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

He was. as he oft-1 said, a sober
man.
One tot every time the bell strikes.
and two at eightbells, and as a man
can't sleep and drink. | take what
should take before | turn in.
But none Of the men for'ard got as
much as teaspoonful even after
shortening sail or on Saturday nights
We've struck it rich" said the
crowd, when they got together III the
second dog-watch We've struck It
rich. There's no fatal error about
that You can see it with half an
eye a mile off. The shippers a holy
terror"
'Yal va! we've got to yoomp!"
said real Dutchman, and he was put
in the place proper to Dutchman at
once.
Speak when YOU are spoken to,
said the English and American sea
men all at once. These Dutehmen
are getting past a joke, DULLES"
so they are, said old Mackenzie,
shellback of the briniest description.
when was boy, if one of them
opened his mouth too wide we used to
put something in it."
What did you put in?' asked the
eager Anslo-SaXons.
"Oh, anything as he couldn't eat"
said Mac. "A ball o. Irvine or a swab
remember one Dutchy as would
talk"
But just then the man from Abu
came in, and though the crowd was
not really sympathetic they asked him
how his jaw felt. 1t appeared after
all that he understood UNITED States"
sufficiently we'll when it was to the
point; that is, when it concerned his
duty or the talk that goes on in a
foc'sle word beyond these limits
opened his eyes and shut his mouth
He was then like a waiter fresh from
the continent, who can talk in Eng
fish about food. and food only
"Never You mind Dutchy,' said
one of his own watch. "Mebbe, after
all, it'll do you good. If Bragg ham
mers you, we won't"
Even such consolation was better
than none, and Dutchy was truly
grateful. The lot of a "Dutchman"
at sea is not always beer and skittles
But even an Anglo-American crowd
can have sympathy when they are
like to want it themselves. They
certainly found that Billy Noyes no.
ton of a paradise made Tophet look
cool. even as depicted to sad and
sober sailor in waterside Bethel
They wanted Bordeaux badly and I'M
der the influence OF that desire and
the stimulation supplied by the Off
GERS they lost no time in getting
there. And as they were a fine lot
as men go. few of them came in for
actual hammerine. The slowest got
that always, and the man from Abo
was the man to get it,.
II was marvellous to observe how
much he got and how little it seemed
to hurt him. He was knocked down
once a day and twice on Sundaya
Even when he got IA chance to lie first
up aloft he never seemed to know it,
The only way he had of getting down
first was to fall. And once when he
did SO without seriously damaging
himself. Bragg hammered him for do
ing It,
What you're after is to be laid up;
see that" said Bragg. But let me
catch you at it."
And Hans shook his head under
Bragg's heavy hand till he forgot he
had bruises on him the size of a soup
plate
"Dutchy's fair wonder" said the
crowd rejoicing in their own freedom;
hes taking the whacll of all us and
never turns a hair. Wen have to get
up a subscription for him. Amt he
just tough? Say: Dutchy suppose you
and Bragg or you and the old man
was to have a fair set-to, dye think
you could down either of emf
va" said Hans from Abo very
soberly; "neider of 'em can't hurt me
mooch.'
Hes made of teak, said the ad-
miring crowd Now there amt one
of us wouldn't be bunged up il we'd
been hit about like him. and he amt
got mark"
1T reminds me of Chnliy [ fo't
once" said one of the men. Il
knocked him down seven times, and