The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-31

At four o'clock next morning all hands turned out
They lowered two yz,wls piled them with seine nets
and rowed or to lay the nets eight the in
each boat Then they came back for dOrles and set
out their pckets TO keep the nets order The break
fast horn blew at eight No bad to be called
twice Then there was another stretch of plckctlne
and net hauling until the meal The same work
bad TO be done In the afternoon. BY dusk. when tho
last haul had heen made the days catch reckoncd
at two hundred bushels OF porgies.
This did not finish the day. There remained the
work OF cleaning the catch ard packing 1t down n
ice. With nl hands bustng to their capacity. It was
eleven o'clock before they finished brakes face
smarted with sunburn his hands rcd and swo-
len and the lines had dug deep into bis blIsicred
palms. He made complaint. Everybody got the
treatment. the same hours the labor. and
everybody took his medicine fashion The skipper
fed his crew we'll That Kind OF work demanded II.
But tagged out he was. when Drake got to hl5
bunk at eleven thnt night he found time before he
went TO sleep TO wonder If the folks at home werO
worried and to wish himself back.
The second day passed had the first, at the fish
Ing grounds-up at four o'clock, breakfast at eight
keeping the properly laid and hauling them In on
occasion; and that night the catch again measured
two hundred bushels. At meals Drake was carried
back to the rayenous hunger of his youth In outing
days, when everything tasted good. and he wanted
the plate piled high and often. HI could feel the
return youth also In the surging of his blood and
lame as they were his muscles qulckened with the
lust Of action.
Good luck had saved him from a hoodlum crew re-
cruited along the city wharvcs and had cast him
among mcssmates from the Far North. where sailors
know only the and share Its heartIness HJ
learned to address them by their first names. and
from Skipper Jack down they all called him Sid and
took him into fellowship from the beginning.
Captivated by the trim and busnessike behavior OF
the Lucy Ann when he first observed her at sea- he
had grown really fond of her with ripcnlng acquau;.
ance. So 1t with tingc of regret that he found
the Lucy Ann just week after departure from
port, tying up again at the slip. Drake sought the
skipper.
"You have been mighty good to me-" he said, "and
don't remember when I felt as well 1 do now
know must have been a lot Of trouble to you How
much will make It rIght?'
"Cut that short. Sid" came the shippers reply
I'VE were all glad to have you along. II you
weren't invited. You may be a gentleman. but you
held your end up. wish had you for regular
company As to how much Will make 1t right
sorry l can't allow you wages for the list full
when you joined US; but we had quick trip and gooI
catch and you In the division OF extra profits.
figure your share is $3.50"
AS unexpectedly the had swallowed him II
yielded him up. Mrs. Drake had quite decided tha,
she must the police TO put out their drag when
Drake appeared before her The sight made her
speechess for her astonshed gaze fell not her
well groomcd husband OF other days, but bis pre-.
sentiment oil smeared sweater and III used boots
and trousers his countenance like pumpkin and his
hands rough and c0oused and furrowed 4 bit OF
well roped tarpaum encased the evening attire IN
which she had last him Unfolding another bun.
die he exposed a mess of porgleS,
Caught them myself" he said, "and can guarantee
them fresh
sidney WHAT
some other time my dear I've had the experience
OF my life. 1t has made OF me. And
think II has taught to quit being my -beS