The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-10-20

sea sick is that in love sick you look
red in the face and snuggle up, and
squeeze hands, and look fondly, and
swallow your emotion, and try to wait
patiently until it 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 it as long as
you can you rush to the rail and act as
though you were going to Jump over
board, and then stop sudden and let
ergo gallagher, right before folks,
and after it is over you try to look as
though you had enjoyed it. ! will say
this much for dad, he and the widow
never played a duet over the rail, but
they took turns, and dad held her as
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 nice convalescent
IAhlO, JUDI dlO1 Q ~ OAohS uQ, udUu :
either of them been sick for ten min
utes, and dad had put his arm around
her shoulders, and was talking cum
ming to 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 l
opened the window and said, The
steward is bringing around a lunch,
and l have ordered two boiled pork
sandwiches for you two easy marks
well, you'd dide to see 'em Jump.
What there is about the idea of fat
pork that makes people who are sea
sick have a relapse, l 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 IL the chair and blatted like
calf, and said he would kill me dead
when we got ashore.
"Just then an Englishman came
along and told dad he better get UP
out Of his chair, and dad said whose
chair you talking about, and the man
said the chair was his, and If dali
didn't get out of it, 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 a mess, and dad got up and
stood at attention" and the English
man squared off like 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 WINS
kers, and told him an old crazy Yam
kee out on 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 were
private property belonging to the pas
sengers, and for him to keep out of
them, and he apologized to the EGG.
lishman and they went into the saloon
and settled it with high balls, and DAD
beat the Engiishman by drinking two
high balls to his one. Then dad set
into 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 lis watch had been pinched, and
the Englishman said he,would be good
for it, and dad came out in the cabin
and wanted mo 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 fumblinS
around his vest, but he thought it 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 his
money and watch back" added the
Rad Row. giving the dog a parting kick
as he went out.