The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-01-31

against the lgw for Il man to change his
name without permission, but still he
couldn't be arrested for ii if the change
mennt the same as the original, even if it
was put in u milder form. And I reckon
he ought to know, for he read enough
books.
"William Henry was Il Scotchman, who
had sailed the salt seas for thirty years
before i met him, ten years 60. in the
guard-ship ut the Mare Island (Cal.)
nayy-yard. lie was thcn a Grabbed, dried
up old mariner of 10, and 1 reckon he's
sailing yet. About three months before
/ met him he had quit the sea forever,
and gone into the hills of California to
work Oh n farm. Bnt he told me after
ward that he hadn't the stuff in him that
trying TO raise n calf by hand, he said.
and, in order 10 teach the animal to
drink. William Henry nailed n piece of
leather i'll the bottom of the bucket and
poured some milk i'll on it. The strap
was about two inches long, and Williams
object WAS to get the calf to suck the
leather and drink the milk at the same
time. SO William held the pail in his
left hand and let the calf suck a mouth
f,l of the fingers on his right, while he
gradually steerea its nose into the pail.
The calf found the strap, but on the first
pull the hungry little creature sucked
about a gallon of milk up into its head
through its h%awse-pipes or nose-holes.
snor:ed, blowing the milk into William
Henry McTumble's eyes, hair, md whis-
kcrs. He was so mad he batted the calf's
brains out with the pail. He said he
didn't like tho business, and wouldn't
ship on another farm again MS long as he
lived. The farmer Ind to let William
go. but he held onto his three months
wages to Offset tho calf. SO William
Henry returned to his home on the roll
ing deep.
When he camo aboard tho guards he
was rugged up in a suit of brown Califor-
mia overalls, heavy, hobnailea shoes, q
fur cap, aud a little WOODEN mutliertwisted
around his neck. / reckon he had worn
that muller day and night, winter aud
summer, since he first left Scotland rs q
boy. lie never took it oil during the
three years We sailed together, and whom
full Of eurd!ed milk that the calf had
snorted into it,"
Did William Henry know he was rum
ming q milk route?" asked the lubber.
Il 'spose he did, yet he never said any
thing about it. But you never saw a
man so tickled oyer getting safely off of
dry land MS William Henry was. He got
! into n suit of sailor togs us soon Ms he
could, keeping nothing but his muller
and hobnailed shoes, and went strolline
about the deck. lfe said 1t did his feet
good to tread the oakum seams. and that
il would be a chilly day when anybody
caught him ashore again.
"When he wasn't reading out Of his
books lie carried a full spread Of canvas
on his jaw rigging and talked o blue
streak. He was the talkiest A. b. I eve,
knew and was always going on with what
he knew about the marine service. He
knew more about it than did the printed
rules and regulations for the government
Of tho United States navy and wasn't
afraidto say so. Then, his voice was ONT
of those kind that incite people to riot,
q wheezy, choked-up. rasping, gaspine
voice that makes folks tired TO listen to it.
And his endless flow Of words rippled out
Of him like the low, HOMOGENEOUS gurgle
of n busted steampipe index water. You'll
always find that q man with one 81
these voices wants to do all the talking
| himself"
"That's what we do; an sometimes sea.
men with smooth-sailin' voices, remarked
| Watkins, gazing up into the sky with {
PARKWAY look in his eyes.
The Cap'n looked hard ct Watkins, bui
his suspicious, II be had any, were dis