The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-11-13

! saws. ntNnlu GtbAAailtls AbN
reach yourself one day, my mar
member the occasion. was ska
and YOU think it's fine fun TO ca
the Joke. do We? A seaman mus
that n officer can turn his jest TO earnest
very sharp
az wish you'd do IL now, sir snys
Sam, smart as anythink.
1.-THE Cap'n frowned agin. He didn't
quite see the point. He had to think
ont 60 hisself Il promised TO let him
Off, i'm fun. lie takes it in earnest
take his earnest in earnest and start
out TO run him in for court-martial
but he SAYS he wishes / would turn my
, Joke to earnest. eos then l must let
him OFT. / believe the devils cornered
me-
= "Sam said he surmised all this argu-
ment was goin' on in the Cap'n's mind
and when he jist said demanded, he
lnoo he was safe.
E "The Cap'n sent for him next day TO
his cabin.
$ "'Cahoun,' he said, I've decided TO
a be in earnest
= "'Thnnk We, sir
$ "T'ye put you in my boats crew.
"Sam was took aback, fiat aback'
n He'd never been petted before.
e "But I'm habtual leave, and n
Y thorough bad character, sir.
II "'You have been. But I'll give you a
4 clean sheet, Calhoun. You start afresh.
e "I-my-ex me, sir, my eyes Is
a weak and Sam drawed his sleeve
IT ncrost his face.
y "The Cap'n was looltin' through Sau
n all this time he was tryin' not to leak
J.? When he sees he was bit manly agin'
I shake hands, my man, he says, ant
ID they shook hearty.
IN "'For the future, sir
n "No promises, Calhoun puts In tn
- Cap'n. Il won't have il. You are II
~ my boat Don't disgrace me-
"That was Cap'n Bunson's way.
w "When his cox'n was promoted 70
higher ratin', Sam Calhoun took IN
billet. and so there you are. Now 20
e, know Sam, and you viii be able
en- understand that for Cap'n Bunson he
90 through birthstone and treacle' I
ep put IL mild.
A "Wcn. now we comes TO Egypt, nm
A, the desert and the fight in the nigh
In You know the Naval Brigade was Their
on n course Cap'n Bunson was there Wi
ne IL. and Sam, who follered him liI
zee n shadder i'm every scrap, which WI
M right. As Sam said: 'S'pose the Cap
nd CAPTURES the enemy I'm punches Ill
nm Nelson used 20 do, / must be there
VS. stack up the captured swordses al
our spearses, while he politely bows TO Il
elk, niggcrs.'
in. "But i'm this night fight the Cap'n 8
nj lost somehow. You remember we W
ar. drove back, formed up, broke again, !
ne formed each man plyin' his gun or j
9th cutlnss wild all his might 20 keep j
!. a own life II was the most tremenj
burnin' fiery furnace I've even bin
,pc You couldn't see In the least what "
n was doin' Of. seemed TO hear, dreaT
not between the hard work OF cuttin' a
70 thrustin', Sam moanin' that he'd IL
i'm the Cap'n, and astin' everybody IL they
- seen him. And they all said mol e
10 ubatic. and went on fghtin', think
,Lo he was wild some other company.
i, ~ "'What did he want to slope off
any lisself for. tryin' 90 sneak all the gloI
n heard Sam sayin'. Nelson alw'
uster stick by his cox'n and share
r.. We'll. so long, Chatty, / seen him
,a,ht over this way. Out the way, youl a
e., still In dream, 1 seen him down one
80 two Noobians and pass into the thick
nv y the fight.
ye. Then surniiS'' i'e =" ''''' = '''''''
e. as me.
.But the rest Of MS was pushed b
and and back sWea'ih en', u ~, -
here times J hearu' anu ~. '',e ~ =
the husky voices sCreaiiiln 49, -
htr, NaVNf or Number Ohc ihunhtl