| Show story of a modern synbil some imaginative writer tells tell th the let tale of a tailor sailor who was shipwrecked three thre times says bay a writer in Mac magazine ilaa alne was wag in four our collisions and t two 0 tires fires at tea sea suffered buffered from sunstroke ioe ind and yellow fever lost I a finger or two by frostbite had one eye gouged out ou t in a fight at sin san Frand I 1 franasco came h home 0 elf married a shop keeping widow who henpecked him got out ot of his clourse courine one foggy day and walked river w where here he was found next morning till still c hewing chewing his overnight over night quid of tobacco but altho 1 l t his glass eye this Is the e novelists type and Is ir perhaps somewhat w hat highly colored but it my be compared with some come actual types one of the men we have in mind fell from the mainyard mahnya d and broke hit his left arm before lie he had been at sea a month on lit hi first voyage as an apprentice on the r return eburn voyage front from san francisco he fell from the same yard and broke one of 0 his legs the vessel was wrecked in a gale biale off the southwest coast of ireland and this thi unhappy youth fato alo was saved with three others out of a crew of 26 only however to find that ills his next ship chip laden with coal took fire on the other side of cape florland horn flor nand and had to be abandoned by her crew who were six days in their boats bea before a homeward homeard bound ship picked them up ilia his third vessel ran ashore at the entrance to kong kon kong harbor in her bairy to get inside before a yankey with mith whom she was in company when our friend found his bib fourth ship distasted dismasted dis masted in a cyclone in the indian ocean he came to the conclusion that sea lf life which he had been quite prepared to like was too exciting for him and he decided forthwith provided begot he got safely out of that scrape to leave it with those with better luck if |
