Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-07-26

o.. a.. there was none at hafla 70 ao'
Sinister the heroic remedy OF cnio.o,
80 c,,m rhubarb cum cum
nill and give him something ensI -
thint about in the original Klho VI
knots he remained v POL
The donkeyman, with a nearly bei.
ast curse. tried to do double WORK ~.
as he had peer laboring quite 10 ~
TN of his strength for many nouIs VI
viously the effort did not meet With u
qualified success. AS any one YIN
doeoed wooden pluck might nave
known. II Is impossible for one man 10
Are a twelve furnace steamer, Wheel
bi,nself coal for the bunker and act as
engineer and greaser when required,
however great be the initial supply VI
brute force with which GOD mas en-
lowed 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 IurlousIy
he might heave new tuel ohIo nv
caking clinkers that jumping lnaeA
would continue it's downward crawl
The oiled rumbling of the engines
slowed and grew more sluggish anu
then the ponderous cranks o 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 tramp's TUX the
ground at last. Thanks be"
He pitched his shovel through a dun
glowing furnace door and turned to
where the little captain was lying on
the polished ~footplates, holding a yell
low fiaring slush lamp before him TO
see through the sitting dusty gloom.
'Gum!" he commented, The old man
looks pretty sick. I'll crane him up in
the ashlift."
This he did and took his 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 the medicine
chest, which stood beside the door in
TO the companionway, he gazed appre-
ciatively at the rows OF bottles, un-
stopped one or two and shifted at their
contents and then slammed down the
lid again as q thought struck him.
NO." he said RED Kettle wouldn't
give me physic last time | thought I'd
like 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 In"
IIS PllcI ClB liz Tic WI
keyman had YEARLY hauled himself on
to the upper bridge and stood by his
side, proved to be 50 dead asleep that
no amount of shouting or shaking
would wake him. Even the flies did
not make him vince.
"Sor, wake, or ye1l be suntrook, If
ye're not that already. Rouse, sor. I
can't lug we below, an 1 can't rig an
awning. I'm too tired to speak again,
n..t 80 yyAz -tnNy 49, ,-oyn g., Hl-N -
rasher and be ate by flies. There's q
whopping skeeter in each of yer eye
holes this minute, an q kind OF locust
browsing on h 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 I am to
stew in yer own juice"
The donkeyman climbed heavily back
down the ladder and went with weary
steps aft along the bridge deck toward
his w place. But at the break Of the
he paused, spread his grimy.
shiny elbows on the rail and INDUCED in
a thin, small whistle.
Now, here we have come, as the
skipper remarked. up an unbeknown
drain TO which mans improvements
have not been INTRODUCED, and there's
callers turning up already. That was
the nose Of a gaff-taups'l squintin be-
tween those tree tops down stream a.
minute ago., or I'm a Dago. Dye know,
Mr.. Sullivan chief of the Port Edes,
I'm beginnin to think ye'd have got
better value If ye'd gone cruisin off by
large wid the other boys in the life
boats. Thrue, there's the twenty Ell
notes to dhraw, an a daisy Of a spree to
have il yez can get anywhere to have
but we've worked that wage out al
ready, an 1t rather seems as though
there's more righteousness to follow
He yawned enormously. "'Tisn't Of
I'd say no to a bit of a scrfmmage,
but theatricals are not TO my taste just
now OF all. Too much overtime ruins
the sense Of humor." He yawned
again n blinked his eyes drearily.
\ must turn in now, Mr.. Sullivan, or
yell fall down here an be ate alive
by the skeeters an other wild beasts of
the f%orrust, and If the explorers who
underneath that white %gafftaups'l
want to come aboard here an make
trouble, so far as you're concerned.
they'll be let"
And with that the donkeyman stag
gered away TO his room beneath the
sat over the edge of his bunk and
was snoring melodiously before his
and his heels We're on the blanket.
Meanwhile q 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 ~forescuttle, with his elbows
the deck. Two others sprawled on
side of him. A white man lay
spread eagled on the top Of the coach
of the cabin, and another stood In
cockpit steering.
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