The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-10

handled timber So the clerk said
And one had aRnkerin' for teak and
another for hoax with odd leanin's
now and agfn for Hafrcan and Portu
gee and French hoak), and another he
said Cuban Sabicu.' and another
word was Hackmatack' and chestnut
hevery time. So they showed in bits
here and bits there till she was a reg
lar junk shop o samples. And that s
the reason she's foreign talking
argument ship. And mighty good
reason, too"
The crowd listened In silence
IF you knew as much about arguin'
as you know (seeminly) about tim
hers as no man ever heerd of. your
argument might stand said Macken.
zle, withered old foc'sle man. But
ii amt to reason as the natur' of the
woods in ship should make us talk
this way or that II so be ship was
built O teak. dye think we'd talk the
jildy jow, you black son of gun
lingo?"
Hart shook his head
NO ship amt never built all Of teak
as | ever heerd or, and so your eyes
out, Mac. But man with arr an
eye could see the knowledge of her
beln SO built might lead right hup to
talk about the stren'ths of the coun-
tries as we'll of the vally of their tim
bers.
so they might. said the almost
convinced crowd. Now Jack Hart
as the gift, so To speak, of seem
through things"
And once started, who'd stop it,"
asked Jack trlumphantly Il knowed
u ship as 'ad fresh crowd after fresh
crowd In her. but she for ever ad a
black cat aboard And they talked
cat to mafa you sick And | knowed
another as 'ad from launch to her hui,
innate pilin' up I'm the Bermudas the
fashion OF calling the skipper the
Guf1n.' And hevery skipper was the
Guffin, new and old go or stay But
when we broke hoff to hargue, why.
we was talkin about them French
tossers and whether Salisbury was
a-goin' to let EN- chip into our game
and straddle the Nile
That's 30" said the crowd, and the
House was rough
Meanwhile the skipper or odd
man." (who henceforward. by the way.
was called the 'Guf1in') and his two
mates were discussing the latest as
peot of world politics, as they drank
whisky and water
What's wrong with Salisbury" said
the Guffin. who WAS as stout as bar
rel and as sturdy. "is. that he amt got
backbone He just let's EN- blow
him about like 30 much paper What
he wants Is stiffenln'; he's like a
sprung spar That's what he's like. ="
The mate. a toughlooking dog with
hair like anaemic tussac grass In
patches ON his face, shook his head.
I've got a greater opinion of him.
captain. than you have. All hts double
shuttle Is cunning. It's getting back
SOS to lead them French on Mark
me- he'll play them yet fair knock
out"
The Guffi" sneerod.
"IIe may have cunnln'. Lampert, bnt
he amt no real tact Now, diplomat
ic tact, take It, is not giyn' way into
the gutter. but just shown as you're
q nice pleasantspoken chap as don't
mean to be put on. It's my good opin-
ion as these foreigners don't yearn
to fight u.s. And men like you and me
Lampert gets to learn the way of
handlin' foreigners, Who has so much
experience with 'em as them in com
mand of English ships?'
That's So" said the second mate
who had been listening Now last
wye in the Battleaxe there was a
Dago in my watch as come from the
betwiXt and between land where
Spain iines France. And he was the
Dagoest Dago | ever sailed with. But
| knew the breed, and the first time
he opens his garlicky mouth | hauled
off and hit him. And then | took my
knife away and snapped the point of
And | says to him, Now. you black
beggar, every time at muster you'll
show me that knife, and therell be