Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-09-02
8isreilaug.
LOVE on THE HIGH SEAS.

"Now," says the captain, 1--WE shan't
see any more land for week, and you
young ladies'l have nothing to do but let
some Of these young fellows fall in love
with you"
"Fall in lovc?" erie, IIetty; her tip
tilted nose curling with incrcdulity and
disgust. "Who could fall in love at
sea, I'd like to lnow?"
"Who could?" asked the captain in in
nocent surprise. "Why everybody does,
Why not"
"Why, the seas so nasty" cmphatical-
y cxclaims Hetty. "Of course ! don't
mean the water, hut everything in it and
on 1t. Ships are so dirty and smell so,
and everybody's seasick and cross and sell
fish. How could any man fall IN love
with'a seasick womanP" and she views
herself and Deb with disgust.
Now that's big mistake you make, "
says the captain, eagerly. DO you think
Il woman can't be attractive when she's
sea slckP Why sailors most always court
their wives at sea, nor there isn't one wo.
man in hundred that isn't sick. Why,
what else have these youngsters to do but
to think OF the womcn2 In storm its
different; but in calm weather n sailor
hasn't enough to do to keep him busy half
the day, and naturally his eyes and
thoughts are occupied the rest o. the time
with the prettiest girl on board. Look at
my first officer over there, pretending to
talk with the doctor and looking as de-
mure as a cat. What do you suppose he's
thinking OFF I'll bet my hiatt"
Hetty smiles in evident unbelief, but
glances furtively across deck toward the
handsome young first officer, where he
leans on the rail blowing rings of smoke
into the deep blue sky.
He is ostensibly obsorbed in one of the
doctors long-winded yarns; but just here
his eyes, which have been fixed on the
yellow coast to windward, somehow or
other slide round to leeward, and be-
stow sidelong glance on Hetty's pretty
little half sea-3ick figure, stretched at full
length in steamer-Chair.
MisChievous Deb and the qulck-sighted
captain detect both, and laugh unmerci-
fully. Hetty bushes and the first officer
uncompromisingly turns his back and
deaf ear to the captains outlaws.
"There, | told you so," said his superb
Or. "Now you won't be out of his head
for week. Oh, | tell you it don't make
any difference = girls being sea'siCk!
Cupid has to have his fling at sailor as
well as at every one else. And they
strike their Colors quicker'n any other
men, for their lOve-making has oil to be
done in the course of the voyage. If they
hang back and shilly-shally, why the first
thing they know they're in port, and off
goes their lady-love, and that's the last
they see of her. As for the sea. sickness,
why, they expect that, and it dosen't dis
courage them the least mite in the world.
But there's one thing that's pretty hard
on a sailor, and that is, it his sweetheart's
sick he can't get her to listen to him ut
all. While he's making loye his very
prettiest and courting his very darndest,
why she's thinking all the time how her
head does ache, or wishing she. had some
more Ice, or wondering when they'll get
into port. And she don't make no more
account O. the poor feller's feeIin's than
if mosquito was a-buzzin' round her
ears. Oh, tell you, sailors much
abused ANIMAL"
And the gallant captain sighs and
shakes his head over the sorrowlul lot Of
his fellows.
1t is evening on shipboard; dinner Is
over. the days work done, and all who
can move are assembled on deck.
The sum which has hung all day like q
copper gong on brass ceiling, is now
merciully disappearing. The mountains
Of Lower California shine in his fast-fad-
ing rays like "the golden hills of heaven" p"
while one little hummock of an island,
ny, and high and narrow, rises out Of
the Sea like agrave-mound Of some ocean
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