The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-06-20

Mine, that used to be pilot boat, and
would sail in any kind of weather that
a flynn fish would live in. We cruised
around in the northwest trades for
awhile 1ookin' for sperm calf, for Kear-'
ney said that to get the best results
from education you must catch 'em
young.
II won't bore you tellin' about that
cruise, though it would make mighty
good story itself, but at last we caught
our calf and h'isted him into a tank
on deck. Kearney named him Little
Willie, after kid of his own. Then
we put for the reef, which had a smooth
lagoon inside of it, and was altogether
as well cut out for whale academ5 as
any place you could find in the geog-
raphy.
"Kearney's idee was to use his
whales mostly for rams, though some
times for torpedo boats. So he had
harness fitted over Little Willie's head,
with steel spur in front, and he
trained him to go full tilt at an old
hulk that was moored for a target.
How did he make him do it? Why,
every time little Willie would hit the
hulk fair and square, Kearney would
give him lump of sugar. You don't
mean to say you didn't know that
whales liked sugar. Next time you
meet one, you just offer him lump
and see what he does
We'll, as things went on the expert,
ment seemed to be success. Little
Willie absorbed education as if his
father had been a college president
He would lie pointing at the target
with his f1ukes a-quiverin' like a cats
tail when she's watching for mouse,
and then when Kearney would give the
signal by proddin' him with harpoon
he would shoot forward like a bullet
and hit that hulk a swipe that would
rattle it like a dynamite blast. Then
he would swim back, happy and proud,
for his sugar, with smile on his face
that would take in a four-horse truck.
sometimes Kearney would rig him
up with a spar torpedo, and he was
trained to stop at them times and back
| away as soon as the spar touched the
target.
well, was worried all the time, for
didn't know where all this was goin'
to end. Little Willie kept CROWN big
ger and bigger, and we had to keep
fittin' him with new ram bows in place
of those he'd outgrown and gettin'
more hulks to take the places of those
he was smashing into kindlin' It
looked to me as if there was trouble
ahead, and sure enough there was
Zone day Kearney was in bad hui
Oh
| started out for target practice he
| jabbed Little Willie with the harpoon
before he got him headed in the right
! direction. Off he shot, as he'd been
| taught.
"Kearney tried to call him back, but
you know yourself it wasn't reason
able to expect he'd hear it. In another
minute Little Willie had smashed clean
through the side of the Lady Mine,
| and then he came back, innocent and
| self-sa tisfied, for his sugar.
"Well, you never saw a man so crazy
with rage as what Kearney was. AL
though the thing was entirely his own
fault, he laid it all to that poor, in
offensive beast. and when Little Will.
lie swum up. eXpectin' to be praised
and rewarded, as he had perfect
right to, Kearney yelled: Get away
you lubber" and give him a kick.
"Well. you know Little Willie never
had such an insult before, and il
knocked him all in heap. He looked
at us reproachful for minute, and
then he turned around on his tail, dig.
nified and deliberate, and put to sea
We never seen him again.
"Now you see what happened to the
Kathleen. don't you? The whale was
a layin' head on the ship when they
trun the harpoon into him. He took
that for the signal, and without stop.
pin to think he carried out his train.
in.
"And I'm bettin' that if those men
hadn't been too clustered to look
they'd have seen that there whale
had on ram Down.. Y. Sun.