The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-17
SEA DOCS spIN YARNS.
Vitality Monsters OF the Deep En-
countered ON Voyages.


countered on Voyages.
From the New York Mall and Express
He came ashore much as any land
lubber might lie had the latest thing Ia
walking stick dangling from his port
nipper and his newlypressed trousers
we're reefed at the foot ST. George is a
wicked place for even patent feathers
and spar deck yachting caps. ana this
particular craft hung in the wind Of un
certainty for an instant as II 10 make
signals Of distress He gave broadside
OF JOY as a round. re1-faced guardian OF
tho peace hove in SIGHT dead ahead ana
close aboard The red face inquired with
the diplomacy OF brass buttons and blue
cloth.
Lost yer bearln'. mate"
"Wem. I don't know which way to 90.
IL that IS what you mean said che new
arrival I'm looking FOR Sailors Snug
Harbor. I'm the editor OF The Battery
SeawalT and have been told that some
OF the queerest people Ia the world live
iu the Harhor. / understand that one
can hear most wonderful tales Of ad-
venture az the place besides seeing somc
OF the sirangcst old salts that ever trod
a deck seam. Are they truthful there?'
"By the great Keehookihus whale
exclaimed the rural bluecoat. You take
the wind out OF ny sails with such a
/ question"
Really. meant no onense. was
simply"
Bare your gun ports a. much as you
/ Ike. Young man, but never again rak
me fore and art With hot pitch like that.
I'll cue you adrift II you do. It's rank
mutiny every word you say The Snug
s famous the seven seas over for It's
/ truthful men. why there are more sailor
/ men who have slipped their moorings at
the snug and taken out clearance papers
/ Tor heaven than there are shadows az
rightiall"
and how do get to this waiting room
Of Paradise
Intrunted to a Cab.
Hey. John, This gent Is the submarine
editor Of the Battery SeawalL deVoged
10 the grand opera idea OF starboarding
the port wheel when the main deck gets
twisted up with the bunt stabilize blocks.
he wants 10 lay course for the SNUG.
! lass him line aad take HIM In tow.
! Steer a. truthful as you know how ~
Keeling IL of 20 him. john Hes atter
facts"
Hes What you would call a black
! sheep" remarked the Jehu when the
minion Of the law vas left well astern.
They say he went to sea onct That /
/ don't know for truth Was al snug Tor
while. though III swear TO that Ihey
| wouldn't lct him cast anchor there any
longer after they catched hm lying.
! Here's che Snug. AYE. aye, SIR III STAND
/ by Tor further orders"
That is how the frcah-water editor
trieed tho keeison and rcefed the sprocket
wheel OF the cnpstan. and this u what
he saw and heard on the banks OF the
oily KIN won Kull.
Thrilling Tale Of swordfish.
..you see" said Ola Hawsc Pipe. as
he took the bunch OF cigars. you see
Mr.. Lubber Point l was young tello"
| Ia those days. II was IN the indian
/ ocean that we FIRST saw the swofahsh'
/ i remember g as or yesterday. Bless my
heart. how time flies. 10 was my first
command. A nnc bark. sir. steel up 90 tht
| rovals Well. we'll 81 makes one SAD 90
/ thsuF how old one gets la q little time
| let mo eeei Where ga I heave 10 on
mat tack Well as ] was saying, Il was
ian the Irish sea. and as beauuful and
I warm a day as ever You saw. was
proud OF the vessel because she was my
nrst command. Cracking blg steamer foi
/ those DAYS. 9Gu tons We were nyihS
lirht 1 think q was the mate who saw
the pirates nrst A. ail events. the rain
came down IN FEARFUL gusts. and 1t looked
a. II old Prob. had gone OF a spree ana
ten the bunZ OF the water barrel wide
omen. II rained so fast that the steward
had 10 pot tarpauins on the sulphur
matches IN tho leaky galley.
1T was during the middle watch that
| the captain came to me and said some
thing about the chief mate trimming a
Z tf,tt. t..vn hv the head from 600 much
xin and asked me how the cargo @ot
| marift. ! told him that ! hadn't noticed
IL. whereupon he said that the brig had
a lst Of forty degrees TO starnoard. and
that We would have 20 restow when tho
sea became calner. II WAS helm about
with us after thnt 20 long AZ We remain
"a IN the Mediterranean Sra; but we
could sail like mischief beam ends or
Otherwise, and tho Hca that started with
IS we soon left hull down astern. Tho
I storm was At is height when che meteor