The tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1900-1902, 1902-11-20

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HeQneuta The seal and they 90 n0ms
mlshy queer thinea. - any eali0rma1
knows said Ctpt Dii K~inafnan 81 .,
cut Q pipeful on a plug aad projected
70 RON II between his horny palms
But The queorsst spook ! ever Sc wa
one thai put itself out Of the business
tor sixty years BY making a mistake.
~ happened when 1 was 4 yonae
man on q voyage from Mafacalbo n
Liverpool, on the bark ingomar. with )
cargo Of mahogany. A chap 81 the
name OF league was the captain and
the si~ckeat-iookiDg skipper be Has that
E let q ships crew do as Il pieased.
ne was q powerful, big-bOned man, but
gaunt Rs q wolf. With his clothes hang
lnE loose all over him and his eyes
burning away back az the end Of two
sort o. caYernn.
Instead Of taking his rest IKE A
Christian he set I'd on the taarau 10
his watch and Out Of II. fair weather or
foul, sleeping sometimes but most
while looking out over the sea Ike =
mar In a trance. Bout onoe a DAY he'd
come down for a bite TO est ana 4 loot
~ the lrst mates Fingers ara tha,
back he'd go with never a word Out Of
him.
~ didn't take many days out Of port
DeIore they begin to be whispers
among the crew. What was IL wa
wanted TO know, that'd make a man
hhe Ieague shrink away from his
clothes n shun decent mems neigh
borhoodl What was it his burning
eyebails saw out y0ndsr IN the black
Waterf
.
Mates says Ben Wicks. who'd lost
OF his eyes on a m~sn-o'-war. 7
know the signs. It's blood spots he
tees out here-blood spots Of his own
making 2 theys no good goln' 10
come 70 them as travels with him.
1 don't know Jest what the crowd a
Gone II It hadn't happened that Ben,s
remarks come TO the ears Of the 6rst
mate Soon's they did the mate comes
humping q the fo'c'sle and Laws Zen
out with q smash under the ear.
NOW, ye swine, he says. turning
10 the rest Of US, Is they any Of go1i
ever had guts enough to love a woman
Two years ago they was a feIler ab,u.
70 get the lkeliest gal In Portland Ne
Tor a wife. She Quarrcled with h5m 4
week before the wedding. about moth
ING, as women will, and up and mar-
mex a dub that was worth no eoos wo-
an thoughts Wen. the chan ina
got left is him that's sitting 40 tbere
on the tahrail. Ye dirty snakes tbHs.z
what love does sometimes 70 a ma.
Nov. IL they's any OF you wants 4
broker head let me hear another velD I
about blood spots.'
After that nobody felt called on 10
give his opinions OF the cspsafu
reckon the crew was more sorry for
him tina anything else. though BEN
Nicks hook his head and did a heap
OF mumbling under his breath. Ana
we certainly begin TO have a queer voy-
age We was on a nor noreast tack
n We had a purity fair breeze most Of
the time, but somehow that shin SEEM
ed to make mighty little headway. The
sea was 3 dirty oil color and Il seemed
70 sort OF keteh hold OF US and stick on.
II was like sailing through molasses.
It's coming soon, says Ben Wieks.
one DOG watch. when the first mate WIS
out " hearing.
same night il comes np 10 rain
on III captains watch and be sent me
down after his oilskfns Foot OF the
eompanion-way / looked into the cabia
and there az the captains table as In
a living man, SAL q little brown-haired
woman writing. Everybody aboard
knew they Wa no woman on the lingo
and hadn't been. ] took one look.
and then made for the quarterback
where's them shdnsf says league
II you please sir says. they's a
LADY AZ the cabin table writing
league looked at me for full half a
minute and his eyes was Ike them Of
that's one blind Then he spoke
kind Of soft.
What Kind Of q looking woman
itT says he
=" She was a little plump woman.
nays. with brown hair that was brush
ia back
"reaguo's face became white as a
oorpse's and he held up his hand.
Thath do. he says. Go down and
Ask the lady to kindly step upt
i wasn't hankering after that cabin
lest thea. but Il was better than
feAgnss voice Before I got 70 the foot
~ the companion-way I see she was
zone. | went over 70 where she'd been
setting and there on the table was a
lheet OF paper and on Il in q wnman's
Nas the three words. Steer due
'outh.' grabbed the paper and went
lack OF the deck. As came up il
seemed a. though leagues eyes grab
I'D hold OF me.
" The ladys gone. sir. I says. bet
his here paper was on the cabin
AHA
a don't know how he eol the paper
dldnt hand & 10 him. He Jest had a..
Then there some a sound likt a herd Of (
luils believing and IL waa league call
ng 90 the mar AZ the wheel.
" Hard E,arboard. says league. and
round she swung.
" Keep her due south. says league.
and mind your eye
That minute the brocse shifted fair !
nd began 70 froshen and inside Of Two
we was jumping along az 10 !
,notG The hrst mate looked foased Z
yhen he tame on deck % take hh
watch. but league give his orders and Z
idn't make no explanations Then he
vent up into the bow aud took his seat I
a the kniEhthead ,
For seven days that fair brocEa
astcd and for seven days We went clip {
inE south. with the sun 50 hot hat Il 5
TIE pitch out OF the decks and I
ar port Of destination further and
oyer our port quarter. And Tor
even days league set up there on The
nighthead hooking forward. cut over A.,
be sea- We passed ships and then sol I
asst the travelled way and league paid !
o heed I
But on that seventh day We raised !
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