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Except on top, that
Below that there wag ‘something else,
The pipe looked just the same as before,
Then Harry walked forward,
Slap never sow sm
He was
Harry worked ively, also,
He generall.
Especially w: ad fixing up a joke,
The skipper came ou
He sat down on another tool chest,
He might have sat on Slap’ 's pipe.
Fortunately, he di id n
ood-by to Harry's snap if he had.
The skipper fille his pipe
He also wanted a cool smoke,
His pipe was soon alight,
» He was quite contented, ‘
Harry had gone forward,
The boys saw
eS pin us @ Yarn,” "said T
, give us a good one, reaid Ned,
“ Another lie, I i guess,’ * growled Bill.
Harry sat dow!
ern here he could See the cabin door, how-
«Bid xo u ever hear about the time I was
on the White Sq nally he asked. ‘“W
was cruising in othe. ian Ocean after
had the best sort of luck.”
3 does, In stories,” grunted
Bil Grammct. “but you never hear any of
it an wheres élse
“Shut up, you, ‘Bill,” said Tome
“Belay yer jaw tackle,” added Ned,
“Go on with yer lies, young feller,” mut-
tered Bill
“How'd ye know it’s going to be a lie?”
asked some one.
‘*Cause he told a true yarn t’other day.”
“And he can't doit twice, hand runnin’?”
“No, it ain’t likely, I don't think, ”
“‘As I was saying,” said larry, ** we had
had a lot of good luck, and ha “ail ed our
_hold with oil and were thinking of run-
“ning into port somewhere and shippin it
home so’s we might go out again, wi en
one day we ran across & piri
“Hm! same old pirate ye growled Bill.
““You wasn’t born, When the last of the pi-
rates was han,
** Accordin’ tO. you, he must. have been,”
o
said ‘Toms **"cause you made him out over | w.
a hundred the other day.
** Now, we hadn’ tany notion of losing our
oil and our lives and our wages at the
same time,” Ilarry went on, without no-
ticing Bill's interruption, “and so we be-
gan to consider what we had better do to
get away from him,
“He was coming upon us at the rate of
twenty-seven knots an hour, as we reck-
oned after he had been stealing upon us
for three or four hours, and we knew that
we couldn’t make any such speed as that,
and that he was sure to overhaul us,"
“*Why didn’ tyou, make it aneven thirty
knots an hour wh ar was about it?”
asked Bill, Otoedine
Meanwhile the skipper was enjoying his
smoke and listening to Harry's story at
the same time,
He had heard many of them, although
‘he always pretended not to be listening.
Just now he wondered what Harry would
say in answer to Bill's objection
* You don’t suppose I would We for three
knots an hour, do you?” asked Harry,
“Well, you gan lie faster’n that any-
how,” suorted Bill
“We n’t’any ‘guns on board to fight] s
him with, ” itary went on, ‘‘and there
wasn't anything but harpoons and lances
to use at short range when the pirates
boarded us, and as there was about five
hundred and ninety-nine of ’em to only
-about a couple a dozen ot us we wouldn't
stand no show against ’e!
“ You wouldn't lie for’ ‘one man,I sup-
pose?” growled Bill.
“Shut pr said Tom.
“Stow r jaw,” putin Ned.
“ Who’ ‘3 ‘ellie this story?”
“ You're always interfering.”
“You couldn’t tell so good a one,”
“ Belay that tongue of yours.”
The skipper said nothin
He was listening.
He wanted | to know about the pirates as
well as the
Just then “Slap Slip came waddling on
ec
He » had | finished the job the skipper had
given him,
Now he thought he would have that in-
terrupted smoke,
sat down on the other side of the
door on the tool chest.
Harry say him. ~
And winke
To himself, of course,
t didn’t make any difference to Slap
that the skipper was there.
ni at didnt cut the least bit of ice with
He would have had his smoke if it had
been the emperor of China,
‘He struck a match, American fashion, h
and lighted his pipe.
gihen be began to pat away in great con-
“ihe skipper did not pay any attention to
m.
