The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
HE TOOLED THE
VOLCANO FOUR


he was riding training were to the
gocd and meant, and when they wouldn't
do
'Camel or no camel says 1 to myself
after had chance to frame his talk up,
IN Just let em run for the books today,
and take some o that with what, I've got
left tomorrow
And 1 did. But the trouble was got
iwoozed up some before / left for the
track on the afternoon the camel was
going to get his first peek at the starter.
/ Met an army officer at the Palace that I'd
known when We We're kids back this way
and we shot ten or fifteen in as IL all the
wet emporiums Were going out of busi-
ness before noon. Then I had few
! more on the way to the, track, and after
/ got there. But l was still to the good
as far as having a clear lid was con-
icerned when the states went up for the
first race. i saw my friend the trainer
and ex-jock leaning over the paddock
fence.
IT'S right said he out of a corner
OF his mouth. Go as far as you like
! so spins over to the first book in the
line, and sees that the camel is at 40
to 1. I'd done business with that bookie
often before. passed him one of the so
chips. and. naming the camel. told him
j wanted that one straight.
Another one of your hot things said
lthe bookie, handing me the grin along
with the ticket calling for $500 to $40.
Then 1 had another pint. and went
into the stand to watch the race 1t look
Iec to me like that camel just winked at
: the judges as he walked-he didn't run, he
iwalked-under the wire, twenty lengths to
1.-THE good.
4" Here's looking at Broadway six days
from date says I. digging for my $500
to so ticket The ticket wasnt there
II did the panic hunt through all my
CLOTHES. The ticket was gone / hustled
down to the betting ring, and was first
lin my bookies line.
Say l said to him. L lost my good
thing ticket, but you remember the bet,
dent you?
"As spoke got pipe at the pay-ofr
sheet, and my $500 to $40 bet was the only
,one the sheet contained on the camel.
The bookie looked me over as IL be-
forged to a bunch of Malay boomerang
lthrowers on a Midway. Il
What good-thing ticket said he.
who are your
"I pointed to the pay-off sheet
I THAT one, said l, and my fingers ach-
3 ed at the tips of them to clutch his
:. throat. -
Go AWAY said he Go right ay-
way. You may be good as trance me-
y ,dium. but YOU won't do. Go anyway.
: "A real cute welch, wasn't 1t? I only
q got one good poke at him before 1 was
,hurtled out of the grounds.
: II had a temperature Of 112 centigrade,
e and was bubbling inside like twin gey-
3 sers, when 1 took up the lone from the
: track to Frisco: and when I got there
n / went right up in the air, lacking toe
!. weights. I was going to lay for that
n bookie and pull out his finger nails and
cauterize his lamps and do lots of things
Il to him; but / still had some dollars on
Y me, and by the time ii was up to me to
Is be at the entrance to the bookie's hotel
,r and start in to do him rude, l was down
NJ at the foot of Clay street buying Multi
of red mixed
6 with steamed beer-for large and ad-
" miring bunch of 'longshoremen. They
a, took turns telling me the stories of their
NJ lives, and then I'd purchase more Null
= gans for 'em. They'd edge up and give
y, me lung-to-lung talks about what a nice
~ chile con carne proposition / was, where
= upon I'd order additional beakers COM
,d posed of red peppers and steamed beer
he for them. and dripped green boys for my
or self. i remembered afterward that they
.r had told me about seamen'S strike that
nv was then on which caused general tie
lie VI of all ships that wanted to break out
70 of the port of San Francisco. I diGn't
or forget about the bookie's welch on my
ra $500 to $50 ticket, but l was having Sc
of much fun studying primitive man in the
oh shape OF Mulligan-absorbing longshore-
men that L decided Ia wait until the
of next day to gnaw the bookie's bones
well, the blank came, as the dernec
=, old thing always does. l was getting tns
-. boots when L came 20 III g. Greasy pMIif
- In the foC'sle of the brigantine Monmouth
W Queen lumber-laden, for Hilo, Hzwaias
N Islands The bucko first mate was wear
-. ing the boots. PG been shanghaied. i
-. was then that l remembered about sha
,at seamen's strike.
- Say mine is Il sad story, with erernoh
. music on the string. and l was nos al
~ ways, thus, with the up-stage lights grad
~ ually lowered. I don't like to sliude ;'riy
a,, olously to the eighteen days put iri o.
- the brigantine Monmouth Queen. Whei
-. was yanked aboard the Monmouth
- Queen | didn't know the difference be
~ tween a capstan bar and ratline-bu
ase 1 learned, all right; ON, yes, I learned
- particufa ~ly with reference to the capata
- bar. Likewise the bucko first mate CAV
81 me personally conducted lessons as to tn
a. meaning of marlin-spikes and bels;yin
i,,, pins. He was devilishly jealous fr
~ structor that mate, and the way he lai
himself out, and me- too in his efforts
,t9. teach me seamanship, is something tha
=, l lay awake o nights and think abor
-, even now. ] am free to say that II eFf
ny met up with that mat here in New Y@'
oia I'd blow him off to the finest meal of co.
IL centrated lye that could be bought.
- There was no use in my setting UP u
g. long moan when came to on board II
Monmouth Queen, and / didn't do 1t.
did wlat the mate told me, and I did
sudden every time. at that. My foes
a., shipnnates were all old f1at-feet and ths
IN put me wise to the fact from the Jun
~. THAT If j didn't do things real quick {,
~ that mate I'd go over the side witfsc'
os being seweG in any hammock and whs
" get tip like that always play 1t aero
u the board. I was as good as 1 could b
and e. arav,, - ,ha hr,g.nt,,a Mon,,o,
'ieu Queen. so that when she finally drops
her mudhook, eighteen days out, in t
~ harbor of Hilo, which is the main toy
80 of the main Island of Hawaii of the II
nell GO - -. Sa,1, -. -. e.. a. 49, -
-. had put there in his more playful m
lments.
am xt.., Oe - - 49, TanaL,
bCmboat came alongside the ship I
.o evening We got in, to peddle bananas a