Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-09-02
CHAPTER vIII.-(continued.)

MINDED MS Olu DrogueS wiz Slue-pol.
| Come here"
He took off his flannel jacket, folded it.
and laid it in the bottom of the boat, but
| looked up directly.
''Ye've got a bit o. SAIL he said. land
there's nice wind. Where are you go
! ing frst?'
Mary looked at her brother. and Abel
| glanced at Bart.
''Ye haven't made up yer minds" said
| Dinny, 80 look here. About twenty miles
| out yander TO the west there's a bit of an
island where the overseer and two OH
GERS wint one day to shute wild pig and
birds, and | went wild 'em. Why not go
| there till We make up yer minds? It's
| moigkty purity place. and ye're not over
| looked by the neighbors' cabins, for
there's nobody lives there at all, at all,
and we can have it our own way"
wild pig. there? said Abel, eagerly.
'tBedad, yis, sor; nice, swate bacon run
ming about on four legs all over the place.
and fruit ON the trees, and fish in the say
for the catching. Oh, an it's a moighty
purity little estate.'
And how could We find it," cried
Mary.
by jist setting sail, and kaping about
four miles from the shore till We see it
lying like a bit o cloud off to the south.
Sure, and we could hang our hammocks
there before night, and the mushket here
all ready to shoot a pig"
yes" said Mary. in response TO a
glance from her brother.
Then I'll hoist the SAIL" said Bart
NAY, let the boy do it." said Dinny,
land you come and sit down here. III
soon show you a thing as would make the
sergeant stare"
| Dinny drew a large knife from his peck
| ct, and flint and steel. The latter he
returned, and, taking the flint, he laid
! his open knife ON the thwart of the boat.
and with the flint jagged the edge of the
blade all along into q rough kind of saw.
THERE he said; that viii do. That
| irons as soft as cheese"
This last was a slight Hinernian ex-
aggeration; but as Mary hoisted sail, and
Abel put out an oar to steer, while the
| little vessel glided swiftly over the sun
| lit sea, Dinny began to operate upon the
| ring around one of Bart's ankles, saving
away steadily, and with such good effect
| that al the end of an hour ne had cut half
| through, when by hammering the ring
together with the butt of the musket, the
| half-severed iron gave way, and one leg
| was free.
Look at that, nowr' said Dinny, tri-
| umphantly. Nov thin, up wild that 9TH
| er purity footr' he cried: and, as the boat
| glided rapidly toward the west, he sawed
away again, with intervals of rejagging
| at the knife edge, and soon made a cut
| in the second ring.
| The island was fOund inst tho Irish
man had foretold, and as evening APP
preached, without having even sighted a
| sail on their way, the little boat began
| coasting along, its occupants eagerly
scanning the low, rock-reefed shore,
above which waved a luxuriant tropic
| growth. The last fetter had been labori-
ously sawed through, Dinny having per-
sisted in continuing the task, and he now
sat resting and watching the shore with
a critical eye.
All at once, upon sailing round jagged
point to which they had to give wide
berth on account of the fierce race which
swept and eddied among the rocks, a
pleasantly wooded little bay opened out
before them with a smooth, sandy shore
where the waves just creamed and glist-
ened in the sun.
That's where we. landed; but / was
ashleep after pulling a long time at the
oar, and l disremembered all about where
! we went ashore
How beautiful said Jack, gazing
thoughtfully at the glorious scene, and
asking herself whether that was to be
her future home.
And. dyer call that beautifully" said
Dinny, contemptuously. Young man,
did We liver see Dublin Bay?"
NO." said Jack, smiling in the earnest
face before him.
Nor the Hill of Howthf
Jack shook his head.
| Then don't call that beautiful again
in me presence" said Dinny.
The boat was run up on the shore and
hidden among the rocks, not that it was
| likely that it would be seen, but the po-
sition of the fugitiyes and the dread of
being retaken made them doubly eau
tious, Bart even going so far as to oSlit-
crate their footprints on the sand.
Now, then" said Dinny, you've got
the mushket and the bagnet, and those
two make one; but if l was you I'd cut
down one of them bamboos and shtick the
bagnet on that. which would make tive
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tool to kill pig"
The hint was taken, Bart soon cutting
| down long, straight lance shaft and
| forcing it into the socket of the bayonet
Then next said Dinny. IF | was
captain l should say let's see about some.
thing TO ate
Hear that. Abel?" said Bart.
Yes. | was thinking Of how we could
/
plenty Of bananas"
"Hapes," put in Dinny; 'and there's a
Icabhage growing in the heart of livery enc
I OF thin bundles of leaves on the top of
shtiek as they call palms; but thim's only
vegetables. captain. dear, and me shtom
ach is asking for mate"
| 'Can we easily shoot a pig-you say
there are someE" said Abel.
And is it aisily shoot a pig?" said Din
ny. Here. give me the mushket."
He held out his hand for the piece, and
Abel, who bore it, hesitated for a mo-
ment or two, and glanced at Jack. who
nodded shortly, and the loaded weapon
was passed to the Irishman.
"Ye doubted me-" he said, laughing:
''but niver mind: it's quite nat'ral. Come
along; / won't shoot any Of We unless I'm
very hungry and can't get a pig"
He led the way through an opening in
the rough elf. and they climbed along
narrow rayine for some few hundred
yards. the roar Of the sea being SusSed
and the overhauging trees which held
an among the riffs of the rocks shutting
out the evening light, so that at times il
was quite dusk. But the rocky barrier
was soon passed. and an open, natural
park spread before them.
A low grunting and slueaking which
had suddenly been heard in the distance
increased loudly; aud directly after a
herd OF quite TWO hundred pigs came tear
/ ing down through narrow opening in
the rocky jungle and made straight for
the lake. Dinny had an easy shot at a
| well-fed specimen which rolled over. the
rest dashing OF through the trees. squeal-
ing as IL every enc had been injured BY
| the shot.
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