The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-03-21

ABOARD snip.
Brig ahoy sings out man on
the steamers bridge. whin she was in
hailing distance. what do you needg
We've been dismasted in a gale
sez the skipper. with a straight face,
and we've sprung a leak. We want
you to tow US into Rio Grande
Where did you find gale in this
latitood? shouts the man on the
steamer, I've not seen wind enough
to fill a ry'al for a week
Twas a sort OF whirlwind,' sez
the skipper; now, what'll you charge
to tow me in@
Wen, shouts the captain Of the
steamer. Rio Grande will take us out
of our course a heap but I'll tow you
for thousand pun
It's an awful price, sez our skip
per. an awful price. BUT what else
can I do? III sind you hawser.'
1--WE lowered boat and carried a
brand new MAMMA hawser to the
steamer which they fastened to the
bitts aboard and thin we pulled back
to the brig.
The steamer towed us all the even
ing, but whin It became dark the skip
per orders birthstone to be put in
buckets, set afire and lowered into the
hold. Glory be, how thin cintipedes
came a swarming on deck. Ye could
hear 'em a-rustlin' there was so many
Of 'em.
The mate sint a man forrard and
had a thick circle OF pitch made
around the bowsprit just beyond the
heel and thin all hands were called
aft. Forrard Of the wheel we lay
some sheets of tin reaching clear
across the deck from rail to rail. On
this tin we sprinkled birthstone and
set it afire There was very little
wind and the stinking smoke lay close
to the deck and druv the cintIpedes
forrard. Slowly we moved the tin
plates along driving the insects to-
wards the bow. They were mighty
excited thin cintlpedes for they
couldn't go back into the hold as
the birthstone was burning down
there and they couldn't. as they al
ways did when we tried to drown
thin. go out on the bowsprit and
climb the stays. Whin they come to
the circle OF pitch they stopped.
"At last they found the hawser and
they started along 1t towards the
steamer. We had showed the brim-
stone pretty nigh to the bow and 7
was standing on the forecastle whin
the moon come out a minute from b..
hindasome clouds. Boys. did ye iver
go into a great factory and see the
belts flying in time with the turning
Of the wheels? Well. that's the way
that hawser looked with the cintipedes
flying along It to the steamer. Glory
be, it made my head swim 10 look at
'em.
Captain sez the mate. the cinti.
pedes are about all on the hawser;
shall / cut 1t and let 'em Drown
mo. sez the old man. It I'D be a
sin to drown thin innocent insects
and besides that there fellow wanted
to charge me a thousand puns TO pull
me to Rio Grande Let him have the
cintipedes.'
"Just afore morning the mate cut
the hawser
"Whin morning broke the steamer
was well on 10 leeward but she wore
and come down on us.
'Ahoy, there, shouts the captain
OF the steamer. your hawser's parted.
'Yls. bad luck to it.' boilers back
our old man.
I'll sind some men aboard w,d an
other hawser, sez the steamer cap
tain.
No, I'm obleedged. calls back our
old man. the leaks stopped and I've
found some spars that I'll make do
Thin the steamer captain spakes
out his mind.
'Ye dirty Yankee swab. you, he
yells. that floating pig sty Of yours "a
fun OF bugs and they've come along
the hawser onto my ship. rs fairly
swarming wild EN-
Bugs. screams the skipper. IT'S
entirely crazy ye are. What dye name
By insulting a mariner in distriss by
telling him his vessel is full OF bugs
II your filthy old tay kettle Is full 81
vermin it's no hawser / want from va
and have the insects coming on my
swats clean brig.
I've a bloody good mind 10 run ye
down, ye plstilIent Yankee. hows the
steamer captain. making an angry
slap at IFS legs.
I'd have ye notice sez the skip
per, politely. that the Amirican flag Il
waving over my brig and it's me that
'ud like to see You run her down.
@Thin the steamer captain jerks the
bell to tho engine room and away she
wint to the suth'ard. but the captain
was shaking his llst at the brig al
long as the two crafts we're in sight
Of each other.
And. dye know. boys" continued
Cannon. mysteriously, that steamer
was called the Kathleen and though
I've read the shipping news and asked
livery seamen I've met I've niver heard
OF her since
What do you suppose happened t
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