The Portland daily press., 1900-10-06
PAW AS A SEA DOG.
The Ola Man Take u Trip on a Boat to
Convince People IT hat He Is Used To
Rough Water.


Aunt Harriet's been visiting Us laitIy
and She knows Hole lot of things paw
did when He was yung that he never
told us about. Paw says nav encur-
ridged her to tell them, but nav says it
isn't so, Beeoz she's just as ashamed Of
them as paw. So paw says if they are
emmy way you could make a buddy from
the country Long for the old seems so
hard they would start rite home, without
letting on That you meant to hurt their
feelings, he would like to no About it, not
But what Aunt Harriet is a kind harted
old sole and means Well, only it's a sad
thing to have country relations that al
ways Want to come Down stairs and
talk when you have cumpny.
After paw thot About it a Good deal he
says to maw one Day:
II no a skeem. Wen take a trip on the
Bote, and mebby Aunt Harriet mite get
seasick and Be so discurridged that she'd
Want to go home. Then / can get her
ticket before she Changes her mind and
she'll haft to CO."
"But the rest Of us mite get sick, too"
nav told him, "and l don't beleave in
taking advantage of people in that way
ennyhow."
'Wen, paw told her, ''you can stay
Home if you want to. l never get sea-
sick. I'm too much Of a mold see Dawg
for that. There's nothing makes me so
Glad as being on the Water when it's
ruff"
Then he watched the weather reports
till it said they would be storms the next
Day. SO he got tickets and told us we
were Going for a boat ride. We got
Aunt Grace to take care Of Little Albert
and the pupp and the Baby.
1t looked pritty ugly by the time we
Got reddy to start and nav Wanted to
Back out, but paw told her the Boat was
safe and they was no use being a Calf.
After we got out it commenct to Blow
some more and pritty soon nav went in
the state Room.
cts a bad thing to Keep still when it's
ruff" paw put Aunt Harriet. "Come on.
Let's walk around"
SO they walked to the front End of the
boat and back again, and Kvery little
while Sumbuddy would quit taking an in
terest in where the excursion was going.
1t didn't seem to encurridge paw much
when they Would lie Down on the floor
and not try to Conceal their feelings, but
he kept Aunt Harriet walking pritty fast
till they went Around the boat about four
times.
Then you could see that a mold see
Dawg about the size of paw had serious
thots about Sumthing. The boat wouldn't
seem to stay straight for more Than a
quarter Of a mint at a time, and paw
kept his mouth shut tite and got in a
corner where they wasn't mutch going on
except the boat.
"You better come on and Walk some
more" Aunt Harriet sed, "or you mite
get sick"
Paw gave a kind of a grone and Shook
his he'd.
Every little while sumbuddy would go
past looking in a Bucket or mebby lie
down on the fore and not seem to Care
whether the people that owned the boat
liked the way they used it or not. Paw
shut his eyes and got to Breathing pritty
hard, so Aunt Harriet shook him little
and sed:
"Hurry up. Let's walk some more. You
don't look well"
Blame it, let me alone" paw says.
"Cant you see''-
Then he shut his mouth quick, like il
he was trying to hold on to Sumthing
with his teeth, and Aunt Harriet went
away.
i After awhile she came back with our
Lunch basket and sat Down beside paw.
He didn't see her, becoz he was holoing
his face shut with both hands.
l didn't feel a bit hungry, and it made
me sad to look at the Basket, but you
OF Of Seen paw when Aunt Harriet took
out a ham sandwich and held it over
lords him and sed:
"Here, try to eat this. Mebby it mite
settle your stummick."
Paw got a smell of the sand which
and then jumped up and Started to run
for the side of the boat, but fell over
fello that was sitting on the Flore hold
ing a girls he'd and not minding it much,
becoz ] guess he didn't have on his best
suit.
1 got into the room where Nav was
then and when it wasn't so ruff emmy
more. Aunt Harriet came leading paw
in as pail as a coast. Nav asst him if
he thot we would Ever get Home alive,
but he put his he'd under the wash Stand
and didn't Say ennything.
After the boat was back all Rite and
we Were on Dry land again Aunt Har-
riet says to paw:
Il think if you would Of just kept on
waking AROUND you q OF Deeu ali flte.
"Well," paw told her. 'they are one
Thing I've always notust. Anamulz
don't get see sick, and the more refined
people Get the less their stummicks'Il
stand"
''Is that SOP" Aunt Harriet sed. 'aThat
saprises me, becoz / never saw a Stun
mick that stood more than yours did to-
day. 1t was enuff to tear it to pieces 20
times"
ridged enuff to go home Yet.-George
in Chicago Times Herald.
The SlxfIIfuI Liar.
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