The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-06-26

zane enough, but SO far as Jack and
myself were concerned a bad fisher
man. In fact, he could never be taught
to bring in fish at all, though being
young he was one of the liveliest of our
herd. This unproductive member oil
the family was selected to be the bearer
Of our letter. Next morning we wrote |
our letter and fastened the bladder to
one Of No Goods legs, leaving length
of about two feet of sheep gut betweenI
tho bladder and his leg. We now dis
missed No Good and proceeded to carryj
our other purpose into execution. THERE
was now no necessity for repeating thatI
toilsome operation by which Jack had!
formerly kindled fire in his parlor i'll
1t wore possible, for indeed he had ex-
haustcd his materials. I had in myl
pockets some lucifer matches. Two orI
three of these we selected, and bindingI
them up tightly in Jacks purse vel
stripped and took to the water, Jack go
ing first. Waiting for few minutesI
till he should be quite clear of the tun-
mel, followed, not indeed without uni
pleasant qualms, for it was an uglyI
business, and though could swim andI
dive as we'll as my brother was notl
at all SO brave, stout hearted and deter
mined as he was. Indeed have neverl
met any ono SO fearless as he was. On|
this occasion my heart failed me, and|
after cropping in the cave for few sec
0nds came out again as had gone in
Then / said to myself, "If do not getI
through soon, Jack, suspecting some ac-
cident, will return, and we may meet
in tho tunnel with disastrous conse-
quences. Making up my mind fullyI
to get through this time, dived again
and was quito surprised to find how oasyt
tho business really was. came up, of
course, in dense darkness and shouted.
can rightp' l heard some one cry:
"Swim this way. will lend you
hand" Soon l was helped onto the
rocky shore, and when we had collected
some timber and dried our hands we
struck tho matches and lit Il fire. When
!, for my own part, had stated my curios-
ity by exploring tho parlor, we both set.
to work upon the great beam and began|
to cut from it such length as wei
thought wo could roll into tho water,
and found it, rs Jack had predicted,
very slow work indeed. In spite of the|
fire Mt which we repeatedly warmed
ourselves, we soon grew cold. "This|
won't do Mt all, Jack said. eff wo are|
to do a good days work here, we must
swim in with our clothes on, dry them|
at the fire, then dress ourselves and work
comfortably" We returned as we came,
dressed ourselves, dived again through
tho tunnel, and after drying our clothes
and putting them on worked with our
knives Mt tho beam for tho rest Of that
day. Wo then covered up the ombers
In ashes, returned to the big cavo and
dined. That night we determined to
quito shift our quarters. at least for the
present, and to remove some of our food
into tho parlor. This we did next day,
taking with us good deal of mutton
and bread. We brought through tho
bread easily onough-viz, by making u
bag with tho sleeps skin and tying it
up SO tightly rs to be quito waterproof.
On tho previous dny wo had been rather
surprised to find that tho seals seemed
quito rs fond of our society in our now
quarters as in tho old There were one or
two of them sporting in the dark water
beside us all day rs wo worked. Though
Jack, using all his most effective ges-
lures and phrases, continued to impress
upon them that they should get us fish.
thoy did not do so. Our new and strange
condition and tho absence, l suppose, of
Scamp from tho scene had interrupted
tho association of ideas which my broth
or had with so much trouble succeeded
in establishing in their minds. We
therefore determined to bring Scamp in
too. Jack Embossed tho fellow for the
first timo. His delight was unmeasur-
cd, and 80 much did he relish his free
dom that during the greater part of
that dry wo wcro unable to capture
him again. Eventually wo succeeded
and had tho satisfaction later on of find
ing his parents bring him fino cod
ling, only portion Of which was their
son permitted to devour. OF course the
moment VIC soizcd Scamp wo proceeded
at once to secure him and compel him
to mako his "lodging on tho cold
ground. Here, then, we continued Cor
four days, industriously cutting our
way into tho heart of tho big mahoga-
ny beam, each of us working ut his own
notch. We now saw our way clearly
to escape. This great beam of timber
was amply sufficient for our needs, but
wo also saw that tho cutting and prepa-
ration of it would take long time
Wo forcsaw, too, some difficulty in get
ting the pieces through the flooded tun-
mel, but imagined we had promising
method Of working out the problem.
No Good still continued to appear in
the pool, with the bladder floating be-
hind him, a colnical sight, ut which wo
often laughed. have seen No Good
chasing it round and round the pool
for half an hour at time, like kitten
chasing his tail, but we had foreseen
the danger which this pastime suggest
cd and had tied it in such mannerI
that no never got his teeth within foot !
Of it. We attached little importance to |
No Good and his mission. We knew
that we would get out, and that it was
all now question of time, provided, Of
course, that we did not fall sick or meet
with any unforeseen accident.
CHAPTER xxx.
ZONE AGAlN-EDWARD FREEMAN'S MAR |
RATIvE CONTINUED.
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