The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-09

R& the bartender over the
f1 YSf bar at Fat Annas board
4 n T. y ing house at Calcutta,
sSN lN and then my admiration
81 was aroused by the skill,
1ength and agility with which he handled
himself in the mix-up that followed, when
3nr runners, the bartender, and old Anna
hersc!f with her broom, set upon him. But
he was thrown bodily out into the street, and
followed as quickly for had talked TOO
much in strange boarding house for young
man that drank too little, beside the added
offence against good taste Of twisting Annals
broom away from her and shifting runner
over the head We picked ourselves up in
TIE middle Of the street and mustered under
lamp post to get acquainted, uninindful of
z Anna's screeching injunction TO Ego py your
own boarding house, you loa-ufers, und stay
there; mine house is respectable"
n Come and have drink. he said, curtly.
No, " answered, n drink very little, and
I've had enough"
left him and went to my boarding house,
but before ! got TO sleep. man came in and
yeporrei 4 lively scrap at Fat Anna's in which
d big, angry Sou'wegian had cleaned up
th> place and had been arrested. MY
lriend, Nl thought, and went to sleep.
In the morning, though, attended the
;polire court The whole boarding house
1eorce was there, the bartender as prosecuting
/ witness and Mistress Anna with her runners
70 assist. The prisoner was brought in, none
\. .the worse for his experiences, and his eye
!: held the same twinkle as on IN. evening be-
fore. The bartender told his story
~ For why" demanded the magistrate,
ld you hit this man
Because he was Scotch, your honor"
answered the prisoner, calmly.
( Hes a iiar, yelled the bartender "Pm
na Ifishman. am"
But bis clamor was silenced by the magis-
i arate
Scotch" he roared. "Scotch. And is
HAT reason for hitting mon. I'm Scotch
myself Thirty days you you -" he
slared at the prisoner Officer" he called.
Take you this man. and lock him up.
Scotch, is il. Scotch. Thirty days for
yoa"
He was led out, and we all departed. And
II q few days, having secured berth as Sec
arza6f a American ship, forgot about
a in the rush Of work that, at sea or in port,
Hhever slackens in these ships. The captain
Nas Scotchman named Net but this
Did not bring him to my mind, nor did the fact
that the FIRST mate, shipped week after my
sell, was also Scotch and named Mcleod, call
! 10 remembrance my friend and his antipathy
10 Scots. It was only when the crew came
i aboard on the day Of sailing, and read their
names at the capstan, finding two-thirds Of
them Scotch, that thought of him, and won
dued what be would do II the Fases had con-
i1emned him to this ship; then, as though in
I humorous response to my wonder, when
read Of the last name on the articles, Dennis
/ Finncgan," | was answered by hearty
Ea y Hcre, SIR" and there he stood, big, blond
/ and clean, with the merry twinkle in h:s eyes
i and a brand new sheath knife and belt
!: strapped around him. nodded recognition,
\ but that was as far as could go; was sec
j. ond mate
We got dogn thc Hooghly after the usual
srou7!c, and sooa were at sea, where, before
. <Ro oays had passed, Dennis Finnegan, Ice
\ lander, had left his mark on most Of the
L Scotch contingent forward, though he made
Emo demonstration agAins. the skipper OF mate;
: Ine was civil and Efficient, anticipating orders
I ~ area. extent. ,ald showing himself an ex-
Dert able sealnsn Blu; his pugnacity did not
j5Ast long: It departed with the liquor in his
/ 1}nten, and with it went the twinkle IN his
E;pye' HI relapsed into quiet, moody man,
! eeldom prak king except in answer to anorder,
BIT none the less tnasterfrl and efficient He
wzs not in my watch, yet had some oppor-
funity to observe him. though ncne to talk
with him.
And soon lost interest in linnegan on ac-
count Of larger and healthier interest.
had known that the slippers daughter was
oa board, but had seen her only as cioaked
4ad veied figure thGt he escorted carefully up
fne gangway and into the cabin on sailing
day. Three days out she came up in the last
cog watch, while ths mate and his watch
were sweating "" braces and halya-ds,
4 and as il was fine weather she came without
I Hat or cloak j suppose she he'd tired OF the
4lif]ing air OF the cabin, or she would not have
appeared withoat her father Then, TOO, it
may have bssa her father who caused that
sliding air, for in my few meetings with him
) g;p<e sailing he radiated al odor Of whiskey
4 that was decidedly unpleasant and soske
1hickly from darisened faculties ! had last
3sSn hia, 1t four bells, when he lifted his mead
nf lhr5a3h tne after companion, said, How
1e hidden7" to the man at the wheel, and
!. fa1nbled drankenly down before the mar
rofld answer
] The sifi stood beside the after companion
I sxaying easily 10 the slight heaye Of the ship