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THZCOUXKX. JIM LORD'S CAT. A true etory told by a sailor who tailed on the "Annabel Lee." Can I tell yo that plctur'a etory? Well, It's alongish story, jer honor, to tell; Howa'ever, it's cur'oue, an' bo hero goes. I were wunst a sailor, yer honor knows. Though it's now ten year as I left the sea; An the last o' my ships were the Anna bel Lee, West India packet; tho steward abroad Is now the keeper of Eddingley Pard Jim Lord. He wer fond of animals, sir, wer Jim; He al'ays took out with him live or six, An' he used .to larn 'em the rumnieet tricks, All sorts seemed to come alike to him; But of none of his pets wer he quits that fond That be wer of a cat as ho'd saved from a pond As wer trying to swim with a stono round her neck. Well, yer honor, this cat and I didn't agree; She used to trot up and down the deck, And uu get in the way of tho crew, ye see. An' at last one day I wer shiftin' some kegs, An' she comes and pushes 'tween my legs, An' trips me up, and I tumbles flat; An' I ups in a wax an' says "bother the Cft" Savin' yer honor's presence an' then 1 says, "you don't never do that again." An' I takes an' pitches her into the sea. An my shipmates stan's a-splittin' at me, Aj' roars out, "Cat ovcrboaid! Jim Lord, Some un's been chuckin' yer cat over board." Jim run'd to tho taffrel nn' seed it were true, For there were the crittur a-swimmin' in view; Then he run'd to the cap'n, an' "Cap'n," says he, "Some brute's been an' throwed the cat in tho sea; You can spy her a-swimming, cap'n, from here Will ye stop the ship, sir, an' lower a boat?" "Jim Lord," says the cap'n, "I've been afloat From boy to cap'n, nigh forty year, An' of all the fools as ever I see In that long spell, the biggest you be; To tniuk any cap'n would be 6uch a Hat As stop a liner to pick up a cat!" What d'ye think Jim does? "Cap'n," says he, "Then you're bound to stop one to pick up me;" An' over the taffrel goes Jim Lord, An the cry this time wer "Man over board." Well, the cap'n goed perfectly white with rage, But o' course ho wer bound to lower a boat; An' in less than five minutes we had her afloat Though I felt every minute were like an age. An' I hopes I'm not tirin' yer honor? Well, Jim Picks up the cat, an' we picks up him. Twould have done your heart good, sir, to have heered The way as the crew an' the passengers cheered, But the cap'n were savage with Jim, an' .swore He'd have him in irons a week or more! So we writes a round-robin, an' gets the first mate To ax Jim off in tho name of the crew; An' the passengers writes a round-robin too. An' sen's it in by Sir Richard Thwayte. An' tho mate and Sir Richard they ar- gueys the case, An' at last the cap'n he strokes his face An' says, "If he lets Jim off, it's jest As a pussonal favor to them an' the rest; But I gives you my Alfred David," says he. "As he don't never sail nomore with me; So, gentlemen, now "you've got my re- ply." Well, Sir Richard he goes to Jim by- and-by. An' says, "Muster Lord, the cap'n has swore As you shan't never sail with him no more. I respects yer kindness, likewise yer pluck. An' I don't Iiko seein' 'em bring ill luck; So, if you be tired of living at sea, An' 'ud care to pass the rest o' yer days Where animals is, an' larn em yer ways, Why, my old park-keeper's jest dead," Bays he. An the place is yourn, if you'll say the word." An that, yer honor, were how Jim Lord Came to be keeper of Eddingly Park. Well, yer honor, that evonin,' afore it was dark, I goes to Jim, an' I says to him, "Jim, It were all my fault as you had that swim. An' now I axes yer parding," says I, "An' I hopes to get it." Says he, "Tom Bligh, It's an easy thing for you to get that! What you wants is the parding of this, here cat." He picks her up, an' ho says to her "Kitty, This is tho man us tried to drown ye, my protty; Ho don't know yer lingo, Kitty "says ho. "So you says to him what you says through mo. You tells him as life's as sweet a thing, An' dyin' as hard to a cat us a king; You tell him it might have beon God's plan To havo made him the cat an have made you the man; An' you axes him how he'a havo felt if he 1 bin took by you an' chucked in tho sea; You axes him, Kitty, to think of that Next time as hod harm a poro little cat; An' then you gives him your parding," says he. "An' you gives him your paw." "Well, Kitty," bijb I, "As I takes it. tho two on you's taught Tom Bligh A lesEon I hopes he'll never forget." 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