| Show V THE S SAILORS ORS TRUNK A Round Canvas Bag Four Feet Long and the World Over The sailors trunk said an old salt uis is a canvas bag cYlindrical In inV V form Corm and about four feet long and eighteen Inches In and when hes got that baS bag packed with his stuff the whole V outfit bag and all constitutes his kit He carry a regular trunk even If he wanted to for there would be place for It in ina ina a a ships But a dunnage bag takes up only so much room as the stuff Inside or of It takes u that is to say It Its only half haU full you can fold foH 1 it down to half Its space and then Ir If the bag Is full you can press It and I you can bend and twist It you can make good stowage with It In the he place where it has to go and so can get It wIth as much stuff In it as asa asa a trunk would hold Into a space where you get a trunk at all allAnd allAnd And then thIs bug bog Is n a mighty sight handier to carry than a trunk would be when the sailor tallor man goes ashore or when he goes from hIs boardIng boardInghouse boardinghouse house to a vessel Becan lie can just pick that bag up and slin sling it over his shoulder er and its flexIble to tofit tofit fit there easily and sag down a lit little littie tie tle forward and aft making it easy to carry V In the days when deep sea sailing ships were commonly before the day of steam kettles In the old days when whan the of ships alon along time water front u used ed to stick out across the street In long rows for block after block you could see sec it h ship captain down South street with a dozen men trailing after blip imis hs new crew each man with his canvas trunk or dunnage bag hl kit on his shoulder makIng rOt for u vessel lin lying at a wharf or for n it tug to take the men to some vessel lying hing out In the stream ready to sail an You cant ant see processions much nowadays for the day ot of th the square rigger Is more and more waning but still you can cun even now occasionally meet a man walking along South street Uh his dunnage bag over his shoulder dot der There Theme are still some some ships and tho sailor man quite gone oUt yet You can buy dunnage bags In any or of orthe the sailors outfitting stores und and youcan you youcan can also buy them secondhand just justas as you can anything else In the world that I know or of And then some ValIo make their own bags many sailors being mighty han Y with t ne needle dle and every in hIs bag a wIt pJ 1411 ul d find just da s et e cry Ut 4 ric on Ia his knit V V V It If the sailor man makes malce this bag at sea he get gels the m material for Cor It or of new canvas from the ships canvas supplies In charge of the or maybe maybethe the captain gives him for It piece apIece a out of an old that perhaps the sailor has more than onee furled canvas canas from the bIgger lower loner sails hoing ing too heavy fer It The bag is made with a shirring strIng at the open end by which it can caim be closed there Sometimes If his bag Is packed so pl mb full that he can cant close the end the sailor puts over his stuff on toP a canvas disk for Cor a stop stopper stopper per and th then n draws the shirring strIng on that thai the sailor carries his his bas bag it was as madi madei In th the pl and t then en sometimes ile be pOints it to make It wa waterproof And sometimes they nm m rit nt em V V uA A common way of bC doing thIs timis Is to paint on time the butt or closed end ot o th the b g n a star maybe mabe a double tar one inside o of tile other and in different col colors ol ors the Inner star in a b ring and out outside side the ring the rays ot of another star r running round like the ot of a compass Sometimes s they paint PlC tures on them maYbe pictures bf t ships A sailor might paInt on hIs dunn dunnage ge bag of his f ship just justas as lie he might have such a picture tat tattooed tattooed on himself Or couI ft do doit doIt it nd hl be wanted sueh Juch a pie pic picture ture he might find somebody la in tho forecastle wh who could do it for o and paint a very ery pretty ship too ho how he came b by his art nobOdy knows B But t whatever they ma may do about such detaIls as time sailors or of I whatever country use a dunnage bag iii tl w which ich to carry personal belong ings Time The t oer over in the of every nation a bag ser as New York Sun |
