The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-25


mersed in amassing more money, his
mother was busy with her nerves;
and SO We have Harvey, at fifteen
years, the insufferable type that most
grown males want to heave a brick
at on sight.
He was passenger on this ocean
liner, and she was crossing the
Grand Banks in fog He came into
the smoking room, saying: You can
hear the fish boats squawking all
around US. Wouldn't it be great if
we ran one down."
He asked for a cigarette Some
body with a diabolical sense of humor
passed him a thick, oily cigar. Har-
vey lit 1t up and went on deck. He
began to feel queer, but he had brag-
ged of never being sea-sick; so now
he went aft to the turtle-deck, and he
was still there, wrestling with the CT
gar and not caring much what ha p
pened, when long gray sea swung
out of the fog and took him overheard.
Harvey was next aware fof being on
pile of fish with a broad-b a cked man
in blue jersey, who said: you in
dory with me. Manuel my name"
Later he was hoisted aboard of a
schooner and lowered into her heav.
ing fo'c'sle where men in oilskins
gave him a hot drink and put him to
sleep in bunk. When he awoke, a
boy whose name was Dan asked him
smilingly if he was feeling better
The schooner was the Were Here
Of Gloucester, and the boys father
Disko Troop, was her skipper.
Harvey went up on deck to see Dis
ko; and demanded that he be taken
back TO New York, where, as he told
Disko eondescendingl his father
would pay them very we'll for theil
trouble; he added many other items
to what his father could and would do
Disko, as it happened, was an cd
fashioned type of bank fisherman
wise in the ways Of fish but knowing
little of the great world He decided
| that this boy with his talk of his faith
ers immense wealth must be crazy;
with an idea Of restoring the poor boy
to sanity. he offered him the berth O
second boy on the Were Here" a
! $1,000 per month.
| Harvey had fit of sullenness, bu
his sullenness worried nobody; hi
went to work. The dories were re
turning to the vessel with their catch
es of fish; SO for the first work OF hi:
life Harvey was set to- helping Da1
hoist in the dories, to swabbing thu
curry from their insides and then Il
! nesting them on the deck. By thu
/ time he had finished doing that AM
eating his supper it was nighttime
and Manuel, Penn, Long Jack, OLE
| Salters, Tom Platt-all hands were
sta nding by to dress fish
Manuel and Penn stood deep anon.
the fish, flourishing sharp knives
Till" shouted Manuel, with on,
finger under the gill of a cod, tn,
other in an eye. The blade glimmered
there was a sound of tearing, the fish
slit from throat to tail-dropped a
Long Jacks feet Hi" cried Lon,
Jack, and with scoop of a mittenet
hand, dropped the Gods liver into
basket; another wrench and SCOOP
sent head and offal flying. The gut
ted fish slid across to Old Saltlers
who snorted fiercely, ripped out tn
! backbone and splashed the headless
! gutlelss fish into tub of water.
Harvey pitched the washed fist
down into the hold, from whenc,
came tramplings and rumblings a
i Tom Platt and Disko moved amoni
the salt bins. The rasping sound O
rough salt rubbed on rough flesh from
below made a steady undertone to tn
clicking of the knives in the pens, tn
wrench and schloop of torn heads, til
flap of ripped-open fish falling int
the tub on deck.
At the end of an hour Harvey want
ed terribly to rest, but also for tn
first time in his life he was one of
working gang of men; and so, begir
ming to take pride in the thought, b
held on grimly. Not till the last fis
was slowed below did man rest. Blu
when that moment came, Disko an
Old Salters rolled toward their cabi
hunks, Manuel and Long Jack wen
forward. Tom Plat waited only lon
enough to slide home the hatch, Pen
to empty a basket of fish livers int
a big cask.
All hands were below and asleep
except the two boys; they had t
stand watch; so by and by the moo
} looked down on one slim boy i
knickerbockers which was Harvey
aggering around the cluttered deck
while behind him. waving knotte
rope, walked another boy, which wa
Dan, yawning and nodding betwee
taps he dealt the first boy to kee
him awake
The Were Here" was on a sal
| fishing trip, which meant four month
away from home; SO there was tim
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