| Show ROPINO HOPING A SAILOR the hi es baill 4 o 0 1111 asser Is which jy calipare Cali tare lilot lt lot tam A A allor sailor ashore has lone long boon hall od as tho the spirit of prodigality and tumult la in asiatic ports there uro are alway always drinking prinking hop shop kept by men who of 0 a former day were english or american sailors and in these tho the lolly tare tart assemble drink whisky ing sing aings quarrel kul finally overstay ovora tny leaves and resolve to desert outright captains of hips ships whose ball ore are ashore tarrying lone long at the wine have now and then a very exciting hour getting their men they manage as follow follows an order Is made by the consul directed to those these drink lag ing hop shop keepers to turn all A a certain ships sailors out of their houses and into the atre tarla its they do this promptly as to disobey or to bo be laggard about U t would woold result in the revocation of their license so all those eal ballora ea llora lors drunk or sober tober who went down to the ea sea in the particular ship in question are cut adrift in tho the streets tre ote what follows Is 19 amusing and one of the ato entertainments of Yo kahama boklo and other japan eie ese sea Be aport while the ejected one with frown frowns on hi his tanned face and profanity and corn scorn on hta his lips Is going 0 unsteadily about in the streets with all those doors before so wide and hospitable closed in his indignant face two wary active and very laps appear they are about to make a prey of this son of the ocean the captain of bis his boat havin having offered 10 for his capture they dont rush ruih up and grapple with him as his tar stained bait balt hard egied fists nio ato cApable of blosl which would lay up the stoutest jap for a week they know a better safer and more certain way they bear between them theaone the mone one at each end a light strong cord like a clothesline some thirty feet long As they come near the man of their choice who perchance is I 1 caroling a lay very ble and fervent of the deep blue sea they stretch the rope to its length at a signal they rush so as to catch the victim near the center of the cord and with incredible run around him in opposite directions passing and ro passing eacel other and winding the cursing sailor from neck to ankle by tho the time they cease for lack of longer rope his arms are bound tight to his sides bis his leys logs are tight together everything is tied down except hie big tongue jack was never so utterly heiple le in his life then the phlegmatic japs with no trace of excitement for with them it Is a merely business taking one the heels and the other the head ed of the captive mariner like a sack of grain carry him to the wharf here the japs get their tle 10 and go back to seek for mom the bibulous one is cast all corded and bound in the bottom of tho the heat and his thongs are not removed until he ie Is laid safe on the deck of his own vessel veasel ve asel As rainy miny as asa a dozen of these pin pinioned toned may e I 1 seen in one merry boat load going to their ship |
