Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-23
CHAPTER X-Continued.


What else but body that makes
molds?'
Yes. but how does he do it,"
"Weel, there's a sort o. sandy place al
the fit o. each smelling furnace-lke a
bit seashore. ye'll Understandable every
four and-twenty hours they cast the fur
mace. They let DOT the melted ore, that
is. and 1t rims doom Until molds that haze
been made in the sand. (Ye dae it by
just buryin' baulks O. timber in rows and
then pickin' them DOT again, and the
stuff rims Until the hollows that have been
left. When it's cauld they ca it pig
from Well, l stuck tao that job for a
matter o. sax months. But it was drouthy
work. besides bein' hard on the feet
YOU go Notwithstanding In the sand WI
your bare soles maxim the molds-and
presently ! gave it up and took tae daen'
odd jobs among the trucks and engines
i'm the yards. | liked that fine. for ma
chinery is the yin thing that really ex-
cites me. First l was a coupler. then 1
was fireman. then / got tae dr1vfn
wee shunting engine, bunting trucks about
the Yard. And at last was set In charge
o winding engine at a pit held. That
was a grand job. but it didna last long.
] was drinkin hard by this time-Id
stairtit after / left the Coocaddens-and
yin day 1 was that fou let the cage
gang doom wi run tae the bottom o
the shaft
was there anybody in the cage?' in
uuired Hughie, as GOble paused. as II to
contemplate some mental picture.
There was not thank God! But there
was bit laddie doom ablow in the pit,
that was sittin' on his hutch-his truck.
that is-at the fit o the shaft. waitin on
the cage. He wasna expectin' the thing
tae fab doom like daud o putty, so he
was no sittin quite clear. and the cage
cam doom and took off bath his feet.
Man, I haze never forgotten his mither's
face when they brought him up. / lost
ma job, and I hae never touched drop
since. For seven and twenty years have
] been on the teetOtal-seven and twenty
years. It'll shorten ma life. / doot," he
added. gloomily, but I'll bide by it.''
What became of the boy?" inquired
Hughie.
Hes gotten twa wooden feet the noo.'
replied Goble. more cheerfully, land he's
been minding the lamproom this twenty
year I've heard frae him moo and again.
and we've always been freens. but his
aud mither has never forgiven me. She's
over seventy the day, but Jeems tells me
she aye let's a curse every time he men,
tons ma name"
further installment of Mr.. Coolies ad-
ventures explained how he took to the
AFTER i cleared DOT o. Motherwell
went to the Clydeside. ! was a fair
enough mechanic by this time. but / had
tak'n sort O. skinner at machinery-no
wfoot some reaSOn-and / tried for to
get taken on as dock hand. / had no
luck there, and / was fair starvin' when
yin day 1 met a freend o min on the
Dumbarton road, and he asked me would
! like tae wash dishes and peel potaties
on a passenger steamer. l would haze
been pleased tae soop the lums O muckle
hell by that time. gin 1t was for a wage.
i was that thrawn wi hunger. SO l jist
said. Deed ayr
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taties and washin dishes on board the
Electra. her that has done a trip doom
the waiter, roOnd about Arran and Butte.
and hame by Skelmorlie ilka day O. the
summer season for twenty-twa years.
When the winter cam l booted l
would be GOT o job again: but bein'
nowadays permanently on the teetotal
and varra dependable, 1 was shifted tae
the auld Stornoway o. the same line.
carryin' goods cattle and passengers tae
the west Highlands-Coll Three Barra,
list. Ullapool and a wheen places in and
DOT o sea lochs up and doom that coast.
She loused frae the BrOomielaw every
Thursday at o'clock in the afternoon.
and she was back there, week in week
out. summer and winter. by IL in the
forenoon o. the following Wednesday.
The folk along by Largs, where her cap'n
lived, used tae set their watches by her.
She was fine auld boat. the StOrnoway;
she piled herseR up on the rocks below
the SOUR of Fig, where she had no call
tae be, in a snowstorm seven winters
syne. l was a cabin steward nowadays,
yen understand: and once We were roond
the Null and the passengers had thrawn
up what they'd had tae their tea of
Gourock and tak'n a dander ashore at
Oban. appetftes was big and 1 was busy.
1t was the first time had seen the gentry
1t their meals, and II improved my main
ners considerable. Never since then have
i skailed ma tea Until ma saucer: I jist
gle bit blow on 1t moo. YOn's Mr.. AL
lerton roarin' for to be relieved at the
wheel"
On another occasion Goble explained
how he came to forsake the fieshpots of
the Stornoway and take to the high seas.
II was aye hankerin'. hankerin' after
Gamma serve tables all his life. So after
twa years on the Stornoway / shippit as
q fireman on a passenger steamer out
ward bound frae Glasgow tae Bilbao.
There left her. tae be second engineer
on wee tramp carrying iron ore tae the
Mediterranean. That was nigh twenty
years ago. and I've never set fit in Scot
land since. Weel. wesl. Aha! Mphm."
Cad lib. and da capo)
SO he would discourse, in a manner
which passed many weary hour for
both. and added considerably to Hughies
stock of human knowledge.
The days wore on. The work and long
hours were beginning to tell their tale
but the entire crew kept grimly to it.
Their nerves were i'm good order, too.
Even when. on the morning of the six
teenth day, as they CROPPED their way
through a streaming wet fog, a great
ghostly monster of a liner suddenly
doomed out of the wrack, and, as she
shouldered her way past them. actually
scraped the starboard counter with her
stern. while the lookout on her forward
deck'yelied frantically, and a frightened