CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3011, 18 February 1881, Page 4

CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.

4 1 must tell you,' said the skipper, as he took a fresh cigar, ' about Stiles, a shipmate of mine on one of my early voyages. Stiles ■was a simply-hearted, transparent young fellow, and when we sailed had been "payin" , attention to a young lady, whom ho had reason to tlu'nk did not reciprocate his ardent feelings. At all events, the parting on her side was not so affectionate as he could wish, and he was impressed with the belief that she only kept him as a standby, in default of a better offer.

' " I don't believe," Stiles would say, with a despondent shake of the head, " I don't believe Ann Jones '11 have me anyhow." • When we had been out a few months, and had met with fair success, Stiles' tone

waa modified. The Imrden of his monologue changed to — '" Well, I don'no but .vhat Ann Jones '11 have me, after all." ' With a thousand barrels under hatcho-, he became still moro hopeful. ' " Chance is pretty goccl for Jones,' ho would say. " Pretty good now." {At fifteen hundred barrels, hi had op nimed a self-satisfied manner, and thus he soliloquised : ' " I guess there's no danger but what Ann Jones '11 have me now."

' At two thousand barrels — '" Ann Jones '11 be glad to get mo now, I know."

" When we cut the last whale thftt was to fill the Eose, and squared away for home, threw his hat in the air, with a yrl 1 of triumph — 1 " I'll he blowed if I'll have Ann Jones, anyhow !" '• And he didn't. .