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“THAPPY
DAYS eo
Nobady besides Harry knew just what
had happened.
Slap was cured of picking up stray pipes,
however,
He never knew when they might go off,
Wally found his pipe, later, on the bitt,
and wondered how i got there after hay-
ing been blown to
Slap did not see Hlarey “restore it, and so,
could draw no infer
When the excitement “was over, Ilarry
sat on the bitt, and remarked guite cas-
uall
ne time, when I was third mate on
the Hurricane, 1 had a most singular ad-
venture.”-
**Reckon yer did,” grunted Bill, paus-
ing as he was going by. |“ ‘Another lie, I
rec’
“ ‘There wasn’t a breath of wind to be
felt, and yet we were bowling along ata
slashing Tate, the waves just dashing up
from our cutwate
* Oh, yes, I'll believe that,” snorted Bill.
“No wind, and you going | fi ke lightning.
Ma be you was on a stea:
Vo, I was not,” said. Tlatey, who now
had quite a crowd around him. “She was
a sailing vessel, and all our sails had been
blown away the day before, and we hadn’t
. bad time to bend on any new ones,
“‘There had been a dead calm just be-
fore, and there we lay without a rag up,
when all of a sudden we began to go like
smoke right through the water, at the rate
of, nineteen miles an hour.”
f an even
asked
Bill, with an incredulous look on his griz-
zled mug.
“Because it was only nineteen,” said
Harry: ’° “nT counted the mile posts as we
ew
“e Hab ! mile posts on ‘the ocean I” grunt-
ed Bill. “That’s the barefacedest lie ye
ever to! .
“Oh, the mile posts were on shore,
thirteen miles away. We were running
along the coast.”
“Go on, sald Bi ll, with a snort and a
look of disappointment. “ri ,cateh you
f in, a Woll'the my bully, I bet you.
ere we were, going like fun, and
no wind and not a gas ° of sail up, and we
couldn’t make it
“Tt wasn’t the tide that took us, for the
tide was going the other way, and besides
we'd been anchored,”
“I got ye now, boy,” yelled Bill. “Ye
said ye were running along the coast, and
now ye oat, ye was anchored, I knew I'd
trip
Pr cou course, we ran along the coast when
this strange wind or whatever it was
caught us. We had been achored and then
we started off in e@ most mysterious
” fashion against a strong tide, without a
breath of air to help us and not a sail set,
pot even a pocket handkerchief hung out
oe iin !” said Bill.
Wally caught the next
It happened. 8. few days ater” when there
wasn "tb much doing.
had one characteristic copied from
the English which he worked for all that
was
He Tied his bath every day, no matter if
it rained ors!
II3 had bis portable bath tub with him,
and used to fetch w one on deck every
morning ‘and take ay
Ile could not have. it in the forecastle,
and so he had it on deck,
Every morning he would bring it up,
place it forward of the try works out of
sight of the
Then he would alt it up with salt water
and take h th,
The other fellows took a wash once a
month, or after they got through trying
out or when there was , and they
could dive off the ship right into the ocean.
t first they laughed at Wally’s daily
bath, but after a bit they got used to if,
and let him take it unmoleste:
slush, which
name for grease, lye, marrow from beef
shin bones, water, elbow grease, a big
stick and an iron pot and made his soap,
It was of the soft variety, and was not
made into cakes or scented or any of that
nonsense.
It was useful in washing greasy clothes,
serubbing pots and pans or cleaning the
Soot was a pretty good soap maker, and
his article was in general demand.
hen he made any he generally puta
big pail full of it just outside. the galley
door, so that the boys could help them-
selves,
One fine morning Wally fetched up his
bath tub, as usual, and put it in its accus-
tomed place,
Then he drew three or four buckets of
ien
Wi this was done he got a bucket of
fresh ‘water and placed it near the tul
This was to rinse himself off with after
is alt water bath,
Then he went. below, removed his shirt | r
and overalls and put on a long wrapper.
