News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-07-09

| ITeSHlHB our pdTCueu IlOutho WIN pSSi
stories, when a fishing vessel comes
along smelling salvage, Happens he's
one Of them felucca-rigged dago swine
out of Invicta, Texas. His charges
was quite moderate, too, for breaker
of water and some fancy grub-until
we seen the bill.
| I never knew till then that our old
man was owner. OF course that's all
right, only he'd run astern with his
insurance. That's why he'd stay with
the ship, SO it's no good talking. AS
to mother, she come aboard the fe-
luccy, ships cat in her arms, and a
sort of cold, dumb, going-to-be-good-
| and-it's-killin- sort Of smile. She
| bore up brave until she struck the
number-one smell in the dagos cabin
'It's too much" she says, handing me
| the cat, "too much. I'm going back
to drown clean"
But ! was to stay with our sailors
aboard the dago, to fetch Invicta quick,
and bring a tug Dad trusted me,
even to play the coward and quit him.
L diC eau W lillh puSh VII sAiO PoSodeo .
Of four days to the port of Invicta.
Now in them days was fifteen, and
considered homely. The mouth l got
would be large for a dog, smile-six
and three-quarters. Thar ashore at
Invicta, I'd still look sort of cheerful,
50 all them tug shippers took me for
joke. 1t was four days and three
nights since I'd slept, so l suppose I'd
look funny wanting to hire tug.
I showed power of attorney, wrote
in indelible pencil on dads old dicky
cravat, but the tugs expected cash,
and the agents went bach on me.
Nothin' doing Saturday nights at
the Office, tug crews all ashore, but
the port will get move on Monday.
Trust grown men to know more'n
mere boy. The glass is down the gulls
is flying inland, thar's weather brew
ing. I seen in my mind the sprays
lash over the wreck.
1t was dark when I went to the
wharves with Captain McGaw to see
the Pluribus Unum. He'd show me a
tug cheap at ten thousand Gosh
stores all complete, steam up, engineer
on the premises, though he'd stepped
ashore for a drink. Cute cabin he'd
got on the bridge, cunning little glory
hole forrard. Why, everything was
real handy, so that only had to bat
him behind the ear with a Delaying
pin, and he dropped right down the
fore hatch. All I wanted now was
navigating officer I could trust.
Which brings me to Mr.. Mcmillan,
our own second mate, buying . dozen
fried oysters in card box with wire
handle, all for twenty-five CENTS
though the girl seemed expecting a
kiss.
Hello, Frankie" says I, Shaping
him on the back. A foremost hand
can make his officer act real dignifed
with less. "Say, Mac! Dye know
what Greed done?" I grabbed his
oysters. "Greed, he choke puppy"
says l, and in my mind / seen the
gulls wheel around the wreck, where
something's lying huddled. Come on,
puppy" says I, waving frankie down
the street with them oysters, so all
the traffic pauses to admire, and our
second officer is running good. More
things I said, escorting him maybe a
mile aboard of the Pluribus Unum
And there I ate them oysters while
he was being coarse and rude, but all
the time l seen the wreck heave sick
md cnH1nn tho Of ha p,11f
the circling gulls, and how they drove
down, pecking at huddle of torn
clothes beside the wheel.
Up thar on the tugs masthead I was
owning to being in the wrong, while
frankie Mac was promising faithful
to tear my hide off over my ears when
I'm caught.
please, sir" says l, cit amt so
much the oysters worries me. It's
this yer Cap'n McGaw l done EN-.
bezzled. Cayn't call it kidnapped cause
he's over sixty, but I stunned him
illegal with a Delaying -pin, and I
hears him groaning-times when you
stops to pant"
But frankie Mac wouldn't believe
one word until he went down in the
lore peak to inquire, while l applied
he hatch, and battened down.
So you see I'd got a tug, and the
crew aboard, so the next thing was to
AXE in the hawsers, shove off, and let
her drift on the ebb.
It's caution to see how many taps
md things beSets an enpine-room all
If 'em heaps efficient. The first thing
handled proved up plenty steam, for
ny left arm was pink and blisters for
/ week. Next I found a tap called
oilge-valve injection, which lets in the
sea when you wants to sink the ship.
turned him full, and went to sit on
he fore hatch while l sucked my arm,
ind had a chat with the crew.
They was laxative, and battering
It the hatch with an AK, so I'd hardly
| word in edgeways. Then they got
scared we'd blow up before we
drowned. Allus in my mind I'd see
hem gulls squawkin' around the 2
wreck, and mother fighting them. /
That heaped thing by the wheel was
Ad. for / seen the whites of his eyes
IS the ship lurched him. An the
,ulls-
Cap'n McGaw was pleadin' with me, |
hen Mr.. Mcmillan. They swore they'd I