in the middle of it the house that covered the steam gear was split as with there was a bill for small in the engine room almost as long as the screw shaft the forward cargo fell into bucket when they raised the iron cross bars and the steam had been badly on its bed altogether as the said it was a pretty general average but she s he said to mr for all her dead weight she rode like a ye mind that last blow off the banks i am proud of her buck it s good said the chief engineer looking along the decks now a man would say we were a wreck but we know by experience naturally everything in the fairly with pride and the and the forward who are pushing creatures begged the steam to warn the port of new york of their arrival tell those big boats all about us they said they seem to take us quite as a matter of course it was a glorious clear dead calm morning and in single file with less than half a mile between each their bands playing and their shouting and waving handkerchiefs were the majestic the paris the the the and the all going out to sea as the the ship that pound herself shifted her to give the great boats way the steam who knows far too much to mind making an exhibition of himself now and then shouted i i princes and of the high seas i ye by these presents we are the fifteen days nine hours from liverpool having crossed the atlantic with four thousand ton of cargo for the first time in our career i we have not f we are here we are not but we have had a time wholly in the annals of ship building i our decks were swept i we pitched we rolled i we thought we were going to die i hi hi but we did n t we wish to give notice that we have come to new york all the way across the atlantic through the worst weather in the world and we are the we ha r r the beautiful line of boats swept by as steadily as the procession of the seasons the heard the majestic ea and the paris how i and the said with a little of steam and the said i and the and the said dutch and that was absolutely all i did my best said the steam gravely but i don t think they were much impressed with us somehow do you it s simply disgusting said the bow plates they might have seen what we ve been through there is n t a ship on the sea that has suffered as we is there now well i would n t go so far as that said the steam because i ve worked on some of those boats and sent the ship that pound herself them through weather quite as bad as the fortnight that we ve had in six days and some of them are a little over ten thousand tons i believe now i we seen the majestic for instance from her bows to her and i ve helped the i think she was to back off an she met with one dark night and i had to run out of the parts a engine room one day because there was thirty foot of water in it of course i don t the steam shut off suddenly as a loaded with a political club and a brass band that had been to see a new york off to � pe crossed their bows going to there was a long silence that reached without a break from the cut water to the blades of the then a new big voice said slowly and thickly as though the owner had just up it s my conviction that i have made a fool of myself the steam knew what had happened at once for when a ship finds herself all the talking of the separate pieces ceases and into one voice which is the soul of the ship who are you he said with a laugh i am the of course i ve never been anything else except and a fool i the which was doing its very best to be run down got away just in time its band playing and a popular but air in the days of old are you on in the days of old are you on in the days of old that story had are you are yon are you on f the ship that pound herself well i m glad you ve foimd yourself said the steam to tell the truth i was a little tired of talking to all those and here s after that we u go to our wharf and clean up a little next month we do it all over again the tomb of his ancestors the tomb of his ancestors some people will tell you that if there were but a single loaf of bread in all india it would be divided equally between the the the and the that is only one way of saying that certain families serve india generation after generation as follow in line across the open sea let us take a small and obscure case there has been at least one representative of the in or near central india since the days of lieutenant of the european regiment who assisted at the capture of in alfred s younger brother commanded a regiment of from to when he saw some mixed fighting and in john of the same family � we will call him john the came to light as a level headed in time of trouble at a place called he died young but left his mark on the new country and the honourable the board of of 