The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-30

like baaby that's hurried bad ana can't
help Itself. Then you sees every sailor
ahsser like and look round and round to
oes whore from the storm 10 comm. for
comm il g. sir. cause the storny petrol
don't crf unless the wind ts comm. Oh,
I've sailed with captains who laughed At
It an said Keep up all sail and cussed ~
for beissvin' fairy tales. an I've seen that
came skipper looking across the sea as the
sssn rose from long boat at the wreck
Of ~ ssaunch q ship as ever set spar.
Aebbe Its superstition, as you cal. 1t. but
I believes God sends warning to men
II GEO.
- TONAHS? Yes. sr. believes In EN-
- I knows 'em. Now a Jonah can't
help hixseif or herself an amt to be
blamed 'cept they ought 10 stay at home
/ knowed a Jonah onct wos was a boy. a
little Kid that wouldn't hurt q fly. He
couldn't, he was so puny like an he was
s.snt Ia sea 10 trace him up. Well. SIR.
as long as that ere kid was aboard We had
tho devils own time. Anchor chains foul
ed. steering gear broke. head winds and
cross seas an storina He was Jest like
iistie angel TO look a.. was that kid.
but he was a Jonah, and the captain. WAC
was a sensible man. cnaxed him and his
mother ashore soon az we could make a
Port an We was ali glad TO see EN- go.
DO / believe that woman Jonah story
about the CITY OF Seattle's crank pin and
the Kingston Sure / do. You see folks
who ~ Jonshs get TO know Ii when they
grows ZIP, Jest ike she did and when /
hear anyone say serious like, I'm q
jonah sheers of. Et that woman hain' I
been on the City OF Seattle that crank
pin wouldn't hroke. aid then che gets ON
the Kingston and that boat goes 20 the
bottom. hn. the Jonah doesn't even get
wet On. It's all righs. We had Jonah. a
cook. onct. and every man aboard was sick
fore We was two days out. Captain trad
ed him of for a West India niger To a
passing vessel and sen. him home. The
Niger didn't know anything bat to boil
things. Why sir, that nisger 'ud boil pie.
bat We all got well.
sNOw about these here collisions.
~ Can't you see sir. yourself. that
things runs hathaway. Whataways Why.
tuxt as mater Intended. Now when the
North Pacific and Skagit Chief bumped
Into one another said To my mates. said
]. holain' up two fingers 'T'herll be two
more right here IN this harbor' They
iaffs AZ EN-. some O 'em does. others SAYS.
right you are, Bill an right I was. Then
comes the Kingston and GIenogle bump
and the kingston's .oss and then comes the
Homer and the D,akeley, Three. SIR sure
a. you're born, three New they'll quit for
awhile or else theyE be three more.
An any sesfaring man re 20 reef a sail
will tell yen the sasne. Accidents In a
certain port rurs Ign threes or on a Ger
tain cruise. 1t always does Fate, sir, or
whatever yea. cali it. jams 'ern together.
no matter who's on the bridge or at the
wheel
bat I'll tell ycu something stranger
than that. Every ship hiewed by wind,
or pushed by sfrsm across the seas. has
. mascot 10 ward or tae heaaaos az yoa
folks call 'ern. -4sey aln't hfasdoos
they're tuss ~srnlr sent 10 q ship 20 look
cut Ter foul weather. fts sorte- like God
didn't want 70 take advantage OF you He
sends yoN I. hooaoo ana 80 you 90. sense
s@a'N set ysi - &. Fl you amt GOT sense
you'll hang OH "a she aos8eo most likely
on raft w5th THE good cid shtp SAFE In
iNssF Jones Cry tcek. cause they do
say It's warm down. there gsut abs,u.
mascets Now ycu know The greas big
ezftSeshsr Iowa. wtst's comtn' up hera IN
ssv or t~e, has GO; a tiaek ggsas sseAarss
as mascot You aick fas9 goa. AR
fs'sl'Ve got 30 LEX the goat ans the crew
~ the lcaR, TIE heys ahoAra taught +hs
seas - drtnk an e sometimes gets drunk