Harry had gone on with his story,
-
WHAPPY
“Well, we clapped on all the sail we
had,” the y young romancer went on, ‘‘and
took to our heels, because we knew we
didn’t stand the least chance with that
bloodthirsty Malay, and that we'd all goto
bed with our throats cut if he once caught
up, with us and got on boar
‘We the sails, d
trimmed * em so as to catch the most wind
"cause we didn’t care which way we went,
so long as we got away from the pirates ;
e done everything we could, but ljt-
tle by. Tittle the fellow drew up on us, ahd
at last, after being chased nearly ten days,
we saw that there wasn’t any chance for
us except to fight, and we all made up our
minds to die like men, and, even if we
were all, killed, to make the heartless
wretches pay dearly for the lives they
took, and there wasn't a man or a
among us that wasn’t ready to kill his two
dozen vermin or die in the attempt,
“Up they come, yelling and howling and
aking no end of noise, and then th
chucked out grappling hooks and niade
our ship fast to theirs and began toswarm
over our sides, twenty-five hundred of 'e
if there was one, black, brown, yellow and
red wretches, nearly naked, greasy with
oil, smelling of garlic, and savage to the
fast degree, everyone of them armed w
creases and pistols and cutlasses and
ikes and crowbars anc shotguns, their
ands and teeth and belts and boots and
jackets full of em.”
The captain was listening attentively to
larry
Oo
&
eden think of the tales his grand-|
father had told of adventures on the deep,
lle wanted to hear how the young fellow
game out, but something seemed to distress
‘The mate had. come out and had sat on
the chest with
Ile was smoking.
So was
Ds
The skipper smelled something very bad. cal
He glanced at Slap and madea wry face.
The Chinaman went right on smoking
and smiling.
The skipper got a whiff of a pip
te scowled at the mate and took ‘another
Sunidenty the mate got a whiff.
le, Loo, made a face.
He thought the skipper’s tobacco was
pretty bad, but didn’t want to say so,
Slap sm on.
ohn the captain gotup,
odid the
Hach advanced | a pace or two,
“Skipper?”
“Sin toy ju, Mr. Perkins?”
“yy Would you mind telling me what sort
of tobacco you smok
“The very best that is supplied to the
navy, Mr. Per!
Then he blew: a “cloud of smoke toward
the mate.
‘The mate whitfed it and looked satisfied.
“Mr, Per kin
“Sir to you, sf .
** What are you smok inge
“’Baccy, sir, good plug to!
“ wy ould you mind wean a coresh puft
No, sir, not at all.”
The mate gave the skipper a full blast
from his pipe.
ive thin’ the matter with that,” said the
skip}
then | they both got a sniff of the China-
man
It w as vomething awful . .
It was not tobacco, it was not opium, it
was not coal tar,
The mate and skipper could not tell
at it wa:
Harry ‘could have told them.
It. made a horrible stench, at any rate.
And yet Slap really seemed to enjoy it.
“Beg yer parding, skipper, fur havin’
mistoo en yer,
ame here, Mr. Perkins, I’m. glad I
was mistaken,” :
“*T was afraid you had the smallpox.”
“I thought sure you had something aw-
Then they both winked,
First at each other,
‘Then at ape
He went right on smoking.
nd smiling like a wooden im
pthe skipper had lost Interest in Stiarry’ 8
story,
There was something else to be done be-
sides listening to yarns just t
As aresult of the winks those" two old
sea dogs stole to the side of the ship, one
to starboard and one to port.
And § still that Chinaman smoked on and
sm
[To BE CONTINUED.]
$= 0s
“Well, that’s what I call an appropriate ver-
dict,” remarked Jilson the gyhen eens as he
threw down his nape er. “What is it?” asked
his wife, .“" Why,” he replied,» ou know the
efaulting cashier of the 'Steenth National
Bank committed suicide when the shortage
ut
Cee rning,” answered J json, “* the coro-
DAYS eo
Buster Makes Lové,
BY *“* ED.”
