Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-15
THE EVENING STORY
One of WorId-Fam Works of Literature

1eTaDly SSII-COIiCSlSGI, IL - 10 nave HIS
stomach behave itself the first day at
seasick.
Soon q venerable fossil, shawled to the
chin and bandaged like a mummy, ap-
peared at the door of the afterdeck
house and the next lurch of the ship
shot him into my arms. said: "G0od
morning. sir. It Is a fine day"
He put his hand to his stomach and
said, "Oh, myl" and then staggered away
and fell over the coop of skylight.
Presently another old gentleman was
projected from the same door with great
violence. said: Calm yourself, sir.
There Is no hurry. It Is a fine EsJ, So.
He also put his hand on his stomach
and said, "Oh, myi" and reeied away.
In little while another veteran was
discharged abruptly from the same door,
clawing at the air for a saving sup
is fine day for pleasuring. You were
Sbout to say"
s,"Oh, my!'
! thought so. anticipated him, any,
how. I stayed there and was bonn
barded by the old gentleman for an
hour perhaps, and aii I soc OUT OF any
Of them was, "Oh. myl"
I went away, then, in a Thoughtful
mood. I Eaid. This is a good pleasure
excursion. 7 like it. The passengers
are not gafrulous, but still they are
sociable. / like these old people, but
somehow they all seem to have the
"Oh, N.Y. rather bad.
know what was the matter with
them. They were seasick. And I was
glad OF it.; We all like to see people
seasick when we are not ourselves.
Playing whist by the cabin lamps, when
1t IS Storming outside, is pleasant:
walking the quarter deck in the moon
light is pleasant: smoking in the
breezy foretOp Is pleasant, when one is
not afraid 70 60 up there; but these are
all feeble and commonplace compared
with the joy Of seeing people suffering
the miseries Of seasickness.
picked up good deal of informa-
ton during the afternoon. At one
time was climbing up the quarter
deck when the vessels stern was in
the sky; I was smoking cigar and
feeling paSSably comfortable. Some
body calculated:
Come, now, that won't answer. Read
that sign up there-'No Smoking Abaft
It was Capt. Duncan, chief Of the
expedition. went forward, of course.
I saw a long spy-glass lying on a desk
in one Of the upper-deck staterooms
back Of the pilot house, and reached
after it-there was ship in the dis
lance.
"Ah, ah-hands OF! Come out Of
that"
came out Of that. I said to dock
that overgrow pirate with the whiskerS
and the discordant voicee"
Its Capt. Bursley-executtve oficer
sailing master"
I loitered about for awhile, and then
for want of something better to do, fell
to carving a railing with my knife.
Somebody said, in an insinuating,
admonitory voice:
all to pieces that way? You ought to
know better than that"
went back and found the dock
"Who is that smooth-fa:ed animated
outrage yonder in the bne clothes?"
THAT'S Capt. Lank, the owner of the
ship-he's one of the main bosses.
In the course of time ] brought up
and found a sextant lying an a bench.
Now, I said, they take the sun"
through this thing; should think I
might see that vessel Through IL.
had hardly got 1t to my eyes when some
| one toucSed me on the shoulder and
said, deprecatingly:
''IIl have to get you to give that to
me, sir. If there's anything you'd like
| to know about taking the sun. I'd as
soon tell you as not-but I don't like
to trust anybody with that instrument.
If you want any figuring done-aye-
aye, Sir!"
He was gone, to answer call from
| the other side. sought the dock
sweep: "Who is that spider-legged
gorilla yonder with the sanctinonious
ITS Capt. Jones. sir-the chief
mate"
OF anything I ever heard Of before. DO
you-rlow I ask you as man and
| brother-do you think could venture
| to throw q rock here in any given oil.
rection without hitting a captain OF
"Weil. sir, I don't know think
likely you'd fetch the captain OF the
watch. maybe, because he's a-stanolng
right wonder in the way" 80
/ went below-meditating and nCtle
down-hearted thought, If five COOKS
can spoil a broth, what may not nve
captains do with pleasure excursion