| Show THE LOOKOUT my eyel remarked ft a little old tr tar with gray rin ringlets gleis hanging about his temp 1 cf like the twisted strands of a rope my edeal lee ita a stormy night mates and I 1 wonder if we s should be brought up all of a sudden before f ore long agan in some of them big rafts of ice that we saw to leeward a few hours ag ago tom ayou ee on the lookouts lookout and there never was wa a lazier log than he Is in old bangs bungs will see to him jack 11 answered one of the shipmates 4 lie hes so walked forward already no less than hall hal f a dozen times ir order to see ee that hes keepin a sharp harp eye about him iba aye y e aye cried jacks jack but if bungs bangs had got a little closer to him I 1 be afraid to wager considerable that hed find cummungs sitting bitting on nil his knee his head upon his breast and fast fait asleep in fact I 1 I 1 feel so BO sartin of this that I 1 shall go ferard at once and wake him 10 up so saying he hastened along the lee gangway and on gaining the knight heads he discovered that hla his surmise was wall correct the lookout man was leaning against the bowsprit snorting melodiously jack woke him up with a rough and tle the startled seaman sprang to his feet better keep your eyes open lad said the old tar 4 it t honora ble it is int doln our right by any of us to go to sleep on sich a night as this besides youre liable to freeze to death and il aye aye a e interrupted tom you are right jack and tor for the life 0 me I 1 cant imagine how my eyes eye came to close ill keep em emolen open the rest of the lookout I 1 promise you lell be best beat for bouto you to boso doso do so an jack and I 1 hope keep your word so saying he started to go aft when a dark figure suddenly bounded before him and crouching athis at his feet laid his great shaggy head against the palm of the old seamans sen mans outstretched hand aye aye youre a noble dog neptune said jack as he caressed tile the ani rol mil and weve all learned to look upon you in the light of a shipmate neptune shook his tall and uttered an animal growl of satisfaction then he rose upon alb hind feet and pressed his fore paws upon the sailors breast its a cold night neptune it um up um amt ill st answered the dog and theres some danger of us run ning a foul of the icebergs mate the dog nodded and whined then sprang to tile the lee bulwarks bulwa and thrust ing his nose over the rail peered earn celly drough the gloom do you see anything my lad the animal shook his head in the negative and with it a gleeful bark re tudd to the side of the tie old tair I 1 neptune continued jack in a low olce at the same time pointing forward id like to have you kumpon the knight heads at aid d keep a lookout the man weve got there dye see lad is liable at any moment to go to sleep Is nt neptune barked indignantly then Ju jumping milling upon the knigh thelida lie he seat ed himself by the side ot toni tom cum with his head and ears erect lies iles a jolly lad that newfoundland Newfound and er muttered jack as he moved toward the quarter deck land and hell stay eta where lie he li if and do his duty like an honest tar bless his eyell A thick fog bank which for many hours had rested upon the hor lon was now spreading over the bea the moon which had occasionally emerged from the clouds that scattered like snow snowdrifts drifts from the sky was now 0 obscured b hen red and the darkness closed round the ship like a pall keep a sharp lookout there forwar dl shouted the first mate from the quarter deck aye aye answered toni tom cueni cummungs ing but the next nest moment his head dropped upon apoll his bosom and he fell into a deep slumber the mate continued his walk paus ing occasionally near the binnacle to look at the compass or listen to the 5 3 arns of the watch some of which were very ver amusing 1 I think well we pass the ice hoe floe on this tack 11 he remarked at length to the man nt at the wheel 1 I thought so in the first place although the captain was of a different way of th chinkin inkin iian ac e aye sir replied the helmsman who was an old sailor ii i 1 I hope you are right but sometimes a body gets wit ms taken in these latitudes wh where re the current runs so eo strong when I 1 was in the suddenly interrupted tile the mate III 1 I thought I 1 heard tile the man on lookout callin to us it is Nept unet cried old jack ile he Is g barken a as I 1 never heard him bark be f fore ore hes got tharp eyen ecal that dagand I 1 he bo afraid to biet bet that hes hen sighted lighted so methin so taking saying the old tar flurried forward but he had scarcely gained tile the knightshead when me deep voice wua wits heard mingling with the burking barking of the dog up with the helm A big ice mountain right ahead I 1 look sharp there at the wheel t look shai ghail pIll such indeed was wag the fact the lookout man had allen alien to sleep but neptune had kept a faithful watch and on teeing seeing the rugged ice pyramid had given notice of it in the manner de scribed ascribed the wheel was wa immediately raised and the gallant ship went booming past the lofty bergi berg just grazing its side fide with her weather yardarms yar darms had the movement been delayed a moment longer the destruction of the ship hip with the loss lose of the greater part of the crew if not of all hands would have been the result the old mate a blunt good natured fellows fellow was so go affected by the faithful noble behavior of the shaggy sentinel that he threw both arms around the animals neck and hugged him to his breast bestowing upon him all the en an dearing nautical epithets he could think of and swearing that he should have all the fresh meat he wanted when the vessel returned to the sandfish Sand wish islands As to tom cummings he s swore ore by his honor its a sailor and a man manth that atit it should never mever again be said that a dog was obliged to perform the duty that he tom neglected new york news new |
