Nasby in Exile

nother rush, assisted by the fifty men, the enormous gangways were lifted, there was a throb of steam, a mighty jar of m

DEPA

ve it so, whether it is so or not. Suffice it to say that the ship got out of the harbor safely, and before nightfall was upon the broad Atlantic, out of the way of telegraph and mail facilities,

was going to say that sailing is not what it was, as I understand it to have been. The ship of to-day is nothing more or less than a floating hotel, with some few of the conveniences omitted, and a great many conveniences that hotels

ding first upon one leg and then upon the other; the sailor who could fight three pirates at once and kill them all, finishing the last one by disabling his starboard eye with a chew of tobacco thrown with terrible precision; who, if an English sailor, was always a match for three Frenchmen, if an American a match for three Englishmen, and no matter

RE ON

them, but even that not always. In fair weather he is in appearance very like a hod carrier, and in foul weather a New York drayman. He doesn't d-n anybody's eyes, and he doesn't sing out "Belay there,

hirty years ago are revived. If such sailors ever existed, off the stage, they are as extinct a race as the icthyosaurus. Steam has knocked the poetry out of n

time about it. The lifting is done by steam, and in fact every blessed thing about the ship is done by machinery. There is neither a ship nor a sailor any mor

n travel is either monotonous or dangerous. Its principa

ust, eagle-nosed and eagle-eyed German Jew, resident of New York, going abroad on business; the keen French Jew, returning from a s

lessen my liking. They know something for certai

was the smooth-chinned, side-whiskered minister, or "priest," as he delighted in calling himself, of the

d man, and he did by far the best part of the argument; but the priest, by look at least, resented his interference. Being a Baptist, he was entirely irregular, and did not hold up his end of the argument regularly. The priest regarded the evangel

next morning the priest met the infide

g over the matter we discussed last night. I

g for you. Your forcible and convincing statements satisf

, and the infidel had converted the priest to infidelity. So far as the

oung lady who could be seen at any time in the day, in a most bewitching attitude, reclining on a steamer chair, picturesque in all sorts of wraps, held a brief conversation

ENGERS AMUSE

ng with that Chicago yo

irt. I havn't enjoyed myself a minute since we saile

for within ten minutes she was under the wing, or arm,

t; there were married men whose wives were many leagues away, determined to have a good time once more, flirting with all sorts and conditions of women, and there were all sorts and conditions of women flirting hung

can game of draw poker was played incessantly, f

nd shove discs of wood at the squares. We all played it, sooner or later, for on ship-board one will get, in time, to playing pin alone in his room. The beauty about shuffle-board is, one player is as good as another, if not better, for there isn't the slightest skill to be displayed in it. Indee

elled to take are graceful. Then as the vessel lurches they fall naturally in your arms. By the way, it is a curious fact a

ow aboard, and there is enough of them to last the Atlantic for a great many years. He knew everything that everybody thinks they kn

tle of wine

mmediately you accepted the wager only to find that in some minu

inst

w how many States the

FLE B

y, ought to know how many States there are in his beloved country without thinki

tion! Of cou

bottle y

There

MAN FROM

Colorado had been admitted, and Nevada, and Oregon, and he would decide that one had an

erably full, as were the occupants, and everybody was bored, as everybody is on th

tlem

e exclamation of the entir

, but I can show you

el

drink a glass of water withou

t into you

tain

ch without its going down his throat? Impossible! And so the usual bottle of wine was wagered, and the Chicago man proceeded to accomplish the supposed impossible feat. It was very easily done. All he did was to stand upon his head on the seat that runs around the room and swallow a glass of water. It wen

and cigars were well known ten years ago, but totally unknown now except by the few who use them. The water going up the throat instead of down was published years ago in a small volume called "Hocus Pocus," an

YOUNG MAN

on every year," was his answer. He wa

SICK

ion of those mentioned, a distressing monotony prevailed among them. Never was so go

igand, with short green jacket and yellow breeches, with blue or green garters, and a tall hat with a feather in it, is

of quiet mill-pond of morality, that to the lover of excitement was distressing in the extreme. The card parties were conducted decorously, and the religious services in the g

a very staunch ship, and behaves herself commendably in bad weather, but there is no ship that can resist the power of the enormous waves of the North Atla

ature totally different from any other variety of vomiting known. The victim does not vomit-he throws up. There is a wild legend that one man in a severe fit of sea-sick

superiority they took on, as much as to say, "when you have been through it as I have, you won't have it any more." And then to see these same fellows turn deadl

tunate, as having a tendency to restrain pride and keep down assumption of su

be. She, poor thing, was in the agonies of death, and he insisted, as he held her head, that she ought not to b

ore compunction than as though it had been his pet dog's, rushed to the side of the vessel, and there paid his tribute to Neptune. The suffering wife, sick as she was, could not resist the temptation to wrea

same time. One may have bronchitis and dyspepsia at once, but sea-sickness monopolizes the whole body. It is so all-p

