Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-02
IN TWO PARTS-PART II.
T7HE after rail of the chartroom deck overlooke
the Matched tank which the fight was to tai

as Moves took his position by the rail that pleased the
crew: for most of them still laughing heartily.
Herman on campstool, waited for the laughter to
simmer down. He fixed hooking eye the bosn.
sAnd SO you re whale, Ell? And you'll learn what
a whale do to little fishes? Well, let tell you
something about whale, Son. A whale is
enough big creature but | never heard he fight
ing fish before Now, if you knew more about some
things you'd never called yourself a whale, but a
thresher There's the best fighting fish OF them all
the thresher The threshers the boy with the walop.
He's the boy that chases the whale and leaps high out
of the water and snaps his long Timber tail, and
bam!-down he comes on that big slob OF whale and
breaks his back All the wise old whales, they take to
deep water when they thresher hunting trouble.
It's the foolish young whales that don't know enough
to let the thresher alone"
Moves noted that the laughed more loudly at
the DO s rough eers than at the sharply pointed
comment of the pumpman. But, looking them over,
he began understand: these nearer to the
bosns type than the pumpmans. And also (ths oc-
CURED to him he reected could long remain
ignorant of which it the Captain favored the
punpman won they would benefit by it, whether they
taught them that. While if the bosn to win land
who could doubt that looking at the two men0, why
'twould be just well to fly their colors early.
Yet there were those who favored the game looking
pumpman Two or three had the courage to show it.
1t was these who cried out to give him fair play when
some dozen for rushing him off the hatch
before the fight had begun at all.
Herman thanked these with grateful look. @Thats
all | want fair play. Keep off the hatch and give US
room to move around IN
= man to get no fair play, if the bosns adj
herents would overwhelm Herman he stood there
alone the hatch. And Moves experienced unpleas-
ant chill and began to appreciate the of this man
defying crowd of alien spirits aboard strange ship
1t was than physical courage he needed. And
@Hold up! Fair payl' Noyes called out. Fair play,
l say! He's only one!'
1t was the psychological word coming from whom it
did, at the psychological moment. They drew back,
and Herman, looking up, put his thanks in his look
The two faced each other.
Herman eyed the other critically. Upand down, from
toe crown he estimated his bulk; and then taking
step to side he eyed him more. if to get
the exact depth of him.
Well said the bo'sn, and with the raising Of his
voice his growing adherents smmered to silence "now
yuh We me- what dyuh think?'
give EN- Just as big hulks of full your length
and beam and draft, and in breeze I've vessels
of less tonnage make EN- take their mainsl in
3And so yuhve been in the wind jammn' line, huh2'
4That and few Others answered Herman tran
guilty.
here's craft won't take any sail in afore you And
you're quite hulk in the water yourself, yuhve
come out where we en- get a peek at yuh.'
"You ought to see me when I'm hauled out the
ways retorted Herman "A fair little hulk out of
water may be; but it's below the water line, like
we get to busnessa i've been hearing about you for
years. And for what you're going to do to since
I've aboard Herman threw up his hands, Sob,
Lord! they tell me you drove your naked fist through
the wall of a saloon up West-st. the other day."
ayes, an can drive it through the side of you today"
"Man! And m not wall sided, either You must be
helllon But, 10 klernan ears had come the sound
of mutterng in the crowd SHALL get at it, We
ought to make good match of it. You may be bit
the bigger; but no matter Three or four inches in
height and sixty seventy pounds what's that? What
dyou say?" he turned to them. "Hes big enough to
pull mast down about Are the two of us to
settle it here without interference? In the old days
fought the champions in front of the armies and
the winning man was allowed to ride back unframed to
his comrades
That picture, the willy and eloquent pumpman
painted it, impressed them. And he looked so frail
beside the bo'sn! They drew well back now; all but
one, the crafty cool headed carpenter crony of the
DO sn and an eager tool of the Captains. There