Show W when 4 a the school I 1 m baams a ams sailed lua by y HARRY RRY I 1 A ARMSTRONG ARNSTRONG 6 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a a oa 04 judge kevin nevins at at on the edg edge of the th fl whittling tad and spinning yong gis he wai was alway doing not be wa was a judge or over bad had been but it how shows bow how it tome win will uck stick to a iea ses faring man through life for or the judge i a baptismal name we a william some on called bint judge in the dan dars when he ballod bailed before the mait mast and god it atuck stuck to him always like bli his white bat but here the judg judge list with the calking hummer hammers clattering away around ground him like ike pring spring frogs roi and the keel ot of the ilia ary ann at 0 chart a ai an diy daiy aa as it w wa as before tb launch eh day hen idea were a at t work on a plank ilung slung over the ilia aide side I alag green paint lato into the seams with the recklessness rightfully hong belong leg tag to drunken sal bailor lors A woman passed along the opposite op side ida of the street bibs waa was listening Urt ening to the clatter of at the aad end did not we the judge to be he food stood net erect hat in band hand and bowing like a beau drum brum mel met the other men giggled a b lit not westin a woman was wa a rare tiling OB on GOOM gom tiland island but wholly at the lude judge 1 I abat hat if ig the bravet woman who ver over stepp tapped etl over tho side id ot of any M ariti it afloat or on the bottom of the laki aid the judge as a he lipped slipped buck back to his til place oa on the edge of the and ind began to stroke bla bli beard bleb which had bad more gray troy hair alan black in it ghe ise that Is a to ay say that tady lady doean t 1 look afraid of alyth ng iss not even the water out ot the river but the judge paid no attention to the remark of the brat laate taste the me mary ann of Charle charlevois vols wai was dot not to so pretty then as a she ah waa was at it flirt at aid ld the judge half to but she he waa wes jut just ai its seaworthy aea worthy to a any of at the bigger vessels going up and down the tb late take under their own team when the june vacation vacations cama the miry mary ann lay by lien he la to tam th river without a thing to do along iame came a 4 schoolteacher and aked asked mt what we would charge to take it bou half dozen or to young indie ailing up the lake like to the thousand islands and bring them lately safety back to chicago mw ow that wai was a new kind ot of a cargo and I 1 had to cratch scratch my ny bead quite a bit before making a price all AD right air sit the be aid said W we will come coul down tomorrow and 0 so o they came every mother loo ot of ua waa was carrying palaton pm pris laton one and getting a wk ot of fresh meata meats aud load thing things when there broke loo a regular babel at th the gangplank and ind t there here they came tripping abond with vallada and band bandboxes boxes ami and urn um brolles and package and bud no telling whal what juit just nin nine came and alid we bad had DO no trouble blo towing stowing them way away in the cabin my room and the bate mate i room but two more come aad then jut jast as it vii was getting dark two more came that glide made thirteen As a result I 1 bad to go out anil and pla op up ot new now crew la tit the hop bop ot at getting under way before the tb kila of cargo I 1 carried wa was known bat but I 1 forgot this day wa was frida something got tan lied led with the th unee lines or of the anchor chain wai WIN rusted or the wheel bad to be died fixed the tb uary mary ar 0 bugged the wharf who rt till after midnight when we ran op up x light and ind a tog tug moo alongside and towed as out into tt mi lake like the young women were all up a as we glided along post the big elevator and the shodo ot of the mut must wept swept the fields of at aalt salt barret barrels and oa on into the broader basin beyond the tb allt living solving station A a threw throw off th tb line lines f the th tug and there ai as such a abou the lookout at t the th life saying station woula bare have been exceed it be he had bought thought a female lunatic asylum hail bad broken out on the mary ann ana eat they could eat anything I 1 believe they would hav have fattened fatt coed on 00 tri cane causee j rope end eads i 1 1 l it vms ai A joll jolly lot that drew up to the tb first breakfast break fait and the tb cabin boy boys bid bad to t make several trips rip to the I 1 before the th meal wa wis done before none they had minutely every thing from the th rock balled in the bold to tb the little tittle flag flaris whipping at the malt ingot bead beads they even eyes wanted to steer anil and the quartermaster ouia let teem them the ibid ship would luff and bud ti we outfit would laugh and juad grab at lt meats aad