Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27

thing she does seem like staying at home
Even when / told her that the trunk
had been left behind, she didn't seem 10
care a bit. That woman, who. even II she
was my wife, was grunting all the tlms
from June to November every year, cheereo
right up the minute she had really SOME
thing to complain about.
1.-The wind kept blowing us SOUTH nav
been scared to death. floating afouuu ny
way we were. But Sarah kept iangnin NJ;
and cooking buckwheat cakes on the Oh
stove just as If nothing had happeneu, %
I didn't have the nerve to complain. EveIs
morning we kept floating south hois'eo
a sheet on pole on top of the iceberg SO
if a ship did happen to come our way II
would see it and stop, but / didn't nave
much faith in it. Every day the wlnd KEEP
coming from the north, and it was lucky we
had on clothes like the Esquimaux wear, or
we'd have been frozen stiff. All the time
Sarah was Just as happy and pleased anu
big sight more so, as II we,d Deen sue IN
our house on Main street. What. WIN the
housekeeping and cooking to attend 10.
her time was pretty well taken up. but after
I'd hoisted the sheet for the day all had To
do to write in my diary and eat my
meals.
But, after all, it was sort of grand, with
the sea Just as blue if some one nad
dumped a million bottles OF blulng INTO IL,
and wind blowing off the tops of the waves
now and then and making them look as
white napkins on clothes Hne. Anu
the iceberg itself, that was the grandest OF
all; SO big and solemn and white ana coiu.
It made you have the Shfvers to look at IL
all and think how small you were compared
to everything around you. L used 10 get
sort of brooding, and then Sarahd COOK
me some griddle cakes and I'd feel better.
1.-The only living thing in sight, parrlng
Sarah and me- were the whales. some s
times they'd come up to the top ana ioll:
with their sides all white and shiny, ana
blow little suuirts of water. Sarah ana L
would stand in our front door and watcn
them. She used to say how nice 1t was not
to have the wind blow her clothes around,
md CHI hoe. nit wing the women VINO naQ
to follow the styles and wear puhed-up
sleeves and skirts made just So she peeah
to look better, too When | got DOWN splIi :.
ed she'd cheer me up, and say how nice II
would be If some day the WIND change9 d
little and blew us up the river and lanoeo
us safe and sound at home.
''The iceberg was melting pretty fast,
though and 1t wasn't more than half the
size it was when we started out on IT SIX
weeks before, when one morning sa"
smoke
There's a steamer coming / shouted to
Sarah, and we're saved!
That's too bad she said; and just as
we're commencing to enjoy ourselves 80
much, too
Il looked at her with my mouth open as
II she was crazy. and then / made up my
mind that I'd be saved whatever she
thought, and I waved the sheet and yelled
as loud as 1 could. The steamer kept
coming nearer and nearer-it was big
one with three chimneys-and bye and bye
the folks on board Of 1t saw us and they
stopped and some men got into boat and
rOwed to us.
"'What are you doing there? the man
who was steering yelled out I was mad
enough to say we were picking flowers, but
didn't; told him instead that we wanted
to go to New York with him.
Who's the man with you? lie yelled
back, pointing to Sarah. who was washing
dishes just as If nothing had happened.
That no man: that's my wife 1 yelled
back You should have heard those men
laugh, eSDeCially when int no
house and came out again with her bonnet
tied on good and tight
saw 1t was no time to get into a fight.
so made Sarah get into the boat and we
rowed to the steamer. All the nassaneers
were AT the rail as we came up and they
were all talking and asking Questions al
once: Inc ship seemed as high as a noun
tam, out L managed to climb IN the rome
ladder some way, helping sarah a. az
same time, and when we got on deck one
VI the passengers had been looking at he
cause she looked as If knew her and then
again she didn't, with a big French hat on
her head and wearing foreipn.1nal,r o
clothes. gave yell. 'ooAiAs
w ny, II it amt Mrs. Abner snencer
raeat an IN those pants she said It's the
life, she kept on AZ OH my
sarah wiped the sea water Off her
spec.acles and put her hands in her pock
1he e,.o, yes; She learned that on the ice
ior its was Mrs. Hills coming bach from
Switzerland who said those thngsand she
h hnswered Just as quiet as If things like that
happened every day: think the woman
mas been drinking. It's such a shame a
woman woman or her age. too. And Sarah and Mrs.
fn us haven't spoken to each other since.
beiore went downstairs 1 looked back
and there was the iceberg going bibbittv
Doooltty IN the sea. and perhaps it's floating
ye. with the batter Sarah was making for
cakes. standing next to the stove.
Well, We got back home sa fe and sound
res sir; the people on board the steamer
tent us some clothes to wear. Sarah hasn't
hay fever, either. And I Sometimes tbinL
that II people with nerves would stop doc
6 toring and 60 sailing on icebergs they'd be
oetter ana the doctors would be poorer"
watch. Why, It's nearly time for lunch"
ne said. IN be glad if you'd come up and
meet my wife, and take a bite with us Only
don't say anything about fur clothes for
that's the only thing she's a might touchy