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Show WHISTLINQ FOR WIND. Thu Duppots.1 Url(lu of au Old Havoritl-. Havoritl-. linu of tho Wj. There Is nothing so tedious, so aggravating aggra-vating to tho sailor us a dead calm. Drift, drift, drift;, day after day, tho great burning sun overhoad refloated by the waters until tho eye becarncs wearied with tho eternal brightness. The sailor goco about his work listlessly. listless-ly. Not so th$ bOlccr $f tho deck JIo paces tho poop with n quiet', nryous, tread, "whlstllnj for a wind." lie is scanning' the horizon north, bouth, cast and west, carefully noting every little patch bt clouds and whistling whis-tling with all of Ids soul far a wind Thla Is ona of the old, old superstitions of tho sailor, one of the bellafslwhteh haa been traced hither and tiilther, but never to tho propitiation bf tho gods. It probably had Itt orlglniln tho Impatience 'of the mariner, who while his vessel lay drlftlngldly in tho',"ZoUo of Calms," remembered with regrqt tho hoarse moaning, shrieking and whistling of tho winds in' tho mora fa vorcd spots on the deep and Involunfarv Uy tried to imitate It. And this suppo-elllon suppo-elllon la strengthened by tho character! of tho whistling, for It must bo remom.' lured thai thn becalmed sailor docs not whlstlo "Anulo Laurie" or. any lot thq popular 6ngs of tho day. The lone-soino lone-soino thrill ot hU monotonous "whlstlo" Is a scries of polyglot sounds that would set a magpla-wtld vvtth-c'nvy. Ilo does not aim at n rhythm, but ejects his puffs bf ar In long And shor noUs,' now high, now low, Ilka the sounds produced by tbo ivlud blowing through tho1 ropes 6f tlio r'lgghij,',itet.bl?ul Ue-publlc. Ue-publlc. .. . ' "' , . |