El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-03-07

"And you had a right tor declared Sim
Perkins.
$50 he says to me, continued Uncle ASH
dod. All right he says I'll sell a couple
Of tons Of dodo eggs to you II Cne price is
fair. What's the price?' thought a while.
We got to ask a broker what the price is
l says, and I'm Willln Tor the cook to be
broker If YOU are So he was Willin' and
we made the cook the broker He'd been
stock broker before he was cook He
went broke broking, and he kept gettin'
broker, and that was why he was cook So
7 SAYS to him Cook want to buy a couple
OF tons OF dOdo eggs, whats the rulin' price p
And want to SELL says the mate So the
cook scratches the back Of his head awhile
and he looks at the thermometer The price
today, he says. is 80 in the shade, that be-
in what the thermometer showed Ninety
two dollars a hundred weight he says, is
the price Of dodO eggs today nd my COM
mission is 10 cents a hundred weight he
says. So me and the mate each paid him
And the ship goin' to CeylOn?" said Sim
Perkins
And the ship goin' to CeylOn," agreed
Uncle Ashdod-
And you KNOWN that the temperature
would get hotter and hotter" said Sim Per-
kins. And that how you gOin' to
rob the poor mater
1T waA what you might call my tip on
the market said Uncle AShdOd- And 1t
was excitin' for all hands Eyerybody kept
eye on the thermometer, and when we
crossed the equator fingered d made SIS.
The mate was most worried sick. He hadn't
was worse broke than the broker was and
he ran around the ship like crazy man,
tryin' to get someone to sell him some dodO
eggs before the temperature went clean out
of sight. He tried to buy some from me, but
/ wouldn't sell NO, SIT, says / bought
from you, and you've got 10 denver or pay
me the difference in price Well he says.
I guess I'm goin' to lose everything I'm
worth So why worry Z L m goin' to fish "
FISH" exclaimed Sim Perkins
Fish, said Uncle AshdOd. so he did
He sat on the stern Of the ship and fished,
and In oh and
Goldfish and porgies and parts of the fish
he kept and part he thrOwed away"
''What part did he keep" asked Sim Per-
''The biadders,' said Uncle Ashdod and
I thought it was peculiar. but thought
nothin' Of it until one day 1 noticed the
ship was ridin' light She wasn't settin' so
deep in the water. That's funnyr I saws,
but the Mate went right on fishin'"
Some OF the vacuum was leakin' out"
suggested Sim Perkins
mo. SIR" said Uncle AshdOd. Not a
drop leaked out But all at once I seen the
ocean sort of sink away below US, and when
seen that the Sally Ann was floatin' free
and clear in the air, and gOin' up and up
Mater shouted, and he come. and
smiled. The old boat has turned into a
regular old air ship amt she?' he says.
And that's too bad he says, because
there's no tellin how high she'll 60, and
the temperature of the upper air is cool to
cold, il not more So he says. When he
said that I jumped for the Thermometer
and, sure enough she was fallin' as fast as
the ship was goin' up. and every fall of
the thermometer meant money out of my
pocket And I couldn't think how to get
the old boat down again could throw
stuff overheard and make her 20 I'D
quicker, but that all could think OF
dom to change things"
''HOw low did the thermometer go2s
asked Elm Perkins.
'TwO above zero" said Uncle Ashdod.
land that's where she, stood when the air
currents drifted up over Ceylon We was
right above the harbOr Of Colombo, CeyIon.
when the Mate come to me and says,
'Cap'n. it's time to settle our speculation