word until she was gone away and her was under sea again then he said he d cry by the hour and round and round the light at him and water with his foot hands at last he took it into his pore sick head that the ships and particularly the that came by � there wasn t many of them � made the streaks instead of the tides as was natural he used to sit he told me cursing every boat that come along � sometimes a sometimes a dutch and now and again a steamer head and about in the mouth of the strait or d come a boat from running north past old hunting for a fair current but never throwing out any papers that might pick up for to read speaking the kept more but now and again they came looking for and the west coast of used to shout to them to go round by the passage and not to come past him making the water all but it wasn t likely they d hear he says to himself after a month give them one more chance he says if the next boat don t attend to my just representations � he says he the of traffic remembers using those very words to � ru stop the the next boat was a two streak cargo boat very anxious to make her she through under old at the south end of the strait and she passed within a quarter of a mile of the light at the north end in seventeen o water the tide against her took the trouble to come out with in a little that they had � all and � and he lay in the waving a palm branch and so he told me wondering why and what for he was making this fool of himself up come the two streak boat and shouts don t you come this way again making my head all go round by and leave me alone some one looks over the port and a at and that s all sits down in the bottom of the boat and cries fit to break his heart then he says what am i a crying for nd they fetch up by the light on the half flood he says there s too much traffic here and that s why the water s so as it is it s the and the and the that do it he says and all the time he was speaking he was thinking lord lord what a crazy fool i am said nothing because he couldn t speak a word of english except say dam and he � the phantom said that where you or me would say yes lay down on the of the light with his eye to the crack and he saw the muddy water below and he never said a word slack water because the streaks kept him at such times at slack water he says wc must this for and he holds up his hands several times showing that of had come about in the and says dam that very afternoon he and goes to the village in the woods that the li t was named after and � and of and rope thick and fine all sorts � and they sets to work making square by of the together said he took longer over those than might have been needed because he rejoiced in the comers they being square and the streaks in his head all running he lashed the together cross and any way but � and they made up twelve foot square like then he stepped a twelve foot or a bundle of in the centre and to the head of that he lashed a big six foot w letter all made of and painted the float dark green and the w white as a wreck should be painted between them two they makes a round dozen of these new kind of wreck and it was a two the of traffic months job there was no big owing to it being on the turn of the but what there was cursed at and the streaks in his head they ran with the tides as usual day after day so soon as a was ready would take it out with a big rock that half sunk the and a and drop it dead in the he did this day or night and could see him of a clear night when the sea climbing about the with the sea fire dripping oflf him they was all put into place twelve of them in seventeen water not in a straight line on account of a there but and two one behind the other mostly in the centre of the you must keep the centre of those currents for currents at the side is and in narrow water before you can turn a spoke you get your nose took round and rubbed upon the rocks and the woods knew that just as well as any he knew that no t run through in a six knot current he told me he used to lie outside the light watching his and dipping so friendly with the tide and the motion was comforting to him on account of its being different from the run of the streaks in his head three weeks after he d done his business up comes a steamer through straits think the phantom ing she d run sea before ni t he saw her slow down then she backed then one man and another came up on the bridge and he could see there was a regular and the ood was driving her right on to s that she spun round and went back south and nearly killed himself with laughing but a few weeks after that a couple of came through from the north arm in arm 