The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-07-25

But as there was none at hand to ad.
minister the heroic remedy Of chloro.
dyne cum rhubarb cum laudanum Gun
pill and give him something else tt
think about in the original kind O,
knots he remained.
The donkeyman, with a hearty Bel
fast curse, tried to DO double work, but
as he had been laboring quite to the
top of his strength for many hours pre-
viously the effort did not meet with un-
qualified success. AS any one with less
logged wooden pluck might have
known, 1t is impossible for one man to
fire a twelve furnace steamer, wheel
himself coal for the bunker and act as
engineer and greaser when required.
however great be the initial supply Of
brute force with which God has en-
dowed him. Every time he wiped the
wet from his eyes and looked at the
steam gauge it had climbed down since
the time before, and however ~furiously
he might heave new fuel onto the
caking clinkers that jumping index
would continue it's downward crawl.
The oiled rumbling of the engines
slowed and grew more sluggish, and
then the ponderous cranks took to stop
ping on a turn as though to gain
strength for the next round. But this
did not go on for long. The donkey
man felt a gentle heave of the foot
plates beneath him and then a heel
which was not recovered. BE gor,"
said he, the bloody old trarnp's TUX the
ground at last. Thanks be-"
He pitched his shovel through a dull
glowing furnace door and turned to
where the little captain was lying on
the polished f~ootplates, holding a yell
low faring slush lamp before him to
see See, shropgh the sitting dusty gloom.
looks pretty sick. I'll crane him up in
the ashlift."
This he did and took hts commanding
officer into the main cabin, where the
air was bright and baking, and the
mosquitoes were biting like dogs. Then.
throwing back the lid Of he medicine
chest, which stood beside the door in
70 the companfonway, he gazed appce-
c1at1vely at the rows of bottles, un-
stopped one or two and shifted at their
contents and then slammed down the
I'D again as a thought struck him.
NO." he said. 'Red Kettle wouldn't
give me phystc last time I thought I'd
ike a dose, an onw I'll see how he
fancies getting around on nothing. Fair
plays a jool. I'll just report to the
pilot an then turn H."
The pilot" however, when the dom
keyman had YEARLY hauled himself on
to the upper bridge and stood by his
side, proved to be SO dead asleep hat
no amount Of shouting or shaking
would wake him.. Even the flies did
" iiohC I'LL vince. "Ht
.Sor, wake, or yen be suntrook, If
yere not that already. Rouse. sor.
can't lug We below, an I can't rig an
awning. I'm too tired to speak again.
put If yez stay there yen fry like q
rasher and be ate by flies. There's a
skeeter In each of yer eye,
holes this minute, an a kind Of locust
browsing on the end Of yer snout.
Listen. I'm knockin wild a boot toe On
yer ribs. Well, man, if We won't listen
to reason, it's just leavin yez 1 am to
stew In yer own juice" Il
The donkeyman climbed heavily cl-
down the ladder and went with weary
steps aft along the bridge deck toward
his own place. But at the break Of the
deck he paused, spread his grimy.
shiny elbows on the rail and INDUCED in
a thin, small whistle.
Now, here we have come. as +he
skipper remarked, up an unbeknown
drain to which mans improvements
nave not been INTRODUCED, and there's
callers turning up already. That was
inc nose OF a ~gaff-taups'1 squintin be-
tween those tree tops down stream q
minute ago, or I'm a Dago. Dye know.
Mr. sullivan. chief of the Port Edes.
I'm beginnins to think ye'd have got
better value It ye'd gone cruisin Off BY,
an large wild the other boys in the life
boats. Ihrue, there's the twenty s1
notes to dhraw, an a daisy Of a spree to
nave IT yez can get anywhere to have
1t, but we've worked that wage out all
ready, an it rather seems as though
there's more righteousness to follow"
He yawned generously. "'Tisn't Of
ten I'd say no to a bit of a scrimmage.
u theatricals are not to my taste lust
now at all. Too much overtime ruins
the sense of humor." He yawned
again n blinked his eyes drearily.
'Ye must turn in now, Mr.. Sullivan. or
yen fall down here an be ate alive
by the shelters an other wild beasts of
the forrust, n If the explorers who
are underneath that white gafftaupsl
want to come aboard here an make
trouble, so ar as you're concerned.
they'll be let"
And with that the donkeyman stag
gered away to his room beneath the
poop, sat over the edge Of his bunk and
was snoring melodfously before his
head and his heels were on the blanket.
Meanwhile a mile lower down a small
centerboard sloop was turning to wind
ward up the river. but making little
Roadway, against the current. A negro
stood in her fo~rescuttle, with his elbows
on the deck. Two others sprawled m
either side Of him. A white man Law
spread eagled on the top of the coach
ROOT OF the cabin, and another stood IN
the cockpit steering.
Continued Next Weekly
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