White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-05-02

ihe tub on deck.
At the end of an hour Harvey
wanted terribly TO rest, but also Ior
tbe first time in his life he was one
| of a working gang of men; and SO.
beginning TO take pride In the thought
he held on grizzly. Not till the last
fish was slowed below did a man resi-.
But when that moment came! Disko
and Old SaIters rolled toward their
cabin hunks. Manuel and Long JACK
went forward. Tom Platt waiteu only
long enough tn slide home the natch.
All hands were below and asleep,
except the two boys; they had 10
| stand watch, so by aud by the moon
looked down on one slim boy In knick-
erbockers. which was Harvey, stag
gering around the cluttered deck
while behind him. waving Il knotteu
rome. walked another boy, when was
Dan. yawning and nodding between
fans he dealt the first boy to keep him
awake.
The 'eNe're Here was on IA salt
fishing trip which meant -four
away from home; SO there was tlHe
for Harvey to learn many strange new
things If he cared to. After Il time
as the pride in honest work well done
began 10 grip him, he cared. lie
learned tn fish from a dory; 10 make
his way in safety around Il heaFlhs
vessels deck: To know what each rope
and sail aboard Il vessel was Tor.
Disko allowed him. when the wind was
light. to steer the vessel from one
berth TO another. and wonderful was
Harvey's sense of power when he nrst
felt the vessel answer 10 his touch OF
the wheel. Almost did he come 10
understand, as IA fisherman under
stands. the n~eyer-absent dangers of
the banks, the eternal fogs, the tides,
the gales, the wicked seas; ana
learned, too, 'fishermen's opinion of the
officers of the great steamers who.
after cutting n vessel down, raise high
hands to heaven and swear with
unanimity that the careless fisherman
had overwhelmingly neyer-shown
so much as a single light. 3.
lie saw one day a foul, draggled, I'M
kempt vessel heaying up past the
'We're Here for all the world like h
blowsy, frousy, bad old woman sheer
ing at a decent girl, saw her sail of
and into Il batch Of watery sunshine
amigo under, taking all hands with
her. lie saw, while his hair stood on
end, a Wilderness moving in the white
| moss of the fog with a breath Ike the
/ Hath 90 - raxsa . and than hn hoard
n roaring, p%lunglng and spouting; that
was his first iceberg. lie saw the surf
break over Virgin Rocks; and the fish
strike in SO thick on a shoal that scores
of dories stood riding gunnel to gunnel
while their crews battled for the catch.
He saw Il gale break so sudden and
fierce that everywhere on the sea were
men in dories cutting riding lines and
racing for their vessels, but some
never making their vessels.
So he passed four busy, wonderful
months, growing in body, mind and
soul with every hour that passed; and
then came the great day when they left
the banks for home. Toll hardship
and danger were now mostly behind
them; there was left little TO do but
stand watch and study the folding and
packing away of the morning mistsi
the hurry OF winds across the open
spaces, the glare and blaze of the high
sun TO harken to the grinding of the
booms against the masts, the creaking
of the sheets against the bits, the sail
filling to the roaring winds.
Now about the time the 'We're
Here" n hundred quintals Of fish in
her hold, was laying her course for
Gloucester, Harvey's father was be
ginning 10 wonder in his mahogany
Offices in Los Angeles If IT wasn't q
better game to drop the ceaseless
struggle for more power and wealth.
What was the use of IL all-with nc
son to hand 1t TOT He was still won
dering when one day an excited see.
rotary brought him n telegram.
II was from Harvey, safe in Glouces
ter. Mr.. Cheyne laid his face down
on his desk, breathed heavily foi
awhile; and then, heaving orders
right and left, started that run OF
which. railroad men talked for many
a day. Three days and a half 1t was
from coast to coast, with railroad spe
cialists along the way dividing hug,
bonuses; for II was the great Harve,
Cheyne who vas racing East to see
his rescued boy. and the boys mother
was with him.
Not without fear did he meet tina
boy. He had IA memory OF a pasty
faced, b-ad-mannered lad. What III
met vas a boy with toughened figur,
and a keen. clear eye.
Railroads. lumber, mines-sucl
things did not interest young Harvey
What his heart yearned for was I,
some day manage his fathers newl,
purchased sailing ships on the Pacifi,
Coast. The ships he got when he wa.
ripe for them; and for Dan, son o.
Disko Troop-seeing that he could no
offer money-he got a berth as mat,
of n of them, with the promise tina
some day he would go master of tn,
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