New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-22
THE LADY
AND THE
PIRATE
BY EMERSON M@UGN
Copyright, 1913, by Emerson Rough

door living deliberately as l had
studied the law and business and
Helena, had rather thorough
grounding on life in the open. for I
had read every authority obtainable,
whereas my young associates had read
none. So cautiously, now and then,
suggested little things to them, as
that the fire need not be so large, and
would do better if confined between
two green side logs. l taught them
how to boil the kettle quickly, how
to make tea, and also, more difficult
how to make coffee; how to cook bacon
just enough. and how to cook fish-for
had taken few trout earlier in the
day-and how to make toast without
charrlng it to cinders. Again, I de-
lighted them by telling them of little
camping devices, and quite won their
hearts when l found among Hiro-
shlmis packages a small camp grid
die with folding legs. of my own de-
Vlsing. 1t was quite clean and new.
but it performed as l felt quite sure
1t would. In fact, reason will govern
all things-eXcept woman.
l could see-and l noted It with
much gratifcation-that l was rising
in the estimation of my pirates 1t
knew more than they of these things,
for was older and my mind was long
my trained servant, but l had mon
strous delight in seeing myself &C
cepted as one fit to associate with
them.
We sat by our freside, before our
little tent, after pleasant meal which
cooked it myself-trout, young sQuir-
rel. and toast, and real coffee-and
Partial was close at my knee, having
obviously adopted me. We were fifteen
or twenty miles from my house, nearly
twice that from their homes. but the
world, itself, seemed very remote from
u.s.. We reveled in a new luxurious
world of rare deeds, rare dreams all
our own. I was conjuring up some
new argument to put before Helena
should l ever see her again-as of
course I never should-when Lafitte
up at us.
I'VE was just saying" he remarked,
shat you didn't have no name"
"That is true. I have not told you
my name nor have you asked it. Had
you been impolite you might have
learned it by prying about my place."
I spoke gravely and with approval.
sN0. wo didn't know y1-ho Won
LET it be so. Let me be a man of
no name. A name is of no conse-
quence, and neither am t.
'Sho, now, that amt so. 1 never
seen a better-now, I never SEEM
Jean Laftte's reticence in friendship
again was getting the better of him.
$50 we said we'd call you Black
Bart" added L'Olonnois.
''That is a most excellent, name"
said after some thought. AT present
I can find no objection to it except
that I wear no beard at all and would
have a red or brown one if I did and
that Black Bart was rather pirate of
the land than of the sea-"
"Was he?" queried L'Olonnois.
wasn't he a pirate, too, never?"
"There was a famous pirate chief
known as Bluebeard or Blackboard,
and it may be sometimes they called
him Black Bart
wasn't he a awful desper't' sort of
pirate?"
"He is said to have been.'
1T sounds like awful desper't'
name," said Jimmy. like as though
he'd fill up his ship with captured
maidens and put all rivals to the
sword"
''Such indeed, shipmate," said I.
twas his reputation"
"Well," concluded L'Olonnois, I'VE
couldn't think O. any better name'n
that because we know that is just
what you would do.'
$50, then, my reputation was advanc-
ingD
''We must be an awful long ways
from home" ventured L'Olonnois after
a time.
''Hundreds of miles our good ship
has plowed the deep and as yet has
raised no sail above the horizon" adj
mitted
I drew from my pocket map and a
compass, the latter mostly for effect,
since knew very we'll the bed of our
river must shape our course for many
mile. On the map pointed out how
presently our river would run into q
lake into which also ran another river
and would emerge on the other side
much larger. Ishowed them that down
that other river, as down mine, logs
used to float from the pine forests
many Of my fathers logs, of ownership
said to be piratica-and showed how
presently this stream would carry US
into one of the ancient waterways
down which millions of wealth in tim
Der have come, and explained about
the wild crews of river runners who
once ran the RATS down that great
g highway and into the greater highway
OF the Mississippi, whence men might
81 d11o time arrive 11pnn tho Sno nich