The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-29
FOLD on An OCEAN LINER
YARNS CHARLES ReTTELL
LOOWgS HElRD ar SEA.

Wardsa MD 10 Ths'a AnSther sassy
VsUphea 70 ~ 81 Least JOo Years Old.
GLASGOW. Nay IA 80 voyage
Eensrally yislds fruit In Inc way Of anoo-
dotes and stories. but II your memory
Il treachsrous what are you to dog al
ways envy the people who once they
have heard a story have u on tap IN per-
petuity. FOR me | can geneFally rsmsm-
Der only ths point. while the leading up
% Il Roes by the board
HsYe n q story told meby an Irish lady
returning home after a lecture tour N
America and Il Is TOO years old. II h
40 simple that think have retained he
eaaence.
There we're once three monks Who
decidsd that the world was too much
with them and In order 20 find true
aolltuds they all went 10 live In a little
island a the West COast--of ireland. TAs
bland was beautiful, tho solitude peace
Inl and they dwsi togethsr in silsncs
and amity.
A the end u the AFst year one Of the
monks. unable 10 restrain his tongue.
Another happy year vent by and then
TIE nsoond monk replied III Is indeed
ne trus life
Afser another quiet year the third monb
turned away from his brothers and said:
'Unlsss you two ceAro chatsering ] will
20 hach 10 the mainland
The lady who told me this a. Ne at
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having been in manuscripts form fOF o.
least 100 years.
How many times Il has been twisted
and changed since them have heard
h told not 81 spiritual m0nks but of beer
drinking Germans blIt there the action
Was almost too brisk. for only an hour
elapued bstwsen the remarks
The same Irish lady told me tFas aneo-
dOte about that witty EngliNhman Blshop
WiIberfOroe. who vas aid 70 b all things
20 all men and who was called -SOAPy
sam BY those who we're not friendly 10
hinn.
One day AZ dinner his niece said 10 him.
'Uncle, Why IL IL that you are called
'soapy SAm'9-
q did not know was callsd that. ! sup
pose IL u because | get into hot water
- often but always come out with clean
hands
But there was one yarn spinner on ship
bard that to NY sorrow did not appTs-
ctate at his true worth until the last day Of
the trip.
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Bgyanesqus cast Of features and a Aow
% language that his constant malAprOp-
isms did not check. Whsn a Hord came
70 hlh lips be lot IL out with great good
nature. regardless Of It's pronunciation %
its form.
He was absolutely without EuilS and
The story he told those IN the smoking
room he tod in good faith. should like
10 meet the joker who told it 20 him; and
wish had met my iri0ad sooner. ] am
sure that there we're more tales than the
one IN that round haad.
The yarn he tod through the smoke
oonceFnod that musical soul Mayor
8chmitH Of San Francisco and his very
dear friend Abraham Rueg. the man with
TIE anything but ruSful disposition, We
had bees talking about The ships run
- sro., shat ~ ,hI. seorv ,y.s an a.sv
step. Your true story teller needs no
stops
-ibeaFd. said he, JuArinG his shoulders
and sitting back. "a good one On hayOI
schmitz and Abe Ruef Of San Francisco
cone from Portland myself Ono day
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