You would have supposed he was ina
swell, marble-lined bath room by the airs
e .
There was no one to see him except. sail-
ors, and yet he always put on these airs,
Armed with a rough towel, a pair of
bath gloves and a cake of soap, he return-
ed to the deck.
hen he dropped his wrapper and got
into the tub,
All you could see of him then was his
body from the fifth rib up and his head
and arms,
He soused himself with
scrubbed and scraped and kick
Ilarry was on deck, Ife had an idea,
He swapped the pail of fresh water for
soap and
eleven
hour, After that I’ a cough twelve more,
varnished an
of miser.
my
sight of the pink worste:
salt water and filled it as full as conven- | me.
my nose stopped running.
cloths instea
ance is enough to try it,
came tosee me, Ie
goric and gl.
cold higher than Gol
As it was, I caught cold,
It was the first thing 1 had caught since
my grandmother had fits, but I wasn’t
proud of
It was e double-breasted, forty-horse-
power, iron-clad-bottomed col
One of those that sets you to ‘looking all
over your body for a place to breathe
through, and gives youa Foice like a cow
with an ‘apple i in her throat.
It put a regular head on me, too.
My eyes bulged out and got "red and sen-
timental. They wept at everything,’ Eve-
rything those blamed eyes looked at seem-
ed to suggest sorrowful memories. They'd
weep just as readily at an ashcart asa
hearse,
Then my nose swelled.
It got tired of walking, and began to
=
pe
Ps
AS a runner, it was a glorious success,
It took every handkerchief I could borrow
off clothes lines when folks were abed to
keep my mustache from being drowned,
My mustache is very weak, and if it
should get wet I would never see it again,
It consists of one hair only, and Tam
afraid that that is only a boarder.
Of course my cold got into my lun
It was a free and easy cold, and if went
every wheres,
I began to cough,
I would cough from twelve o'clock till
next morning, then sneeze for an
For real, genuine enjoyment, a cold like
Lhad is almost equal toa faneral. It beats
sitting up with a corpse all
about two days I looked as sit Thad
been blown up by mistake, fora safe, by
bank burglars.
Somebody suggested that I ought to get
nd put in a frame for a picture
Indeed, I felt like hanging my-
blue suspenders, but the
parrots stopped
self with
Of course every articulating idiot that I
came across suggested a cure.
My grandfather told me to takeacold
bath. Like a fool I did
id.
I love baths—at a distance. About ten
miles or so, and no way to get to them.
t I tried it.
I caaghe about six quarts more cold, but
‘ot to using sheets and table
of handkerchiefs.
mother said molasses, rum and
tis a lovely mixture.
Twice gener-
ly sends you riding to the nearest ceme-
galloping, I
‘Then m
tery with a beautiful wooden overcoat
about
I onl tried it once,
The doctors bet five to one that I'd die—
but I didn’t. I only caught more cold.
Next, the bookkeeper down to the office
told me to use pare-
cerines a would knock the
I have since found out that he is a habit-
The rest only grinned, another.
“Well, sir, away we went along shore Wally was scrubbing his head at the | ual lia
toward an island a hundred an fry tim “Glyee erine and @ paregoric was only one of
miles away, going like mad, and i his little fair.
hours we suddenly struck on the island, mo
* Where did you go to school?” asked
Bil. * You couldn't make an island a
hundred and forty miles otf in two hours
, at, the rate of nineteen miles an
“Oh, that was onls the first hour, “After
"snat we went faster,and the mile posts
were just | ike, a solid stone wail, we passed
“em 80 quic!
“ Well, we ran smack upon the island
and then we saw what was the matter,
A big whale had swallowed our anchor
and had started to run with it,
us after him, and we didn’t k
had happened vill we saw him lying high
and dry on the beach,”
“Well, how'd. you get off the island
yourself if you run on it?”
