The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-09
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tain Colepepper,s wrath, he had come
aboard the setch at Bristol in precisely
the same bucohc attire in which he had
first made his appearance at the little
house in Shaftoe STRAIGHTFORWARD
boots. yellow CATERS, tight overcoat
and hard, square bowler hat, all COM
plete When this unseamanlike rig out
caught the skipper s eye, he had nearly
exploded You haymaking OK" he
had roared. ''D'you think I'm going tc
have my decks knocked into sleeves by
those Internal stubble Washers? Take
them off your feet. sharp, or take
yourself off the Eureka! And m hang
ed if care much which you dor And
SO Cain had to ship a pair of smooth
soled shoes instead, and the headgear
difficulty was satisfactorily settled by
a callous squall, which took charge of
his stiff hat in the Bristol channel
But to the rest of his attire he stuck
like man on the surface and beneath
it, Indeed report said that he was so
much attached to the yellow leather
CATERS that be invariably slept in them
at night. With these trifies. however.
the captain did not interfere might
as well try to make a sewing machine
into sailor as that fellow Cain he
declared resignedly $50 let him stick
to his rig, and then Jones'll know to
stow him in the regular landsmen 8
locker, if he gets down there.
Now, Cain was not an emotional
man, but the separation from those
inch soled boots touched him. for it
was like losing part of himself And
so, as he was not allowed to wear them
| on board, he hung them up in the ca
boose and there anointed them daily
with copious libations of grease with
| all the devotion OF a niger to fetch,
and when the Eureka ran into the an
| chorage at Piper's cay and word was
given for all hands to go ashore the
farmer replaced his feet in their favorite
coverings again. mounted the tightly
buttoned fawn colored overcoat and
with borrowed felt hat of Tom Jelly 8
! to replace the one he had lost. was in
| all outward respects the same individual
who had fled from the unkindness of
that 'tarrible hard man Abel at the
instigation of Zusan Pierce. Such attire
in such climate was provocative of
laughter. but the wearer was not sensi-
tive, and the shower of chaff which was
rained on him seemed only to have the
effect Of confirming him in his love for
the uncouth habiliments. Like child 8
headless and armless doll, they were all
the dearer for being despised.
| Thine II <Lo< <Lo vol
copper streak and the parallel scorings
told plain tale to the two people from
the Eureka, and with the certain
knowledge that the farmer had gone
before them they hurried on over the
powders at their best pace.
/ The going was still very bad, and it
| got worse as they proceeded Indeed as
Guthrie, nimble footed though he was,
stumbled and houndered among the
rocks, he wondered how the clumsy
Somersetshire man had managed to get
over the ground at all. The reason Of
his absence seemed in the light of the
rock scorings clear as daylight now.
He had slipped somewhere and disabled
himself. His shipmates were sorry for
him, of course, but at the same time
they confessed to one another that i,
served him right. A man of his build
they agreed, ought never to have gone
trapesing over such an abominable OBJ
stacle track.
''We shall not be able to carry hin
back the way he came. = declared Hen
rietta 1--WE couldn't tote Miss Dolly
herself over them rocks, let alone Cair
Laversha, and she isn't half his weigh,
or near it. We shall just have to drag
him down to the waters edge somehow
and then bring the boat round from the
Eureka for him. Eth? But what's this
though?" she cried. 1--WE seem to have
come to the end of the road!"
They had reached turn in the path
The steep cliff walls Of the gully drew
together from either side and met on,
another. and the tumbled. honeycombet
fragments at their foot ran no farther
The arm of the sea which had followed
the windings Of the gully so far Tapped
the foot of 40 foot precipice.
LAS the worthy Cain is not fly,
observed Guthrie, II don't see that h
can have got along there. He must hav
turned back again. Perhaps he's go
jammed in some Granny and we've pass
ed him on the road. We must keep
better lookout on the way back and Civ
tongue as we go.
], But Henrietta had pulled herself vi
on to little spire and was peering ca
) gerly forward.
eve haven't got to the end yet, sir
after all. +" she reported. "There's
| path down below there that seems
!, lead round bend. .
! About yard or SO from the water
edge there was break in the clit
I which offered three foot path, at an
1 rate round the next angle. What La
4 beyond, they could not Of course tell
/ but they resolved to. find out. A conven
: lent fssure helped them down, and il
8 another couple Of minutes they wer
stepping briskly along hard, level foot
= path
8 Better travelling. this. Henrietta,
: exclaimed Guthrie thankfully. IAN
i more to our heavy friends taste.
q should fancyl Perhaps he's so charme