The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-22
The h Flying Dutchman
BY Max AdeeE
BY Max Adeler.

Schnlitt.
Toms River says /.
And where's that
4 told him, and when I mentioned
! Barnegat Bay | seen him kind O. finch
and l lnowed why before I left him
That's in the United States, ane
the United States is the greatest coun.
| try on this earth, says /, and then
knowing he hadn't heard any news late
| ly, / went on and told him about Gen
eral Washington and the Revolution
General Washington, he says, try
ling to remember. Was that the man
that was left, little boy. in the bull
rusl1es :?
mo, nor says /. He was fnst in
peace. fIst in war, and fust in the hearts
OF his countrypen. You've got your mind
on Moses
'Hahr says he maybe I have. I
get mixed OH people somehow, now
adays. And how is things, William,
amongst the folks on shore? / git to
hankering after EN- now and then; and
speaking Of babies-all Billyp says he
to me, a red tear a-rolling over the
crinkles on his face, what wouldn't /
give to see one O them ag'iil? Tell me,
William, do they still smile when the
angels speak to 'en in their sleep, and
take notice, and all that kind o. thing,
jus the way they used tor
Jus' the same, says i. and shake
their rattles and chew their cummings
and cry and keep the folks awake at
nights. JUS the very same
81 see. a film gathering on his eyes
as | spoke, and so went on and told
him about my baby grandson and his
golden hair and blue eyes and two love-
ly white front teeth and his cherry lips,
until presently Cap'n ScImitt waves his
hand at me and says:
Stop, William Stop that can't
stand it another minute
Then he lleaved a deep sigh and he
was about to speak when he caught
sight o. Vanderwerfen standing there
IN the corner. The Cap'n had something
on his mind that he wanted to talk TO
me about private, and SO he says:
'Vanderwerken, jus run up ON deck
for a few minutes and look at the glass
and see if we're in the Tropic of Capri
corn or in Cancer.
handkerchief said he. wouldn't go.
and so Cap'n Scflnlitt flew at him and
gripped him and they had it over and
over the cabin floor until directly Cap'n
Schrnitt doubled Vanderwerken all up.
jus s if he was putty and flung him
out and bottled the door. Through the
window I seen VanderwerlSen a-laying
there gradually coming back to shape
again, fust one dent bullying out and
then another, jus like one o them rub
Der doll-babies, You know
"Cap'n Schnitt then sets down ag'in
1y the table and he says to me: Will
lam, I'm a-beginning to git tired o. this
lind o. thing Here I've been asserting
md playing seven-up with Vanderwer-
ten for two hundred years and it's git
ing to wear on me Vanderwerken
Won't learn to play checkers; and SO,
IN yearning for land and sunlight and
he comforts o home, and seeing you
makes me want EN- wuss. II | could
nee gift ashore in a new place and
egin life over ag'in, believe | could
ould William?
I dunno, says I. because dunno
lotlling about your past
Don't you know says he, whats
he reason this yer ship keeps a-ffying
Jam? 1t was this way: In 1914, while
was a-tryirg to take the ship around
he Horn there was an awful thunder
torn that KEEP driving us back and
early capsized us. 1t made me so mad
nat / stood out on the poop deck and
ook off my hat and cussed the thun-
erstorTn, and because | did that | was
ondemned to keep flying over the seas
nd never to come to port Tough
lex, William, don't you think, jus fur
ussin' at one little thunderstorm?
why don't you repent? says /.
Repent, William? says he. What's
ne good of repenting when repenting
ont take off the cuss that was put on
le? No, sir, if repenting would've lift
d it. it would've been lifted long ago.
9 And what will lift it7' says I
sCap'n Schrnitt looked around to see
Vanderwerken was a-listening and
len, very solemn. he says: There's on
one thing, William. that'll do the !
usiness, and that is for fair young |
laiden to marry me- And now look at
, Billy if can find a fair young maiden |
, marry me the ctiss will be removed. .
ut don't you see. I'm not lowed to go !.
shore to find fair young maiden and |
, court her and to ask her, and there !
Oh are-blocked at both ends; no !.
nance one way or another Do you :
link that's a square deal on me, Will :
ann Blamed if I do. So what want +
40 - 10 HIid tndl SliI somehow ana
larry her and settle down and make ;
-esh start Can you think how you 8
ould help me, Billy? Is
!" Settling downs all right says I, s
nd starting fresh s all right, too, but {
don't know about marrying. Then I s
'okS him over and says: because girls I
more particular now than they used to 5
2. You're no longer young, you know. ;
i'd you say 1914? Well. Cam I
chmitt, you're two hundred and fifty,
you're day. and that would seem }
Id to most girls
" I know it, Says he, but I'm not so
i'd looking, William. now arm L? and
esides, (and then he looked around
gain to find if Vanderwerken was a.
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