The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-10-08
ARvEY CHEYNE'S father


more money; his mother was
busy with her nerves; and so we have
Harvey. at fifteen years. the insuffer.
able type that most grown males want
to heave brick ut on sight.
lie 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 he great If we ran
one down."
He asked for Il cigarette. Some.
body with a diaholical sense of humor
passed him thick, oily cigar. Har-
vey lit it up and went on deck. He
began to feel queer, but he had
Dragged Of never being seasick; so now
he went aft to the turtle deck. and
he was still there. wrestling with the
cigar and not caring much what hap.
pened, when long gray sea swung
out Of the fog and took him overheard.
Harvey was next aware Of being
on IL pile Of fish with broad-backed
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 heuvlng
fO'c's'le where men in oilSkins gave
him a hot drink and put him to sleep
In a bunk. When he awoke a boy
whose name was Dan asked him smil-
fngly it 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
Disko; and demanded TINT he be taken
hack to New York. where. as he told
nisko condescendingly his father
would pay them very well for their
trouble; he added many other items
to what his father could and would
do. Disko, as 1t happened. was an
old-fashioned type of hanks fisherman.
wise in the ways of fish but knowing
little of the great world. He decided
that this boy with his talk of his
fathers immense wealth must be
crazy; with an idea of restoring the
poor boy to sanity he offered him the
berth Of second boy M the "Were
Here" at $1,000 per month.
Harvey had fiji of sullenncss, but
his sullcnness worried nobody; he
went to work. The dOries were re-
turning to the vessel with their catches
of fish; so for the first work OF his
life Harvey was set to helping Dan
hoist in the dories, to Swabhing thc
curry from their insitieS and then to
nesting them On the deck By the
time he had finished doing that and
eating his supper it was nighttime, and
Manuel, Penn, Long Jack, Old SaltarS.
Tom. Platt-all hands were standing
by to dress fish.
Manuel and Penn stood deep among
the Ash. ilourishing sharp knives.
"Hi!" shouted Manuel. with one fin
ger under the gill of cod. the other
in nm eye. The blade gllmmered, there |
was a sound Of tearing. the fish
slit from throat t" tail-dropped ut
Long Jacks feet. "Ri. cried Long
Jack and, with scoop Of mittened
hand. dropped the Gods liver into n !
basket; another wrench and scoop |
sent head and oftal flying. The Quilted !
fish slid across to Old Sulters, who |,
snorted ficrcely, ripped out the back.
bone and spiashed the headless. gut
less fish into tub Of water.
Harvey pitched the washed fish !
down into the hold, from whence came
tr'mplings and rumblings as Tom |!
lIatt and Disko moved among the salt !
bins. The raspins sound Of rough salt !