The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-11-14

sfeat CAKES of ice, quarters or peel, snip
plscu1t in barrels things in jars and
ilqulds In bottles. l was interested
strangely in these latter things, as my
friend in the play says, but the Commo-
dore wouldn't let me see them. He said
they were medicines, and were to be used
only in case of sickness. The doctor ana
were very i'll that night, the Commo-
dore was bit faint and some people
who had come over from the city to tell
us good bye were as nearly dead as
! ever saw anybody. They are very sad
such sicknesses as that.
Then there were cases of condensed
milk, and for the first time we. or at
least those of us who had notIknown what
sailing the bounding main means,
realized that life, after all, is not all
milk and honey, but may. OF some times,
be made up of condensed stuff and gran
| ulatsd sugar, which Is very inferior ar
| ticle to the old reliable brand concerning
which we were told in our more or lese
youthful days. Still, when we came to
try 1t in our coffee, it as very good, and
we never found anything worse on the
trip than condensed milk we would be
| very thankful.
There were strange looking cans of
peas and mushrooms and curry powders
and baking powders-thiugs which al-
ways seemed to me to just grow. have
never realized before that these thing s
came in packages. had seen them in
the pantry at home. where they were
fresh from the vines, or whatever they
grow on, but had never thought that
they could be put up in cases and packed
away under one's bed to be used out at
sea as OCCASION demanded. In fact, dur
ing the days while the stores were being
taken aboard found out lot Of things
l never knewbefore about that which is
necessary. to take long when one goes down
to the sea and across the same in ships.
Sitting here, in the cabin, one would
think that it was simply library in a
town house. There is CRATE fire and a
piano and some comfoI table sofas.-very
comfortable sofas, and cases full of books
and other cases full of silver aud china.
To be sure, in town house. the silver
and china are not usually found in the
| library, but let that pass. The cabin is
a GROSS between the library and the
| dining room. When the boys come in
| at night to set the table for dinner the
room takes on the appearance of cafe
| The silver and the china come out of
their lairs and are placed upon the table.
| That which has been place for books
and papers becomes a sideboard, and
| from under the sofas come the ingre-
| dients for wonderful sauces and pud-
dings. 1t is all very curious and very
entertaining to one whose sailing has
| been limited to the small pond under thu
bridge where the water was almost a
foot deep, and where, as small boys, we
used to sail to queer, unknown lands on
the other side of the pasture where there
was barn which made bully place in
which to be caDnibals and pirates and
| other things dear to the heart of the boy.
| And here we're we, about to set sa IL
upon a real voyage, to real foreign lands,
| to see roal cannibals and real pirates.
The blood ran pit faster. the heart
beat bit more rapidly, and I went on
deck to get a breath of mir that would
still intensity the feeling Of adventures
longed for.
| By this time it had grown dark. The
moon rose over the city all right enough
| but not from behind any church tower.
1t came up directly over the gas house
at the foot Of Forty -sscond street. This
is fact, not sentiment. Neither did
those of us who stood upon the quarter
dock feel that we were standing upon
any bridge at midnight. but rather th at
we were looking for the last time for
many months upon the city of New
York and upon the very beautiful river
Of Hendrix Hudson-he who. aforetin. o,
sailed up these same currents and gave
his name TO the great river of the North.
We felt this. I say, and were silent.
There was nothing to be said but some
how when Iscame down into tho cabin l
could not see clearly, ard when they