never vou mod them, dear.” vd Mega: brought them out ina neat bundie, than Mol a unt sudden recoilection? my ou. “ Let Jenny here git ‘em an’ keep ‘The two nen gripped each other's hand sees ‘Only can do. PRS Barnacle. alied ase eee “Twas off the Horn in the blackest kind of Weather,” so Mi would begin, with a beam- ing glance in his wife’s direction, “that the Worst crew a poor devil Of a Cap'n ever put up With showed signs of mutiny. Halt of ‘em was eg one way or oneeh a all was ee jogs. mate, thot e Was a pre! hard customer.” Here hewould wink, as If to imply that he was none too soft a customer himself. “The poor wretches was badly fed an’ half froze, no doubt about it. But if they didn’t jump clean out of their boots to his orders ey ten-pins with ‘em, bowling was & mortal wonder any ever got upag’in. Some didn’t. We'd had two fu- nerals two successive days. No chucking fel- lows everboard careless when Molly was around. She would read the service over em out of a Church of England prayer-book she'd found lying about som’ers. I learned ber to read myself on our wedding trip. She dida’t know ? from ze? when We Was married, But afterward she studied navigation an’ could calc’‘late our course as well asme. Well, she said that If I didn’t put a stop to Parks’s brutalities she would. An’ Molly had a way of keeping her word. This time she didn’t. “One night, when Parks was on deck, the boys, ome on ’em got up an’ made hash of him. When I looked inter the faces of them chaps there was more murder there. I didn't expect to live another blasted twenty-four hours if I didn’t get the upper hand of ‘em. They was a tough lot surely, Well, 1 thought it over, se- rious an’ slow. Then I went to the capin and gave Molly a sharp littie dick kuife. ‘Now, my dear,’ says I, caim and easy, ‘if I'm not here ag’in safe an’ sound in fifteen minutes, stick this into yourself. You'd better be dead thia at the mercy of them devils. Make a sure tniny of it, dear. No sham sulcidiag.’ I know Molly was made of, you see. Did she Not Molly. She did turn a little white, but looked stiddy at the eg “YT walked inter the foks! with a plstol in each hand and two more in my pockets. Six On ‘em was there,with their heads laid together. ‘Now, my lads,’ says I, ‘them that’s been mak- ing live mince-meat on Uhis ship, just step out here and go into irons, decent an’ behaved.” Nobody said nothing, but a sort @low growl went around; nobody stirred apparent, but. there was a creep, creeping of the hull lot of them toward me. I set my back to somethin’, cocked my pistols, an’ picked out my men. f thought of Molly hacking away at herself with that knife; I thought of my pistols missing fire, an’ of the big er with the scar I'd made across his face laying hands on her—an’ there, by the Lord! she stood—Molly!—with her he: Up, an’ a licht that I’d see afore when she wasa little gal, flashing In her eyes. As she stepped into that black den I turned sick and dt I couldn’t scarce hear her, but she was making a little speech about Parks, an’ what they'd did. ‘But,’ says she, ‘he was a bad, cruel, man. Though you’ve did a terrible deed, that you Taust answer for to your G "]1 swear to what Parks was in any court. Come, men, the Bar- nacle’s in an awful tight place. ‘This may be the iL trip for all of unless you git to work. ave the ship, an’ ve yourselves.” I would ‘a’ opened my head to swear that no one should stir tll they'd done as 1 told ’em, when Molly gave me a look that went clean through me. “The trouble all blew over for a time; the men turned to; but I was riled. I'm the law an’ the devil on my deck, Tum. What I've once Said has got to be done, it I die for it; the big nigger, he was sulky. ‘I gave an order sharp—* here the Captain interpolated sometaing unt telligibe save to his nautical listeners, “and t black Clod didn’t stir. The next minute I'd tla tened him out ’s if a mainmast had fell on him; it was the signal for the hull devisish lot to drop whatever they Was ate “I stepped forward to meet em, slipped on the ley deck; my feet went from under me, and there J lay with the spine of my back broke—I belleved so then—at their mere; “All got dark afore me, an’ When I came to 1 was stretched out in my’own bunk, Was in irons, and the rest of ‘em w: my wife’s orders [ike clock. tery to me to this folly The lopg and short of it is. 1 was lying there yet when we reached Valparaiso, wliere we re- ported the vessel badly knocked about, the Cap- tain disabled, the first mate murdered, an’ Mrs. Molly Misgill in command. She’s been Captain Molly ever since. ‘The big nigger? We tock him back to New York, where he was tried for the murder ot Parks. Molly, she went into court, and testified to Parks’s little pecoollariues, and the Diack dog would ‘a’ got off with a light sentence, but some of the others give him away for hatching a plot to