The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-12

leaning over the side, When he saw
the country looking young fellow in the
boat he let out a guffaw, and called a
bunch of his pals to the side to take in
the spectacle of the jay with the pink
crocheted necktie. They all roared, and
then Black Jack asked the gawky
youth what in the hot place he wanted,
anyhow.
I'm from the Outer Sea- replied
the young man, guilelessly, and I came
out to have talk with you, and to look
at your boat
"An expression of stupefaction stole
over Black Jacks face. The amazing
gall of the youth from the country
knocked him all in a heap. He tried to
say something, but he couldn't 1t was
fully three minutes before he let out a
sound, and then the sound was a roar
of laughter that could have been heard
on the shore.
You win, all right said Black
Jack then. Amy dip wit bunch O.
nerve like wot you packs aroun' wins
wit me eight days in de week. Come
aboard
THE gawky youth, not experimenting
the fact that he was taking his life in
his hands, coolly stepped aboard the
barge. He had no sooner got aboard
than Black Jacks mood changed, and
he began to rip out oaths with regard
to the city editor Of the Outer Sea that
made the Lake Michigan whitefsh turn
over on their backs and cash in. This
was the gawky youths cue.
T think you're about right he but
ted in He's tried to make a monkey
of me in sending me out here to see
you; I can see that. I'm just on the
paper, and never heard of your place
before, and when he saw that vas sort
o. new in town he gave me this assign
ment.'
"'Back Jacks mood changed again.
Z" oh, that's his lay, Is it?' he said.
All right, son. Make yourself at home
Here, have bottle of wine with me-
Tried to make a monkey out of you,
hey? All right. just you spend a day
and a night here with me on this little
old squeegee craft o mine. You can
size the whole game up. I'll have my
stiffs kill a couple O. dubs tonight, If
you say the word, When you have
seen enough, you'll be able to write
book, if you want to. All right. Take
it to some other paper than the Outer
Sea- see? Then you'll get job on the
other paper, and you won't have been
made no monkey Of, either Are you
next?'
THE gawky youth was next with
both pedals. He sent the boatman
back to the beach for a camera, and
when the camera was brought off he
took pictures of Black Jack and his
crowd of bad men, pictures of the
barge from stem to stern, pictures of
every old thing about one of the most
extraordinary crafts that ever defied
the national government. Black Jack
treated him white on board the bum
boat until the next morning, when the
gawky youth went ashore. When he
got ashore he had his plates developed,
made some prints, bought him a COB of
copy paper, sat down in his little old
hall room and wrote two pages of as
fine, characteristic stuff about Black
Jacks place as ever was dished UP in
the local columns of newspaper.
Then he took his pictures and his copy
down to the Outer Seas chief rival pa
per- got the story just eaten up at
gulp by the city editor thereof, was CIV
en- job on the city staff out of hand,
and a year later was one of the star re-
porters of Chicago. "-Washington Star.