Show THE LOOKOUT My eietl remarked a little old tar 1 with gray ringlet hanging about his temple like the twisted strands of a fares My ejretf Its a stormy night mates and I thouldnt wonder II we should be brought up all of a Hidden before be-fore long agln In sons of them big raft of lee that vie taw toleew std a f tw honrt ago Tom CummlK dyou ttt It on the lookout and there never was a latter log than he hOld I h-Old hung wlll see to him Jack answered one of the shipmates lies walked forward already nolonhan I hall a doyen limn Ir order to see that lies keepln a sharp eye about him Aye aye cried Jack but If Bungs had got a little rioter lo him I wouldnt IK afraid to wafer considerable that hed dh llummlnga sitting on hit knertwllh na t hit head upon hit breast and fait asleep In fact 11 feel to tartln of this that I hall go forted at once and wake him upSo So tailnif he flattened along the lee gangway and on gaining the knight heads he dltcorcreil that lilt surmise was correct TIle lookout man wa leaning against the borrlt tnortlng melodiously Jack woke him up with a rough thake and the startled seaman sprang In hit feet Youd better keep lour eyes open lad I raid the old tar t Itnt honora btIt Unt dotn jour duty or actln right by any of ut togo to sleep on tlch a night at this Ilettdei youre liable to freee to death and Aye aje Interrupted Tom You tare right Jack and for the life as me I cant t Imagine how mj eye came to dote Ill keep em open the rot ol the lookout IJpromlte you Itll br best for you to do MI nu twcrtd Jack and 1 hope youll keep jour word T So sa J Inl he started to go alt when a dark figure suddenly bounded before him and crouching at hit feet laid I hit 1 great baggy head against the palm of the old teaniane outstretched hand Aye aye yourea noble dog Neptune Nep-tune nd Jack at he caressed the ml mat and weve all learned look upon you In the light of a shipmate Neptune hook hit tall and uttered an animal growl of aatlifactlon Then he roe upon lilthind feet and I pressed hit fore pawtupon the sailors breast Its a cold night Neptune Unt Ill Urn up I unit aiitwered the dog And thcrct ionic danger of ua running run-ning afoul of the Iceberg mule The dog nodded and whined then prang to the Ice bulwark and thrustIng thrust-Ing hit note over the rail peered earn etlly through the gloom Do jou ice anything my lad Tin animal hook hit head In the negative and wllh a gleeful bark returned re-turned to the tide of the old the Neptune continued Jack In a low voice at the tame time pointing forward Id like to have you Jumpon the knight heads And keep a lookout The man weve got there dye tee lad liable I at any moment In go to sleep Neptune barked Indignant then Jumping upon the knlghthetdt he teat ed himself by the tide ol Tom Cum II t mlngt 1 with I hit I head and ears erect lies a jolly lad that Newfoundland Cris muttered Jack at he moved toward th quarter clerk and hell stay where he It and do hit duly like an honest tar blest hit eyetl A thick fog bank which for many hours had retted upon the western horton hor-ton was now spreading over the tea The moon which had occatlonally emerged from the clouds that scats red like inoudrlllt from the sky was now obtcured and the darkness doted round the ship like a pall Keep I a sharp lookout there forward shouted the tint mate from the quarterdeck quarter-deck Aye aye answered Tom Cummings but the nest moment hit head dropped upon hit bosom and he fell Into a deep slumber The mile continued lilt walk > aut Ing occatlonally near the binnacle to look at the compose or listen to the yarns of the watch tome ol which were Vey amusing I think well pass the Ice floe on this tack he remarked at length to the man at the wheel I thought to In the flttt place although the captain was of a different dif-ferent way of thlnkln Aye aye sir replied Mir hrlnnnun who was an old tailor I hope you are right but sometimes a body get mil taken In these latitudes where the current rum to strong When I was In the llarkl suddenly Interrupted the mate I thought I heard the man on lookout callln to ut It UNeptunel I ctled old Jack He Ia barkln at I never Heard him bark before be-fore lies got sharp eyes that dogand I wouldnt be afraid to bet that het lighted tomethln So saying the old tar hurried forward for-ward but he had tcarceljr gained the knlghtthead when hit steep voice was heard mingling with the barking of the dog Up with the hetint A big Ice mountain moun-tain right ahead Look tliarp there at I the wheel I Iook hull I Such indeed was the fact I The lookout man had fallen lo sleep but Neptune had kept a faithful watch I and on teeing the rugged Ice I pyramid had given I notice nl It In the manner tIer tI-er I btd The wheel was Immediately ratted md he gallJitt ship went booming put the lofty berg Just grating IU tide with her weather jardarmt Had the movement been delayed a moment longer the dealructlon ol the hip slob the Ion of the greater part of the crew II not of all hand would have been the result The old male a blunt good matured fellow was to affected bt the faithful noble brhador uf the shaggy sentinel that he threw both arm around the animals neck and hugged him to hit breast bellowing upon him all the endearing en-dearing nautical epithets he could think of and swearing that he thuutd have all the Irish meal he wanted when the vest set returned to the Sandwlth Islands At to Tom Gumming he swore by hit honor at a tailor and a man that It should never again be laid that a dog was obliged to perform the duty that he Tom neglected New York Newt |