The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-17
the WOrOR BOAT APPETITE.
shippers Who Invite small Parties Know
It's the Genuine Thing.


Take the little boat out yesterday
one motor boat man asked another.
YES: had q small party. Wifes sister
and her husband and the children and a
sort 81 cousin by marriage family. Going
down now 60 clean up the boat
i infer that they brought along lunch
con
They surely did
.Appstites all right?-
Seemed To- be The whole bunch was
eating when I got 90 the float where I'd
promised to meet EN-. Said they were
staying their appetites. II they stayed
them I don't know what they'd have
been II they hadn't been stayed
i've been there myself
Then you know what il Il. But gee
whizz. what n job I've got to clean up!
You seei when the little boat came along
side the float all hands were in a hurry
to get in and he OF. 80 the sandwiches
and pickles and fruit were lifted mp in the
brown paper in which they had been laid
out and were passed on board.
Then tho crowd got in. While they
were stacking up the luncheon 90 make
room for them to sit down ON the seats
after We had got a start we ran into a
slant of wind and the luncheon threat
ened to blow overheard All hands fell
on IL and held IL 10 the floor until changed
the course 81 the boat and they could
pick II up and get il together.
The eating Was then resumed and the
next thing knew little Julius my nephew.
was ho~ling on the floor. lie hal slipped
down on q slice OF boiled tongue from a
sandwich and bumped his head His
legs were kicking near the hywheel and
his mother jumped up and snatched
him out OF danger. When abe sat down
with him in her arms she sat on the but
tered bread Of his sandwich and ground
IL into the leather cushion
Meanwhile Ethel. OF the cousin 10y
marriage family. had stepped on banana
peel. had nearly pitched overheard and
had dropped her parasol into the water
] lacked up and got II with "A boathook
and tn. eating went on All hands in
sisted upon passing up sandwiches and
pickles 10 me. though had asst had my
breakfast. and a. the boat was rollins
little they usually dropped the sand
wich and fell on II.
In an hours time the linoleum on the
floor looked like the bottom boards of
Con-y Island garbage scow and there
wasn't much ~ the luncheon left They
and getting something To eat. ~ ! put
the boat around and made a short cut
through n lot 81 fishing skins anchored
on the edge Of the channel We were
wallowing in bread crlstS. shreds 81
sIicnd ham and fruit skins and the hywhcel
was picking them up and whirling them
overheard in a shower
SAY. Capt yelled one Of the fishermen
II you're cumming why don't you stop
and fiehT
Il had hardly got away from the fisher
men when the motor gave few RaEp@
and stopped dead still I went through
the usual programme % looking for the
trouble aud made up my mind that IL
was in the carbureter And what do
you Think
what was it,
The cir intrk" had been sucking IN
brpadcrumI- fragments ~ tartp pnttad
ham. cracker dust and other ssnAll dShris
~ the lunch and had COMPRESSED IL into
a solid cake over the air valve. % coura.
the motor couldn't run. cleared the stun
out and got q start.
I'VE wpr,, making for a landing where
they could get bite 10 eat when a nun
81 wind blew SIssn's-my sisters
lunch haskell on the after deck She
napkins was IN the basket and brought
the bOat Ground to try To pick IN up
The basket was drawn into the propeller
torn into shreds and wound around the
shaft and the boat stopped gain
Il motoned Ia me % the fishermen
90 come over with his skin. cnaHed all
hands into the how ~ the boat 40 a. 10
began cutting and pulling the basket ont
of the wheel.
'Ths basket wAs fastened with sharp