The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-10-09

ses the skipper, hearty-like That's
easier I'll help you look for it,
II can't think what I've done with
it, ses the mate
We'll, let's try your cabin ses the
old man.
"They went to the mates cabin and,
to his great surprise, there it was
hanging just behind the door,
I sha'n't want that, Mr.. Jackson,
he ses, slowly. I dare say you'll find
it come in useful
"'While you're doing that, s'pose
get on with them three shirts, ses Mr.
Jackson.
"'What three shirts?' ses the skip
per, who was busy cutting buttons off,
"'Why, yours ses Mr.. Jackson.
Let's see who can make the best
frock'
NO, Mr.. Jackson ses the old man.
I'm sure you couldn't make anything
O them shirts. You're not at all gifted
that way. Besides, l want EN-
well, I wanted my dressing gown,
if you come to that, ses the mate, in a
sulky voice.
"'Well, what on earth did you give
it to me for?' SEES the skipper. I do
Jackson
1T really didn't look half bad when
he'd finished it, and it was easy to see
how pleased Miss Mallow was"
II must say she 'ad good time of
it. We was having splendid weather,
and there wasn't much work for any
body; consequently, when she wasn't
receiving good advice from the skipper
and the mate, she was receiving atten-
| ton from both the second and third
officers. Mr.. Scott, the second, didn't
seem to take much notice of her for a
being in love was is being very rude
to Mr.. Fisher and giving up bad lang
widge so sudden it's wonder it didn't
do i'm injury
II think the gal rather enjoyed their
attentions at first, but arter a time she
got fairly tired of it. She never 'ad no
rest, pore thing. If she was up on
deck looking over the side the third
officer would come up and talk ro-
mantle to 'er about the sea and the
lonely lives of sailor men, and | actu-
rally card Mr.. Scott repeating poetry
to her, The skipper card it too. and
being suspicious o poetry, and not
having heard clearly, called him up to
i'm and made i'm say it all over again
to i'm. e didn't seem quite to know
wot to make of 1t, so e calls up the
mate for i'm to hear it. The mate
said it was rubbish, and the skipper
told Mr. Scott that if he was taken
that way agin ed ear more of it.
There was no doubt about them
two young fellers being genuine She
'appened to say one day that she could
| never, never care for man who drank
and smoked, and I'm blest if both of
EN- didn't take to water and give 'er
their pipes to chuck overheard, and
the agony those two chaps used to
suffer when they saw other people
smoking was pitiful to witness.
| 1T got to such pitch at last that
the mate, who, as I said afore, was a
very particular man, called another
committee meeting. 1t was a very SOL
emn affair, and g made long speech
in which he said he was the father of
a family, and that the second and third
officers was far too attentive to Miss
Mallow, and e asked the skipper to
stop it. :
How ses the skipper.
"'Stop the draught-playing and the
card-playing and the poetry ses the
mate; the gals getting too much at
tention; she'll have 'er cad turned.
Put your foot down, sir, and stop it,
The skipper was 30 struck by what
he said, that he not only did that, but
10 went and forbid Them two young