The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-07-23
THE GIRL WITH THE
BONNY BROWN HAIR

No don't" professionals little sister.
I'm tel you about d storm in which
we were all saved"
'That'll be NICE said THE girl.
we left Naples on the 4th Of No
vember with twenty passengers.
Among them was girl who seemed to
be alone. There was character enough
IN her face for dozen heroInes. She
bad brown hair and when first saw
her it was tied up with bonny blue
ribbon like the girl In the song was
second mate, and whenever she came
on deck the capn was sure to growl at
me for some neglect OF duty. But
didn't mind it SO long as could see
the girl with brown hair.
I'VE had pleasant weather in the
Mediterranean, but we'd no sooner left
Gibraltar than noreaster began to-
blow which developed into the worst
storm ever saw at sea- The waves
strlick us With such force that every
time one fell Oh us thought we'd nev
en- rise from Under Iii AT last one big
GER than the rest struck us mud stove
in portion or the deck We had all
/ We could do 10 keep the ships ilead Ia
lise right direction. and the pumps
must be manned at once. so that we
couldn't spare men to repair the deck,
and they couldn't repair it in such
storm anyway. The best we could do
was 10 cover the gap with sail, but
the next big wave that came showed
the canvas down like tissue psper
There was such an uproar among the
passengers that the cap'n told NE to go
down into the cabin aud try to quiet
EN-. As soon as left the companion
way saw the most terrible sight Inn
,.sinable. Some Of EN- were praying,
some holding on to srancli.ons, white
as ghosts, while tile water knee deep,
swashed with the rolling os the ship.
Some Of EN- had got up On to the table
that ran the length OF the cabin to
escape the water
The first single person saw was
the girl with the bonny brown hair.
She was helping an old woman to keep
from being dashed against things when
the ship lurched AS soon as she saw
me she beckoned me to come TO her
and said:
These people are in the condition
Of children, and having taught chill
dren. know how important it is to
keep their minds occupied Can't we
f,,d on,.,a+l,t,,o ~ - t,,~,, @lof- +@a,.Af<sx,
Propose something.
+'What do you say to a game Of
pussy wants a cornerl'''
II was so encouraged by her GOODNESS
that ! would have Joined her in any
scheme. however ludicrous. Turning.
said to the passengers:
"sWe're coming out OF this, but you
people are spelling your chances by
demoralizing the crew with your bowls.
We must have something to do. and
we will be as cool ss the men. Come,
let's have game Of pussy wants
corner
The girl and each backed up
against stanchion, and another man
and another woman presently did the
same. A young boy Of fifteen was in
duced to come into the game, and the
girl and / made rush to change cor
ners. / let the boy in purposely and
kept out Of corner for some time.
every now and then dragging some one
into the game. In fve minutes we had
all the ablebodied people in 1t, and the
game was ia full swing. made
lunge for corner, fell purposely
against cabin wave and got up
drenched. Several persons laughed
The next time anything ludicrous hap
pened more laughed, and finally every
body in and some out OF the game were
laughing. | never missed an opportu-
nifty for doing something comicaI. nor
did the girl. Her hair came down. and
cnce when the water by the rolling OF
the ship was thrown all together she
swan and shouted that she was a mer-
maid Then l diyed with a swash I'M
der the table and, coming up. slid into
vacant corner.
"All this was very well, but we
couldn't keep It up forever We did
so as long as we could; then the girl
whispered in my ear us l passed her.
Blind mans bun whipped out my
handkerchief, and she tied it over my
eyes, taking care that place was
left for me to see through. This gave
me fine opportunity to put myself
into ludicrous positions. and IA few
minrtes ! was playing my part amid
shouts CT laughter Suddenly heard
the cap'n's gruR voice roar down the
conpcnionway with the strength Of a
for horn
"'Steamer akcadg
II tore the handkerchief off my head
and dashed on deck. knowing that crit
ical work was TO bo Gone getting in
touch with ;hc coming ship. AS the
storm was the biggest, the sight before
me was the giad6est ever saw in my
life, a great big steamer on our port
quarter coming right for US.
eve were all safely transferred. and
our own ship drlfted away. she Kept
sinking lower and lower till al last.
bali an hour after leaving her, we saw
her 90 down Close call, wasn't itsp
What became OF the girl with the
bonny brown hairs, asked both the
children at once
"Oh, the girl. she turned out to be
d teacher IN one Of the public schools
in the port hailed from"
"Didn'f Won oyar 600 b,. o,,x, ,,,o,s ~ /