, We cut up the whale, tried out the
oil, put it on board and left the carcass to
rot, By and by it got to smelling so bad
that the Board. of Health came along and
ordered us to lea: ey
“ Well?” asked Bil
“We told them ue wouldn't, but the
said we'd got to or the a put us “off the isl-
and and that’s what they di
“* Fight pelle! Call the watch ” sang
out the skip)
“Well, Tn mare !” grunted Bill, as he
waddled ‘tor
w, as, me deah fellah, but how
could the Sadard of Health put you ©.
when you were stuck fast on the island?”
asked ¥ ally.
“ He a away and didn't see that part
of it,” said Tom,
“«ffe’s one of those fellows what alw. ays
wants a@ post mortem to a joke,” laughed
cs ti explain that later.” said Harry, “I
forgot whether they got a derrick “and
hauled us off or sinoked cigarettes and
drove us o:
Then the boys all had the laugh on Wally
for wanting an explanation: and Harry
went below ° get a aps
think up some scheme by sehich fhe might
make it. pleasant for some other fellow.
ff | to do with my 8
Therefore I went to church in my shirt | all
This hands were over his eyes, and his
eyes were shut,
here was no one around but Harry.
There was a man at the wheel and three
or four in the waist, but Harry was the
only one on deck forward of the try works
besides Wally.
Well, that. ‘aude, having finished his
shampooing, reached over the side of the
tub for the pail of fresh wi:
He felt a pail and cunoxed "tt forthwith,
Then. he raised it over his head wit
both hands, preparatory to giving himself
a shower bath.
Now that ‘pail did not contain fresh
water,
Nor even pale ditto, .
Smash! Plunk!
Wally was a sight.
TO BE CONTINUED,]
MY COLD. .
By ** SED
OnE Sunday last “fall, impelled by a de-
sire to do something tha t would surprise
self, 5 agent to chu
Tha been cresented with a pair of
blue ausdoniiens, with pink worsted Parrots | n
worked on them, by a lady frien
and the glycerine, fits. Ih
uation for a week,
and look at me instead of going to the cir-
tried it, oust:
The success was grand.
The paregoric gave me Kicking cram ss
the com
Folks ised to come
or hen I got well a respectable maniac
told me to soak my feet in hot water,
By accident I got the water scalding
hot, and the skin ’all peeled off my feet,
And I caught additional cold,
ext I met a farmer friend. He has got | hi
a tomato vine and six
‘Cough Panacea for Man and
Beasts I'll bring you some.”
‘At the first swallow I threw up every-
thing except my cold. I even threw up my
sock
walt Lhaa had) had a full hand I'd have thrown
hat up, t
M farmer friend glared wildly at me,
“« Well, I'll be gosh darned,” he said, Sig
She has since been locked up in Bloom- Berea t
ingdale for insanity, but that has nothing
sketch,
sleeves to show my suspenders, for it is
man went home in sections. I'ma
That
hard- hitter if I do have a cold occasion-
ye
Somebody else Femarked that I ought to
only occasionally that I get a chance to be | drink sora
overbearin nely and stunningly stylish, Io
I showed my suspenders, and a police-| I drank cold water till the reservoir fell
man showed me the station house, hhree inches, and there wasn’t enough
He arrested me on a charge of habitual
idiocy, and remarked that folks who mean-
dered around in November in their shirt
sleeves ought to get six months.
ut he was only jealous, Ile buttoned
his pants into his vest with 1 Shawl pin,
for he couldn't afford suspend
the good and handsome get blue
suspenders with pink worsted parrots on
¢
a na left to put out fire
f I had ever fell off the roof and broken,
I'd have deluged the whole street,
But it didn’t cure the cold.
I have it yet, and still Iam not happ.
Does any reader of this paper know. ofa
cure? ,If they do, please send it tome; I
shall consider it a personal fa
Address * Ep,” care of Frank. ‘
nion Square, New Yo rk, Touses, “a
(This story commenced in No, 237.)
