Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-12-25

to run him. Waterproofing him so
he could keep afloat, and fixing up
machinery to make him open and
shut his mouth would be something
of a job, but there's plenty of smart
lads on the lot who could do it
four us. I sure like the story, and
/ hope we can do it,"
New idea in it, is there?"
you said so. The lad who thought
it out has got nut on him. He
didn't read the whole script, bu. he
give me an outline of it, which was
all / wanted. l might as well try
it on you first. Listen.
There's bird who this here
author called Jones, but whose name
we'll change of course, who gets
kidnapped by crew of pirates off
merchant ship, because they figure
his friends and relatives will come
through with big ransom for him.
while they're getting him there's
a big sea fight, and we could use
some of those we shot for that
pitcher which we made after the
"Sea Hawk" had made such a hit.
Our pitcher flopped, so nobody would
know that the sea fight wasn't new
stuff.
"At the end of the sea fight they
make all the crew of the merchant
ship walk the plank except this
bozo. They lock him up, down in
the hold or bilge or brig or what
ever they call it until they can send
a wireless to his friends for ran
som.
"They didn't have wireless in the
pirate days." objected the assistant.
eve amt going back to pirate
days. We're going to bring his
whole business up to date. After
they got him locked up, bad weather
came up and they was nearly washed
on the rocks three or four times.
"They tried to figure out what was
the trouble, but they found that they
hadn't captured the prisoner on
Friday, and that nobody had spilled
the SALT and that there had never
been 1S people at table, there not
being any table on the boat except
the one where the captain ate all
alone.
In day or two big fish
which anybody could see was whale
was seen swimming along side, and
giving the captain a mean look every
time it could catch his eye. Nc
matter how bad the weather was anc
i. was terrible all the time, this
whale was right by the boat, with
that half ugly, half jeering look or
his face.
well, the captain begun to put
4...o +ona4har ond OrpftV soon
he came to the conclusion that his
prisoner was some kind of jinx
and that as long as he was on boarC
there wasn't much show for fine
weather.
.sHe knew his ship wasn't any too
good, and he was afraid if the wine
andD the waves kept up she woul'
either be blown on shore or go Z
! pieces on him, so he called the crew
into consultation and asked theh
what had better be done about tn
| jinX.
Most of the boys was pretty sor'
when they heard the feller in tn
hold was making the trouble, an'
wanted to go down and hit hin
over the head by way of retaliation
! Rut the captain said this wouldn
do no good, on account of the wnai'
having no means of knowing VIVA
/ had been done to the Teller ~
said the only thing to do was t'
put the guy ashore, and forget tn
ransom money.
aBut the crew wouldn't hear o
! that, being entitled to shares o
whatever came aboard in the wa!
of coin. One of 'em made the sug
gestion that if the 'jinx was throw
overheard while the whale was look
ing, it would satisfy the beast, am
The would go away and leave then
alone, taking his nasty weather alon'
with him.
'1'he captain mulled this over, ant
finally agreed to it, so that was wha
they done, They brought the telle
! up out of the hold. leavin' the hand
cuffs on him and took him to tn
side of the boat. Then one of then
heaved biscuit at the whale t.
, attract his attention. and when h
turned his eyes toward the boat
they chucked the prisoner overheard
Well they were surprised when tn
whale sticks his jaws out Of th'