New-York tribune., 1909-05-02

the to'csIe all night long, an the next day when
the skipper came down to see Dan, he could
'ardly ear hisself speak.
That's a nasty cough you've got my man
ses he, looking at Harry
"'Oh. it's nothing, sir ses HarT~. careless Ike.
I've 'ad il for months now Off and on think
it's perspiring SO of night does it
What ses the skipper. DO you persPire OF =
night~
''DredfuI.' Sos Harry You could wiring the
clo'eg out 7 s'pose It's healthy for me, amt It,
sir?'
Undo your shirt ses the skipper, going over
TO him an sticking the trumpet asin him. NO"
take a deep breath. Don't cough
II can't help 1t, sir ses Harry X VIII come
Seems to tear me to pieces
a. You get 10 bed once saws the skipper
taking away the trumpet an shaking his ed II
fortunate thing for lad. you're in skilled
hands With care, believe pull you round
How does that medicine suit you. DanT
Beautiful. sir says Dan It's wonderful
soothing; slep' like newborn babe arter It,.
I'll send you some more ses the skipper
You're not to get UP. mind; either Of YOU
"'AIl right, sir. the two In very faint Toices'
an the skipper went away arter telling to be
careful not TO make noise
I'VE all thought it fine Joke at first. but the
airs them two chaps give themselves was some
thing sickening. Being in bed all day. they was
naturally wakefrl of night. and they used TO call
across the fo'c'sle inquiring arter each others
healths an waking other chaps up An they'd
swop beeftea an iellies with each other, an Dan
'ud try an coax a little port wine out q Harry,
which he 'ad to make blood with, but Harry ud
saw he hadn't made enough that day. an he'd
drink 10 the better health OF old Dams prognotice,
an smack his lips until it drove US Almost crazy
to ear him
..Arter these chaps had been i'll two days the
other feIers began TO put their heads together,
being rladdened by the smell O teef tea an the
like an said they going 10 he i'll too. and both
the invads got into a fearful state Of excitement
O. You'll only spoil it for all Of u.s. ses Harry,
and you don't know what TO have without the
book
IT'S all very well doing your work well as
our own ses one Of the men It's turn now.
It's time you two got Well
'yyelI?' ses HAIRY. well? Why YOU silly gger-
nerant chaps. shsn't never SGT well. people
with our complaints never do Yon ought to know
that
Wei. I shall split ses one Of them.
You do" ses Harry, you do, an III put ed
on you that all the port wine and jeIlies in the
world wouldn't cure. Sides. don't you think the
skipper knows what's the matter with us?'
''Atore the other chap could reply, the skipper
hisself comes dow Il, accompanied by the fust mate,
with a look his face which made Harry give the
deepest and hollovest cough he'd ever done.
"'What they RELY want ses the skipper turning
10 the mate is keerful nussing
u wish you'd let me nuss EN- ses the fJst
mate, only ten minutes-Td put 'em both their
legs an running for their lives into the bargain in
ten minutes
Hold your tongue, sir ses the skipper; what
you say is unfeelng, besides being insult to
Do you think I studied medicine all these years
without knowing when a mans ill|
''The fust mate Rrowled something and went on
deck and the skipper started examining OF 'em
again. He said they wonderfully patient lying
in bed long. an he had 'em wrapped up in bed
cloes and carried deck, the pure air could
have a go at EN-. We had to do the carrying, an
there they sat brea thing the pure air, and looking
II they wanted anything from below OF had
TO go an fetch st. an by tbs time they taken
down to bed again, all resolved to be took ILL.,
too
only two of EN- did If, though. for Harry, who
was a powerful. ugly-tempered chap, he'd
keep well and hearty, an all 'cept these two did
One of en- Mike Rafferty,, laid up with swelling
on his ribs, which l knew myself he ad 'ad FOR
fifteen years. and the other chap had paralysis.
never saw n man RELY happy as the skipper
was. He up an down with his medicines and
his instruments all day long. and used TO make
notes OF the in big pocketbook and read
en- to the second mate at meal times
The fo'csle had been turned into hospital about
a week an 1 was on deck doing some odd job
the other, when the cook comes up to me pulling
face as long a fiddle.
Mother invalid. ses he; fust mates gone
stark staring madr