Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
MODERN JONAH.

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d n,a whale. Look! just saw
ant cried half a dozen people
z K after wheel house.
!, Hawkins, the red faced quarter
! lifted his eye momentarily from
b he was mending and scanned
! .-5b. " he said. deprecatingly, "only
! chap. Your big whales don't get
INTO this latitude. Still, little
nrer'n no whale at all an I've
hrising after whales on gen'ral
,ts Got picture of one that
COIL drew hung up over m bunk
nmakes you like whales?" asked
en- who always spoke first.
4glt NE religion" said the quar-
sSr. briefly. Never took much
IN religion till they showed me.
nit was in y, when I was bos'n's
thc full rugged ship Silver Spray,
for Boston from the Clyde. We
along easy enough. with a fair
and Just a gentle swell for about
& Then one night, Sam Coil, the
says t me, says he, Bill, d yer
9ncbow or other l don't like the
E0t that there slly.'
What's the matter with the sky?'
IL didn't see nothing in it t get
at
Is dull and murky round the cor
ays Sam; an I'll lock myself in
s II we don't catch trouble fore
dt'
al to be brief sirs, we did, just as
Nd By six bells the Silver Spray
r-I0 like raft; at seven bells, she
INNING under bare poles, 'cept for
% and forcsail, an by midnight
vas dnckn her head in every sea
!yaln goin' full tilt at tunnel. Her
was three inches deep with water,
10th ways and there was four
the wheel. Dawn came creepin'
the east at last, but it weren't no
Aothln' happened, though, till
~o1t three bells in the mornin'
Sam was bracin' himself near
rail, trym' t light his pipe when
swell caught the Silver Spray and
l her over like a chip with a nail in
1d rail went plumb under an Sam
with it.
Nan oycrboardH l yells, Man over
and we all made a rush for one
L. O9atS. lust as we had her clear
S o3vlts, ready to lower, we saw
10 the water close to the ship.
D9t yer come, we heard him
oon yer come. There's whale
We and he'll land me before you
'sI might get some bits of me by
Tie whale, but it amt worth
yelled some more, but the wind
4. ana carried the sound of his voice
sea- Just a second more an he
;rTso@nW2rd like lead on a log line.
'"' whale gasps the mate, it's got
.'a''.eSS, we kept watchin' the place
!, r' VT. We seen Sam last, and pretty soon
%ot up troma the sea a stream of
,Sl Ircl high. Then a great shiny
b LACK followed it for a second and
.o,n disappeared.
we've hours, Sirs, that ship was
s sYI2aHcst hulk you could imagine.
''5STc there was some sign of
,.T T"n' pipe on the deck, wedged
5.u on rope; Sans kit down below,
h, r',, III, $ empty seat at grub time We
r., ~.' ABOUT the storm and it let up.
s;N night was calm, but cold. Ice
a.. -" 'ne nclghborhood. 1t was my
s. WI 4e(k, and every fifteen minutes
Fr "u me temperature of the water.
'nTcc, says Tom Smith as he
sr "p inc thermometer, its getting
= forward the watch was snihin'
,, ,~ oh pccrlng out into the blacklist
h Mo-. Tue Atlantic can get over it in
l5 %o', T. Yer couldn' see anything off
J, Nynt the foam close alongside,
h T.: ,IN pinnacle light looked like the
|N "' q galley stove. Well, sirs,
b. ~, was going below, Tom Smith
Z .,~, ~p ( me and toched m arm, kind
'. .,$ IKE. / couldn't see his face,
b., ."1Se 1t was pale, cause he was
" yer hear 1t" he saws in wobb1v
F. Of voice. soy III " woody
lear what?' says I.
S>'ogin',' says he.
IN the foe sle?' says I, I'll 60 below
No says he; no, not in the fo,c,s,,
y there, and he pointed off over ~
n beam into the dark.
MI here ( =, he cried again, dyer hea
BlII Dyer hear it?' ''e'
by this time | was getting kind .
|%Py m self, cause, sure as Won i've
%ld mighty much like singin' wa
s.T,s ', s., at us out of the night
Il 5 the SIRENS, says Tom. ieanine
] N ,$ !. the malnmast and staring tn,
/. nh iD !, SIRENS got bass voices. Ton
a. o T~ys l. and are they given t
about the death light ?
\" we stopped and listened once
II was still night and as tht
, s95 gradually stronger and palmer
The do near these words rolling il
I,o II struck two bells in the first dog
'ne wind was BLOWN hard.