Show VISITING THE ADMIRAL in an incident or of the white squad squadrons rolla bruine nin fast east SOME THINGS LANDSMEN DONT KNOW howard honard fielding in entertained c on do tho the chicago by ilia hl old frio friend 1 I bob and gets get a ilav stew or oc nautical from the inside but he soo see anything alse by james I 1 clat MO me sept 16 1891 this place Is situated half way between and ruin and Is not far from rom either there Is nothing between us and bt belfast afat except northport North port camp meeting and nd there Is nothing between us and ruin except clams tile the clams are used for catching fish and the camp meeting nie elInK for catching sinners both th have been unusually plentiful ifill in tile so parts this summer tui umer but they to have av 0 not 7 or Z I 1 A MAS WITH A POW bow DOAT BOAT been biting well I 1 get chii informs tion from a man who passes the contribution box on oil week days end nd goes fishing on sundays tun days VIl and thus obtains a broad view of both industries lud u atries the event 0 fit of the sea season ondon do n hero here has baa been tho the v visit hilt of 0 the white squadron to penobscot by bay clam cove was considerably excited ex led but it is now calm wo we have seen what wo we have to depend upon in caw case an n enemy should come coma over here and try to dig darns clams an old clam cover called attention to tile the fact act that the last war ar fleet to alu these waters was that which flaunted the english flag in our wf faces aces to in the summer of 1814 long lone before 0 we 0 were born where bo b 0 them british now ho he added with wilh pardonable pride and we all answered with ono one voice oil ter brutal shortly before the v visit 1 sit of the fleet beet I 1 received a loiter letter from a great and powerful newspaper with which I 1 arn am or rat rather hervi w as connected by a very thin to string firing the editor requested me to go on board the flagship and send for p publication an accurate and comprehensive I 1 description of the vessel he S pressed expressed the tb opinion that previous a accounts of inch anch visits had been too general g in character too loo much on tho the impressionist line ilo ile wanted big readers to know exactly what the people t the he real oi owners norm of these great ships are allowed allow d to see fee bhea they inspect their property property I 1 have been trying to figure ut j u ill what clam coves share lo 10 a the squadron amounts to and I 1 have decided that the revenue wo we furnish to tho the general government would just juet about keep one powder monkey in shoo strings however I 1 accepted the job by wlm wire having walked tour four bullos nill to a telegraph office I 1 was oot not obliged to rely on my ay of ownership in the fleet to m ina a courteous reception one of the officers of the chicago was a school mile mat of mine I 1 remembered remember him well lie ho used to sit ert right in front of n me one day he be concealed conco a large old fashioned horse boie pastol in his desk and while I 1 was bending studiously over my lessons for the first time in six silt months he be turned tamed stealthily about placed the cold muzzle of the pistol on my noie nobe noi e and pulled tho the trigger ilia weapon a as not loaded but I 1 should have felt bettor better it if it had bad been for then there would have been some someer ex custo cuse for my conduct I 1 fell over the back of my seat and fainted upon the bosom of a tat flit little girl who speak to me ina tor for three weeks afterward although our previous ro relations lamons had very always that boy would live to 10 bo be a pirate when the squadron squad rou anchored os off belfast clam clain covo cove decided to visit it a ina isoo wo we engaged uncle jimmy grays fishing boat and rt sail ill shout about none boon ot of tuesday september 2nd and our party of live bien seven vo ornen ou nine children and a large box b blut this substance tub stanco which la Is very ery inductive to mackerel is s mado made of 0 clams and Por porgies gies chopped one due and ripened by great age few people realia nealry alke lf odor on the first trial in so c n appreciation ol 01 it one would at 11 five eve miles and gradually decca 6 the I 1 begin at fie foot feat and finished the voyage on the end of tho the bowsprit uncle jimmy wanted to run his boat Chica Chi cagos goVI gar bargay garg nay gay but the courtesy of the united mama kavy has its limits A marine armed with a musket and protected by a bad cold came down the stops steps sad and told ris ns that if we d lit nt take that put gle bolt bal t down to leeward of tho the ship the admiral would train an eight inch anch gun fun on us we came a bout about and ran for Bolf belfast ausit whore I 1 deserted the party and hired a man with a row boat boac to sot we me off aboard the chicago an obliging tar carried my card to my old friend whom I 1 will call bob I 1 wrote something about old times on tho the card just as N we to all do when were oro trying to got furors favors on oil tho the slender pretext of long burled animosity while it if aas as being taken to him I 1 waited by the tell rail it seem worth while to poke around by myself tor for of course bob would show roo everything when ho he came I 1 never should have known him blot now flow Is 13 it that some ome people change u with ith years while others cant to save their lives it always exasperates me to moet meet auy any body who has changed he always has bits one such h an offensive way of at recognizing me a and n d of being reminded at once of somo some 0 old id scent scene whore where I 1 looked so tunny funny well well said bob its the as same 0 old howdy the same long sparred queer rigged rambling old howdy I 1 should know you anywhere that hair those feet well well mell im glad to lo see you come below old man where wo a ran can sit down don and be comfortable comfort ablo 1 I know I 1 know you yon want to talk 0 ver over old times and so do 1 I here we are a ro this Is my den we had bad descended into hato tho the depths of the ship and had evidently reached the quarters of the officers bob without giving me time to say te Is word pushed me into a stat stateroom erom closed the door behind us and dropped into a chair itald I 1 did the same though I 1 began to bo be uneasy about my errand which was to see the vessel thoroughly it waa as roy my idea I 1 began yes yea indeed he be broke in