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

made a point having some buckets
If water thro = over him every time
he crossed the equator homeward
bound perhaps he thought it kept
aim fresh But by then Bragg was
even tired OF kicking him. Nothing
made him go slower or faster He
went at the sace he had been born to,
and he never learned anything more
ihau he had known at seventeen. II
there is any truth in the transmigra-
lion of souls, Hans must have been a
tortoise ana was destined to Jump
ap" again as a sloth. But once, after
long slow month of provoeation, he
hit the real Dutchman from Amster
dam. and that native OF Holland
went TO sleep" for two hours.
He's the cay Dutchman | ever had
any real respect for said the crowd
each for hiEsself But of course he
was a FinM, and. as every one knows,
Finn triumphs over his disabilities
as putchman by virtue of strange
gifts.
No I don't believe none Of that
jaw about Firms and witchcraft,' said
old Mackenzie, "but | own there's al
ways somethin' strange about a Finn.
Now. all Hans nature seems To ave
run to 'ardness. What saddle is
, skin would make" For Mac had
spent two We rs in the Australian
bush. and was never tire of relating
his strange experiences on horseback.
And presently the State of Oregon
began, as the men said, to smell land.
1t was off Finisterre that Noyes
proved the man from Abo could bleed,
for the skipper never forgot that he
had been knocked out in one round
by knocking down a "Dutohman. The
thought ranked and when Hans was
at the wheel when the wind was light
out of the northeast the shippers
temper ragged at a contrary wind
when he had made a record passage
so far, led him. little astray. For.
as the men sal, IT'S all right mark
ing men wheg ones boz / home and
when they've time to get well bound
to Yewrope but | like to leave em
without no visible sign TO say you've
laTuppcd EN- when I'm bound East
I'm the United States there is very
little respect for a man who can't take
care of himself. but some Europeans
have silly notions. It's not uncommon
even to find a consul who doesn't UNI
derstand that sailors are no good un-
less they are in state of mntiny or
near it. There is no end to the fool
ishncss of some consuIs, as Captain
Noyes often complained with natural
bitterness So when. after he had
cursed Hans vice for his steering. he
TANNED the brass end of his telescope
right between the mans eyes and cut
him badly, he was quite sorry for it.
You see, he had almost got to believe
that the man from ADO couldn't be
hurt. But a brass telescope properly
applied makes four neat little cuts,
one on the forehead, one on the bridge
of the nose and one on each eyebrow,
as a little consideration Of the human
face and the nature of a circle will
show The blood ran down into Hans
eyes and Bragg had to walk to the
break OF the poop and below:
Relieve the wheel
And two days afterwards the State
of oregon owing to favorable change
OF wind. lay at Bordeaux. AS soon as
she did, the entire crew got too much
to drink. and not even Noyes and
BRAGG could handle them though the
skipper was, as he had ayerred at the
beginning of the passage, captain and
congress and president all rolled in
one. The only people who could han
die them we're the French police, and
they had their work cut out. The
next day, as it is the habit of French
men and Spaniards and the like to
let the consuls fix UP all difficulties
with foreign crews if they can, the
American consul was called on to ar
bitrate in the matter. And for the
nonce the American consul was the