Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1914-04-10

boneAth tbem buokle ana snake.
go 1t, old girl said Mr.. McTodd.
''aosh, but this il scraping the bar
nacles JHnely of your belly" He
raised his voice to q throaty below
and hailed a cluster Of men who lay
behind barricade OF coal bags on
the poop: "Aft there: are you keep
Ing bright lookout? II another
shot comes aboard from the shore
without your shooting first, I'll bap
tiSe some more OF ye with three
ouarter-inch spanner. Kindly re-
member I've mo- put ye there Just for
decorative purposes, ye lop-eared
aliens. Dye hear me, you schwer
etnsenT
AYE, aye, saire"
II don't know who It was that was
playing the DEVILS delight Just now
behind those sand-hills," continued
Mr.. McTodd, this time to the un
dersized fireman who was attending
to the windlass engines beside him,
"but by the pleasure somebody
seems to be taking over the scrap,
II seemed vara like as IL our Old
Man had scraped clear, and was
coming back here to stir up trouble.
Gosh! I'd give a thumb to think
yon was true"
There's the skipper, sir, Just rode
up on black 'orse to the top of
that sand-ll Looks to me by the
way 'e's a-shakin' is first 'e's letting
loose a mouthful of language"
Bite off your tongue, you mutin-
our son Of q White-chapel tripe-
hawker. Man, have seen creatures
more worthy than you fair smashed
to a Jelly for speaking so of the
Lords anointed And anyway.
abusing the shippers an amusement
resairve for myself. Waving, is he?
I'll let him wave his arrums from
their sockets and his whip-lash of a
tongue from its roots before I pleas
ure him by sending a boat that'll
bring him off to interfere here. By
gosh, this is my funeral, and no
other corpse need apply"
And so, like another commanding
officer before him, Mr.. N. A. McTodd
turned a blind eye to all shore sig
nails till he had completed the work
he had set his mind on, and saw
the Norman Towers hung to her an
chor with clean deep water all
around her, and had cast off the
heavy wire towing-hawser from the
Wangaroo, and bidden Trethewy
drop his hook alongside. But when
all this was completed he sent on
boat and piously anticipated the en-
joyment of seeing Kettle in furious
rage at having all the difficult work
done for him.
But that small mariner read the
scheme of Mr. McTodd's ambitions
(as he and others were rowed Off,
and with ar effort pulled his temper
into hand. and resolved not to al
low himself to be drawn for the
Scots wicked qualification.
Instead he stretched out cordial
hand Mac" he said, "it's clever of
you. How in James did you manage
to do it,"
The Northerners jaw dropped. He
was losing the sport he had promis-
ed himself. at looks as II I'd gone
beyond your orders" he said point
edly.
T didn't leave you behind in
charge because you were reliable"
Kettle told him sharply, but be-
cause you were the best l had"
Man." retorted the Scot, 81 ken
ned fine you undervalued me, and it
is just that knowledge that's i'm
PEELED me to miracles. Ye saw for
yourself how impossible it was ever
to get this rusted old cargo-box into
deep water again, and here you now
see it's been done. You, and the
British Board of Trade, and few
others, can never be convinced of
my qualifications, and I'm put to
this perpetual strain of performing
miracles just for the sake of my or
binary professional credit"
you've been drinking again,
among other things"
"And for why not? Drinking, say
you? Man, tell you the Archbishop
of York, who's an Aberdonian, yes,
or even the moderator of Free Kairk
of Scotland, would have Tapped guild
whisk if he had had it, as a coun'
ter-irritant to the strain I've been
put to. AS a first example: how
many of those ducks you left in my
charge do ye think can swim?"
81 never took the census Of them" "
"Pairfectly. Weel, l did. 1t seem
ed (on inquiry there were three
who said they could, and twenty
three who couldn't Man, you'll bare
ly believe it, but I've taught twenty
two"
"Now look here, Mac, pull your
self together and tell straight tale,
Twenty three you said second be-
fore. Which is it? And anyway,
what has swimming to do with pull
ing the Towers out of that bay?"
"Man, dinna' be offensive. Your
nationality is against you, l ken
fine, but fight against 1t, man, fight
oaoinet TN Mr. McTodd ahradde