The Argosy, October 1906 — page 119: what you’re looking at

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ie: Sstipaeted Tato. the: nieavest: drug- | store, told the druggist he must have = some stimulant, and downed — a glassful _ of drug-store brandy. = : ~ It made him deathly ill and it was an ( 4 be Sov ue 5) What fell out toa sailorman minus a job, and the surprising turn given to the uprising of | Rees eee a mutinous crew. a Sie [ve the autumn of 1885 I was counting : the paving-stones of South. Street, New York, being that useless shore , en- | cumbrance, a sailorman out of a job. I had served as second and first mate in deep-water ships for a matter of six years, and had besides a master’s certifi-_ cate in my chest. On my last voyage, _ * while running up the coast in a dense fog, my ship, the. Flying Chief, took the ground off Barnegat during my watch. We hauled off with no more damage _ than the loss of our false keel, but the - Owners promptly discharged me, and I re | found the office-door of every. ship- peser in New York shut in my face. ‘For six weeks I tramped the docks, until my ready money was about gone. Fortunately, I was single, with no one dependent on_me but my old mother _ over in Brooklyn, and there was enough in savings-bank to keep her from want. I had about concluded to begin all over again, and ship before the mast once more, when the adventure befell which produced such startling results. It was a cold, rainy, and foggy night in October, and I had been over to Greenville to see my former captain. He, too, was on the waiting list. Coming back I took a boat from Communipaw, intending to walk around the lower part of the city to Wall Street Ferry. ___._-It was after midnight, and on arriving 2 ar She ferry-house I found the boats there’ had ceased running. There was nothing for it but to walk a few blocks farther and tty Fulton Ferry. as = a Now, T protest I was sober—not. being a friend of the drink at any time. South SS t at mic ee is about deserted, and, " SHANGHALED. Se eo - SqHANGHATED. — already the lights of Fulton Ferry were a queer pitapat of “tnbbers shod feet. be- = hour before he could go on “to do Dr = = Simonsby’s errand. This delay was. most _ unfortunate—for him. Several most important matters hap: pened in that hour. : me! ae as I have said, the night was thick with fog and wet; out of the haze overhead I = could dimly see the flying jibbooms of — a the liners at their wharves forking out = across the dirty thoroughfare like fingers of fate. —— ae I had covered half the distances and _ ee looming through the mist, when I.heard hind me. Half turning my head to see, I caught the hissing whisper : “ Soak him, , Barney!” It was a word and a blow—a crashing = though noiseless stroke across my tem- 2 ples, and I dropped like’a log. When I == ‘came to my senses, with an aching head, ~*~ I found myself on the floor of a high and = eS roomy deck-house, and the first sight that greeted my dazed eyes was a red- — ae = headed giant standing over me, his foot © __ raised to repeat the ‘kick* which | he had just landed in my side. ee Se I rolled over to escape. the blow, a scrambled to my feet, and made a break _ = for the sliding door. I stumbled into a the open air of a glorious autumn day, = the muck all gone, and found myself on — the main deck of a tall ship, deeply — laden, from over whose high bows and headgear there came blowing the pe : Se and smoke of a tug. = ae In an instant the truth flashed upon — ee me. I had been shanghaied—struck . — down by “crimps,” carried aboard while x == insensible, and shipped before the mast ; SS bundled to sea with not a rag save thes: thinnish suit of blue te in. which’ aS = = = stood. = = Mechanically. I felt in eS pockets. a They were empty 3 even = Sa 3