The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-10-20

sea sick Is that In love sick you looi
red IN the face and snuggle up. and
squeeze hands. and look fondly. and
swallow your emotion. and try to wait
patiently until II is dark enough so the
spectators won't notice anything. and
IN sea sickness You get pale In the face,
and spread apart, and let go Of hands,
and after You have stood ii as long AZ
you cali you rush to the rail and act as
though You were going to jump over
board, aAd then stop sudden and let
eF-sa-gallaSher, right before folks,
ana after 1t is over you try to look as
though you had enjoyed it, will say
TINS much for dad, he and the widow
ner2r played a duet over the rail but
they took turns, and dad held her rs
tenjnrly as though they were engaged
ana when he got her back to tho
steamer chair he stroked her face and
put Cahphur 10 her nose, and acted
like an undertaken that wasn't going
10 let the remains get away from aim.
10y "''N hd'liS u ultt NDuN uieSlHllL
time. Just afore It broke up, and hadn't
either OF them been sick for ten mju-
utes. and dad had put his arm around
her shoulders, and was talking cum
ming tc her, and she was looking low
lngiy into dads eyes, and they were
talking OF meeting again in France in
a few weeks. where she was going to
rent a villa, and dad was saying NJ
would be there with both feet when /
opened the window and said, Tho
steward Is bringing around a lunch,
and ! have ordered two boiled pork
sandwiches for you two easy marks.
We'll, you'd a dido TO see EN- jump.
What there Is about the idea of fat
pork that makes people who are sea
sick have a relapse, | don't know, but
the woman grabbed her stummiX in
both hands and left dad and rushed in
to tha cabin yelling enough, or some-
thing like that, and dad laid right
back ia the chair and blatted like Il
calf. and said he would kill me dead
when we got ashore.
Just then all Englishnau came
along and told dad he better get up
out Of his chair, and dad said whose
chair you talking about, and tho man
said the chair was his, and If dab
didn't get out Of it, he would kick him
out, and dad said he hadn't had a good
chance at an Engllshman since the
revolutionary war, and he Just wanted
a chance to clean up enough English
men for a mess, and dad got up AMI
stood at Attention and the English
mar squared off like a prize fighter,
and they were just going to fight the
battle of Bunker Hill over again, when
| run up to an officer with gold lace on
his coat and lemon pie on his wnis-
kers, and told him an old crazy Yam
kee cut IN deck was going to murder a
poor sea sick Englishman, and the Of
ficer rushed out and took dad by the
coat collar and made him quit, and
when he found what the quarrel was
about, he told dad all the chairs wers
private property belonging to the pas
sengers, and for him to keep out Of
them, and he apologized to the Eng
lishman and they went into the saloon
and settled 1t with high balls, and daI
beat the Englishman by drinking two
high halls 70 his one, Then dad set
into a poker game, with ten cents ante.
and No limit, and they played along
for a while until dad got four jacks.
and he bet five dollars, and a French
man raised him $4,000, and dad laid
down his hand and said the game was
too rich for his blood, and when he
reached In his vest pocket for money
to pay for his poker chips he found
that his roll was gone, and he said he
would leave his watch for security un-
til he could go to his stateroom AMI
get some money, and then he found
that his watch had been pinched, and
the Englishman said he would be good
for II, and dad came out In the cabin
and wanted me to help him lind the
widow, cause he said when she laid
her head on his shoulder, TO recover
from her sickness, he felt a fumblIn6
his vest, but he thought 1t was
nothing but his stomach, but now he
knew she had robbed him.
Say. dad and | looked all over that
boat for the widow, but she simply had
evaporated. We landed at Liverpool
that afternoon, and dad waited for the
at the gang plank, and said he
wouldn't do a thing to her. | guess NOT.
Some day I'll tell you If dad got nis
money and watch back" added tbs
Bad Boy, giving the dog a parting Kick