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Show "Shipmates Did Say That Allen Was What You Might Call a Tough Man" By JAMES B. CONNELLY, in World's Work. 1 Knew a man named Allen who was capsized one winter day with his dory mate. Allen's mate clung to the bottom of the dory and there froze to death. Allen, who had decided early that he was not going to freeze to death in the same way, dropped overboard, reached under water for the dory painter, passed it up through the ring in the how, adjusted it to such a length that he could stand in the bight of it, took a couple of half hitches to secure it in the ring, and there lning, with his body immersed im-mersed to his chin. He figured that the water would not be as cold as the northwestern winter wind. After eight hours under water lie was picked up by his vessel. We may think it a wonderful thing that he lived through that; the really wonderful thing was that it did not occur to him that lie was en-j en-j titled to lie in his bunk a while after what he had gone through. A sliip- mate fell sirk and there was Alle.c on deck early next murning to take the sick man's place in a dory. He had had a good night's sleep and a couple ; of good meals why should he stay loafing aboard? lie went out in the j dory. Shipmates did say of Allen that he was what you might call a ' touch man |