Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-06-13
CHAPTER XI-CONTINUED.

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They shot up to the wreck, to find
the cable, that had been left tight and
rigid, hanging loose. An inexperienced
eye could see that the lumber schooner
had changed her position. Her bow
was now almost in a line with the
edge of the shoal and, even in the slack
water of the last of the ebb, she was
rocking appreciably in the cradle her
hull had made in the sand beneath it.
Great scissors to grind" shouted
Captain Titcomb. She'll do it as sure
as I'm a foot high! Tumble aboard
there, boys-llvelyw
They clambered up the side and fell
to work like sharks around dead
whale. Bradley got up steam in the
donkey engine. AS soon as possible
they started the windlass and hauled
the cable taut.
"She feels it, boy; she feels it,
cried the captain. Give it to her,
every pound she'll stand. Now, then"
he added, while we're waitin' for the
tide to turn we might s VOL roust
out little more of the cargo. No use
to lay back and let Providence do ii
all. The Lord helps them that helps
themselves, as the darky said when he
found the hen house door unlocked
Hatches off, men. Dive into it therer
They rugged the blocks and tackle
and began swinging bundles of ma
hogany strins. from the hold over the
Bradley and the captain knew that
they could not hope to get out all the
lumber in the hold Of the Ruth CHM
if she was allowed to lie in her present
exposed position. One more gale and
she would be almost certain to break
up. Their hope was to tighten her by
getting rid of her deck load and to
work her off the shoal into deep water
and then tow her up to Orham harbor,
where she could be unloaded at their
leisure.
She lay almost broadside to the shoal,
but not quite. Her bow was well up
on the sand, but her stern overriding
tho edge of the Boneyard. which on
that side was, as Captain Titcomb said
"steep as the back of Il barn" The
cable. tight as the steam Windlass
could draw it. led off from her bow t.
the spot where the anchors were plant
ed under many fathomS of water.
Where the tide turned its pressure
against the schooner would bring he.
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pull. The waves, growing larger as
the water deepened, should, if their
plan was good one, loosen her kee!
in the sand, and every inch she gave
the cable would retain, The more she
loosened, the easier she would move.
The slack thus made in the cable
would be taken up by the windlass.
She might gain but a foot Il day for
awhile, but some day or other, If the
weather held fair, she would have
worked herself through the sand and
clear of the shOal
They stripped her, cutting away her
tangled ropes and sails and taking
them aboard the Lizzie. Everything
they transferred thHs or threw over
board 1t was hard job and took
them all day. Bradley was tired
man when he reached home that night,
but he had to answer countless ques-
tons put to him by the interested old
maids. He saw Gus for moment or
two and reported progress Then he
went to bed
Next morning was clear and calm,
and they were delighted to find that
the wrecked schooner had gained q
little and that the cable was Stacker
than they left it, They frightened i
again with the windlass and then set
to work throwing overheard the lum-
Der on the deck They rugged tackle
on the stump of the foremost and with
the donkey engine swung great bun
dies of the planks overheard while
Alvin and Barney, standing on the
floating timber, with the water swash
ing around the knees of their fisher
mems boots, made it into RATS to be
lowed up to Orham.
That night they hired Ira Sparrow'S
fishing boat, the You and l, to tow the
lumber RATS She was a stout little
craft with naphtha engine, and, al
thought not nearly so efficient as a
tug. did the work after a fashion and
was far and away cheaper BY hiring
her they added Ira to their force.
For eight days they labored steadily;
except on Sunday, when they merely
sailed down to take up the slack on the
cable. The lumber on the deck had
been RATED to Orham, and they had
begun to get ont that in the hold. The
Ruth CHM was moving slowly through
the sand, and every day showed more
and more gain. The partners Werr IT.
high spirits.
When the Lizzie, with the workers
aboard, reached Ruth CHM the next
morning, Ira sparrow, in the You and
I, was there already, and the ''chGg,
chug," Of his nnphtha engine WAS beard
ms be came rushing to meet lhent
BRAD, Capp NJ" he hailed, rs soon
ms they Wore In shouting distance,