The Washington times., 1908-09-27
Sea Serpent Home 10 Vote,
Says CanalBoat Sailor, Says He
Declares Doggy Brown Is Man Who Decorated Monster
Back With the Star-Spanged Banner in
Days Gone By
Days Gone BY.

The captain OF the Sally Ann, good
J kanawl bark wot she IS. sat idly upon
the poop deck yesterday looking
wistfully out over the green water, be-
yond the fringe OF trees 10 where the
! Potomac was sliding slowly toward the
sea.
"Sea sarpints2" ne answered a report
er's query. AN wol kind Of a sea sar-
pint might it be that. you WIZ lookin'
fer?''
Well" replied the reporter, he is
| said to be between 80 and 20 feet long"
Sounds like i'm muttered the salt
He had one fin on top that looked
| like an American flag"
That's wot. That's the VERY sarpint
wOt DOGGY Brown decorated some years
ago"
The eap'n shifted his modest quid
| from his right cheek to the left, threw
one glance about him TO see that all was
( shipshape, and began.
"Onct upon a time I was q sailorman
I in the navy. I was. I was a bosun's
mate at the time vot we is goin' 10
discuas. and was engaged n the VERY
fine pursuit Of catching smugsIers in
the West Indies.
They Might Bite.
I'VE wuz a-sailin' out O. Mobile some
| few days wen away off In the zion
we sights one Of them low cut (deconette
/ they calls EN- now days.. sinister Iookin'
| barks with a few guns on 'er wOt might
/ evenshuaIIy bite If they wuz properly
/ instructed.
"'Howsumever, the Cap'n bein' a brave
! lad. he signals for full speed ahead, an
we lights out after that sinister IoOkfn-
bark sumethin' scandIus. We gains on
him STEADY and after a while things
begin TO look blue fer i'm
well, I s'pose It wuz about o'cIocE
in the afternoon Wen we gets up within
/ short gunshOt range, and we lets go a
| broadside from our one gun wot makes
the smuggler look purity sick. We is
just loading up for a second shot wot
we intends will go clean through the
bark. wot's called the Liza LIZ. Wen wo
ears 'er give four long tOOts and two
short ones.
I've amt bOtherin' none particular
bout that noise, although we admits
| it's pekolier, and we keeps on loading
and sightin' that gun, for mebbe three
or four minutes. Then all of a sudden
| comes the gum swizzelest creeter wot
ever a good sailorman did see.
Everybody Dingbusted
eve wuz ali so dingbusted for a min
ute that we amt dom nOthin', and
then all the onct the cap'n yelled in a
turribIe voice: Hell. it's a sea sar-
pint
/ An carry twol' SEE l. being a re-
| speckful cuss in them days
% Train that gun on 'im,' SEE the
/ capn, getting pale Fire he shouts.
/ and we done so.
wei. sir, you can believe me or not,
/ but that solid shot hit that creeter
| right on the back. It just jounced of
inter the water and he shocks is cad
as If e liked II.
I'VE knows right away then wot we
is up against In few minutes there
F, wuz a sene Of compleet desolashlsu.
| SailOrmen and offisurs is goin' over
! board by the score, and that there mon
ster is goblin EN- Up as fast as they
/ come.
Just Wen e gets ready to gobble up
our cutter. Doggy Brown and me, we
its out fer the bowsprit. That. SEE
Doggy, sez I, being the last place wot
| he'll reach wen he starts TO make this
yere ship look like Mr.. Jonuh'
AN sure 'nuff. DOggy's dead right.
e starts a swallowin' us from the stern
/ forrard, and wen he gets almost ready
TO make the final gulp, is eyes Iookin'
| like the Dome of the CapituI, we Jumps
and lights on is back.
''Well, sir, Doggy and me finds that
there monstir's back a pleasant place
we does fer fack. Doggy brings with