Show A NEW MARK TWAIN STORY How the Young Pilots Effort to Show Off Got Him Into Trouble St SL Louis Hannibal Mo Heretofore unpublished unpublished stories of Mark Twains early days dB continue to be dug d g up and in fact e and multiply The latest among the not previously printed used to be told by the late Bill Curts Bill was a cub pilot at the same time that Mark took to the wheel and this Is the narrative Once on thy th then steam steamboat steamboat steamboat boat Lucy Bernam when Sam am was cut cutting cutting cutting ting his milk teeth at the wheel of spokes the pilot on watch natch becoming b do dry dr went below to Irrigate and left Sam In charge At that time he was fonder of display than a peacock in full feather and so when a number of young country people appeared at the pilot house and among them several gals with eyes e es like sunbeams and cheeks like peaches Mark sighted a chance to show off of And though the stage of the water w ter was mark twain a pilots term from which he took his nom de plume and the run was straight for miles the way that wheel was made to go round this way and then would have bave surprised Jonah on his journey to when he swallowed the whale Ha Re shook the larboard and starboard bells alternately and yelled down the speaking tube till tin he had the madder than March hares Nor did he let up until the head yr r threatened to come up to the e deck and visit the pilot house with a tor for tornado tornado forU nado U ado One of the gals having noticed Mark at lOt the tha speaking tube Jube asked him What he was doing there Oh said he I r Iwas Iwas was talking to the boys down on the boiler deck I talk to emr emT em i asked the th taI col Sure replied Mark Jil and i the th gal placed ced her pretty prett lips to the I mouthpiece of the tube but before speak speaking ing In turned and asked Who shall I call The head bead engineer was the answer What That shall I say Oh anything Toll Tell him to unship his paddle wheel TIe The gal followed Instructions In tones as sweet ks s peaches and cream But Big alas alaJ the master of the throttle valves alves think thinking thinkIng ing lug it Il was Mark up to more of his mon monkey monkey monkey key tricks yelled back Unship that ugly mug of yourn you OU goster That gal was redheaded In more ways than one when he left the pilot pilothouse pilothouse pilothouse house |