New Orleans a fiery Rebel Frenchman w

er, "that during General Butler's administr

ARP-NO

Butlair in one season? Have

possibly saddle sea-sickn

NESS IS ONLY-A F

dly way? I remember once going down the Hoosac Tunnel before it was finished. I went down, not because I wanted to, (indeed I would have given a farm, if I had had one, to have avoided it,) but it was the thing to do there, and must be done. So with about the feeling that accompa

I asked of the

guess we are all right, though the rope's tollable old and yest'dy they histed out a ver

were fifteen hundred feet from the

who had never been upon a railroad train before, and who was exceedingly nervous

rless. Only a year ago, they left a draw opened, and a trai

e old lady, in an agony of horror

are jest ez keerless now ez they wuz then. They git ke

cident that he could remember, especiall

p with her hands grasping tightly the arms of her seat, expecting momentarily to be hurled

S, OF O

ld be at the mercy of the waves. For instance, if we should lose our propeller what would happen? Or if any one of the boilers should explode, filling the ship with hot stea

of the ship and it must go down. What happened to the 'City of Boston?' Never heard of.

n. Imagine the frame of mind he left his auditors in, and he made it his business, day after day, to regale th

re will be others just like him to take his place. Nature

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ame was organized in the morning, and he growled ferociously when the lights were turned down at twelve at night. He was impatient with slow players, because, as he said, all the time they wasted was so much loss to him. He could drink more Scotch whisky

did seem to have a great deal of respect and a very considerable amount of love. His letter was finished the day before w

he City of

stown, May

thinking of her all the time. Didn't I scoop in that jack pot nicely last evening? Hadn't a thing in my hand, and Filkins actually opened it with three deuces.) The ship is one of the strongest and best on the ocean, and is commanded and manned by the best sailors on the sea. T

g, and occasional meetings for vocal exercises and convers

infernal aggregation of lies t

good. I have my opinion of a man who won't give his old mothe

h atroci

TTS'

when they are told in so good a cause. I love m

the ship is making. Mr. Inman, the owner of this ship, is a very wealthy man, and he has everything of the best. He furnishes his vessel with nothing but black walnut logs to heave, while the others use pine or poplar. Captain Leitch is a very humane man, and never uses profane l

u are not surely g

ngrateful, I ain't. I'll give her one good letter, anyhow. Why, by the way you talk, I should suppose you never had a mother, and if you had that you didn't know how to treat her. I hate a man who don't love his mother and isn't willing

ips myself. I know all about starboard and port-port used to be larboard-and I can tell the stern from the bow. On a ship you don't say, "

the horrors of sea sickness. As you taught me, true happiness can only be found in virtue. The wicked yo

a great comfort, and all I regret is, I am afraid

e most picturesque hosiery procurable, which he was wearing with

engers who prefer serious reading to trashy novels and literature of that kind. What time I have had

don actually closed, and is the Mabille in Paris as lively as

h London, for I do so desire to hear Spurgeon, and attend the Exeter Hall meetings, as you desired me. But

don, at once. I find the expense of travel is much grea

fection

mu

lady will read it over and over to herself, and then she will read it to all the neighbor

was not too great for him-he was, a minute after, absorbed in the myster

s, worried the old gentleman till he sent the graceless fellow a remittance. Boys can al

ST

ng themselves for an attack upon us, then the terrible darkness, then the first onslaught of the winds, that tossed the strong ship like a cork, then the thunder that seemed like the voice of a merciless Vengeance, and the lightnings that were its fiery fingers; pitchy darkness, except when the lightning illuminated the scene, and the sight it disclosed made darkness preferable, for it showed the great waves rollin

ITTED CAME BEFORE ME

hood, came vividly before me like accusing ghosts. I did remember also, once, that when a ticket-seller in a railroad station in Troy, who was very insolent and unobliging, made a mistake in my favor to the amount of thirty cents, in my anger I did not rect

of iron, with its soul of steam, and muscles of s

sort of a light that was not lurid. Though the greatest terror was passed, the long swell which kept

s, but out at sea when those elements become angry it is w

ssed the Great Lakes repeatedly, and when a boy I used to "go home" via the Erie Canal, I always got up early in the morning to look at the

at-but because it was land, because it was something that did not roll and pitch, and toss and swing, but was substantial and permanent. The Mississippi Ethiop

AN

rder, no icebergs to run into-no other steamers to collide with. I was delighted to look at her, an

kin to humanity in it, not the glittering, changing, treacherous green of the water we had been sailing over and plunging through for eight very long days. And then to thin

I presume I should have forgiven the Ashantees for killing and eating the missionaries. After one has been at sea, even for eight days, land is the principal wish of the heart. One day and night across the Channel, and we made Liverpool. Th

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