Mexico Missouri message., 1905-10-19


red in the face and snuggle up, and
squeeze hands, and look fondly and
swallow your emotion, and try to wait
patiently until 1t 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 VI hands,
and efter you have stood II as long az
you eau you rush to the rail and act az
though you we're going to jump over.
board, and then stop sudden and lot.
ergo gallagher, right before folks,
and after Il Is over you try to look as
though you had enjoyed 1t. will say
this much for dad, he and the widow
never played a duet over the rail bu;
they took turns, and dad held her az
tenderly as though they were engaged
and when he got her back to the
steamer chair he stroked her face and
put camphor to her nose, and acted
like an undertaken that wasn't going
to let the remains get away from him.
They were having a nice convalescent
time, Just afore 1t broke up, and hadn't
either Of them been sick for ten min
utes, and dad had put his arm around
her shoulders, and was talking cum
ming tc her. and she was looking Low.
ingly into dads eyes, and they were
talking Of meeting again in France IN
a few weeks. where she was going to
rent villa, and dad was saying ne
would be there with both feet, when /
opened the window and said, The
steward is bringing around lunch,
and l have ordered two boiled pork
sandwiches for you two easy marks.
We'll, you'd a dide to see em 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 the cabin yelling enough or some
thing like that, and dad laid right
back III the chair and blatted like a
calf, and said he would kill me dead
when we got ashore.
Just then an Englishman came
along and told dad he better get ur
out of his chair, and dad said whose
chair you talking about, and the man
said the chair was his, and If dad
didn't get out of 1t, he would kick him
out. and dad said he hadn't had a good
chance at an Englishman since the
revolutionary war, and he just wanted
a chance to clean up enough English.
men for mess, and dad got up and
stood at attention" and the English
on aub
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 out on deck was going to murder q
poor sea sick Englishman, and the Of
dcer 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 were
private property belonging TO the pas,
sengers, and for him to keep out 81
them, and he apologlzed to the Eng
lishman and they went into the saloon
and settled it with high balls, and DAT
beat the Bnglishman by drinking two
high balls to his one. Then dad sci
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 French.
man raised him $1,000, 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 1t; 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 fumbllna
around 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
widow at the gang plank, and said he
wouldn't do thing to her. | guess not
Some day I'll tell you If dad got MS
money and watch back" added the
Bad Boy, giving the dog parting kick
as he went out