The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-29
Homarus
Americanus
By cAP'N TRUMAN ORDIoRNE
@ Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.
@ Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.

Ing halls him. Il say, captain, would
like half dozen or 80 of your legal
size Homarus Americanus."
Bent straightens up and growls:
What In ell you drivin' att"
II said / wished to purchase half
dozen Homarus Americanus. l pre-
sumo you refer to them as Holsters"
"All engaged. None to spare" Bent
tells him.
When he gets home he asks his
daughter what Homarus Americanus
has got to do with Holsters. She tells
him It's Latin.
Sixty miles we will go to big city
where live Lydia Hawkins and her
widowed mother. Cap'n Abel Hawkins,
an old coastwise skipper. had left his
wife and daughter comfortably well
OFF. We find Lydia, at twenty-five, a
teacher OF French In the high school,
For year she had been running
around with young man named
Knowles He drew fair to middling
salary with big hardware concern,
and had kept an eye on the stock mar
ket He had run shoestring Into
bank roll and was some ten grand to
the good So he and Lydia plan to
wed the next June.
Apple blossom time comes along
and grassy June is just over the hori-
zon Then one evening A. Benton
calls.
10 nnt1
dollar / had in the world and this
morning | was given a months notice
at the office. | give you back your
promise. l can't marry you now.'
Lydia Hawkins liked A. Benton for
himself and didn't have the slightest
Idea of heaving him over just because
he'd gone broke.
"Bent Knowles, you damn lobster !
You're squealin' like stuck pig.
Where in hi are your guts?"
mo woman can talk to me like
that" he tells her 81 thought you
were lady" He steps to the hall,
grabs his hat and is gone.
A. Benton goes home to his room,
sits him down and considers. 1t was
all off so far as Lydia Hawkins was
concerned He had heard that skip
per Abel had been a hard swearing
hard driving master, and Lydia, In
spite of her college training was like
ly to break out In the mouth any time
things didn't go to suit her Next day
he boards a bus and turns up at his
OF
Skulpin Cove After a good lobster
supper pipes going, A. Benton tells
Uncle Bent his troubles
Benton" he says, "do you think
you can haul lobster pot? Wen rig
forty more pots and I'll let you In on
shares"
Lydia Hawkins misses A. Benton
and Is sorry she lit on him so hard.
She waits and waits but no word
comes from him. In the meantime, she
runs afoul of Prof. Alvin Barstow, who
teaches Latin. One night he asks her
to marry him. There Is a lot about
the professor that she likes. SO she
tells him that she needs time to think
the matter over. But all the time
she's hoping to hear from A. Benton.
Professor Barstow invites Lydia to
go for days outing to a place down
on the North Shore called Skulpin
Cove. There they can procure some
Homarus Americanus fresh from the
sea.
One morning they make an early
trip to Skulpin Cove
What day." says Lydia. We've
got to go fishingn
She hires a dory and drops her
kelek outside of the breakers on Rag
gy Neck. They have luck. They've
got half dozen good sized rocklings
when Lydia notes the professor turn
kng mite green round the gills.
Lydia makes move to haul In the
grab and row ashore with the profes-
sor when she sees she has anchored
In too close to the point Just then a
motherly old sea curls over, the dory
capsizes and Lydia and the professor
are hove out
The dory is bottom up but the grab
hoids' LSutd iOluS lut pEUleSSuT Dy
the collar swims the few strokes to
the dory, and hangs on. She has seen
fisherman In power boat headed
for the capslzed dory, driving hard.
He shuts off, reverses to a standstill,
and helps the girl and the professor
aboard
AS Lydia straightens up she says
Gosh, Bent, your old boat stinks like
hi T. Then she wraps her bedrag-
gled self around that fisherman and
sobs for joy.
Bent Saunders, working in his FISH
house, sees them coming up from the
landing. Well I'll be dod-dlggeredr'
says Bent ITS old Homarus Ameri-
canus Y
They dump the professor into his
car. Bent takes the wheel and streaks
1t for his house. He strips the profes-
sor, wraps him In blankets and tele-
phones for old Doc White.
A. Benton and Lydia come home In
Bent's truck What talk they have
Is not set down.
Professor Barstow and Lydia Haw-
kins drive back to the city next aft