The Republican journal., 1912-09-19

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Stable Case full outfit $500.
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back into the harbor, from whence we
had worked our way out so laboriously
"Swim first | muttered through my
salty lips. The first of these passages
led out to sea through the regular and
steering slightly to the south of east, and
directly into the teeth of the wind,
against the rushing current and huge
tumbling waves. Was there power
enough, | asked myself, in the little IA
horsepower two-cycle engine, already
showing signs of being impaired from
the necessity of shutting off its air by
closing the cock pit matches against the
flying spray, which would have put its
carburetor out of commission with one
drenching. In fact, water from the
cock pit floor had run down the iron rod
connecting with the throttle and already
stopped the engine once on the way out;
this, owing to the lack of imagination
of the installer of the engine, who had
brought the rod through the cock pit
floor instead of higher up through the
combing of the hatch. And here l
would like to speak of the comfort it is
to sail boat in which everything is, as
it should be, ingeniously devised and so
placed as to be at hand when and where
needed, carefully thought out to do the
work intended for it properly. In a
Herreschoff boat, stretch out your hand
in the night and it will fall in natural
position on cleat or rope To have
boat we'll found with suitable emergency
tools, new spare gear, and good ground
tackle is a delight, too. All these are
but reflection of the man behind the
boat
To resume, ''Is it possible, is there
power?' | kept on repeating to myself
all the while between clinched teeth, to
drive this clumsy tub. whose bluff full
bows were already being plunged down
under solid green water every time she
dropped into the short high seas, kicked
up by this half gale and strong current;
the latter getting constantly swifter and
swifter as we slowly progressed into its
restricted channel
The only way to decide this was to
try, so pointed her bow deliberately in
to it, and watched anxiously range
had picked out on the graceful, cone
shaped, red brick tower of the Mosquito
Inlet lighthouse. This rises abruptly out
of the greenery that clusters about its
three, neat, red brick keepers houses,
and its jet black lantern windows, now
curtained in yellow kahki, which are $50
| feet in mid air, a great height for this
uniformly fiat country. With acrcbatic
turns of the wheel | held her head up
and made her look at it for perhaps two
/ long draWn-out minutes, squirting
through salt encrusted eyelids, as best
| could, ali the while at my lighthouse
range. There was no room for doubt,
| decided without a question that she
| could never stem it. In fact she was
even now, before getting into the al
thick Of it, simply plunging up and down
and gong stern first, back toward the
| beach. Already Charlie. noticing it. had
/ turned the stony gaze OF his fixed blue eyes
and the rakish little bowl of his ever
| faithful pipe at,ma with pathetic inquiry
and surprise.
To lpeward of us, and leading in a
/ general north easterly direction, was the
! SWash channel, running along back OF
the line of waves that We're breaking
and tumbing over the outer bar. The
/ tide was, as | have said, about half up;
and by all accounts we should not be en-
titled to water deep enough to allow US
to float over this, the shaIlower of the
/ two bars, for at least an hour.
! | gazed at it, however, as a drowning
man might at straw, or a rope-end. On
both sides of its quarter mile or so of
length, the water was roily from being
| loaded with the red and brown sand
bei7g constantly churned up and stirred
round and round, and over and over by
the rotary swirl of the waves, as their
under edges were retarded and tripped
| by the friction with the bottom as they
ran into shallow water, and their crests
tumbled on headlong and were hurled
end over end in their madly, wild, tear
ing career.
look at this Swash channel throue h
half closed eyes, now painfully encrusted
with salt, which quickly dried on, and in,
under the rays of the tropical sun, be-
tween the duckings. Even so viewed,
the water over it's bar looked good to
me. Its waters were cleaner and less
disturbed and turbid and its course
straighter, in fact, than the main chan
mel itself.
Owing to some seemingly capricious
freak of nature, though doubtless gov
erned by an immutable law, the recent
storm had favored the SWash channel,
and secured her out so that temporarily
she was in the ascendency, broader,
straighter and less shallow than the old
main channel itself. Of course the
waves were chasing athwart her entire
length, as if a whole band of young
Tritons mounted on sea horses, and other
marine monsters with green names and
backs cleaning white through the foam
in the sunlight, were bounding them on in
pure glee and love of the sport, and had
succeeded at last in bringing them al