Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-12
Evening Story
CHE WENT SAILING.
BY oren Mcneil.
copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)

+ blythe Winters finished her book.
No matter what the title was, she
! Vas not to remember it an hour. No
cne girl in ten ever does At 4:05
Mss Blythe rose languidly from her
Seat. At 4.06 she yawned. At 4:08
! 6he took down an old skirt from a
Hook in the closet and proceeded to
seet into 1t. At 4:15 she had changed
I; Her slippers for pair of stout walk:
iaR shoes At Alb she had hunted up
her old hat. At exactly 1920 she ap-
reared before her mother down
atairs and said:
s''I am going sailing for about an
hour
* '.But your brother Fred has gone to
town"
THAT makes no difference. can
rail q boat as we'll as he can
ss why, Blythe, you haven't been out
With him more than three tines"
'sBut wasen't watching all the
I time to see how it was done? Poof!
AN you've got to do is to watch the
wind"
But / wish you wouldn't 60.
Neither Fred nor your father may be
home before midnight
's while shall be back within two
hours. There's a fine breeze and it
Swiu blow the cobwebs away. So
long, mother! Don't worry about
your truly"
II It looks as easy as pie to sail q
boat. In the first place, you want the
Nind-not too much nor too little.
I II the wind isn't right to sail up or
down the lake, then sail across it.
Don't think the breezes must be made
70 your order.
You stumble into the boat and raise
4 the sail. 1t doesn't make such a
greet difference about the stumble,
but It is imperative about the sail.
When 1t is up you make the halyards
fast and 90 to the stern and take the
tiller. ).
Attached to the bottom of the sail
Is boom, and attached to this boom
Is q rope called sheet 1t is no more
sheet than you are, but the sailor
who first called it must have grown
tired of calling everything rope,
and so made change The boatman
holds the free end of this sheet in
his hand, so that in case Of sud
den gust he can slack away and spill
the wind and prevent an upset.
This was one of the several things
that Miss Blythe had not taken notice
81 when she went sailing with her
brother. With charming assurance
she went sailing away, and, she
chuckled with glee at the thought of
how she would crow over Fred.
on Tiger island, young Walter
DAYTON was fishing from an open
boat He had come down from the
city for the. late fall sport, and had
not the slightest suspicion that Cupid
was going to spread net for him.
There are no halyards or ropes or
sheets or sails about fishing. All you
have to do is to throw baited hook
over and by and by foolish bass
comes along and gulps it down and
you pull him In.
Mr.. Dayton was fishing away, and
his thoughts we're not even remotely
on the feminine sex when he was
aroused by a womens voice calling
out:
"oh, oh! Please get out Of my
way!"
He looked up to see a sailboat
bearing down on him and girl twist
in the helm one way and the other.
Her craft was SO close at hand that all
he could do was to seize an oar and
prepare to fend her off. His craft was
struck glancing blow, the best he
could do, and as the other drifted
away he called out:
They shouldn't have let you come
out with that boat"
"And they shouldn't have let you!"
was the spirited reply.
Don't you know that the wind is
rising and becoming gusty?"
What of it,"
"You sheet has been made fast, and
the first heavy gust will upset your
boat"
She did not even look his way.
There goes girl who needs a
strong hand!" muttered the young
man, as he kept down the bay.
There Is young man who thinks
he Is very clever" was the comment
of the girl as she left him behind
1t was true that the wind was rising
and becoming gusty, and therefore
sailing was unsafe for a novice, but
Misc RlythA Wanted that vOunsr man