Evening star., 1914-08-23

on the promenade deck abaft the funnes boiling to
rings specially screwed in the deck, passing wire
hawser the top which made fast to the port
and starboard davits and rigging weather of
double tarpaulin to keep Bingo and dry. The
other beasts shipped under the lee of the forward
cabin skylght and I'd just got through the job when
quiet, ladylike voice at my elbow says:
"'If you please Officer with regard to my patient,
wish to know
@'Ask the purser Maam l said rather snappishly
for was hot and worried, or the head stewardess.'
al have asked them both,' says the voice in calm
determined way, and have been referred to you
"'Well, what is it? says l.
@'By mistake says the young lady-for young
lady she was and hospital nurse besides, neatly rigged
out in the usual uniformity mistake have had al
otted to bedroom the ground foor so far from
my patient that cannot possibly hear him should he
call in the night. And, she went on, the breeze
played with her white silk bonnet strings and the wavy
little kinks of soft brown hair that framed her forehead
and want you to to the upper floor at once.
@'You mean the promenade deck, Madam, says l.
smoothing out grim though I'm well enough used to the
odd bungesland folks make of things at sea-
The flying pencil stopped. The reporter looked up,
turning his shortened cigar between his teeth.
when do we to the elephant?' he asked.
@We're at him now, said the second officer. @You
mean the promenade deck, says l. Does your patient
occupy of the cabins the port the starboard
smiled at brightly, her eyes and teeth making sort
of flash together He doesn't have cabin, says she
he sleeps cage. My patient is Bngo the elephant
"Great Pierpont Morgan!" calculated the reporter
His pencil became almost invisible from the rapidty
with which he piled it. Drops of perspiraton broke out
upon his forehead. @Glory!" he cried. 4And not
another thought it worth while to run out and
tackle this wallowng old tub but mel
a touched my cap, went the second officer, keep
ing down as professionally could the surprise felt
Do understand, Madam asked, that you are the
elephants nurse?' And at that she nodded with
other bright smile and told that she Nurse
Amy, of St. Baalams Nursing Association, London,
specially engaged by the American gentleman to
attend to the animal on the voyage 1t was under
stood that if the principal patients condition per-
mitted Nurse Amy to pay the leopards such at
entions they capable of apprecang; but there
was no pressure on this point.
"Ohowgh!" coughed the voice outside. @Yarr!
Ohowgh'
ale smells the land, guess, said the reporter.
"You ought to have heard Bingo when we were three
days out from the Mersey" said the second officer.
"Wed had fair wind and smooth at first, and
nothing delighted the ladies and children board like
feeding him apples and nuts, and biscuits, and things
prigged from the saloon tables The air must have
sharpened the beasts appetite suppose; for that old
trunk of his snorkng round all day, and the purser
who naturally wild about it, said he must have put
away hogsheads of good things in addition to his allow
ance of hay, and bread and beetroot and grain and
cabbages, and sugar
"Was he calm in temper?' asked the
s--A&5 mild as milk; as kind beast
- brcathed; and elephants do a lot of breath