The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-11
the wounded spot With her well-atting

the wounded SPOT With ,ner Weli-Httiiig
tan gloves.
Robert Henry van Gravaelsoeck!"
she cried. How very rude and rough
you are growing to be"
A small boy came running with apol-
81 ogetic pants, followed by q small dog,
WI 0 delightedlv barked at the ire
proachabie lady's discontinue
I'm awfully sorry. auntie, said
Robert Henry. Il was playing battle
shi9s. and was the OREGON and you
were the Spanish flagship. because your
hat looked as if you were boss OF me
| whole show. you know"
..Boss-Robert Henry? Show? May
beg the meaning of such a peculiarly
vulgar phrase, my nephew?
80. well-you made bully old Span
| lard
Robert Henry" cried the indignant
lady. Il shall not be called Span
iardl"
We'll. anyhow. it was rafting
good shot, wasn't it? That was from a
I'll go off and plug at you from my tur-
ret gums. Won't you olease?
Il shall do nothing of the kindi The
| ideal"
/ Aunt Robina ruffled for a moment
and then turned 2 benign eye on her
nephew. now lying on the sand with
| the dog.
Your play, Robert Henry" she said.
with a magnanimous twirl of the glass
| es. lis at times rude-I may say TeXa-
| tious. Yet. for / cannot forget our
glorious ancestry, am not at all dis
pleased ct noting the trend OF your
mind, as displayed in your sports. Fer
haps," she gently meditated, added to
| the placid ocean, perhaps in swiftly
coming years you may yet again know
/ what y is to bear to victory the ui-
umphant oennant Of Van Gravael-
soeck How glorious the thought How
sweet the prospect! Wow! What are
you doing. Robert Henry? Keep that
/ dog away!"
He won't bite your ankles, auntie.
! he only likes to snap at them"
Aunt Robina tucked in her feet care
fully, shooed the puppy, and took up
| her book.
Let me read to you. my dear
nephew" said she. "a passage from
the life of your great, great, great,
great, great grandfather
"That old Dutch admiral you're al |
ways telling me about? It's too hot"
MY dear, it will do you good. 1t |
will kindle your eye; it will fire your /
heart, it will stir you to deeds of |
valorl Listen. What is it now, Rob- |
ert Henry? 1 shall not allow you to |
to poke me in the ribs that way."
wait a minute" said the boy with !
a frowning brow. 81 didn't mean to
poke so hard. I've never been able to
quite get at the relation l am to the
admiral, auntie Let's try. Here's me;
then there's dad; Rowdy is grandad
didn't pull his tail, auntie-I only
nipped it. He's grandad) Then
there's you-you're my great grandad.
Why do you jump so? l didn't poke
hard that timel"
stop such nonsense. sir" said his
aunt, land listen. It's most simple,
I'm sure. The sainted admiral (for,
although he did use very abrupt Ian
guage at times, 1 cannot but believe
so slight imperfection would make lit
tie difference in his claims to valorous
sanctitude) was your great, great,
great, great, great grandfather
That's six greats, auntie, and you
only made five before, How's boy to
understand when you get mixed your
self?"
Robert Henry, I never get mixed.
have always considered that to get
mixed is one of the most certain signs /.
of base and unworthy line of fore !
fathers. Do you suppose appeal to
those cerulean pillows who doubtless !
remember-do you suppose the adj :
miral ever got mixed ?"
II dunno" said Robert Henry, yawn
ing. what's the old boy been doing
this morning."
1--WE been reading. my dear, of the +
on which he attacked the :
nest of the notorious East Indian pirate,
Slit Your Outlet Mcpherson. a Scotch
man of the greatest notoriety-al-
though not a. novelist" .
TEL you what, ,auntie," Robert I
Henry interrupted 'Ili take you for a /
row round the bay, and you can sit a
in the stern and read. 1t will be '
cooler.''
u-tot oefo,. ,,-oe ,rro o;o,,.I,- aooor+ad
and when the lady was seated, her
nephew pulled gently seaward. while
the pup lay between his feet, and bade '
her go ahead"
Aunt Robina read with great pre-
cision and proper emphasis. as be- Q
fitted the recital Of the deeds of her 8
glorious ancestor, the renowned Ad- 5
niral Van Grayaelsoeck. Robert $
Henry listened with interest while the d
little boat surged forward, out and out c
upon the blue waters, until it rose and q
ell with rocking sleepiness upon the o
bigger pillows.
The heroic Van Gravaelsoeck now G
found that the pirates were mustered Il
n great force, but, having once sought
hem out, he was not the man to re-
.reat." "
That's me-" said Robert Henry. ap- =
orovingly. The great, great, etcetera n
had some grit s
ne lHldIHOuS SHI- OuT-CulleI was u
1t bay, and doubtless rendered more
determined by his knowledge that
he greater portion of his ill-gotten r
lay concealed in the island n
q
Say, auntie, I'd rather have been "
pirate than admiral, wouldn't you? Il
Pirates always got treasure. and adj 4
nirals don't get very much pay" n
Il am astonished, Robert Henry, at W
7our mercenary spirit. A pirate 1 b
imagine to have been the vilest of
nankind-picturesqu at a distance,
jut lonesome near at hand S
We'll" said Robert Henry, practical
y. He had the treasure anyhow. Go
IN" ci
Van GravaeIsoeck ran his sloop of e.
var boldly between the piratical O
chooners. They grappled him together
md again and again did the Dutch
men repel their boarders. For many tC