gua coil coils ot of rope as the boat rolled back to the tb courie alen when the ant arst night the man mu dolln dolice and guitar guitars came on dock deck and for boors the voice voices ot of women were bugled with the th trembling maui of the tb strings that to too cam came tb all n end long along about midnight and ind the whole bole IS 13 pulled cot cuts out upon tb the deck aad slept there but I 1 might go to oa on and ad on about that boyage and dd not get to tb th 0 point obert this selso cilma am sil we will win par pass u until we w are ar north ff rr r r little unction light and four lilg night lito out there came good freij wind that rocked the mary A ann n 8 like a cradle COM on the deck m shaved in and the girl erl be ginning to regret having their er em one on by one they dabbed out of th aba cebin cabin and clutched wildly a at tb the rail mai cukr ow tel they mad made their ay vly iy along the deck until the 13 23 wr were there barefooted bareheaded and bud clothed in liow ONO robot ot of white we w the ship a 11 braa against the wind and waited just to a daylight wai was showing howin the tn moon galaw out from rom behind a Is bank boat of 0 clouds and ad b hone one apon on the wat one ef of the lie girl streamed and ind I 1 ta down to the deck iw k for I 1 wa was up by tle the whirl man men overboard i be cried tried slid ad I 1 met her at the top of the udder ladder sad nd went back ith ber her ITI abw rf r lie ito ie e point tog in ir ia la the tb th a bit vl of wreck alien sall am I 1 gat omen to bring the a s boat abou and to lower the dory D by y tb time the m boat cam came around ground the ati was wi reidy ready to go down and few four men ind and av a oman jumped la in I 1 look about me m for mary wood that thit wu wait hm her all h wu was goa gone fear rear airey fairly airly shook me we aa to that little boat went up over a well swell and was wa loot beyond the are to come tuto into eight again the brit instant that girl lri knew know her bull bust DOM 13 she b 9 held the shell acress the ahei are ull 1111 she he cot got abeam the wrecked man it we was a bold and daring tiling thing to do but she he did itye it yes ye sir air tuned that dary dory la in the ot of the net and came up to the man in IV th water he ile crawled into t ie 0 boat over the bow gad and they all pulled away for or the 11 mary a AIM on and forgotten the even dozen b had e d forgotten their trouble troubles and wen van cevering like a lot ot of be bora at a football fame game finally they came alongside and were belated to the deck some rome one got blaky whisky and the rescued mau mae wallowed swallowed it like a hospital pa alent tut but the young woman man have none lions ot of it in the coune course ot at time the young man got on a shift of dry clothe clothes and told ble his atory story lie Us bad been on a pawn gir ctr steamer when ft a big war wave swept the deck taking him ulm and the chicken coop anil and straightening out every foot toot ot of co id rope III name wu was samuel welling a bank clerk on bu big vaca tion the mary ann am bad 14 pals teril from then on OIL I 1 cannot tell yoo you what hat wu wes aid said by him when the man mail dolins were trembling and the moon wa was milling making the whole deck yellow but I 1 sometimes run ran on to him and aee see the white while water putting splitting into lac hice and diamond diamonds across the Agare bead it wa was no affair ot of mine but after we got back to chicago I 1 loo leil dp up the fellow and found that be bad told the truth and that they were to be married at the beginning of the next vacation catlon Ta it so happened that our out lack had bid changed with that boyage and the tb mary ann had all she ih could no do the tb rest of the seana eaas aber aber did I 1 ban have oj nui 2 kuy myself about auch such again lor or two winter then I 1 met et out auk one on day in jannary january to f find and my toy former passengers I 1 found them that Is I 1 found samael del bard hard abed where be bad had been for fully a year and not a cent in the tb bank beak mary wai was at her ber chool school then but after awill she he came cam home and cried when she ih saw me as a if bo the bad had seen her father and told me bow samull abe be called him Samuel bad fallen one day when he wa vex kating sitting with her and bow be h had bad never been able to get got to the ali bank agala more thin that he could not earn a cent and before abe she got a wheel agista they were absolutely penn lle but they were balling hins ag again and two could live allt on the wages of a teacher mw now that la Is what I 1 call bravery and mud ts t the reason I 1 said she be wa was the tb bravest woman that ever wa was and the captain ot of the tb mery ann of t charlevoix walked acres the tret street at goose island chicago berald lie raid |