seize the Barnacle an’ make off to some one of the South Pacific islands with her. My back was lame a long stretch. That's all. ‘Thanks to the bravest girl ever trod ship’s deck, ne Me are where we started from, ain't we jolly 2” And that was all, save a glimpse of a havy gold medal, which was Inscrbed: To CaPTaIN MOLLY MISGILL, Who saved the Barnacte amt her Cargo, Dee. 25th, Presented by Many Ship Owners, &. M. LUDLUM. —The Californian, He Can’t Help it [From the Waukesha Demccrat.] I worder now she will receive me to-night! It may be with scorn in her beautiful face: Or it may be with blushes, and smiles of delizht, As she gives 1ne a welco.ue with queenly Krace! But whai do I care for her emilee? ‘Tis not she, But her excellent brother, I'm going to se, For the proud, haughty beau:y is nothing tome! Iren.cm! er the night when I rode with her last, Or rather tue morn, forthe moon o’er the bi In ther meets slowly setting, long weird shadows ce And the dawn that was coming bean to fill The eky in the east with a faint rosy glow, Anc to pale the light of the moon, sinking low, And to kies :nto blushes the ermine snow. The narty was over, the music had died, Of s’eixh bells and lanzhter, away on the air; Trut by the gate in the sleigh, and beside ‘The sleigh she was standing, so haughty and fair; Over the bill toy the moonbeaine lingered a space, Aud the dawn wlimmered redder, to let me trace ‘Tue pride and the beauty that dwelt in her face. We had quarreled that night coming back from the danes— ‘Twas a trifle at most and we couldn't foreses, remember the angry, imperious glance Of her scornful eyes aashe flashed thera on me; remember the hasty words that se spore, ‘The passionate words that resentment awoke, ‘The words that the ties of our frieudshijs broke. Again, as of yore, in the moon’s tender light, ng the path by each well-loved place: T wonder how ehe will receive me to-nigal , for the unineky day When I loved her has vanished forever away. Her brother is fond of a bottle of wine And a fragrant cizar with a Jovial fiend; A polite invitation he’s sent me to dine, And with him in u revel the evening Pspend; For to ine, with a friend and a bow!, there is more ‘True Wiss to be had, with our wit, tun, aud lore, ‘Than with false, heartless womsn’a thousand times over. Here's the tp of the hill, where the pathway winds Ita sinuous course to the valley below; Down yonder dwells the proua beauty, where shines ‘Through the clamberiux ivy the laatp’s soft iow; And some one is sinving! ‘tis she! and { know The scng; her lips triledtit t» me long ago, When she was my sweet heart and I was ber beau. She is sinsing a little love ditty to-night, shat seas tomy miud happy days that have OW And somehow I feel tender toward her, in spite Of my hate, rather more than I'm willing to own. She is standing, Ihuow, in the porch, whero I've #1 The llours with her oft, whilo her witehery led into bondsge my heart and my giddy Lead. Sing on, while in time to the song my feet trip: iD: five eh ob, sing on, with that swest voice of I'd give more for one drop of the dew on that Up ‘Chan for allthe world’s revels and all the world’s wine! ine! What! panting to meet her in haste down the hill? bane! am Laslave to this proud beauty still? Tehould hate! but I love; and I always will. Burton ©. INGERSOLL. ‘The Appetite of Bread. {Paris Correspondence of New Orleans Picayune. ] Did you know that bread Is not only eaten, but eats? Darwin has told us that some flowers en- joy a porterhouse steak. Now M. Scheurer Kest- ner assures us bread has a nigger’s J agdepeoeh for hogs andhominy. The discovery {3 interesting to apace. for bread can be made to do the work of the alimentary canal and relieve dys- peptics of all bother except mere d and, of course, paying the baker’s b! harder work than di since found that several etable juices, or Saps, dissolve meat, but M. Scheurer Kestner is the first person who observed that in the process of bread making a pecultar fermenta- Uion takes place which produces complete diges- tion cf meat. A beefsteak hashed fine and mixed with dough containing yeast disappears entire- by the Ume the bread is taken Irom the o:en, ‘The steak’s nutritive principles are dissolved and incorporated into the bread. Not the leas curious phenomenon noticed in these circum stances 18 that meat, which so rapidly become; itrid, when once incorporatei in-o bread may fe kept longer than ordinary bread. read made in 1873 has been shown the Academy 0: ‘lutition— , Which is tion, Science has Sclence; it was as sweet and free from moid as when it came out of the oven. Now te the time to place your system in proper condition tecarry you safely through the opring and summer influences. ABSORPTION No Experiment. HOLMAN Malarial, Liver, Stomach, Spleen and Kidney. PAD. 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