The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-29
LOVE LEVELS RANKS.

~@A 49, C9P Ne ~ - hso0C WIN 80
OF his tarvy thumb, always rounds
mo 70 n d the fiash-light Of Fred Larkins'
aheosbing and fatal passion"
Now, To begin with, no one was talking
amy way To the lender passion. For
an hour the sailors and h
eap'n had been sitting on the dock
discussing the relative merits OF
pure pork fat and axel grease for slushing
and topmast. And they had just de-
cided TINT pure fat well rubbed in ON .
freshly scraped spar was far superior TO
the best brand OF axel grease ever made
when the cap'n squared away with his
love story. But then that was his way. |
deep-water conversation the cap'n would
drop a-stern and sit in pcnsive silence for
break in with something utterly foreign
to the general drifts, prsfacing the story
These remarks remind me-"
When the capfn pulls the battens oil his
matches and prepares tn break out a story
in respectful silence TO hear what the old
salt has to say. 1t doesn't jibts with a
sailors line Of policy, to cross a captains
for he can not tell when circumstances
may place them together in the same ship.
iandsman is not up i'm forecastie ctiauct
and always breaks i'm with idiotic ques-
tons that, are very annoying. tn h mar
pale-browed lubber i'm the party on this
occasion, and no sooner ma the cap'n
squared away ON the story Of Larkins and
essay; cap'n. who was thi. man Lar
"Shipmate Of mine; foremast-hand in
the United States steamship Wachusett
Of the Pacific sauadron during the cruise
where he offered himself q sacrifice at the
shrine of his love-a w~eb-footed female
repIied the can'n. as he caught his breath
"Larkins was all right he continued.
where he met Mary Cheese. That wasn't
her name, hut we called her Mary Cheese
ave anchored in Apia, the principal
island i'm the Samoan group, early in May
1888. About a week later we pulled zap
sixty miles distant with the American con-
sui on board. Pago IL q sort OF rinR-worm
,siand rising ssvsfaa n y n;rc ree has aDoS "r
harbor about one mile i'm extent. The only
entrance to the harbor IL a narrow OPEN
ship was steercd by a native pilot. On the
north shore of the harbor the government
had dumped q huge pile OF coal for the
there for coal and remained four days
filling the bunkers; 1t was i'm this pic
that time he was a mess-cook down
ON the lower deck, where he prepared the
daily screech Of his messmates. Think of
il, will yOu? Those low, vulgar sailors
called nice, clean grub screech; 1t makes
me sick to think Of it," and the captain
When "SHssS the he i feilo SSss got sSroasn soothing
their screech Larkins would jam himself
into the headlight over his mess and make
What the meaning OF scofhne in
your Language ?' asked the lubber, h
ec %Why. e easina. of afS so ,%ne.sI' said the cap'n
i'm q tone Of disgust at the evidence Of such
~bliRhting ignorance on the part of the lub-
didn't you, mates ?" he continued, APP
peaiing to the sailors:
And the t6ict,skuiiediu bber retired within
INC one was allowed ashore but the fell
were under guard. On the other hand,
the natives were not permitted to board
the hip; b but sh ,Ss; S1 1.-THE d"a.cat can"sa.
and looked at us. The canoes are SO mar
row that the occupant can get along with
wales at once and wears the feet in single
file Mt the bottom OF the boat. Ihe are q
fierce and Tarlike people. clad h;sa in s Nn,
looked charming in hers, and caught Lar
kins, susceptible heart he he
81 don't know just how they happened
to catch OH, but uppos it. was mutua!
business at first sight; Neither could
and Larkins had sense enough TO feed her,
tnelr course OF True loVe al
enough for anybody. By some means she
located Larkin's headlight, and there she
staid from morning till night.
"A headlight explained the cap'n, AS
he noticed signs OF an explosion I'm the
lubber's vicinity, ais a window or port.
thick, the headlight on the inside being
about lS inches in INT and n foot or
SO ON the outside. IL was seven feet above
the water line, but that made no differ
ence to the lovers. Mary would moor hel
canoe under the headlight and then crawl
up and hang OH to the channel-platcs and
rinR-bolts, like n bat, with her face at the
opening. Larki would always he found
ON the Inside, with himself jammed head
first into the big end of the headlight. II
was a damn tough way to make love. but
il was The hest the poor cusses could do.
.'By sticking tho top of his head dow n
into the opening Mary could kiss his hair
but he couldn't kiss her. All he could dc
was to fondle her face, etc., as she occa
sionally shifted her position to ease hei
overtax ed muscles, and look unutterablC
thoughts out of his eyes. Sometimes
Larkins would get spasms OF h heart
Then he would go down into the mess
chest and hand out a cold boiled spud. t.
Mary. She would rcciprocate with a ba
mana or n yam, and he would respont
with n painful of coffee grounds or some
SOAP. She brought of n boat load %
stuff every morning, and they exchanged