The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-22
Mr.. and Mrs. SpOOpendyke.
The Happy Family Recreate ia q
SaiI-BOat.

WI UOaA O0SAAANAON GAAs RROOROh~
dyke, bouncing into his wife's room and
interrupting that lady inthe purely fem
mime enjoyment Of unpacking for the
summer. "My dear, there's no use try
ing to get along in the country without a
sail-boat, and / have bought a nice one.
Come along, and I'll show you how it
works"
"Ain't that NIGEL" giggled Mrs. Spoop-
endyke, who stood In mortal terror of
the water, and was afraid Of anything
shaped like a boat. care you going to
sail it on the pondP"
"At first / thought I'd sail it down
cellar" growled Mr. Spoopendyke, ''but
the landlord was afraid il might u pset
the milk; then | thought I'd try the gar
ret but there's too much wind Zip there:
80 | believe I'll stick to the river. Hur-
nv up, now and I'll show you the biggest
boat in thirteen counties"
''If it is as big as that It must have cost
a good deal" murmured Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, somew what treasured by the size
of the boat. II am very glad you got a
large boat, though, of course, the ex-
pense-"
What dye think I've been buying?n
demanded Mr. Spoopendyke, with a
flushed face; "got some kind Of a notion
that I've invested my wealth In q salt
marsh, with telegraph posts for masts,
haven't ye2 Think I've been laying
out money In a town site. don't ye?n
Well, / haven't, and / haven't been
buying a rural district with a rudder to
it. It's a boat, / tell yea sail boat
and it won't come up here to make a
formal call; SO If you are going to see it,
you want to go where il is. Coming?"
and Mr.. Spoopendyke pegged off with
his hat pulled down over his ears, and
the expression of q veteran tar On his
visage.
Eyes, dear" replied Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, ~huttering after him. Say, dear,
I'll stand on the shore and watch you
sail the thing"
"You won't do anything of the Kind
retorted Mr.. Speepeadyke IT bought
that boat for your pleasure as much as
mine and you're going to sail in it.
When | want you to stand on the shore
and watch anything, I'll hire q man TO
drown himself. Now look at that boat.
Isn't she a daisy? See how she sets on
the water
What are all these clothes lines hang
ing down from that stick for?" asked
Mrs. Spoopensyke, surveying the yacht
critically.
10 play Copenhagen WITH reared
Mr.. S~poopendyke, who was not at all
anxious to be examined on the techni-
cal points of his new acquisition. You
take hold of these ropes, and [ slav your
hands, and then we kiss. See into it
now? Does the art OF navigation begin
to appeal to your understanding? Now,
you get in and I'll make SAIL and Mr..
Spoopendyke handed his wife into the
cockpit and began to tug away at his
halliards.
Why didn't ycu have q sail made
when the boat wa built?" inquired Mrs.
Sp0opendyke, by way of encouraging
her husbands labors with preasant con-
versation.
Because the man was SICK snarled
Mr.. Spoopendyke, glancing at the head
of the mast to see What was wrong.
Come up here, will ye2" be grunted, as
he grabbed the halliards again, There,
dod CAST vel I knew I'd fetch yer and
he walked aft to examine the trim of
his mainsail. How does that set?'
1T GEMS to be q little fun Ia the back
breadth" commented Mrs. ~Spoopen-
dyke, holding on to the cOaming with
both hands. "If you cut a gore near
tnat Top Suck " would DC straignt-
En-
4 suppose so,1 muttered MT; Spoop-
snayke, giving anotner naui az ms peak
nalnarus. \ put pustie on Y, 4
imagine y Woula axe tne wrinkles out.
NOW Ill get Up mat jip' ana mind' don't
y0u toucn snytn,ng. - ~ Ssh,
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