The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-07-20

the weather got still ! should make
the trip. IL beginncd fur To moderate
that night, an the mex day the ingin-
Ger went To work 10 rig the air-punp
10 keep me In breath. WAL, il were
simply dreadful a-iryin' 10 do any
thing aboard ship wot were standin'
on her head, an dancin' slowly up an
down over the Swclls But after q
good deal o. hard work an awful
sight % talk, the ingincer got the
pump set up on "A bulkhead. Mean
time the crew lowered Eill Martin
and me into the after hold were the
divin' rig were. Waal. You never see
such tangle o things in the whole
course % your life. There were tin
cans, rattlcsnakcs teeth. goatsKins,
ropes. old iron. boxes. bags, blocks,
an all sorts o. riffraf piled up in the
worst kind o. confusion wot ever was
knowed since the destruction o sodom
an uomorrah.
''ilowsunevcr. Bill an me managed
to find the divin' rig. an to git back
into the cabin with il. The foliowin
day the sea were quite calm. an the
long easy swells didn't interfere none
with our plans. The pumps were
started. an climbed out o. the main
hatch. witch were just q water. an,
shet up in the divin' suit felt my way
forrard or rather downward-to the
ships bow. climbed over an worked
my way around underneath till ! got
TO the hole. 1t were about five feet in
diameter an putty near round. | shook
my head. an pulled the string fur EN-
TO take me back. Wen ! got into the
ship ag'in seq To the captain. seq /:
Il don't b'lieve we kin do much with
that hole But he seq to me. seq he:
Wy it amt no crater o Mount We
sooyus. wot blows things out AS fast as
We put EN- in. is il? Now, you jess go
down az in an pass er line under the
ship. We kin haul a big mansail un-
icran' plug up the hole with that.
'Waal. | didn't think the shippers
scheme wud work. but my business
were to do wot he seq. So TUX the
line an down | went ag'in. Wotever
induced me fur to look around while !
were under the ships bow don't
know. but | did. an were not pcrtik-
! lerly pleased wen sees shark a-ris-
ing. lie were a-comin' straight at me
from blow. an tell We yanked that
string so quick an hard it were
a-wonder didn't bust it. Were right
in front % the hole at the time. an the
shark comm up headon like gray
streak q lightnin. jess in time the
hoistin' rope pulled taut. ! swung my
self away from the hole. an as | went
l.s. Il Al l.
seea"
What" cried the boys.
The bloomin shark went head fust
into the hole. an there he stuck. lie
dashed his tai, about an struggled.
but il didn't do no good. eos WY. them
bcnt-in plates had i'm 10y the neck an
he were caught. | reported this ere
remarlsa BILE condition o things TO the
skipper. an sen he to we all:
by the great horn spoon. boys,
our leak are stopped fur rs by old Nep-
tune hissclf
"Ilowsomever. he sent me down
once more to see ef the shark were
still fast. an il he quite filled up the
hole found that he did, an re-
ported so to Cap'n Waterbury Boggs.
SO he gives orders right away to rig
the after steam pumps. an screw on
line o. hose to the pipe wot ruined
through the buikhcad from the second
compartment to the third. 1t we're a
good six hours afore this work was
done. eos WY. cvcrythin' had to be did
at right angles to its proper position.
Howsumcver. it did get finished, an
then it were night an we had to stop.
We turned out arly in the mornin' an
started up the pumps The water
came through the hose in great style,
an we got jolly a-squirtin' 1t out o the
cabin ports.
WAL. Of course we was all SO
bloomin stoopid that we forgot to pre-.
pare fur wot were bound to happen.
Wen the water got low enough in
them two forrard compartments. bang
down came the ships stern into the
water with a smash. an she war
a-ridin on her keel ag'in. An there
She was with the stern pumps screwed
up on the side % one o. the compart-
mcnts. an the donkey engine. too, so
that the live Goals come a-tumblin out
an putty near sot the ship afire not to
speak o. us all bcin' throwed heels over
head wen the starn stopped. How
snmcvcr. we wasn't badly hurt. an we
rot them live Goals ont putty quick.
Eut we had a sweet job gettin that
donkey engine down from were it
were hung up like picter on the wall
An then it took US nigh onto five days
to get the cargo to rights agin. How
sumevcr. we done it, an then the
capn headed the ship fur Rio. w'ich
were the nearest port. fur repairs
And what became Of the shark"
asked Henry.
"Oh. he staid right there in the hole
tell he were pulled out by powerful
tackle in Rio harbor. An then he
kind o. lay around like dead fur a
couple o. hours. arter witch he shook
hissclf an swan around the ship fur q
week. till Isaac Hooper. witch the
same he were fond o his joke see he
To me. seq he: Il blievc that there
shark are a-waitin fur toput in his bill
fur salvage seq he to me. jess like that,
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