The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-13

worked like beavers, but noisier-par-
ticularly for the first hour or two.
Along toward noon, they knocked
off, for good, having delivered to the
mill boom the sum total of two dead
heads. The Mill Company, notwith-
standing the war in Europe, was able
to pay up, and our four daring, but
very tired business men made an
amicable division of the accrued pro-
fits, and dissolved partnership.
Dicks dime did not look very big
to him, for he mas already lost it three
times and found it twice, but not so
with Charlie: / think it is the first
dime he has earned, and last night he
slept with his hand in his pocket,
tightly clutching the dime.
The picnic dinner ashore was
grand success. Piping hot biscuits
and fried chicken in half-bushel lots,
are things which are denied to
yachtsmen like US, and. I can only
hope that the Missus' and my own
apologies will square things with the
host and hostess of the occasion.
Late in the afternoon, our fear Of
alligators having been aTTayed, we had
a swim in the river.
We had had full day Of it, but
, Notwithstanding, when the Tampa"
passed by us, about eight o'clock,
bound for the big dance at Robinson
Point, with a big crowd aboard and
the band playing, the children set up
/ a terrible tease for US to follow in
the Peep O'Day. Even the Missus
said she thought it would be lots of
fun. We did not go.
This morning before anyone awoke,
( I got under way, and half an hour
/ later turned out everybody with the
announcement that we were in Oak
land Basin.
The. Basin is a sort of tidal lagoon.
i 1t is half a mile in diameter, and is
a three-quarter circle. For the most
part the shores are high and covered
with large moss-hung liveoaks.
If there was such body Of water
anywhere within fifty miles of Chi
cago, st. Louis or Cincinnati, it would
/ be named for mythical Indian maid
and frontage on it would sell for a
thousand dollars per foot 1t was my
! first visit to Oakland Basin and
was gazing about admiringly, and
wondering if a thousand dollars a
i foot was enough, when the Missus got
the cobwebs out of her eyes, and
/ looking about, exclaimed: ooh, / don't
see any basinw =
Oakland Basin, Monday Morning
Oakland Basin is the ''Nob Hip Of
/ Bagdad, and to certain extent of Mil
ton, Bay Point and Robinson Point
1t would be a dandy site for a big
saw mill, but instead it is, and for 2
hundred years has been the home OF
lumber kings, barons and dukes.
i Many fine homes occupy tAf- north.
ern shore of the Basin, and in a man.
ner Of speaking, we had butted into
and were anchored right in their front
/ yard!
i We were suddenly abashed. We fell
that we had better take quick looE
and motor off to some quiet creek, o.
back to East Bay river, where we haC
passed for "Big Rich" We wondered
| just how long it would be necessar!
for US to stay without appearing t,
be running away when we left.
| Judge that we had the same feelint
that the Mayflower Pilgrims hal
| when they first viewed the Plymouth
! shore and anxiously guessed whethe
the copper-hued natives were vege
tarians or of the carnivora.
A Sabbath-like hush settled owe
US. No fighting or scratching. at all
! At this h1ncture we observed ap