HOLDING HIS OWN
The Brave Fight of Bob Carter
A STORY OF STRIFE AND SUCCESS. :
By GASTON CARNE,
Author eo “The Boy Clif, Climbers,” and
nd,” * On the fo Mise ” “Jack
eT Tia de: obs
yer,” Putri
“Hens "aes ete.
CHAPTER XVI -
POPULAR SENTIMENT,
Austin Dosson looked contemptuously
at Bob as he uttered these words, His lips
curled scornfull.
“Perhaps you ‘can hold your own with
me,” he said, Jeeringly,, “but not this time,
I am ta that which I can prove is
mine, I i not talk with
“That is oa endvice, Mr.
one of the law
“ You will tall with our lawyer present-
ly,” said Mr. True. ‘He is on his way
here now with an njunetion.”
The two lawyers laughed,
“Mr.
said Lee, sneeringly. |
show of him in court.”
“Do not be so sure,” admonished Mr,
True, quietly. “Mr. Brown has his mark
to mone yet, and this may be his oppor-
ou further.”
lobson,” said
“We will make a
g
ue ie must develop brains and more legal
talent before he can do that,” retorted
Lawyer Lane.
“To me it looks rather odd,” put in Bob,
“* that the oil wells have so shddenly come
0 life, and so conveniently for Mr. Dob-
son, when they would produce nothing for
fa ct.
“That is right, Bob!” cried Mr. True.
“The ways of nature are not always
easy to explain,” said Dobson, with a
It commenced | sn
Ti have an idea an explanation of this
case will Bey fortheoming very soon,”
hinted Mr. T
Dobson's face ‘grew slowly livid. Some-
thing like a haunting fear shone in his
But be said harshly:
“Perhaps you think I was the cause of
the oil well stopping?”
“Perhaps we do,” said Mr, True.
“ Well, al Ican say is that you area pair
of fools !' Just try and prove it, that’s all.
Tamon top just low, and that makes you
feel sore.’
But Lane & Lee, the two lawyers, now
drew Dobson away, and the conversation
came to an end, Mr, True and Bob strolled
through the camp,
None of this crew of men had ever
worked for the former proprietors of the
place, They had been brought from a dis-
tant town by Do!
One striking fact was noted,
‘hey were all armed with revolvers as if
they anticipated trouble. It was plain
that Dobson meant to hold the camp by
main force if not legally.
job saw Harkey Dobson and Clifford
Small in the engine room. jobs!
smoking a cigarette “and Small was telling
a pomber of the men, As he
nd saw Bob his face changed.
He had got forgotten the thrashing given
‘arkiey cou could ‘not ‘help a grin of of triumph
as he looked up and saw Bo b. he did
not venture to say anyt
Bob and Mr, True ventured to talk with
some of the men they were surly
and non-commi
It will be Temenbered that the oil wells
had been connected with the railroad by
river sfeamers, After some hours in the
camp Bob and Mr, ‘Prue began to look for
Kirk Brown with the injunction.
The young lawyer -was expected every
clieved that his arrival
Suddenly, the adistant whistle of the
i] Steamer was heal
ere she comes ! cried Bob, ‘I only
"| hope he is aboar
But when the. Steamer came in sight she
presented a remarkable appearance. From
stem to stern she was literally jammed
with men, As, they came in. sight of the
cam they cheered hoar:
What's all that?” asked Mr. True, in
amazement,
forcements ?”
ut Bob, who had been straining his
Baze, suddenly swung his arm excitedly.,
“No, nol” he cried, ‘It is reinforce-
ments "tor us, Those are our men come
baek to work for us!” .
Mr. True looked dazed.
“The dickens? he. A aimed, “ ‘Tow
disappointed they will bel”
“i Why?’ asked Bob. . we
We have no work to give them Pr
irk Brown is your counsel, eh?”
There is something significant in the’ .
‘Tas Dobson ordered rein- .