The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-15


covered cousins of apes. over the side of
the vessel you go before you're put.
thought you were going to steal my law
Iul salvage, did you, you crawling, yellow
faced-ah"
The hot-tempered Portuguese was not a
man 90 stand this TRADE las Kettle antici-
patedD unmoved. His fingers made a
Vengeful snatch toward the knife in his
belt, but Kettle was ready for this. and
caught it first and flung 1t overheard.
Then, with clever heave, he picked up
the man and sent him after the knife He
tripped up one of the Portuguese who
couldn't speak English, dragged him to
the cabin companion. and topped him
down the ladder Dayton Philips (surpris-
cd at himself for abettng such lawless
ness) captured a second in like fashion.
and the English fireman and coal trimmer
picked up the third and dropped him down
an open hatchway into the grain in the
hold beneath
But there were six of the fishermen left
upon the deck, and these did not look upon
the proceedings unmoved. They had been
slow to act at first but when the initial
surprise was over they were blazing with
rage and eager to do murder. The Italian
and the Sierra Leone negro ran out of
their way on 10 the forecastle head. and
they came on, vain glorious in numbers.
and armed with their deadly knives. But
the two English roughs the English gen
teman and the little English sailor were
all of them men well accustomed to take
care of their own skins; the behaving
pins out OF the pinrail seemed to come by
instinct into their hands. and not one of
them got so much as a scratch.
1t was all the affair of a minute II
does not DO to let these little impromptu
scrimmage simmer over long. In fact.
the whole affair was decided in the first
rush. The quarter of English went in.
despising the Dagos, and quite intending
to clear them off the ship. The invaders
were driven overheard by sheer weight of
blows and prestige, and the victors leaned
on the buIwark, putting and gasping, and
watched them swim away to their boat
through the clear water below.
Set of blooming pirates" said Kettle
Bur Dayton-Phinps seemed to view the
situation from different point I'm rath-
er thinking we are the pirates How about
those three we've got on board? This sort
OF press gang work isn't quite approved
of nowadays, is it, skipper?"
They no speakee English?" said Kettle
dryly. You might have heard me ask that.
per to make him begin the show And he
did begin il, and that's the great point. If
ever you've been an a police court, you'll
always find the magistrate ask, Who be-
gan this trouble?' And when he finds out.
that's the man he logs No, those fisher
men won't kick up a Robbery when they
get back to happy Portugal again and as
for our own crowd here on board. they
aren likely to talk when they get ashore
and have money due to them"
Wen, l suppose there's reason i'm that
though | should have my doubts about The
stone mason. He comes from Sierra Leone,
remember, and they're great on the rights
of man there"
quite So said Kettle. "I'H see the stone
mason gets packed off to sea again in A
stokehold before he has a chance of stir
ring up the mud ashore. When the black
man gets too pampered, he has TO be
brought low again with a rush"
see'' said Dayton-Philips, and then
he laughed.
There's something that tickles you,
sir?"
Il was thinking, skipper that for man
who believes he's being put in the way of
a soft thing by direct guidance from on
high, you're using up a tremendous lot of
energy to make sure the Almightys wish
es don't miscarry."
Mr.. Philips" said Kettle. gravelv AFT
was understood when he let me know 7
was to have this chance l was to do NV
human utmost to carry it through myself
GOD sends us all into this world with hands
and heads, and he isn't pleased with a man
who doesn't put these to their proper
uses"
The three captive Portuguese vvera
brought up on deck, and were quickly in
duced by the ordinary persuasive meth
DDS OF the merchant service officer tn
forego their sulkiness and turn TO diligent-
~ a what work was required OF thorn
But even with this help the heavy shin
was still considerably undermined and
the incessant labor at the pumns foil
YEARLY on all hands. The bay true to
its tickle nature, changed on them again
The sunshine was swamped by a DRIVING
gray mist OF rain, the glass started on n
steady fall, and before dark Kettle snug
gled her down to single topsails himself
laying out on the footropes with the Por-
tuguese, as no others of his crew could
manage to scramble aloft with so heavy
a sea running.
The night worsened as it went on ,rh.
wind piled up steadily in violence ana
the sea rose till the sodden vessel rode IL
with a very babel of shrieks and groans
and complaining sounds Toward morn
ing a terrific squal powdered up against
them and hove her down, and duh RIM
bling was heard in her bowels. to Iet
them know that once more her cargo had
shifted.
For the moment even Kettle thought
that this time she was gone for good. She