The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-29
Copyright 1908 by National Press Agency.


sail them Some it would had their
keels laid lucky day, others were as
suredly
"But il tn eclipse and rugged with curses
dark"
Many have furrowed all the of ocean, and have
lost no lives neither under
will know them which have achieved
single without being nearly cast away without
killing manning such ship the shoals
themselves decrease depth unucky set
abnormal tide: for them the trades spring far
south and die in premature calm ten degrees from the
They well. built and highly classed and yet
spring leaks Derelicts lay wait for them they are
cyclones tornadoes In them
luck of lucky meni finally of avail seamen fall
from alof in calms the gear gives without notice. stores
in spite of They break the heart Of all who
with them them blood is suddenly split; In
them strong waste and die.
Such ship Pandora, lay at anchor
Bay off sandridge there not sailorman
Australia who would have shipped in her from choice
of vessels" said Jack Marchmont as he sat
"Ive skipped of ship was in talk about
mate of the pier, ..and he allowed
ships like launched with natral dispose
tons He talked lot of scientific CUFF about deviation
and what ships had this that deviation
according their heads pinted the stocks II
she pnted sou west played quite different game
with the compass to what if she had
laid ner.east And believe Ell him The Pandora must
"she is bad un own" said his mate, but 1t am
matter Ships is few and men is plenty and
it's case of get up and let Jack sit down with
you and me- she ship than she is, and q
wetter (tho wetter), and if she killed as
many as the plague amt gon' work Tom coxs
traverse ashore any there amt no beer in the
scuttle neither and Bailey looks at us as black as
black. goin' to ship
amt got farden to jingle OF tombstone ne SAD.
mark me-" said aJck, gloomly you'll never have no
tombstone ships in the Pandora. Tant her way to
run any mans relatives into that expense
But Joe z6rug l his bes hea to
ship along cause why? We've ony chest atween the
two us. up old Why I'd ship in the Lean
and they she killed and drowned seventy men IN
I've got to the pint that I'd ship IN
And three DAYS later the two men, with others
in
ers signed Pandora, bound for London They
went boar night The mates kept a keen
eve on them they the ships reputation and more
who had come on board at nlght nad us
appeared by the morning The first few hours IN any
the first sight of damp and empty foese r Tor
London had skipped" in Melbourne.
.And right they was" said than Of the new
crowd Of them killed and two was drowned
and another will walk the rest Of his life"
But when the low brown hills
III the eastward and the daylight danced upon
Hooked waters of the great bay they turned to- with
more hearts The summer had spent Two OF It's
golden months but the sky was clear and warm norm
wind blew ship clean, and yet not too Clean
m dq e n shin all brass and bright work And as
new crew hove up anchor they found the Wndass was
10 1i her bovs said the mate And they slapped
the brakes up down with will.
reckon crowd pretty decent" said Joe:
as jumped alof to loosen the fore-opsall OR,
7dessay she amt art bad
And allowed there was little to complain
Eof about the way the Pandora found.
"she amt like Ship, was Joes comment Every
time she Of the she'd shake shear
poles off of 'er, dog shakes water
But Jack Marchmont not consoled.
81 amt denyin that the owners and the old man do
their best said, .but if they silk gear and silk
ails they'd the nature Of her. I'll feel safe
when grinds gravel under heels And not till then
They each other do1orous tales Of the ship when
ate and in second watch. which was all
their own the wind fair. and put them thru
BASIS Strait well to the south and east day by day
! 'eIt's too good to last said Jack.
| Aft much the feeling existed, tho knew
It forard Yet Captain Rayner melancholy man,
those whom luck had sent
to sea with American shipmasers He had sailed three
voyages Pandora and had read the burial service
every read it to the devouring
| grave, yvhen had gone at from the
] facsle head But never spoke of the ship and her
| WAYS even he always deck with the air of q
! man who expects news Tho he knew it, his
look at got upon the mems But their