Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-07-22
what Billy Found
In the Fog.


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that is say ing a good deal when
the sold block was Captain Mat
HantOrd. He was as good man
as ever walked deck-sbor'.
thlck-s t, with a copper red tint tC
his weli.seasoned face, aud a PAIR
OF small, twlukliug gray eyes.
Billy was a reduced copy of his
rather. 1t was hard to tell which
of them admired tue other most.
Captain Mat was the sailing
master of the Sea CJach,a staunch
sailing yatch built for racing aud
owned by a wealthy young New
Yorker. Her owner meant to take
her over 10 the Isle OF Wight ana
race tie Pnuce of WaIss's Britain
MA, the German EmperOI's Meteor,
or any Ofthe STUART English cut
t,rs that wanted to try conclusions
with Yankee keel.
Ciptaiu Matt had promised
Billy that if he came out at the
head of his class at school he would
take him along. Billy came out
ahead. He would have done so in
any case, for he wasn't going to
let any boy 6nd out more things
than be did.
Ii isn't every by that has a
chance to 60 to Europe when be
is fourteen. But no boy ever en-
loved a trip there more than Billy
Hartford. TIE SEA- COnch got
beaten in the races; that was the
only drawback to the "Trip. Billy was
convinced that the reason of This
was that the owner of the yacht
sailed her herself ia the rdce.lt his
father had handled the boat, the
other Yachts would have been no.
wlele-so Billy firmly believed.
The Young owner OF the S IA
Conch told Captain Matt that he
could run up TO London for two or
three days before lie took tie
yacht back. This was some con
ISOLATION to Billy, IL was going to
see the biggest town ia the world!
He was bound not to admit that
1t was much better than New
York. OF course, it was bigger.
But look bow much longer 1t hau
been growing! This holdings III
New York were a good deal higher
than anything they could show in
London. Hyde Park wasn't any.
where beside Central Park.
One day Captain Matt took his
sou 10 visit the docks. The boy
looked around on the hundreds OF
acres Of massive cut.stOne piers
Nth great lakes Of water between
them and said nothing. The
Brooklyn Navy Yard compared to
these immense docks was like a
duck pond.
Billy, these docks cost hundreds
of thousands of pounds SAID the
Captain to his sou, impressively
Two hundred thousand pounds
is pretty nearly million dollars,
remarked that young hopeful, as II
to warn his father not to ust
figures recklessly.
Well, BLY, reptile d his father
grimIy. 'One of them, the LODdOl
Docks, cost four million pounds.
POuuds,' he repeated. 'Figgfr Iha
out. Aud they areh'i half as big
as these West India Docks we're
going 10. And The Victory anC
Albert Docks are over two mlle'
long, aud all lit up with electricity
And they've got a machine that
Just hOisIs a vessel light up In thr
air, while they clean her. VIVA
do you thiuk of thar
ooh, they're big answered Billy
When he couldn't think Of any
thing in America which was bette
than what he saw III London be
kept pretty quiet. But this was
through no lack OF appreciation
Me enjoyed seeing these wonder
thoroughly, only be was an oct
aud out American who loved hi
own great county
But when they got to the ID Dck
where C'ptain Matt hoped to tint
the Peal Of India, on which Was al
old sea friend of his, they coul'
see next to nothing. A real Lou
don fog had wrapped everything
in It's mighty folds.
Here Billy cOnld say with trutl
that they didn't have any thing 1
New York which was one tenth a
bad. There is not a good word ca
be said for a London fOg-ODe G
he real, thick, ugly kind. IL
impossible to do 1t justice. 70
have to experience one before 30
can realize how bad It is. 1t is
mis-. thick enough to cut-yeIloU