The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1901-07-25

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sert sbs1rd the skip With gloomy Tor
boairss ~ 10 the seaisrips capacities o
my tso cabin mates.
l Wsli. when ! mel 'en. ,hcy didnt ia
press me 81 ell - men cspshie Of sisns
ins the dcer-ses saa very veil. Tee,
we're both big, stout Eeslisbmsn ei mi.
die ssr. and l reelected diimsliy ths
bis, s.oui men are much mote susceptible
10 m.l do mer than small, stipsily bail
shsps. They we're brorssd. ou,-,i.door,
looking chaps. ihsssb. aud pat then
down 81 onee % drovers or wholesale meal
dsllsrs or something like that
Get sick s . general thiasf Isssed
them with vonld.bc sniable grin, ieek
Ing from one TO tho other,
They looked u each other sbespisLly
snd added With their hands . Bit before
replying.
Well, ssii one Of them. after . psuse,
We hsvena done much travelling on stss,a
sbips, sad 50 vs can't tell you thai
Oh. ! guess you'il bs Ill right. said i.
pstronisinsly. All you've got to do is to
set your miod sgsinst being sick st sss,
you kno1; snd yoa won't get sick, that's
oil.
II you gentlemen. either OF you, feel,
when We bit the swell. that your going
to get sick, why, jass let me knew. and
IN see II cAn's help yoo ont,
Well. the three OF as we're still busy
ing ourselves 10 eur o,bii when the
steamer got down TO the Hook. When
she passed ont iu.o The open sec I felt
the sw II right away. aud | looked st my
two cabin mstes. They, in their turn
we're looking d me.
You look BIT whit,. don't you. old
chsps ssid one oil them TO me, solisitous
~, and he vas right l looked white
snd | felt white. What's more. I felt
sick -sessick. There was no use 10 my
trying to disguise IL. bnt did.
%, = bit OF indigestion, l said. With
% sssum. tion Of csrelessness. 10 my pair
Of mates. II will wesr "a when get my
ses-legs.
But 1t didn't The ship ran smack
into heavy weather after getting outside
the Hook, aud then. for the first time 10
two decades, | felt myself getting Just
deadly sessick and nothing else.
My two room mates were very kind 10
me, but didn't want kindness. l wan
ed eternal peace, Moreover. was sore
on them because they didn9 become
sick. Neither OF them showed the first
signs Of sassickness. Neither Of them
meal. They would come peking
into the ststeroom alter each meal, pick
Ing their teeth and pstting their stomachs
lenderly, as illustrating how much they'd
enjoyed themselves at table, aud they
would ask ench other how the pancakes.
or the sausage, or the steak, or whst-not
had been relished.
Why. yelled at them in my misery,
lont you two lubbsrs get sickS but they
'nly gufiawed aud ssked me what they
,culd do to make my lot bit easier.
After three days l orawlsd on deck.
more dead than slIve. and my two cabin
mates certainly we're decent 10 helping
ne around and handing me things
They SGT and talked with me % l was
waddled up on deck, and noticed that
hey exchanged in . quiet sort Of way, .
OF Of nautical talk that puzzled me.
ouldn1 conceive ei their picking up 80
nuch Of the lingo 10 the course OF the
hree days we'd been to sss,
See here. I said TO them. l thought you
sllows told me you hadn't done much
iding on steamshipsi
Neither have We. replied on Of them,
lusbins heartily. ss he locked at bis
Iiend.
And then ii came out.
They we're both British skippers OF
'orld-tonriug sailing ships, and both Of
hem hsd been to sea since their twelfth
ear. They bad left their ships 10 dry
ock for repairs In Erie basin, snd they
ere ruuuinQ across the pond In the
to see their folks. They told .
Ie oil OF this ss mildly as they could, 90
not to make me feel too chesp ever the q
stronizing cir bad assumed when talk .
g TO them sbont sessickness. bat ]
,nldnt see II that way, sod / Issbed my :
II openly before them snd did my little
spancs by doing the buying for the rest 9
the voyage haven't been pstronizing .
even yellow dog since that experience. .