The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29

smiled. You're the second mate
HUH" ne demanded.
Yes. Who are you?"
I'm Peter he replied, scramblint
TO his feet. My fathers the captain.
1t was not hard to see. Captain Finn
had a big. ungainly form with a heav!
J and undecided face. His very mustach'
seemed uncertain. his whiskers moth
ing at all And here was his son. big
of face, awkward. with the same deeI
perplexity in his blue eyes. Then thai
HUH quite the same.
What were you doing in the lazar-
/ ette?" I inquired.
Il was putting Peter to bed he an
! swered. Peter always sleeps there il
cold weather"
But you said you were Peter, I in
| sisted.
Peter?" Without waiting for an an
swer he shifted the air. obi" he shout
ed, "Suppers on! Why didn't cooky
ring the beil?" He ran to the COM
panionway and scuttled down.
The man at the wheel shifted it a
spoke and looked at me alphabetically.
That's one of them" he said gently.
I've been on the schooner before.
1.-THE Twin Peterst' 1 echoed.
THE other one isn't rightly a twin p
the man explained. It's a rum bust
ness. He's a monkey. sir
1 laughed heartily. I knew perfectly
well the joke. 1 saw in my mind the
chubbyfaced boy and the small wien
ed monkey trotting beside him. What
a conceit to call them the twins-the
Twin Peters,
The mate came up the companion
way putting al his freshly lighted pipe.
He stumped up to the poop deck and
grunted, like a man filed to the throat.
Southeast by SOUTH 1 said. Sou
cas- by sou',' he responded, peering in
to the compass. I was still chuckling,
and he grinned sympathetically. Din
ner's pretty good he said.
The carpenter and I ate in silence.
As we were at the last of our meal the
boy came in laughing. He stopped to
talk to me when his father passed
through. Instantly 1 caught the pro-
digious resemblance between them. 1t
was amazing. I shall never forget it,
THE wind is hauling. HUH" said
Captain Finn. He looked at me I'M
decidedly. IF it hauls into the south,
were in for a blow He paused, then
came the expected hun!
'How's the glass, sir?" I asked. The
question seemed to furry him. He
hadn't looked within an hour. One
couldn't trust the g.ass. He thought it
must have fallen. He passed on, leav-
ing the boy behind.
Have you seen Peter YETI" the lad
demanded.
had not. He could call Peter. Peter
everything like any boy.
Only he couldn't talk. He was born
that way. 1t was too bad. huh? Then
Peter, the boy, went and tapped on the
bulkhead that divided us from the
lazarette. There was a scratching like
that of dog, rustic and a skipping
overhead. Down the companionway
bottom step to the chair at the cap
tain's place and nodded at me most
Familiarity. posing himself on the back
of it. I
That's Peter" said the boy. isn't
he all risht -
I looked over at the grotesque hang ;
ng to the high rail of that chair and
guffawed. Of course he was
all right These We're the Twin Peters.
But my laughter ebbed. The monkey
Strengthened himself little and thrust
4 blue, hairy paw out to me. I shook it.
There was firmness in that paw, stnews
II those fingers. Little as they were,
he grasp was significant. I drew back
md the carpenter grinned. Shakes
hands like a stevedore,'' he remarked.
This Pete's the real man of the fam
,.y He goes ahead without any huns
md hubs and does what he thinks is
light" The carpenter got UP and went
o his room, wiping his mustache. The
monkey looked at me humanity and re-
,eated "Chips's' gesture to the life.
hen he laughed noiselessly, as mon
eys laugh
In two days I knew the Algaroba like
book. She was a bit old, a bit ten
er. Her gear was some of it good,
ONE of it bad. Captain Finn would
ook at me when 1 said the foretopsl 5
alliards We're no good and debated it
nth me several times. They're soft
s putty" 1 protested. How am I to
ell when they'll give and somebody
ct hurt and we lose gear
.'They look tender he admitted.
But then looks don't always tell.
Iuh?" He stared at me in perplexity.
II think I'll overhaul Them" L said
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