Just a little way out of Westkill there
ptood a small house—a nice, comfortable
house, too, although the door bell was not
silver plated, and it didn’t have any bay
window,
A color ed couple named Blossom lived
genes and they had one daughter named
‘She was a belle,
We guess
Many a poor’ nig’s heart aes crushed
dead when Susy, in a gaudy red dress,
striped stockings, and her hair carefully
past (waltzed is a good word—in reality,
usy walked with the grace of a cow) on
her way to chur
jhe e captured ‘Buster’ s heart at the first
glanc
Buster eyneea his admiration in his
own peculiar w
He gave her tatty with red pepper in
it, set fire to her dress, got her to swallow
chewing tobacco, which nearly killed her,
h | glued her to the back of her seat at school
py simply putting cobbler’s wax there, and
fired the miserable Emma, witha tin can
on her tail, through the parlor window of
the Blossom Hotel as a birthday present,
At first Susy did not seem to reciprocate
—except with bricks or a fence rail.
Indeed, she publicly alluded to Buster as
a lows mis’able, no ‘count nigger wid big
ee:
Bat his constant devotion at last soften-
ed her heart. Maybe it was his constant
devotion, or maybe it was six black and
white blind kittens which Buster had
dropped down the Blossom chimney asa
peace offerin
aye last she ‘blushingly requested him to
Buster promised to ona Friday night.
At three o' ‘clock in the afternoon Buster
arrived—on the fence outside,
Ile stayed the fe till eigh
Then the old folks started off to prayer
meetir ng.
“What you doin’ dere, you Buster?”
asked old man Blossom,
“*T’se feared dat de fence might go off an’
git lost,” replie uster, cheerfully,
“Don’t youse. go near dat lower rail.”
“What fo’
“Dat yere “ous dog Emma’s dar, ‘She’ ‘8
been spittin’ white all de week. 'Spee|
she’s gyvined an’ catched de hyberphobs,
“ Bettar 0 home, sah,” loftily remarked
old man Blossom, passing onward with
dignity, taking care, however, to avoid the
hapless Emma, who was so overcome with
shame that she tried to crawl into a mole
hole and bury herself.
uster, however, untied he
“Dar you go, walking wid yer tail’ tween
” he groaned ; “dar ain't no style
mapect dat old
He pulled the bell with such energy that
it came off in his hands, He regarded the
little accident cheerfully and put the bell
knob i in his pocket.
‘Il do fo’ de yellow fever sufferers
in ae ‘Sout, ” he remarked, ‘* Mebbe if dey
get any wuss I'll send dem Emma, too,”
Miss Susy Blossom responded to the bell
in person.
Miss Susy was got up so terribly fine
that Buster fairl held his breath,
“*Golly !" he refiected, ** wish to ‘de Lawa
dat I Hy a-put castor ile on my ha'r afore
me, an’ rw ubbed dem ar boots ob mine wid
stove polish.’
“Tlow a ido, Mistah Buster?” said Miss
Susy sw
“Tse well’ * bashfully answered Buster.
“ Emma ain’ t, dough ; she’s gi
Blow j Better leave de ‘dog outehies” said Miss
Ossi
Buster complied. He fastened Emma
to. the front stoop as if she were a raging
Got to.tie de debbil fast, or else she'll
up an’ kerry de whole hotse away wid
fe soe expla ained.
which calumny Enima laid dow
in Upon despair and tried fo choke herself
by swallowing her fro:
Then Buster was invited into the parlor,
He sat nervously down on the extreme
end of ac
Miss Susy surveyed him from the corners
of her eyes.
a paster was not a bad looking nig, by
ave had 2 “desperate type of countenance,
e that suggested romantic piracy or
midnight chicken stealing,
Miss Susy began to feel in lov
“Won't ru come and look at “te picture
album with me?” asked she, bringing out
a large picture album which contained va-
rious awe-inspiring caricatur
Buster moved his chair within about ten
feet of the Gharmer,
“Ilo youse gwine to look ‘at de
ner’s ‘jury. brought in a verdict of death from
re, .
“ ‘ceptin’ dat youse kerry a telemscope wif
yous
ti Baster planked his chair close up this
Miss Susy turned to a picture.
