The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-21
THE THREE cLUNG TOGETHER.

way they throttle her down when she
races"
THE fools on her upper bridge are
enough for me TO look at" Kettle re-
torted. why don't they put a sailor
man aboard of her before she was
kicked out of port? BY James. if we'd
a weeks water and victual with US in
the lifeboat here I'd beat back for the
Canaries as we are and keep clear Of
that tin farmyard for bare safety's
sake
I'VE haven't a crumb nor a drink
left" said the engineer, "and I'd not
recommend this present form of con-
Veyance to the insurance companies.
a wave-top came up from the tireless
gray sea and slapped green and cold
about his neck and shoulders. Gosh!
There Games more of the Atlantic to
bale back into place. Mon, this is no
the kind of navigation 1 admire"
Meanwhile the clumsy tramp steamer
had gone round in a jagged circle of
miles diameter and was climbing back
TO position again over the hills and
dales of ocean. She rolled and she
pitched and she wallowed amongst the
seas. and TO the lay mind she would
have seemed helplesSnesS personified.
But to the expert eye she showed de-
fects in her handling with ever sheer
she took amongst the angry waste OF
waters.
"Old man and the mates must be
staying down below out of the wei"
said Kettle contemptuously, as he
gaZed Looks as if they've left some
sort of a cheap Dutch quartermaster
on the upper bridge to run her. Dom
tell me there's an officer holding an
English ticket in command of that
steamer. They aren't going to miss us
l-r1O Z
Looks like as if they were going to
soss down slap on top OF us, said Nc
Todd, and set to taking off his coat and
boots
But the cattle steamer. if not skill
fully handled, at any rate this time had
more luck. She worked her way TO
windward again. and then fell off into
the trough, squatting down almost out
OF sight one minute, and, in fact, show
ing little Of herself except couple of
sIumpy. untidy naStS and q brine
washed smokestack above the seascape,
and, being heaTed Up clear almost the
next second, = picture of rust streaks
and yellow spouting scuppers.
Both craft drifted TO leeW2rd before
the wind, but the steamer offered more
surface and moved the quicker; which
was the object of the manedver. 1t
seemed 20 those in the lifeboat that
they were not going 10 be missed this
time, and 50 they lowered away their
sodden canvas, shipped the thOlepinS
and got out their oars. The two Portu-
guese firemen did not assist at first,
prefering to sit in a semi-dazed condi-
ton on the west foot gratings, but Nc
TodG and Kettle thumped them about
the head, after the time-honore6 Gus
tom, till they turned to, and so pres
emily the lifeboat, under thrice Strain
ing oars, was holding up toward her
would-be deliverer.
A man on the cattle boats upper
bridge was exhibiting himself as a
very model of nervous incapacity, and
two, at any rate, of the castaways in /
the Hfeboat were watching him with
grin. 7scorn.
Excepting them on the dance in the |
engine room, isa't he?" said McTodd. |
Hes rung that telegraph bell 10 diff |
ferent ways this last minute"
THAT man isn't fit to skipper any !
thing that hasn't got a tow rope made /
fast ahead" said Kettle contemptu-
ously. He hash t the nerve OF a pound !
of putty
I'm thinking we shall lose the boat
They'll never get her aboard in one |
piece
IF we get amongst their cow pens |
with cur bare lives we shall be lucky. |
They're going to heave us a line. Stand |
by to catch it, quick
The line was thrown and caught. The |
cattle steamer surged up over a huge !
rolling sea, showing her Jagged bilge I
checks again, dragging the lifeboat I
close in a murderous cuddle, which /
Smashed in one of her sides as though /
it had been made from eggshell. Other |
lines were thrown by the hands who
stood against the rail above, and the 1
-FOUR men in the swapping boat each
seized an end. Half climbing. half |