The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-18


 "I take it, Mir Johannesen' says the captain that place he had marked the chart. Likely it fhagi V..' 7 M s S - @s the reef spite of all the could do an dropped a second what could from the first.
 gone Which staTted oaf on tTobe '"
 q went off with the second boat, an made strangestlooEn' figure he wasI can't describe what @ that bnc gave dT was a Gss sd rd an the starved bones of him, an the stare in his
 We had lost two men for him. an without more ado we pulled back to the ship Making sail, we the nor -nor'east we picked up the second reef as wicked ookin as the first, but with more bone above
 Now about that man had picked up-even after WeaIi4he was weak as pt m as bechedeer. Ire pang they're called in the places where folks em speak wordTL guess he was dazed, mebbe, anyway
 he had lost his tongue After he'd been fed fed bit, tackled him in German. He caught little of that, nationality at al an the men were leery of him He kept that queer glazed look in his which them was anxious to make friends didn't blame the men,-he felt cold to the touch; clammy .Ught- Joha6nesen loaded his pipe. He said he was shaEy, With sunlight an fair weather it would Have been different: but did get the lash end of that gale mast went over an the old bark got crazy Matt Lar at the wheel for long trick an he swoTe she bewitched, cause she wouldn't half the time an Matt had known her for years. Well, spite ship did the Aaekiand the wrath Q the sea was up an she wrecked-but where, do yeh spose? On the rack be before A when she struc Ee ay S he went g pieces was strange to see-lke boat determined to
 T knew then how much the captains girl meant to her that night cfingin piece of raft had lashed with my one arm caught round her and the other uo wet ar and m Inserabeioocn foroof vrn e.J e md he with fhe SOlee fhere was in me An by God we went through it, we two. got to the reef her closed an her teeth biting into her lip, thought she was dead ian somehow since it, separated from the rest, snew-though
 e word @ dd t we Pek e y had d gdpped a me 2 by the deck she called out so knew that the others
 Johannesen smoked hard for minute, and lost his face in the drift of it; but there husky Morning found us huddled together fen of us be- side the captain, like bunch of drenched sheep But she smiled when the sun came out, an that put life back into me lad. There something live for would have nothing worth goin back to she wssnt along. Women are the only rainbows ever find,
 Work There was the wreck, tidy distance out, watch Breaking up Some @ things of use ese ashore an by sheer rush got them Water baled out counted three days supply of food-or say five of staryin' rations. When that exhausted we had
 Then sought advice iron, the .,, from Beche-de-Mer. Oh yes he saved hinse1f-while of us had cuts and bruises to show for swim, an worn-out lot he hadn't seemed to mind cast-the for1orn object he had been For all knew, he conld have been squid that picked the reef to sun But he could give advice He had I'!ed or tsas ree months perhaps an we found him Eta Egadt8 80thins 50 we wanted to kno"So'" "s lad
 "O1d Fritz tried to make him understand and finally he managed 1t. Mebbe his dulness put on an
 ebbe not fish has got no great store of brains an scales. During all this time one had sympa thy for him. He was the sort yeh wanted to let alone We didn't have to shun him, for he kept apart his place on the far side of it. where he would sit m the sun for hours without stirring gazing out silent enough to give yeh the creeps to look at him. beore m m W eP nd from f0 b M the eroess of e1stn practically nothing all. When he finally came to understand the question, he went off an in named him for-beche- -de-rner.
 "Yeh know what beche-de-ner is? Trepang is the sold in Manila and Eastern ports I've the stuff when dried, loo1in like charred sausages an cracly knife boiled by the fishers, an dried for sale The Chinese like 'em, an the black sort chao sah O., ton But since the wreck, the Chnks have 'em all; know that I've had my fill of beche-de-ner, like the we tried save for civilization
 TWel, lad. that what he ate; he had lived on chilly So many times had he been in the sea after them, his hands looked b1ood1ess an fn-1ike; and an for tongue words That what we thought, anyway. An I spose if he hadn't been there alone as we found it, cause it was he11ish place Day an night the hissed in, churning way with it, an the broiled down the white crunb1y back of the reef and the dark made bones of Twin for company, just another b1eachn' skeleton then the biue-gTay sea clear off to the skyline with in in-enough to drive real man daft, lad
 "So lived beche-de-mer for time-I don't know how long. He'd get them in the reef-end