The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-09

ing the big spread of canvas just in the
nick of time before the squalls came
along.
and then-Schley says-Porkchops
got to be a confirmed tobacco fiend
The old bo's'n's mate filed a pipe one
DAY, lighted it for the orang- outang
handed it to the thing quickly, and then
galloped for the topgallant fo'c'sle
tearing that when the anthropoid took
a Whit from the pipe and found out
what he was up against, he'd try to
! tear the ship apart But instead of
that Porkchops just pulled away at the
pipe -Schley says-like royal marine
! ana seemed to get all kinds of enjoy
ment out of the tobacco, and what's
more, Porkchops, when he wanted to
eXpectorate, would use the spitkits for
the purpose. After that Porkchops was
! pulllng away at a pipe all the time,
| ana Schley had to include in his month
/ ~ expense account couple of pounds
] OF navy plug for the orang-outang' S
consumption. Schley says that it was
touching and amiable sight to see the
Old pos'n's mate and the orang- outang
walking fore and aft on the spar deck
linked arms after mess of an evening,
both of hem chewing on old black clay
pipes and thinking over the happenings
OF the day-for, strangely enough, Pork
chops never quite attained a mastery of
the English language, however much
he may have known of the patols pre-
vailing around the Straits of Sunda.
'Schley wanted to ascertain the effect
of spurious drinks upon the created
thing nearest in it's general character
/ istics to man, and so, one evening, he
called Porkchops into his room and
handed the orang-outang a large glass
of an old. nutty sherry that he had
picked up somewhere. The orangou-
tang shifted the sherry at first and
then put the glass to his lips. The first
taste seemed to hit him about right
Schley says-and with his left hand he
rubbed his stomach apprec,atively.
Then he began to down the sherry in
gulps, did Porkchops, and Schley says
it wasn't three minutes before he had
the drunkenest orang-outang on his
hands that ever put marines cap on
one side Of his head and looked rakish.
The rang-outang, with a funny eX-
preston of drunken enjoyment on his
face-says Schley-lumbered out Of the
cabin, and hunted up his pal the old
chief bosn's mate. When Porkchops
found his pal, he struck a drunken at
titude before him as much as to gay,
Regard me, chum! What do you think
of this for complimentary jag? The
ng-outanE had to be put in his
l, ir,l,t IA loo
not permit Of his turning in unassisted,
and when he awoke a. all hands the
next morning he was the picture of
penitence and from that time on he
could never be coaxed or caioled-
Schley tells me-to take another drink
of alcoholic liquors.
"Porkchops got into the office of the
paymaster one afternoon, when the ship
was in port, and the paymaster was
ashore and what Porkchops didn't do
to the quarterly reports, and the clean
books, and the carefully made-out ac-
counts, By the liberal usa of ink, isn't
worth mentioning, says 5chley. The
paymaster was mad when he got back,
and The admiral of the fleet to when
the Benecia was attached heard OF the
mischievous orang -outang and ordered
that all of the ships of the fleet should
be cleared of animals, which MADE
Schey unhappy. Schley lodged the
issue by declining to regard Porkchops
as an animal and the orang-outang
was suffered to continue as memper
OF the Benecias crew. But Porkchops
in some way or other found out that
the admiral was sore on him. ana SO
every time the admiral visited the
Benecia in his barge Porkchops nd hide
in the bilees until the admirals barge
left. Porkchops may be alive ana
smoking a pipe yet for all / know TO
the contrary. Schley seems determined
not to tell me what became or him.
Washington star.