The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
IKE PINKHAM'S
 LUCKY NUMBER Thirteen Always Brought Him
 Something CAPT. JOSHUA GRINDLE It Mattered Not Whether the Sum ln- voIved Were Large or Small Ho Always Came Down With
 the Goods.

good slang words, I guess, but don't i keep much run O that sort O lingo since I got past 60. Time for me to be a read l in O my Bible and a-gettin ready for
 t'other shore, as our minister says. But
 I do know what 13 means, and I've knowed 1t for a good many years. It means good luck, and plenty of it. Called
 bad luck, you say? Yes, know all about ] that-thats what most every one thinks, i and it's what you see in the papers, and
 folk is scart to death O the number 13'
 but know diff'rent. It's the best O luck
 -bettern a license to steal. Yes, slree,
 sirl You hear to me:
 "In my younger days there was a fambly down on the lower end O Long Island named Pinkham-old man and 1 four boys, and alla good sailormen 1 barrin' that Ike, the oldest O the boys, who was about the slowest critter that
 ever eat vittels. They used to say , that 1t took Ike so long to get un- l dressed and say his prayers that when l he ftnly got into bed twas time to ] turn out Be that as it may, he was ghastly slow, so that no one would ship i him board a vessel cept the old man. ! so he never got much sperience to l sea. Other three boys they went fore | the most a few trips and then got mates berths, and after few years they all had yessils O their own. Old
 
 divided up his propty the three boys that was good sailormen, and smart as l traps, they said it want no kinder use O giving Ike any part O the old mans vessil--a good three e-master-so they took the vessil themselves and 1 give Ike the old home place for his 1 share. Ike, bein' easygoin'. was sat- 1 isfied, though at times the farm want wuth quarter part of what the Fannie | Pin k ham waS-tbat was the gcho0nAr'S name. So the smart boys they took the l vessil on even shares, and one of 'em went in her as master while Ike he sot out to raise hay and pertatoes on 1 the farm.
 Now, all this took place on June IS i:
 there was 13 acres into that there l farm, and it was wuth not to exceed i $500, 'cordin' to the best real estate
 experts in Islesboro, and Ike share O l the law expenses was Just SIS. Sol 1 Pinkham went out to the Wind'ar& Islands in the schooner, and did fair l to middlin that season, but no great,
 and t'other boys. Bill and Sam, they
 just plugged along coastin', same's be-
 fore. End O the fust year the three
 owners O the Fannie Pinkham they
 divided $12o0, the vessel havin' no bills | O repairs, the old man havin' left her
 in good shape. Ike, he just managed l to get huff to eat and pay his taxes, 1 but he used to say that when he eat
 his supper and turned in he knew
 where he was a-going to wake up which
 was more'n tother Pinkhams did. Ike
 set . good deal on comfort and the
 safety O his carkiss.
 Next season wasn't much for coast
 in, freights bein' way down, and Bill and Sam they could hardly keep above | water. Wuss luck still for Sol, for he 1 got the Fannie Pinkham ashore down | in the gulf somewh ere, and 1t cost
 more'n they made the year before to
 get her off and tow her into Mobile.
 When Sol he got back north again he
 went home to Long Island to get over fit O chill and fever he'd caught down in them gulf ports, and when he landed fust thing his eyes lit on was Ike a-drivin' of smart hoss.
 Whose hoss is that, Ike2' says Sol. My hoss.' says Ike Think I'd hired out for a stable boy?'
 Where in thunder'd you get the price O that rig-sold out the old place? yelled Sol.
 Sold out nothin',' says Ike, wheelin' the rig 'round-you hop aboard O this outfit and I'll show ye what goins like
 l But how'd you get such a rig as this Ike? You ain't able to keep up no trottin' hosses,' says Sol.
 We'll says Ike, don't s'pose coasters could sport round with any such animals as this one, not with coal freights down to 50 cents and lumber $1.75 Bangor to Bost'n. But I aint a-doin' O no coastin'-pm a real l estate broker, Sol. Pays better l After good deal O questionin', Sol | found out that Ike had sold a little cor ner of the old place for more money than the whole Pinkham fambly had ever seen before fin all their born days. Rich feller from New York wanted it to build cottage on. My but you | ought to see that there cottagei alters thought a cottage was a little bit of house, bout six by nine. with a place to eat place to sleep and A bit of piazzy onto the front of if. But this one that the New York feI
 Ter put up was bout twicet the size O the Town Hall. with huff rooms | into It to 'commodate a hundred peo- pie. Cost $50,000 'cludin barn and boathouse.
 Well, sir, fore that summer was half out Ike he sold four more cbunk. O the old place, and then had half of tt left. and he had huff money into one of the banks over to Belfast to build nalI dozen vessels like the Fannie ~~A~~AhA, eAA a-0EhWlu or interest. Upshot of it aIf was that he sold "a slices O that farm, the last bein' a piece right on the water, which brought him $13,000, and the feller that bought 1t built him house there with 18 rooms into it. Ike he quit keepIn' house, and went to board at the hotel and his room was No. IS, and he paid SlS a week. ZIP for board and $1 for washin'.
 Every one said that Ike was too much Of a fool to hold on to the money but somehow or other he fooled 'em Teller up to Bangor wanted him to buy house lots and Ike took a trip up there. Ike was gone I3 days. and come back with the deeds O. ly lots. flve years afterward he sold them an out at moron double what he'd mi into 'em. Mother feller wanted Ike to go up to Bost'n and buy some mining stock. Ike he started, but he was so all-fred slow gettin' up to Bangor that he missed the train. The train was Mo- 1S, and it was all smashed m on the way to Bostn. Bad for the train, but lucky for Ike. Next dav Jl.a