The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1909-01-19

the last time ses Sam. as we told 'er
we're sailing the day arter.
Meantime, ses Peter Russell you
mustn't forget that you've got to send
ms most office money-orders every
week
"Ginger said e wouldn't forget, and
they shook 'ands all round and ad
drink together, and the next afternoon
Sam and Peter went to the Blue Lion
for last visit.
ut was quite early when they came
back. Ginger was surprised TO see
EN-. and he said so. but e was more
SURPRISED when e heard their reasons.
ut come over us all at once as
we'd bin doing wrong Sam SEES, set
ting down with sigh.
"'Come over us like chill, it did,
SEES Peter.
doing wrong? SEES Ginger Dick.
staring. 'Wot are you talking about?'
Something the landlady said
showed us as we was dom wrong
SEES old Sam very solemn; 1T come
over us in a fash
Like lightning ses Peter.
at amt fair play agin a woman
says old Sam, three strong men agin
one poor old woman that's wot we
feel, Ginger
"'Well. don't feel like it, SEES Gin
ger; you please yourself, and III
please myself
"'E went off in a huff. an next
morning e was so disagreeable that
Sam an Peter went and signed on
board steamer called the Penguin,
which was to sail the day arter. They
parted bad friends all round, and Gin
ger Dick gave Peter nasty black
eye, and Sam said that when Ginger
came to see things in a proper way
agin he'd be sorry for wot ed said.
And e said that i'm and Peter never
wanted to look on is face agin.
Ginger Dick was a bit lonesome
arter they'd gone, but e thought it
better to let few days 90 by afore g
went and adopted the red aired land
lady He waited week. and at last,
unable to wait any longer. e went out
and 'ad shave and smartened hisself
up, and went off to the Blue Lion.
Glass O bitter, ma'am, please he
SEES to the old lady as she came out o.
the little parlor at the back O the bar.
The old lady drew the beer, and
then stood with one and holding the
beer-pul and the other on the coun
ter, looking at Ginger Dick in is new
blue jersey and cloth cap.
Lovely weather. ma am SEES Gin
ger, putting his left arm on the coun
ter and showing the sailor-boy dancing
the hornpipe.
Its ard life. the sea, ses the
old lady.
She kept wiping down the counter
in front of i'm over an over agin, an
e could see 'er staring at is wrists as
though she could 'ardly believe he,
eyes. Then she went back into the
parlor, and Ginger card her whisper
ing, and by and by she came out agin
with the blue-eyed barmaid.
Have you been at sea long, ses
the old lady.
over % years. ma'am,' ses Ginger
avoiding the barmaids eve wot was
fixed on is wrists, and I've been ship
wrecked four times; the fust time
when ! was little nipper o four
teen
Pore thing, ses the landlady
shaking er cad I can feel for you:
my boy went to sea at that age. and
I've never seen i'm since.
I'm sorry to ear it, ma'am. ses
Ginger, very respectfu-like 4 suppose
I've lost my mother, so can feel for
you
Suppose you've lost your mother,
SEES the barmaid; don't you know
whether you havoc
NO, ses Ginger Dick, very sad
When | was wrecked the fust time !
was In open boat for three weeks,
and, wot with the exposure and 'ardly
any food, | got brain fever and lost my
memory
PORE thing, SEES the landlady agin-
might as well be a orfn, SEES
finger, looking down; sometimes |
seem TO see kind, 'andsome face
oehulhg over me- and fancy it's my
mothers, but | can't remember 'er
name, or my name, or anythink about
er.'
You remind me O. my boy very
much ses the landlady, shaking 'er
cad.
Ginger Dick would ha liked to ha,
seen er bit more excited. but e
ordered another glass O. bitter from
.he oarmaid, and tried to think 'ow
he was to bring about the shin on his
chest and the letters on is back The
iandlady served a couple O men. and
ny and by she came back and began
talking agin.
l IKE Sailors she SEES; one thing
Is my boy was a sailor; and another
sning Is, they've got such feelin' carts
mere was two of 'em in ere the other
day' who'd been in ere once or twice
ana one of 'em was that kind 'earted
thought he would ha' ad fit at
something | told him
no. ses Ginger, pricking up his
ears, 'wot for?
was just talking to i'm about nv
uOy, same as | miObt -