Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-13
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| COURSE VIII De pretty nearly hu' iiOi III
50 as 10 dodge the gulf stream as much
az possible and" he added in a lower
tone, ito get the ship as near as may
be to your channel into Florida before
we jettison the crew.
1--WE shall run into the ship tracks
| from all the northern gulf ports TO
/ Europe"
Il know and we must take our
chance OF not being spotted For a
I western there's regular string OF
1 traffic trailing down to the Dry Tortu-
! gas. There you are for one. Look at
| that old wind iammer."
! He terked with his thumb toward a
green painted wooden Italian bark
! which was squatterlng past less than
! a quarter of a mile away, right athWdrt
! the last rays Of the windy sunset She
was driving morrly homeward send
! ing her bows into it until the seas
/ creamed against her catheads and
! darkening her jibs with brine up more
/ than half their height She was me-
/ thodically reducing sail and a dozen
many hued picturesque tatterdemaiions
were aloft on the foretopgallant yard
/ hammering the struggling canvas into
I the gaskets.
"Tha cowardly Dagos," said Kettle
That's always their way. Snug down
4 20 topsails as soon as it gets dark, even
\ If there's only a catspaW blowing. BY
| James. with a breeze like this I'd be
! carrying royals on that old tub And
yet" he went on with his beard in the
! heel OF his fist and his eyes gazing
/ out over the tunbling waters, and yet
they say there used TO be poetry In
| craft of that sort, while there was
never and never Will be with steamer
/ | suppose the reason is that poet has
/ 10 be a man who knows nothing what
: over about what he writes upon |
/ know that some chaps who string verse
nowadays have been on a steamboat
and smelled the smells of her and
seen her lines and watched the men
! who DO the work, and yet they make
/ no poetry about il. But Of the old
! crew who wrote about moaning harbOr
/ bars and fair white pinions and lusty
/ wooden walls, and trusty hearts of
/ oak, why, they knew no more about
/ the thing than London bobby does
I of angels. And that l suppose, was
I why their stuff is called poetry and the
! lubberly old wind TANNERS poetical
! You give me a smart steamboat Mr.
! Cambel There's all the romance on
/ ner an old sailormans got any use for
and he understands It, too, even if he
can't put ii down on paper"
/ Il believe you're right" said Cambel
thuughtfu!ly, and some day q new
/ Dana or a new Michael Scott will come
ashore from the upper bridge or from
.
1 forced draft engine room, and show
IL TO us plainly whcroupon we shall
swear tnat we saw ii for ourselves all
along. Bat" he went on, With a sud
+ den troWn, FOR the present let that
+ drift. You ana nave enough to think
! Of in our own immediate present with
! out Specializing over possible prophet
/ wnIcn is to rise"
eve nave, but so much must be ar
ranged by he chance OF the moment
. tlat Goa't see we can do much good
/ hy talNia~ II over how Al arrange
mcnts taat can be made ahead. I fancy.
I we've cot fixed up already. by the
I way. | impose YOU are sure that your
explosion IN the for acll won't b. too
big +. would be an awkward do for
us if tAa GA ships bottom was really
blown out n sober earnest"
IN ,ra aad gorr entirely on. alto-
rt1,r sra tne ,oI,nr noon v,a. sgil-
< .ls n.-a amid ,caIryiu. cloud banks.
Z IN rh. wait, ANA enffrfrsr ii rlr patriDk
+ ,9mbeI's ace Iorllsd ME ana an,.fous
..iru,ra eYr." Erttla r,1eated "it
WON'T H. "a ,as5 Of "a. erqiurer being
/ hoi d y,i.h MS own tl!, .-ar3.nvo"
NO. I'm not sure. ana that's what
bothers me- You So. ono couIdg'f
4 quite get an ezpsrt to measure out the
/ precf - n -..y.afv dos. and rye had to
/ r.e,s at IT, darCut uudercbarga NV
acfrb II our ,yp.os:on MAS y fg2lc
and tac crew didn't gat scare! and rtlr
vav IN n taty'd tasa hsr IN TO New
. orr ans ,gn thlry. lill. d il or not. and
sqa'd be examined. Taau that intake
/ yalva cCtlG4't he missed and IL roul5-
~ be e5.ula.acd away M.r "a Won
! know. the things as bio ay "a sllTice
gate"
/ IAN tho tfige pumps in the gulf Of
I ,Feyico COULDN'T max h-afyvay aaainsf
/ that valve once i'd YEAS fairl, op-nal
/ rt's tho olIiekast ann r(avr-est ,t.t,. If
4 Acuttlinr a tar9boat | ever heard az
or read abogt Eut / don't ouite see
/ how tho valve is coinr- Ia la ttirnel ;,
"Yor leave that to me"
.'You seem used to mo game s9id
4 Kettle. with q half snapr
mo. I'm not" returned the other
ot,iclxlv "T've navnr bad nv Frlersrs ",
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