it was your idea to haie hae a little quiet social chati should have guessed it without seeing what you wrote ou on your card I 1 I 1 should have said howdy ifal the sort of follow fellow who wants to go running all over oner a vessel looking at things he be dont understand and hearing somo some body who does docs understand them llo lie about their uses iles hes the ilia same salmo old loafer he be always was and would lather lit down quietly and smoke moko and talk 11 but im afraid oh ob no be lie ho listened hastened to say dont disturb yourself I 1 have plenty of leisure seven bells bella just struck half past pasi thice you know and I 1 dont go on duty till four half an hour ou oil sue see and id life nothing bettor better than to sit hero talking with you some seme people insist on running up slid and down the ship when really there anything to see they make me tired youe no idea how many old friends and poor re relations latious have hunted bunted nio me out aboard this ship since wo we struck the maine coasts coast perhaps you object to showing people about I 1 said ith the idea ol of getting away but bo be jumped into tile the co gain before I 1 could finish hulsh its no us telling them that said be bound to go the rounds there was millie leavitt you remember millie tho the pretty girl K ho he used to have hysterics in old school house she sent me a note dote when vic va ere etire at bar Il harbor arber and I 1 was glad to got get it tor for I 1 always liked millie la in tile the old days day I 1 replied at onlo oni o and invited her SAI lit THE CHICAGO aboard yow now what klud kind of a lee hero do you think I 1 struck well sir she aha came aboard with her husband and tour four children she apologized to die fo her namo name in writing says she was wai afraid I 1 recognize her und ili other you ton can call judge my feel in ller her burband Is a horrible i I 1 i slid and millie herself 1 is nol dot what sr it d da its hard ard to realize how old tin till girls we used to know are gottlog by this time we ve picture them as they diore and when they appear alo are surprised at the glasses and the silver threads you yoe tire almo slips lips away wy said bald 1 I 1104 that reminds me kids ero are terrors said bob the tb oldest boy insisted that I 1 oro the iho olgat inch gun and abon bon I 1 politely declined be had hysterics just as liin his mother used to do I 1 wanted to ram blut biu lato the gun and shoot hloi him over lt desert rock bock the second kid was all the eluio howling for something to ct finally his mother weakly yielded to his hl entreaties and gave like blia a cream cake or something of 0 that nature ne lie bad juist got oc well to work on 0 it fl nuen go took lock its afi mailco ad A iid d fibrow threw lot ht S arms anna around ono one of my logs lor for protection the cicak cake remained fat fastened ened to my lince knee and the ali prints of his linger fingers cling to shuso trousers still 1 I liese aro are annoyances annoy auces and yet 2 yos yea as you nay may it might be worse now there was maiden aunt of mine ashes aho about forty Is aunt june nothing but temporary orif aberration of mind can account for toy letting her ber got get hold bold of me aboard this ship aunt jane had heard a good deal about sailors Bai lors and abbe told ino ina at the start that thai it ivas aa no use for any of thorn thaw to flirt dirt with her br because she be know the fickleness of seafaring sea faring cartag mon men it was evident that she au supposed a ship to bo be a place whore where a women woman v h ho had tailed failed oNery where else eon could bo be sure of capt IN sting somebody bhe repelled imaginary advances horn meo men who were mere really only trying to be polite but she ahe took a fancy to several of our Inoff ensho youngsters and they had bad I 1 to 0 go aloft to got out of her bor way I 1 bad to hold onto her ber or r shed have goue gone up tip the iho rigging after alem well said 1 I its ita getting near your time to go on duty and I 1 wan want t T of course you do theres a lot of things we a had time to refer to too bad I 1 with come coine earlier id ia have talon you to lunch in the ward room it boon been here we had a nice layout lie went on to describe it but lie he rue me so much as a piece of bard tack lack I 1 was waa horribly lin hungry gry tor for uncle jimmys bait had bad prevented my eating any ny of the c cold 0 ld boiled dinner wilch lad had boom served as lunch C r 1 I SHOULD KNOW YOU on the fishing boat the dinner and the bait had too much in common they were ere like close shades ol of color which fight with ith each other ou on a piece apiece of millinery but the effect w was passing alig pa off maying leaving an aching vold void within me and it A as agony to bear bob talk about the good things she sha bad sot before his other old friends it was embarras the other day whon when au an another seat aunt of a mine Me melissa Meli tissa I 1 guess you dont remember romel u ber her was out hero tolu noh eh bob aiho be kept regretting that the she havo have her sewing glasses with her the ones one she had wei 0 only good at long range she strongly intimated that lohe thought our cooking would bear watching and she asked me ina particularly what m hit was as in every tiling thing well well it Is eight bells already and you must go im downright sorry come right this way old man look out you dont on that top stop heres your boat all ready take caro care ot of yourself so long howdy Y hope holin to see you again I 1 was in the boat and under way before I 1 could frame a protest and by the help of bob I 1 bad seen nothing of the chicago but the interior of his stateroom I 1 I 1 the nerve to go back it seemed better to write rr my ay iy letter from the picture of ship in kho he last part pan of websters dictionary we connected alth uncle jimmys bout boat off belfast site she was wag becalmed and the oars wore were in clam clain cove and we decided riot not to call upon the admiral under the lances wo we drifted about the bay and so melm lmos it rained and then again it sprinkled lod and the vapor from that box of tolling bait rose up and all the blines abere away from penobscot issy bay but somehow borot how I 1 dont thlik think it was the bait which made me seasick seail ck I 1 believe it was the thought of how id let dob bob make a foot fool of me just jane as a he bo used aed to e hen ben we were boys jo |