The Yale expositor., 1909-01-08


ing garden of Eden! Or the ark! Say,
Martin; l begin to sympathize with
Noah"
Noah sent out dove, IL l remem-
Der right" says Hartley. Wonder If
it would work with a 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 1t
hurt
THE ark was afioat for 40 odd days;
you want to remember that" says /.
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. II don't want to get
wet-not 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 was hopping! Talking
about pressing clothes and us next
door to going to the bottom!
'I'll press nothing" says /. "And
I'll say right now, Mr.. Van Brunt, tina.
l won't tend to them gardens. You
hear"
Van waved his hand. "Your salary
from now on" he says, will be-"
mo, it won't. My salary's big
enough. It's me that's short-short
about 26 hours out of the "a. If
/ was two men l might do what's need
full but as tits | can't. l 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
way was Juggling at the 'midships
thwart. Finally | got 1t loose and
showed it over the stern. / was going
to try to scull with it.
The Heavenlies was completely up
set. Not by the fear of drowning
drat 'em. l don't cal'late 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 I cam" 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-not. Is he,
Martini"
Il should say not" says t'other Twin.
"Soi, II you want more money-or as
sistants-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 | was pleased TO find they
liked me so well. Well" / says, IF
you could get somebody to cook and
help round the house may be I"
"A cook?" says Van. Good! We
get cook-two cooks-ten of EN-, II
you say so. And we get 'em quick"
Let's get ashore first" says /. I've
got to make the point there or well
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 | want by no means sure we
would make the point Twas the
BASTARD end of Ozone island l was
aiming for. The tide set in strong
there and | could see that the skiff
would pretty nigh hit the beach, II
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, y
says /. IF can only keep her up till
we get into shoal water"
II seem to have acquired the cast.
away habit" says Van. Once In that
other boat of yours, Sol, and now in
this one. | must swear off. This is
getting monotonous."
Inc SWellS run Digger as we neareo
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 a way-they could fly
after a fashion. / wished l could
Lucky the water want more than
waist deep.
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 like q
sawmill. The most of the hens had
gone on ahead
"Humphl" says somebody. You're
pretty wet, amt you?"
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