The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-02
THE SUN
CAPTAINS ALL

common g00d-lOOking woman OF about forty came OUT
Her cad pushed the Police News out O. the way and
her 'and came cropping into the winder arter toy
Ginger 'ad good look at er out o the corner OF one
eye, while he pretended to be looking at tobacco
Jar with the other. AS the little boy came out i'm
and Peter Russet went in
81 want pipe, please" he ses, smiling NJ er; y"
clay pape-One O your best"
The woman handed i'm down a box to choose FROM
and just then Peter, wot ad been staring in at the
arfopen door at boot wot wanted lacing up, gave
big start and SEES, "Why! Haloa!"
"Wot's the matter?" ses the woman, looking at
i'm.
"Id know that foot anywhere Peter, still
staring at it; and the words was hardly out OF Is
mouth afore the foot 'ad moved itself away and
tucked itself under its chair. "Why, that's my dear
old friend Sam Small, amt ity
"Do you know the captins' SEES the woman, smiling
at i'm.
"Cap-Y" SEES Peter. "Cap--Y Oh, yes; why,
he's the biggest friend I've got"
Sow strange! ses the woman.
"Weve been wanting to i'm for some time,
SEES Ginger. "He was kind enough to lend me arr n
crown the other day, and I've been wanting TO pay
i'm"
Captin Small' ses the woman, pushing open the
door, "here's some old friends O yours"
Old Sam turned is face round and looked ut EN-,
and if looks could ha killed, the saying is, they'd
ha been dead men there and then.
ooh, yes," he ses, in q choking voice, low are
your"
pretty well, thank you, captin," Ginger grin
ming at inn "and ows yourself arter oil this long
timer
He held out lis hand and Sam shook it, and then
shook lands with Peter Russet, who was grinning 80
ard that he couldn't speak
"These are two old friends o mine, Mrs. Finch"
ses old Sam, giving 'em a warning look; "Captin
Dick and Captin Russell two o the Oldest and oe't
friends a man 'ad."
"Captin Dick as got arr crown for you" ses
Peter Russet, still grnning.
"There now" ses Ginger, looking vexed "if
amt been and forgot it; I've ony got arr SOW
eregin."
II can give you change, sir" Mrs. Finch
"P'r'aps you'd like to sit down for five minutess"
Ginger thanked er, and i'm and Peter Russet took
a chair apiece in front O. the fire and began asking
old Sam about is ealth, and won he'd been doing
since they saw i'm last
Fancy your reckernizing his foot" ses Mrs. Finch
coming in with the change.
'Pd know it anywhere" ses Peter, who was watch
ing Ginger pretending to give Sam Small the
'arf-dollar, and Sam pretending in most lifelike
manner to to take it.
Ginger Dick looked round the room. 1t was a
comfortable little place, with pictures on the walls
and antmacassars all the chairs, and row OF
pink vases on the mantepiece Then g looked at
Mrs. Finch, and thought wot niceooking woman
she was.
"Ths is nicer than being aboard ship with crew
o. nasty, troublesome saormen to look arter, Cap.
tin Small" he ses
"Its wonderful the way he manages EN-" ses
Peter Russet to Mrs. Finch. like lion he is"
"a roaring lion' Ginger, looking at Sam.
"He don't know wot fear is"
Sam began to smile, and Mrs. Finch looked at
i'm 80 pleased that Peter Russell who 'ad been look.
ing at FER and the room, and thinking much the
way Ginger, began to think that they were the
wrong tack
"Afore e got stout and DID, he ses, shaking his
cad, "there wasn't smarter skipper aaoat."
1--WE all ave our day." ses Ginger, shaking his
cad too.
II dessay he's good for another year or two aaoat,
yet" Peter Russell considering.
with care" SEES Ginger.
Old Sam was going to say something but e stopped
himself just in time. "They will ave their joke"
he ses turning to Mrs. Finch and trying TO smile.
81 feel young ever did"
Mrs. Finch said that anybody with arr an eye
could that and then she looked at kettle that
singing the 'Ob.
IL s'pOse you gestlemen wouldn't care for cup of
cocoa she SEES, turning TO them
Ginger Dick and Peter both said that they looked
it better than anything else and, arter she ad got