The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-16

classed, and yet spring leaks. Dere-
liets lie in wait for them. they are
chased through every sea by cyclones
aud tornadoes. In them the luck Of
lucky men is finally of no avail: sea-
men fall from aloft in Gains: the gear
gives without notice; stores rot in
spite of care They break the heart
of all who have to do with them: In
them blood is suddenly split; in them
strong men waste and die
Such a ship was the Pandora, and,
as she lay off Sandridge, at anchor
in IIobsons Bay, there was not a
sarlorman in Australia who would
have shipped in her from choice.
I've heerd the skipper of one ship
was in talk about the nature of yes
sells said Jacl; Marchmont, as he sat
with his mate on the end of the pier,
land he allowed that ships was like
men, launched with natral disposi-
tons He talked lot of scientific
CUFF about deviation, and what he said
was as ships had this OF that devia-
ton all according how their heads
was p'inted on the stocks. If she
pinted sol-west, she played quite a
different game with the compass to
what she would have done il she had
laid nor'east. And | believe him.
The Pandora must have ptnted
straight for hell. Joe"
she is a bad 'un, | own. said his
mate but II amt a matter of chico.
Ships is few, and men is plenty, and
It's IA case of John. get up and let
Jack sit down with You and me. Ii
she was a Wnss ship than she Is. and
a wetter rhough this amt wetter),
and if she killed as many as tho
plague. | amt gon' to work Tom
Cox's traverse ashore any more. And
there amt no beer in the scuttlebutt
neither, and Bailey looks at us as
black as black I'm goin' to ship"
and doe Bennett rose.
Il amt got farden to jingle of a
tombstone. he said
Mark me-" said Jack goomily,
you'll never have nu tombstone II
we ships in the Pandora faint her
way to run any mans relatives into
that expense.
"Mebbe this trip'll break her luck;
and you've got to ship along. Cause
why? We've ony one chest atween
the two of us. Cheer up, old son.
Why. I'd ship in the Leander. and
they say she killed and drownded
seventy men in five years. Blow me,
I've got to tie pint that I'd ship in a
blooming diving bell"
And three days later the two men,
with twelve others who were just as
deep in debt To the boarding house
keepers signed Oh for the Pandora
that very night The mates kept a
keen eye on them: they knew the
ships reputation and more than once
men who had come on board at night
had disappeared by the morning. The
first few hours in any ship as in any
other kind g work, are the most try.
ing. and the first sight of a damp and
empty foc'sle is for ever discourage
ing For all the Pandora's crowd
from London had skipped in Mel
bourne.
And right they was, said more
than one of The new crowd, for one
Of them was killed, and two was
drowned, and another will walk lame
for the rest of his life
But when the sun came up over the
low brown ! lis to the eastward, and
the daylight danced upon the land
locked waters of the great bay, they
turned TO with more cheerful hearts.
The summog had spent two of its
golden months, but the sky was clear.
and warm north wind blew The
ship was Gle n, and yet not too clean.
II did not ggest the interminable
intolerable labor of an American ship,
all brass and bright-work. And as the
new crew hove up the anchor they
found the windlass was no heart
breaker.
Give it her, boys said the mate,
and they slapped the brakes up and
down with will.
Il reckon the crowd aft are pretty
decent" said Joe, as he jumped up
aloft to loosen the oretopsail "Oh,
| d4ssay she MT art bad"
And as lie crew allowed there was
little to compl IN of about the way
the Pandora was found.
she amt like our last ship" was