Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1912-05-10
In Search
OF AnaniaS
He Was Equal to the
Occasion
By cLARissA MAcKIH

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one shlpped beiore the mast ihe
men complained about his cooking. but
so far as could see what he put on
the cabin table wasn't much worse
than my other cooks had turned out
But Ananias wasn't slow in learning
sea ways.
"At the end of the first day all hands
We're feeling neevish. Ferry island lay
an eighth of mile distant and some
of them had been wanting to go ashore
and look for fruit and turtle eggs. |
put it off till the next day because l
was expecting II Whit of wind every
minute. and when Ananias had piped
all hands to supper the calm was still
raging as Billy Sparks. my mate. used
TO say.
when Ananias brought the platter
of salt beef and set it in front of Fin
ley Beale. who had been in my fo'c'sle
for a dozen years. old Beale rose up
and. raising his hands over the salt
beef. gave tie sailors blessing-so they
called it. Says he:
"'old hoss. old hoss. how came you
here?
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