fjTJKE 30, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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up by the thumbs, beaten, maimed and bruised, kicked in 

 the face with heavy sen boots when lying senseless on deck, 

 of broken arms and bat'ered faces. Thank God, such fiend- 

 ish brutes as Captain P , of the once notorious packet- 

 ship N , or Ciiptain R , of >he J F are not per- 



mi lei I to work their will with Mercantile Jack as freely as 

 ten years since; but there is enough violence and abuse yet 

 to rail for steal reform. 



No; I will simply speak of the good ship, the exceptional 

 one. Such as will sail from millennial harbors when all the 

 world shall he at peace. 



Well, Mercantile Jack, probably drunk, and not unlikely 

 quarrelsome, has gone on board, sail is made and sea routine 

 begins. 



It is a week perhaps before he begius to shake off the effect 

 of his protracted debauch. But, as away from temptation, 

 he gradually comes to himself, as he sees with someihiug like 

 amazement that while he does his work faithfully and readi- 

 ly he is treated with ordinary kindness, he begins to take an 

 interest in his daily duties. 



My friend Jones would hardly recoguize in the erect, ac- 

 tive sailor who responds with his ready "Aye, aye, sir," to 

 the spoken order of h s superior officer," the slouching, half- 

 ineberiated personage of a lew weeks previous. True, he 

 would nut find the mariner of fiction — the dancing, singing, 

 reckless being for whom his poeiic soul has yearned. The 

 wearisome routine of a sea life, with its peril and exposure, 

 is not so conducive to careless jollity as the nautical writers 

 are apt to imagine. 



But he would see a kind-hearted, well-meaning individual, 

 who stands reacty for a call by day or night, who pulls and 



hauls with untiring energy, or battles manfully with slatting 

 canvas and icy reef points. A man who, wet to the skin or 

 benumbed W the bone; stands unflinchingly at the wheel or 

 breasts the gale on the lookout, and in the hour of peril can 

 lie, depended upon to do his duty 



There are great possibilities of good in Mercantile Jack, 

 after all. How these possibilities may be developed is the 

 question. But one thing is certain — shipmasters will take 

 the initial step in this developing proces-, when they shall 

 lay it down as a rule that as long as Mercantile Jack shows 

 himself a man on shipboard he shall be treated as such. A 

 due degree of discipline may be enforced without using un- 

 necessary harshness. But as long as he is kicked, cursed and 

 abused at sea, treated like— aye, worse than — the brute, so 

 long he will brutalize himself on shore. Thus I haye tried to 

 show you that Mercantile Jack is not after all the utterly 

 debased wretch as those who see him at his worst, and never 

 at his best, assert. That is, when he is thought of at ad, for, 

 in truth, it would sometimes seem that no class or condition 

 of mankind are so thoroughly ignored as our merchant ser- 

 vice snlors. As I said at the commencement, it seems only 

 all act of common justice to mention Mercantile Jack's bet- 

 ter qualities, for such he has, and far more than 1 have so 

 imperfectly mentioned. Is not the experiment of trying to 

 develop them worth the trial ? 



Watehprooflsg Furs— Some English flymakers water- 

 proof their fli -s. Tbis is new to us. We often wet a fly, as 

 trout sometimes seem to prefer them wet. Are we wrong ? 

 Who waterproofs flies in America, and are they better nhen 



so treated ? The subject is now open for discussion, in which 

 we will take no part. 



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