Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-11-28

Cant guess?" says mother.
I'm the old man. he giggles. she's
the old woman" Then he reached out
his paw Put her there, SOM" says
he; what's yer name. boy?"
He'd hand like bear trap
Smith" l squealed. Smith"
Fast" says he. Fill yourself
goblet of that ere sherry wine, with
some sugar Drink, you cub. to Cap
tain and Mrs. Smith. Now off with
ye, and pass the bottle forrard"
Next day, or next week. or maybe
the Monday following. the ships got a
headache, with the sky sitting down
on the mastheads, the sea like oil, the
sheets Shaping the shadows on the
deck, where the tar boils and our feet
is like overdone toast.
The sky's like copper edged with
sheet lightning, then there's scud in
a hurry overhead, the horizon folding
in, and a funnelshaped cloud TO the
southland wrapping up the sky. There's
no air. and l noticed the pinnacle
alight, so 1t must have been nigh dark
under that funnel cloud Just as it
struck, some one called out "All
aboard and l heard the mate yell,
You mean. all overheard"
Couldn't see much at first. as | was
busy getting mother out OF the
drowned cabin When I'd passed a
halyard round her and the stump of
the mizzen, I'd just breathing time
The sea was fiattened. white under
| hIaAE oh - Lee -
was mostly blowing about.
Dad was just taking command again
OF what remained. No use shouting
either, so he hung on and beckoned.
The masts oversize were battering
holes in us, until we cut adrift. Then
to the pumps, but that was sort of
ex offlcio just to keep us warm Work
ms warmer than waiting.
Being Undertaken we couldn't sink.
which was convenient But as mother
said. there wasn't any grub on the
roof, and we couldn't go downstairs.
For instance. we wanted drink of
water.
| Well, now, we been three days re-
freshing our parched mouths with beer
/ 0NNAASoB WhIh q AoAA1n6 FCp6SA tOtnCS
along smelling salvage. Happens he's
one of them felucca-rigged dago swine
out Of lnvieta, Texas. His charges
was quite moderate, too. for breaker
OF water and some fancy grub--until
we seen the bill.
| 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'me sort of smile She
~6ore up brave until she struck the
numberone smell in the dago's cabin
Its too mu III" she says, handing me
the cat, II much. I'm going back
tc drown clean"
But | was to stay with our sailors
ABOARD the dago. to fetch Invicta quick.
AID bring a tug. Dad trusted me,
even to play the coward AID quit him.
dread to think back on the passage
CT four days to the port of Invic;a.
Now in them days | was fifteen, and
considered homely. The mouth | got
would be large for dog. smile-six
and three-quarters Thar ashore at
lnvicta. I'd still look sort of cheerful,
SO all them tug shippers took me for
a Joke. II was four days and three
nights since Id slept, so ! suppose I'd
look funny wanting to hire tug.
showed power of attorney, wrote
in indelible pencil on dads old dscky
craNat. but the tugs expected cash.
and The agents went back 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. ] seen in my mind the sprays
lash oyer the wreck
II was dark when ! went to the
wharves with Captain McGaw 10 see
the PlUribus Unum He'd show me q
tug cheap at ten thousand cash
stores al complete, steam up, engineer
on the premises. though he'd stepped
ashore Tor a drink. Cute cabin he'd
got on the bridge, cunning little glory.
hole fofrard. Why, everything was
real handy, so that / only had to bat
him behind the ear with Delaying
pin, and he dropped right down the
fore hatch, All | wanted now was a
, navigating officer | 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 |. slapping
{ him on the back. A foremost hand
r can make his officer act real dign.fied