Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-24 | Page 7 | Boyish Mind Was Working

BOYISH MIND WAS WORKING youngster on his F sail over the rag ng ma n none of us ever quite forget those days when our years were few of dreaming about life on the raging main when the imagination reveled in pirates and plunder from state ly galleons and valorous deeds done on storm swept decks says a writer in the new york times recollection of this period Is at any rate clentry vivid so that the remark of a email boy could contribute ma bially to the gayety of nations among the passengers on one ot the excursion steamers running from manhattan across the harbor to coney island the steamer made her way across the bay dodging tugs and ferryboats fortunately meeting no pirate craft the passengers escaping gladly from the city s heat nibbled their sand and enjoyed the breeze the waiters moved about the deck with their trays the boy just from the inland town where his life so tar bad been spent sat rapt and wide eyed it one could but know fully the mental content from which sprang his words at last ma he cried hoarsely tell me which one of em is the skipper