The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21
"sYou here2' at last gasped the OLD

man.
Sure. Mike said Dan.
| Warn't you drowned?'
| Not so that 1 knowed it,
wal, how'd ye get here before us?'
| Swum. I've been here jest nine
days waiting for you. 1 want to col
| iect the pay that is due me-
| he came aboard and the old man
counted out his money. Every ten Sec
onds the skipper would ask: sYe say
ye swum?' and Dan would answer
every time: Sure, Mike, I'm the
champion swimmer of Yurrup, Yirrup
ana Amerikee. / kin outswim every
tnlng except the great Keehookibus
whale, and L kin give him quite sweat
| in long rum.
And that was all we could get out
Oh him. Amt no need of going into the
uetans' SAID he. That warn't no great
trick If couldn't beat this old tub of
yours by two weeks in a straightaway
SWIM across the Atlantic, I'd never kick
a mn 8 INST salt water agin-'
But If you swim like that I kin
make your fortune for you,' said the
old man.
wal, go ahead and make it saws
Dan.
THE MUSEUMS GREAT SWIMMER.
1T happened that about that time a
museum was advertising the greatest
swimmer of the whole world Oh. he
could outswim anything. so the bills
SAID. cracked him away up. Jest as
soon as he could get things slowed all
rignt and the stevedores at work the
ola man hustled off up street and hunt
ed up the manager of the great SWIM
mer Old man said that he was inter-
ested in swimming himself. Manager
began 10 Drag on what the swimmer
could do. Old man said that warn't
0OInln' much q I'm faII
could take the rag off'n that Then the
manager would tell something bigger.
ana the old man would chip i'm with
the same old grind about that wasn't
notnln much to run up a nag about.
Pretty soon the manager got gor-
rammed mad.
Who is this Teller that We are talk
IN, so much about?' he yelled at last.
WHAT'S his name? 1 never heard of
him.
Names Fish, calmly said the old
man: Fish, that's his name
Thought likely sneered the man.
ager Names Goldfish or catfish or
inackerei' Ell? Oh, you think you're a
joker, don't YEP
No, sir, ! mean Dan Fish, said the
OLD man. He amt no salt mackerel.
IL bet him against your man for all
you want to stake. Bring on your
dough: He's only a sailor but he can
outswim any man in creation
The manager thought he had struck
cinch- He asked the old man if he
wanted TO put w more than so cents
flhally the old man said he would bet
MS share in the Todd and cargo against
so,OOO; but he said he supposed the
manager was too poor to raise so much
rms made the manager mad, and in less
lhdn ten minutes the money was I'M.
For the next two days the old man
"a ant rNf IL
Kept asking him if he really was All
the KINDS OF swimmer he made him
ser out TO be. Dan would say:
Oid man. you jest hang on 70 YOUR
boarding tackle and see if 1 amt
When the day came there was quite
crowd down on the beach, where the
swimming contest was to take Mace
The great swimmer was there on the
ground first, under the charge of the
manager. The swimmer was an
dressed up in rubber clothes. and had
a paddle and little flag to fly at his
Iorepeak when he was in the water. He
was a slick-looking chap. Looked as
'i1g ne could go through the water
like Dickerel.
Manager began to scout around. and
nnally went up to the old man and
asked him where his swimmer was
oalh MS own man couldn't be standing
around there much longer in the cold
Oid man pointed UP the street.
WAS PREPARED TO SWIM
Dan Fish was coming down. He had
on three hats, one straw one a plug
on top of it. and tied on to the Mus,
was a fur cap with ear lappers Dan
had on two overcoats. and on his back
ne had strapped a big hamper He
walked down to the edge of the water
and stood there
Wal, get ready said the manager.
'Glt ready your own man. said
Dan, I've been gittin' ready for TWEEN
ty-four hours. 1t takes time to get
things together and packed away in
got four months provisions in that
q Northumberland Well, what are
you trying to do, anyway finally slut
tered the manager.
Do? shouted Dan. Do? Why, I'm
soin' to take a swim. If that there guy
n the nursing-tube suit is a-goin'
along O. me he'd better take his grub.
he won't get none of mine. He'd bet
er take along some extra clothes Ny
lotion now is that / will strike right
or the east coast of Greenland and
.ruise around in that section for a
line. If We get up there and you have
he shivers you needn't think you can
borrow my extry overcoat. 1 give We
air warning now. Fact is. We want
o stock up for d four to six months
ruise.'
Why says the Teller in the rubber
ube suit. my idea was that we were
o have an exhibition Just swim out
lere and show what We can do for
ricl1s, you know.
"'Call that swimming asks Dan.
Why, monkey can slosh around in a
,uddle and do tricks. This is SWIM
ming that / do. If you want to swim.
ONE along And he waded out to his
leck. Then he faced around with that
escorted variety of hats rising above
he water.
There was a live argument on shore.
finally the man in the rubber suit said
hat he wasn't going to trust himself
ut in the water with a lunatic, and he
ut his paddle over his shoulder and
truck off up the road with the man
ger trailing along behind, asking and
egging him to come back. That's all
here was to it,
THAT is to say. only that the old
nan went up and pulled in the stakes,
nd give up a blowout on board"
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