The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-27

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for he secured a niece of driftwood. It
was not a plank nor a spar such as We
usually read about. In fact ii bore no hui
man tool marx and could NV, i,,st n, wen
taken its voyage without mans presence
upon the earth. 1t was a fair-sized tree
branch. probably torn from its parent stem
by the wind and tormented seward by
joyous brook. AS soon as Danny secured
the treasure he opened a postofice and
commenced building a vessel
Upon small pieces of wood. jealousiy re-
served from his main construction. he
wrote messages and cast them adrift His
ink was the black nuld contained in the
head of the suuid, the ''sepia" of artists
pigments. His pen, a Quill from a gulls
wing.
Most of these missives either failed TO
reach any destination or else had their
contents washed off before arriving one
or two. however, found their way Alright
III
A gentleman and a little girl were stroll
ing along the beach far up at the head of
Bantry bay, on the south coast of Ireland
a toy terrier played about their heels
Suddenly he made a dash into the retreat
ing surf and brought back something in
his mouth The dog laid the thing at the
feet of his little mistress. 1t was a chip o.
wood
Papa, papa see what SNOWFALL has
brought me-" cried the child delightedly,
"and look. 1t has words printed all over
it"'
The father glanced carelessly at the
writing and smiled cynically.
Some foolish boy has written a pack of
nonsense upon a chip of wood and set il
adrift That Is ALL" he replied
Nevertheless, he took the chip of wood
home and mailed 1t to the authorities a I
the seaport mentioned. The pack OF nom
sence" was as follows:
for Gods Sake save me before | etarv
or freez To death / am on a rookie in the
See near canso novy scochy."
Another similar message was found al
most a full year from the date of its post
ing upon the Nova Scotia shore. within
fifty miles of Bald rock.
This postofiice was not allowed to inter-
fere with the progress of the ship-building
department. The former was an auxiliary
in which very wiseiy) Danny placed but
scant faith. The latter seemed to be his
one and only real hope. Cold weather was
coming The nights grew perceptibly cool
err, even close to freezing point in that
high latitude If winter should find him
upon Bald rock, his shrift would be a
short one And so he FASTENED The con-
struction of his craft
Imagine some pieces of stick, each about
foot in length, arranged in a sort of
framework That was Danny's ship. At
least the wooden part Of Il. His lumber
was exhausted even then But it suflced
The pieces were dashed securely together
with strips of kelp stem An around the
bottom of the framework were fastened
little bIadders full of air These were
made from the intestines of sea gulls. The
little store of TODD which he had been able
to garner m a pounds weight or SO at
most. was securely dashed 10 The ton of the
structure and covered about with MANY
thiclrnesses of dried klein leaves Tits
vessel would scarcely float a babe. let
alone a well-crovn Young mani Moreover
II had no instrument of propulsion! This
might have been the openly expressed
or3nion Of a ereenborn. But n would have
| been wrong The little eir-fued bladders
small as thev were combined 20
| Give n bIovancv enough at
| least 81 that man. bv holding fast
,,,gtb arms or hands rnigbt keen rnouth
! ana noetriIs clear Of wafer and so ,alSe
| 800 between tba intervals of suimnin,-
| Roe;aes mis- The craft of DANNY Hogan
| could provision him in case of need. Al
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