The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13

BY Jove." broke in Carter. Il wish
foreiock. I'd like that little beggar's
skin l wonder IL 1 could catch him"
Don't YOU try. me Lad" said Image.
this packets menagerie of red man
grove ants that cOUli gnaw chunks
on uncovered a usader." He
damned the engine room telegraph
with a vicious wnirr TO Full Speed
Astern, and turned TO the unfortunate
you know enough to ten the diner
enco between land aud water lower a
t9,9eat and take out kedge astern.
ait minute. Now, you're not to
drop that kedgc in the mud ItII
0taW through that like pulling "a hair
pm out OF pot of marmalade. You're
20 Set ashore and hook II among those
nl1hgrove roots. Just try and get it
INTO your Intelligent head that I don't
want tAat Hedge TO come home direct
" we put a strain on the wire. Whom
YOU We done that you can come back
and go TO your room and read Shake
spcdre. guess that's about all YOU
blooming brass bound CONWAY sailors
are at for. except sparkling the girls
we hadn't Miss Kate on board. and
1or anything 1 know within earshot
60, Sou ia, Just give you an opinion of
your looks that would make you want
But With the tide in tho muddy
stuck in the dock she had made. in
winches straining on Inc kedge vie
selves bodily from the decks. The in
seet tornents Of Africa boarded her
things they came against: obscene
land crabs dressed In raw and start
ung colors waddled up onto the slime
OF tne banks as the water left them
ana blew importent froth bubbles al
the tough steamboat which even they
EouId not eat, Parrots cxOwed at
them from the shining green foliage
Of the mangrovcs ALONGSIDE; siilnv
things gazed at them from the mud
beneath the arches Of the wire-like
The sun crswled up into the aching
blue overhead till Il forgot how 10
cast a shadow. and the wet steam
heat grew oppressive that even
laura SHADE. country born though she
WAS. felt sick with its violence. But
MISS Kate ONeIl on the awning deck
dlo elaborate calculations on sheets
or paper. which she tore up and threw
into tho beer colorcd river when she
Hau entered the results in her pocket
book; and down In the purser's room.
carter carved Images on Okky Gala
paShes Tor the English curiosity mar
TO him. came Mr. BaIgarnie. dripping
aho running Great whiskersl man.
You're lean. but II I stay In this at
mosphere shall peg out OF heat apo
pleNy m half an hour. Here, let me
open The port and stick out the wind
wind scoops no good: there isn't
yoqT be deSoured' I tried it. t''e I'm np'
Dalesman and like a draueht 81
cir. but it's no go here. Red ants.
They've been eating the insidcs out ~
your domestic Cockroaches. Now gaze
on this chop bowl Isn't II gem.
Any stay at-home Englshman wolld
spot 10 AS genuine native Workmanship
IN . moment All done with blunt
knltei THAT'S the great tip in this sort
Of carving"
- -5a.ys a drop Of whiskey? You fit
TOT dash me dem bOwl7"
NO. lLFScr - 81
away anything just now. ] want FIVE
shulnEs spot cash for this specimen,
and it's dirt cheap at that When
you've weathered il a bit. and given
II a dressing Of good yellow palm oil
It VIII fetch q golden sovereign from
Las Paimas tripper. easy"
They're hard-up lot the people
who come to the Islands these days
and they're inclined to get too familiar
I've chuclSed showing them things.
But ] might get three half-crowns
for that bowl in Liverpool OF course.
/ don't want any commission from you
old fellow III hand over every pen
Carter stuck out a dogeed chin.
Look here. Purser. it's too hot for
frills. and we know one another a
Potter out FIVE bob and the things
yours to make what you can OF II
give more. I'm hard up"
Oh, OF course. yes. You want to
SCI up 4ousekeeplnS. don't YOU Well.
ola Fellow. here are the two half
crowns towards the mangie or the
grand piano or whatever you've set
your mind on getting first Sorry I
ragged YOU about being engaged TO
Laura last night at Smooth River
But, YOU see know Owe-it Slade and
I've known Laura all her life. and Of
course l was bit surprised to be
told, YOU know-well. to be told that
you, Of all people. had made II up
with her. But, as I say, I'm sorry
ragged you"
please don't apologize on a hot day
ike this" carter mapped. As 1
don't value your opinion on a matter
like that one jot. ] naturally didn't
let ANYTHING YOU said distnrh nv