New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

men all aboard with our HfebOats. finally We was
So far the story was interesting. even dramatic.
put the listener began to grow suspicious as the
warmth Of the threatened to bring nap
"Of course. l was up all that night" he went
on on d1ey was a Dig oorsans up north. when
mighty scared Of boreaiis UI when was that young
thinAin, they did sailors no good and mebbe did
The captain, he gave US OF the fO'castle a couple
out Of the bark we'd sunk The Swedes got two
drinks. too, which never thought they deserved.
three. and some more. as I'm about to tell you
he vas awful ugly because we'd sunk him
he says to me-and 1 was noticing he'd got
more liquor sOmewhere-says he, Me 20 back to
He must have got a bottle before we got him
W N9oaTd or meobe 6 ne had little one With him
7 seen him in the morning sittin' on the deck
back at where his ship He'd wave his
Of course, being no Swede, what he said Looked
Ike he'd had mere liquor and guess mebbe he'd
II went up TO get my shoes had dryin' on the
only boy and that being part Of my duty. I gave
the the captains t5 parrot in cage there some corn
me on deck always came in for some bread
started forward for my bunk 1 heard the cap
tai1'S wife laugh aft in the cabin when started.
before. The captain. he was takin bearings OF
engineer was TpEIeT's see Where was be9-1Doa
the main hatch with an old shotgun waitin',
He was real sport, he
I went up forward, and was asleep about ten
minutes. or mebbe an hour, when heard lot OF
runnin' and sqUealin' and runnin' and
then some loud yelHn, and then II all STILL
The listener eyed the old salt narrowly to if
his imagination were not gnawing at the vitals OF
truth. He had slipped down until his head
barely above the seat top and his pipe inverted
usually sign OF approaching acknowledgements.
His voice dropped and soon his pipe followed suit-
Following a sharp curve In the rOadbed.
ton set in and he continued more brisky:
They was yelln'-waS that where WaS?-Oh,
yes, i was just thinktn' how awful scared / was.
lay down In my bunk for a minute, and when had
courage TO peep up deck there I the Sweds
shoutin and hollerin, with the chiefs shotgun and
potntin' 1t at every body who showed his head And
when 1 looked out there the ship goin' round
In a circle. with nobody at the wheel 10 steer US
and every below decks
so 1 says to myself, III save the ship. for I
ahead of a big liner comm. looked like
forty mile an hour and gettin bigger every second.
And 1 got my head and shoulders out OF the
fo'castle. ready to jump for the wheel, the big
Swede captain with the gun, he come for me and
jumps back again. The big liner gaIlopin'
gallOpin' on. and gets more brave and wantin' 20
the ship. And looks up and the big
Swede captain And before I could get back again
he puts the gun up TO his shoulder and he fires.
for his words came tndistnctly. But the listener.
fearing he would lose the of the yarn and being
much interested in the liner that "gallOpin'.
gallOpin on, brought the old salt out OF his drOw
siness by asking him what happened thenF'
Then he replied, breaking into a most wide
awake laugh, then woke up i really asleep
and dreamin' hard. and it all never happened"