It represented a languishing young lady
with a face like a pie, gently reclining on
to the shoulder of a young gentleman who
rincipally all ears, and looking up
into his countenance as if she was fearful
that it might blow
*“ Ain't that nice?” said Miss Susy.
Buster colored, as well as a nig can color,
way up to his e: ears
*“Wondah what “dat gal’s gwine to do?”
he coe cogitated, squirming uneasily about on
is ch.
Miss ‘Susy bent closer to the picture,
‘The red ribbon on her wool brushed in
Buster’s.face.
He looked terribly ashamed.
““’Spect dat I bettah go out an’ see dat
yere Emma; mebbe she’s swallowed de
door mat, mI nspiredly said.
“Do n sort,” snapped Miss
“Ain't dat t couple nice? Dey am
Susy.
setting fess as weare. I say, Buster?”
“Well, honey?”
“ abe le gem’m: en ’s gwine to kiss de lady.”
h, Lawd !” sighed Bust ter.
“spose dat I. should put my
head on 1a S5u" youse shoulder, won (gig-
gle) rou you (sige! e) k—kiss me?
“Fo awd , I’se got fo’ to do it!”
groaned | gu
_ Buster toned tosip her ruby lips, when
“We ll,
through the window,
wait for it to be opened,
It was old man Blossoms boot that did
it, and it was old man Blossoms voice that
yelled after him
“S’pose dat L wasn’t awear what fo" you
was roostin’ on dat fence. Thought dat
I'd catch yen yer debbil’s own imp. Next
time dat you come foolin’ aroun’ my dar- .
ter I'll kill you, shuah !”
to Buster was too astonished and grieved
nile vont sadly around to the front stoop
found Emma lying in a condition of
apoplexy. Agreeable to Buster’s surmise,
e had swallowed the door mat, at least,
as much of it as she could,
ulled it out of her mouth, and
grow led as he lugged her home
“Dat's youse all ober, you cuss fool I
kain’t gitin any trouble’t all cept youse
has to foller me. ’Spect dat if I'se got
Buster went out of the house
And he didn’t even
corns, youse go an’ git a boil on youse tail,
Come” ong, now |”
—————_ > 0~0+
HAVE YOU SECURED ONE OF THOSE 75
CENT WATCHES? SEE i6th PACE FOR
OUR CRAND OFFER
HUSTLING HARRY.
(Continued from page 7.)
“As the earnings of the company in-
crease that stock is paid for, and has its
par value. Meanwhile, it earns a certain
Sividend, For your interest and support I
now pledge you five hundred thousand
dollars of That first issue of watered stock,
It will cost you 1 nothing, but will represent
nothing to you until you have made the
earnings of the company bring the value of
this’ watered stock up to par, You c
then sell or hold as you choose, but you
have the equivalent of half a million.”
Ilustling Harry saw the gigantic possi-
bilities of th of the enterprise at once. Ie was
aze
nt.
But only’ fora moment, He was achar-
acter of wide scope, and it did not take him
long to embrace the situation and the o op-
portani
“Colonel Foster,” he said, sincerely, “I
can assure you of my deep” ratitude for
this kind offer, I will certainly do all
siattyou to farther the project and to as
si:
hen you think well of the project ?”
“Tam sure that it will pay big. Farm-
ers and merchants are always grumbling
at the high rates on the railroad, ‘The
steamer line will be more direct, and will
do the most of the carrying trade,
es believe i t1"
“Tams
Colonel ‘Foster atppea Harry’s hand,
“My boy, Iam glad you have caught
the spirit ot this matter,” he said, warmly.
“The Newtown & ntic Steamboat
Company will become a fact this very day.
1 shall have articles of incorporation at
once prepari
Hustling Harry saw that here was the
opportunity of his life.
He had entered Newtown with but a few
hundreds of dollars as capital. That had
been swept away from him and he had
been penniles
It rested with him to make the steamer
Other possibilities loomed up in
yistas of the future like an Aladdin
@ saw himself the owner of a happy
le
picters ¥ wid me "way off dar?” she asked, | home, and he could think of paren else