The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-06-06

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- Montreal for several hours in
search of something to do. At
last l happened to strike an employ
ment bureau, having blackboard out
side, on which was written: Free
passage to England and back as cattle
men-apply within"
l walked in. A big man in a fur
coat. sitting in front of stove and
smoking q cigar, looked up. "Well,
what's your business? You amt no
lumber man." l admitted | was not,
and told him wished for free pas
sage to England as cattleman. "Well,
guess you can" says he. making out n
form and handing it to me with the
remark that he wanted 50 booking fee.
eXpostulated and asked him what his
sign mean: "Tree passage" He
smiled and said Guess you'd better
take it now, as it might cost you $40
tomorrow"
reflected a few minutes, and then
handed him the required sum. He i'm
mediately became amiable, and asked
If l had any preference as to where
shipped to. l said l had not, but
wanted to get home as quickly as pos
sible. l knew there were very few
more boats out of port before winter
was upon us, and my cash in hand was
now reduced to less than SO. After
| looking through his books l decided to
| put my name down for Glasgow, to
sail the following Thursday. and
turned to leave the office. SAY" he
beloved out after me, "guess you git
i've shillings from the company at the
came, and l arrived at the office at
with my grip" ready for work. to
find some twenty or thirty other men
all waiting to ship by the same boat.
| began to get fidgety, as knew there
were only six men wanted from that
office by the cattle shipper and l Won
dered if my So was gone bust" Fate,
however, was kind. and by S o'clock
that night 1 had signed on as part of
the ships company to the port of Glas-
cow. found. on getting on board,
that there We're two foremen and nine
hands to look after $50 head of cattle.
The first thing we did on getting on
BOARD was to find our quarters. These
We're right in the fo'c'sle head, next
door to the firemen, and a steward was
there waiting for us. He ventured a
remark that he would for 50 lock our
baggage up in the foremen's cabin for
the present, as the firemen were not
to be trusted with anything lying
about. This being done, we set to
work to bed down for the cattle, which
We're TO come on during the night
This finished, we prepared to retire
but on arriving at our quarters found
only bare boards to sleep on. which dis
covery sent us bowling to the steerag,
steward with a view to getting blank
cts, etc. We We're, however. Informed
shat we could not have any until mex
day. but each man received a plate
knife and fork, and cup, and also
large tin pan to fetch our meat in, ant
a can to be used for fetching both tei
and soup We went back to our quar-
ters, and with my grip" for pillow
l wrapped myself up in my great-coa
and slept my first sleep as cattle
man.
Next morning we We're aroused by
one of the foremen at 7 o'clock, anC
then we arranged who should be kltch
en-maid for that day. The duties OF
kitchen-maid We're not arduous, as
found when my turn came on the Sun
day, the work consisting of going tC
the galley to fetch the grub and wash
ing up the things after. Breakfast
that first morning consisted of coffee
and stew, with bread, and l shall mo-
Forget it in hurry. After breakfas
was over we went on deck anG
watched the boat cast off for England
and then our duties as cattlemen com
menced. We first of all got up sufii
cient hay from the hold to last unit
next morning; after that we watereC
and fed the cattle. In the evening W.
again watered and fed, and thel
cleaned up the alleyways, and had fin
ished for the night. Supper, pipes anC
cards saw the time through till 0 p. III.
and one of our fellows proved no small
performer on the violin. On all sub
sequent mornings we We're up at
o'clock sharp to water the animals ant
give them their hay, after which W,