Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-07-28

shadow. Let me give you bit of father
I Nv advice, Miss Sanford. When YOU are
looking for man to marry, never select
coward"
"Fm not thinking of getting married, .
she said shyly. But when l do, I'll bear
jyour advice in mind, captain"
1t was about week after his conversa-
ton with the girl that it came. Hilda
was sitting on the poop-deck, reading a
| book. The old man was marching up and
down with quarter deck trot, casting
glanees at her and thinking how pretty
She was, when suddenly he let off a howl
that would nave frightened an elephant
and sprang into the port mizzen rigging.
IL wasn't far off him at the time, and |
looked at him, wondering whether he had
gone mad. Then | saw what he had seen,
and | went up the starboard mizzen
shouds as quickly as he had gone up the
lport ones. The girl raised her head and
looked at Hoskins, and he gaped down at
her and tried to shout. But for some
! time he could only make faces.
Look! Look!" he yelled at last.
I"Come up the rigging! The tiger is
lcose!"
She sprang to her feet and looked
about her. Not four yards away from
her the tiger was playing with coil of
rope 1t was paying no sort of attention
| to her ut the moment, but she felt that
| it might take it into it's head to spring at
| her at any minute. AS she stood, she was
cornercd between the stern of the ship
and the cabin door, There was nothing
TO be dore but TO climb up the rigging
She tried, but the first step was too high
and she could not manage it. And when
sac realized that, | thought she was go
| ing TO faint.
Hoskins was just going down to give
| her a hand, but at that moment the tiger
looked up and saw him and gave a kind
of roar. The old man stuck where he was
then, and sort of shivered all over like a
| Jelly in a gale. As for the girl, she went
white all over and gave herself up for
| lost. And ther-out of the cabin came
Prof. Hay.
He just took one look round and saw
the tiger Then he picked up a broom
some one who had been washing decks
had left leaning against the deckhouse
and pushed at the tiger with it. looking
lit straight between the eyes. I'd heard
of the power of the human eye before
but | had never believed it until that
afternoon. He kept walking forward
pushing the beast gently before him
right into the waist and back into its
lc1ge.
When he had it safely fastened in he
came astern again, looking not the least
bit excited or worried. and put the broom
carefully back into its place. The girl
was looking hard at him, and her eyes
were shining; but he didn't seem to be
aware of it. Hoskins had come down the
rigging and was looking a trihe ashamed
of himself. He hadn't known it was SO
easy to push tigers into their cages with
a broom or he might have had a try at
| it. After a bit he spoke up.
That was fine bit of work, sir he
said. If ] hadn't seen it | couldn't have
believed it,
ooh, it's nothing said the professor
Its my business. | tame wild animals
After that he seemed to dismiss the
whole subject from his mind, and went
down into the cabin But l saw him later
in the evening talking to that girl, and
he must have had something important
to say to her, for when the old man met
her next morning and began making ex.
cuses for himself, she cut him short.
Captain" she said, ''do you remember
advising me to marry a brave MANI"
Il do" said Hosllins, bit puzzled.
SWELL" she said softly, "he asked me
yesterday, and I'm going to take your
advice"
Which shows you, doctor, that bravery
is very much a matter of custom. As foI
poor old Hoskins we had mill-pond
weather the whole way home, and he
hadn't even a chance to show himself
}. Sackyille Martin in the Sketch.