The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-11

silk handkerchief, was able to presen
 myself for duty last week. 1 was told te
 20 below and hold myself in readiness.
 was costumed in my credited suit and, oI
 course, it was little trouble to hold my self and clothing together.
 All at once I heard voice, which the owner could utilize in any comic opera troupe extant, sing out: "H.a-ye her stear-ne!" With quickness of motion
 which would have put an acrobat like
 Howard Douglass to shame, I grasped a hardsuike and commenced heaving on
 what found afterward to be the head line. The owner of the stentorian voice perceived me engaged in my labor, and in tones that would have awakened the seven slcepers yelled: "What in the blank and blankety blank nation are you doing
 with that gypsy% I saw some squaws on the bridge, but could find no members l recollection by having chunk of wood miss my port ear by an inGlr and a quar- ter. l rushed aft and seeing the door or the engine furnace opsn, threw in some half dozen sticks of pitch pine. The steam gauge indicated 160 DO unds, and had barely time to dodge monkey wreach which Wilson, the engineer, threw at me.
 Not wishing to appear idle caught hold of rope that was impressed on my memory as the starboard-guy, said i'm pression beng made by the Cinderella hoof of Kennebec, and heayed.
 The individual second in command started after me with a boathOok. Iii trying 10 make my escape l fell over coil of rope, knocking another coil over- board. By that time saw the sylph- like form of John McCaslin, Esq. coming d ,wn the ladder like humming-bird alightIng on 8 honeysuckle. I started for the wharf. Some fend in human shape placed pinch-bar in the way, and to dodge one of the boss's 12x16 shoe coverir gs, fell into tn e hold. My first impression was that I w&s dead After pulling myself toge ther l found that was only the loser of about an inch of one ear, the culicle of my right leg from the ankIe 10 the knee, a gash in the part of my anatomy which is most convenient at the dinner table, and a general set. back that would mako a war veteran of any Denocrst.
 crawled put of the hold, put on my silk 'kerchicf and started fer Yuma. got up as far as the second yard. Ken. nehec WIS standing on the wharf. Where ill blank and blank-nation are you going now?" was my salutation. tod him that 1 had found out he was an angel in disguise; hIs crew were all ser aphimS; but as 1 had had to take the rough knocks of the world for twenty-fiv years could not stand so n uch kind ness, and l would quit the craft and try to find some tramp who was in heed of kind treatment.
 Now, know Kenne is whole-souled ind diriA hos h.ao If iS l,t shirt-boaom; but after giving him the game mentioned above he smiled one Of his sickly smiIes, took reef in his trou- serlOons, set his hoodlum hat on the back of his head and in his usual dulcet tones quietly-wlich could have been heard twenty miles south of Yuma-said: "You blank, blank, blankety-blank idiot, what in blank aud blank k-nation do you lake me for? You have lost 95 fathoms of rope; you laid up the engineer by turning on steam when he was sitting on the safety valve to hold her down; you owe No. 26 for three chains and two blocks: you owe me one weeks pay for hollerin' at you; you lost a pile which cost me two days labor with my life-saving crew, and they only got within fifteen miles of the barge up 10 day; the company charges you with the maintenance of three men who are on the sick list. Now. I1l tell YOU, Ali, if you will stay with nle I'll try to tx things so that you will have S4. S5 by ChrIslmls. But if you attempt to leave I will, by my halidome, break youI neck 7"
 What, in the name of goodness, will I do? IT stay on the scow will be killed sure. If leave, that hand of the boss's, which would make Westphalian ham shriu6 III its parli-cOlOred covering, will De on my wiZzen. What in h-ll will I do? Give me your advice. and greatly oolIge an unfortunate partner in dis. usss. Yours distractedly,