The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-07-26

( But as there was none at hand to al
minister the heroic remedy of chloro-
dyne cum rhubarb cum laudanum cum
pill and give him something else to
think about in the original kind OF
knots he remained.
The ~donkeyman, with a nearly Bel
fast curse, tried to do double work, but
as he had been laboring quite to the
top of his strength for many hours pre-
viously the effort did not meet with UNI
logged wooden pluck might have
known, 1t is impossible for one man to
fire a twelve furnace steamer, wheel
himself coal for the bunker and act as
engineer and greaser when required.
however great be the initial supply of
brute force with which God has en-
dowed him. Every time he wiped the
wet from his eyes and looked at the
steam gauge 1t had climbed down since
the time before, and however fur!ously
he might heave new fuel onto the
cak!ng clfnkers that jumping index
would continue its downward crawl.
The oiled rumbling of the engines
slowed and grew moro sluggish, and
then the ponderous cranks took 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 n her 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 dull
glowing furnace door and turned to
where the little captain was lying on
the polished ~footplates, holding a yell
low flaring 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
the companionway, he gazed appre-
c~iatively at the rows of bottles, un-
stopped one or two and shifted at their
contents and then slammed down the
nd again as a thought struck him.
NO." he said. Red Kettle wouldn't
give me physic last time l 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"
The pilot" however, when the dom
keyman had wearily hauled himself on
to the upper bridge and stood by his
side. proved to be so dead asleep that
no amount of shouting or shaking
not make him vince.
"Sor, wake. or yell be suntrook, II
ye're not that already. Rouse, sor. I
can't lug ye below, an I can't rig an
awning. I'm too tired to speak again,
put If yez stay there yell fry like a
rasher and be ate by flies. There's g.
whopping skeeter in each of yer eye
holes this minute, an a kind OF locust
browsing on the end Of yer snout.
Listen. I'm knockin wild a boot toe on
Yer ribs. Well, man, if ye won't listen
to reason, it's just leavin yez 1 am to
stew in yer own juice"
The donkeynian climbed heavily back
down the ladder and went with weary
steps aft along the bridge deck toward
his own place.. But at the break Of the
deck he paused, spread his grimy.
SHINY elbows on the rail and INDUCED in
a thin, small whistle.
skipper remarked, up an unbeknown
drain to which mans improvements
have not been INTRODUCED, n there's
callers turning up already. That was
the nose Of a g~aff-taupsl 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
an large wild the other boys in the life
boats. Thrue, there's the twenty 81
notes to dhraw. an a daisy Of a spree to
have if yez can get anywhere to have
1T, but we've worked that wage out al
ready. an it rather seems as though
there's more NERVOUSNESS to follow"
He yawned enormously. "'Ttsn't Of
ten I'd say no to a bit Of a scrimmage,
but theatrtcals are not to my taste Just
now OF all. o. much overtime. ruins
the sense of humor.'' He yawned
again and blinked his eyes drearily.
Y must turn in now, Mr.. Sullivan, or
yell fall down here an be ate alive
by the skeeters an other wild beasts Of
the forrust, and If the explorers who
are underneath that white g%afftaupsl
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
poop, sat over the edge of his bunk and
was snoring m~elodiously before his
head and his heels We're on the blanket.
Meanwhile a 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 f~orescuttle, with his elbows
on the deck. Two others sprawled on
either side OF him. A white man Law
spread eagled on the top of the coach
roof of the cabin, and another stood in
the cockpit steering.
CONTINUED Next Week.)
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