The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-07-20

cd"e lIhCO ndfOOr from voyage. Inc
paint and cordage bills, to say nothing
of white duck, must have been some
thing big, but the ships husband, who
was in that line of business, never let
on as between the two captains, so he
must have been making good thing
out of his small interest in the Nellie
B. The two old gentlemen were great
rivals, and it was nip and tuck be-
tween them on every point connected
with the bark, and it would be hard
to say which was the more jealous Of
the other.
1t got SO they never would speak ex-
cept when handing the bark over, and
then they were freezingly polite.
"Good-morning, Cap'n Davis" was
always the form that Cap'n Davies FOL-
lowed, 1.-THE Nellie B. is on a clean floor,
and think you'll not find anything the
matter with her."
THANK you, Cap'n Davies" was the
unfailing response. II suppose it
seems so to you, but have brought 2
broom with me; she'll not be the worse
for good sweeping. 1 suppose you'll
enjoy the rest while I'm gone"
''Well, wish you prosperous lad
ing and q quick voyage. You're get
ting old, man, and this will likely be
the last voyage you'll make in the
Nellie B., so make the most Of it,"
Then they'd part, speeches. with
rage. Not content with sitting on the
pierhead day after day watching the
loading of the bark and finding fault
with everything the other skipper did,
Cap'n Davies thought he'd take look
at the bark in some foreign port; he
wanted to see whether Cap'n Davis
saved up all his repairs for the home
port, or whether he fixed the Nellie B.
up creditable when she went foreign.
The bark had been chartered for Mel
bourne with clothespins and wooden
ware. That's a voyage that took her
all of hundred days, for she was
dull sailor, and Cap'n Davies had plen-
ty of time to get out to Melbourne by
steamer. There he waited for the bark
to be signalized from the Heads, and
when her number was made he took q
sailboat and hurried down Port Philip
to see how the Nellie B. was looking
when she came into port foreign.
Whether the bark looked better than
Cap'n Davies expected to find her, or
whether she looked worse, nobody
could say for certain. But that some.
thing serious was the matter anybody
could see, for the old skipper hardly
woke up to rip and tear more than
once or twice day, and that was moth
ing for him. The Nellie B. got char
ter for London with wool. and lost no
time discharging. Cap'n Davies hung
about her all the time she was in Port
Philip. Soon after she sailed he Just
up and died. There wasn't much satis-
faction in it for Cap'n Davis, for he
died, too, before he got around Cape
Horn, and he never knew that he was
sole captain at last.
Another scheme of the two skippers
went astray. Each of them, having
neither chick nor child, had willed his
share in the bark to the ships hus-
band, thus giving him the controlling
interest on the condition that he would
GUST the rival skipper and put in a
man of his own But as both died at
the same time there was nobody to
GUST. and the property came into the
hands of this ship chandler. He's sail.
ing her still, as she cost him really less
than nothing, for what he had paid
in the beginning for his~small piece
was repaid over and over in his dealings
with the rivalry of the two SHIPPERS
Boston Budget