The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-13

turned the new member OF the ships COM
pany over 70 the old chief bos'ns mate,
to whom the brute took an immediate FAN
cy, and you know what it means for an
animal to be turned loose up forward
among the blue jackets. If an animal
doesn't pick up sense, not to speak of cul-
ture, audacity and the finer trimmings of
humanity in the course of a few months
contact with the men forward of a man
o'war then the animal must be cOnsti-
tuuonally lacking and there wasn't any
thing lacking in PorkchOps, the Orang gu
tang.
why, Schley says that Porkchops was
more than human. The oranS-outang
hadn't been aboard the Benecia two days
before his keeper the chief bo's'n's mate,
rugged up a regular blue Jackets ham
mock for the thing, and Porkchops slept
in il. Porkchops learnt his hammock
number, Schley says, within a week, ana
when the call to get hammocks out OF
the netting went forth in the evening
Porkchops would pick his own out OF the
bunch unerringly every time, carry it re-
low to the berth deck, where he slung
and rugged the hammock to the correct
billet every time without fail, unlasning
it and getting 1t ready for occupancy MINI
self. AT all hands in the morning, Schley
says the orang-outang I'D lash up MS
hammock and have it in the nettings be-
fore the rest of the bluejackets counting
Porkchops as a blue Jacket would De
through rubbing their eyes. Then, Scnley
says Porkchops got to be valuable Gea-
man when the ship was cruising. lie mas
tered the running gear in no time, and
of course the Benecia was one of the old
time windjammers-whent there was heaVy
weather his services in going alott ana
shortening sail were says Schley, worth
those of any five men of the ships com
pany You just onught 10 hear OF the
number of times Porkchops saved the
Benecia and the lives of the whole ships
company thereof by getting in the big
spread of canvas just in the nick of time
! before the squalls came along.
And theu-Schley says-Porkchops got
! to be a confirmed tobacco fiend. The old
bo's'n's mate filled a pipe one day, lighted
it for the orang-outang, handed II TO the
! thing quickly, and then ga.loped for the
| topganant foc'sle, fearing that when the
anthropoid took a Whit from the pipe and
found out what he was up against he'd
try to tear the ship apart. But, instead OF
| that Porkchops just pulled away at the
| pipe-Schley says-like royal marine ana
! seemed 10 get all kinds Of enjoyment out
! of the tobacco and what's more, Pork
| CHOPS. when he wanted to expectorate,
/ would use the spitkits for the purpose
| After that Porkchops was pulling away
a
! include in his monthly expense account
! a couple of pounds Of navy plug for the
| orane-outang's consumption. Schley says
| that 1t was a touching and amiable sight
! to see the old bo' sn's mate and the orang-
/ outang walking fore and aft on the star
| deck linked arms after mess of an even
ing both of them chewing on OLD Dlack
clay pipe and thinking over the happenings
/ of the day-for strangely enough, Pork
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the English language, however, much 1t
NAV have known of the patois prevailing
around the straits of Sunda.
"Schlev wanted to ascertain the effect
Of snirituous drink on the created thing
nearest in general characteristics to man,
and so one evening he called Porkchops
INTO his room and handed the orang-out-
ang a large glass of old nutty sherry that
he had picked up somewhere. The orang-
outaug shifted the sherry at first and then
nut the glass to his lips The first taste
seemed TO hit him about right-Schley says
and with his left hand he rubbed has
stomach appreciatively. Then he began to
down the sherry in gulps, did Porkchops'
and Schley says it wasn't three minutes
before he had the druukenest orang-outanS
on his hands that ever put
mariners cap on one size OF
his head and looked rakish.
The orapg-outang with a funny express
sion of drunken enjoyment on his face
GAYS Schley-lumbered out of the cabin,
end hunted up his pal the old chief
bo's'n's mate. When Porkchops found
his pal he struck a drunken attitude be-
fore him, as much as TO say, Regard
me. chum! What do you think of this
for a complimentary jag?" The orang-
outang had to be put in his hammock
that night. for his jag would not permit
of his turning in unassisted, and when
he awoke az all hands the next morning
he was the picture of penitence, and
from that time on he could never be
coaxed or cajoled-Schley tells me-to
take another drink of alcoholic liquors.
"Porkchops got into the Office of the
navmaster one afternoon, when the ship
was in port and the paymaster was
ashore. and what Porkehops didn't do
in the quarterly reports and the clean
hooks and the carefully made out &C
counts bv the liberal use of ink ISM
worth mentioning, says Schley. The
pavnaster was mad when he got back,
and the admiral of the fleet to which the
Benecia was attached heard of the mis-
chieyous orang-outrang and ordered that
All of the ships of the flee should be
cleared of animals, which made Schley
unhappy. Schley lodged the issue by de-
clinjng TO regard Porkchops as an ami
NAL and the orang-outang was suffered
TO continue as member of the Benecia' s
crew. But Porkchops in some way or
other found out that the admiral was
sore on him and so every time the adj
miral visited 1.-The Benecia in his barge
Porkcbops 'ud hide in the bilges until the
admirars barge left. POrkchops may be
alive and smoking a pipe yet for all I
know TO the contrary. Schley seems de-
termined not to tell me what became of
him"