The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-22

Seannen's Mission after the prayer-meet-
ing. and striking che table with the
palm OF his hand, they needn't tell me
there amt none. fur / seen her with me
own eyes and sailed on her.
IT was that time I was telling you
about when l was fus' mate of the
steamer Indian King and the cyclone
capsized her and l clutched boat as
] came up and clumb into her. Then
] seen Emily Smith, the csap'n's solored
.stewardess floating about and I fslled
her out and we found ourselves alone
on the boiling sea.
SO We run along for sixteen hours,
me and Emily Smith She was as black
as night-before-last; blacker; black and
fat. But she was cheerful She be-
longed to the Sons and Daughters and
Brothers and Sisters of Aaron of the
Tribe OF Levi of Rising Sun, Phi1adel-
phia, and she sung them camp-meeting
hymns to keep up my sperits, and it did
!. keep them up. AS | set there a-loolsing
zSxher | says to myself, If the wust
zines to the wust most likely it's going
to be my luck to have TO eat you, Emily
for when the choice IS between an able
seaman as useful member of society,
and plain cook, there amt no choice,
and do believe you'd eat tender
But after awhile seen queer-looll-
ing craft coming towards me with all
sails set and | thought shed run us
down; but [ ketched at the stay-chains
as she reached me, and tying the painter
of the boat to them, / was on deck in a
minute and then I lifted Emily Smith
out.
Il dunno how to tell you what that
craft looked like. A kind o. dusl<y red
all over her decks and her sails and her
bulwarls, and the red kind O. soft |
glow like the head of match in dark |
room. never seen nothing jus like it |
afore or since. excepting it was punk
out in thu woods only that amt red, |
and this ship was red and sort O. dim |
sllinylike from stem to stern And she /
flew through the water faster n any
steamer you ever seen.
well, sir, I'm no coward, but own i
up / was skeered with the look o the
boat and not a man IN sight on deck, /
not even at the hellum; the sails jus
a-bulging and the vessel a-whipping over |
the sea the same s if she WIS bird.
$50 them seen a light or something
a-shining through crack in the cabin
aft and I says to Emily Smith:
Now. Emily. you just set there on
that bucket till | look around and in
vestigate;' and I made my way boldly to
the cabin and went down and showed
the door open and walked right in, ez-
zackly s if I was the skipper himself
There was two men asserting at the (:
table in there. the queerest dressed you
ever seen and they was APPLYING some
kind o. game with cards that was SO
black they might We been made of char ]
coal for all the difference I could see.
Then one o the men who set a-faclng ,
me looks up just as he was gong to play {
a card. and when he seen me he says: il
Well. you have nerve! Where did ]
lers7 Don't YOU know this is private z
AThen | ups and tells him, and for :
j minute he looks cross at me s II he'd
lalf mind to chuck me overheard, and
hen he says: r.
Whats your nane? F.
e William Potsherd, mariner, says /. I
OF Toms River. New Jersey, and then !.
explains to him how I happened to
irop in on him; but leaving out the
particulars about Emily Smith. T.
Set down. William, says he, after
.efecting for a little while I'm Cap.n
,chn1itt, the skipper O. this yer craft,
md this is my fus' leftenant, Wander
verlen' Z
But the fus' leftenant seemed sour
.bout something, fur he jus looks at
ne and scow1s, and when took chair
,e went over into the corner by the cup
,eard and scowled wuss and wuss.
q And SC, you thought you'd ship with
< for the wage, did you. William n
avs Cao'n Schnlitt with a grim smile on e
rs face-a face all SCARED and gashed
vith wrinkles. Why, when you looked
t If. he seemed S if he might be !
thousand years old, or more. !!
81 dunno, says |, about no wage;
That depends on where you're bound TO-
avs !. h.,f ..,arf;no +
Were bound to Tartaroo, says he. II t,
OF, know where that is, and we're a long t
ime a-s,itting there. a
q sWheresre you frum says l.
ssWherere we frun. Vanderwerkens y
,vs he a-turning to his fus' leftenant c
nd larhrg quarters this time i T.
"Rut Varderwerken jus scowled ana II
r,,nted and grunted and scowled and t.
aid nothing. Then the Cap'n looks at
ne ag'in serious, and says:
g Never you mind, William, wnere C
sesre frurrl Its SO long ago I've. almost
lean forgot.
:. s VII, dog gone it, William, says IL
am sohnitf. I'VE writ and writ TIL is
,a rsrlon I've about wore out the al b
,,a sSef0 I've writ all over the cabin I
ais and the furniture and the poop S
'1,ls and the sailss Logl | give her il
o saws he, 'moren hundred years o
60 z And that's a good while. too, says b
I,1s' to be kind o sociabie. b
..s ~ been a-sai1ing yer since 1914, a
avs he. Sometimes it seems 10 me Il
Ike million wears and 1 hsa,,-, 81 ayIv r. II
,u,etimes it seems $ II II pegu d. o nos
ast Tuesday week NY neau Iii.
use. ~ ~ ;,,s, Sure if I'm real or unreal "
~ IA Won mind pol<ing me with your a
Vouiu ~ - tell;no me what you 6