Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-02-10

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"Ha! hal" cackles Van, putting for
breath, and showing the pig out Of his
lap. This is the best ever! The float
ing garden of Eden! Or the ark. Say,
Martin; I begin to sympathize with
Noah.'
Noah sent out dove, If remem-
Der right" says Hartley. Wonder if
it would work with chicken?
Where's our Ararat, skipper?"
was mad clean through Here was
twice that I'd been made fool of on
salt water. want used to it and it
hurt.
The ark was afioat for 40 odd days;
you want to remember that says l.
And this skiff won't float 40 minutes.
loaded the way she is, if she drifts out
side that point"
Then she mustn't drift there" says
Van. cheerful. 81 don't want to get
wet-lot now, with James gone. This
| is the only presentable suit I've got
left. If this is wrecked you'll have to
press it. SOL"
My. but 1 was hopping, Talking
about pressing clothes and us next
door to going to the bottom!
I'm press nothing" says 1. And
I'll say right now, Mr.. Van Brunt, that
1 won't tend to them gardens You
hear
Van waved his hand Your salary
from now on" he says, will be"
| No, it won't. Ny salary's big
enough. It's me that's short-short
about 26 hours out of the "a. If
l was two men l might do what's need
full, but as it's can't. 1 like you both
first-rate-when you amt too crazy
but either you'll have to get me a
helper or I'll have to quit. That is,
If we get out of this mess alive, which
amt likely"
All the time I was preaching this
way1 was Juggling at the 'midships
thwaft. Finally l got it loose and
showed it over the stern. 1 was going
to try to scull with it.
The Heavenlies was completely up
set. Not by the fear of drowning
drat 'em. don't carlate they was
afraid of anything-but my talk of
quitting seemed to knock 'em silly.
by Jove! you know" says Van.
This is serious, skipper. You can't
mean it,
You bet can!" says, sculling like
all possessed with one arm and fight
! ing pullets with the other.
You're not going" says Van, de-
cided. "You're-simply-n Is he,
Martini
Il should say not" says t'other Twin
Sol, If you want more money-or as
s1stants-or anything, why, all right
But we want you. And we're going to
keep you"
That's settled then" says Van,
quick. What kind of help do you
want-and how many?"
| We'll" / says, cooling down a mite
of course 1 was pleased to find they
liked me so well. We'll" 1 says, eff
you could get somebody to cook and
help round the house may be +"
"A COOKE" says Van. Good! We
get cook-two cooks-ten of 'em, if
you say so. And we get 'em quick"
| Lets get ashore first" says l. I've
got to make the point there or Wen
| get"
Our finish, hey?" he says, ending
the sentence for me. "All right; make
| the point" Then he got out a cigar
| and went to smoking.
But I want by no means sure we
would make the point. Twas the
BASTARD end of Ozone island 1 was
aiming for. The tide set in strong
| there and / could see that the skiff
would pretty nigh hit the beach, If l
had luck.
We zig-zagged along. Pretty soon
we got to where the waves was run
| ming higher. They commenced to slop
into the boat.
She'll go under, sure's you're born"
says 1. "If can only keep her up till
we get into shoal water"
Il seem to have acquired the cast
away habit" says Van. Once in that
other boat Of yours, Sol, and now in
this one. l must swear of. This is
getting monotonous.'
The swells run bigger as we neared
the point. The skiff was half full and
the stopping and the motion stirred up
the menagerie. Such squealing and
squawking and Tapping you never
heard nor saw. Them hens was all
over us and the pig underneath.
We riz on wave and begun to cap
size.
Here we go!" yelled. Stand by!"
Over we went. The hens had the
best Of us in way-they could fly
after fashion. / wished l could
Lucky the water want more than
waist deep.
I plowed through the sand and
undertow and got to the beach. Hart
ley come next, toting the pig by one
leg. The dear" wriggled loose and
headed for the pines, hurrahing Ikea
saWmill The most Of tho hans had