Show w J i. i Proved i iTHE T THE HE skipper was a a. man who had hadL hadn L n a good opinion of himself and his notions He had pulled through shipwreck mutiny and other perils of the deep but hut he came camo a cropper once For one of or his voyages he had shipped a n. boatswains boatswain's mate mato who bore something some some- something thing of ot a n reputation One da day the skipper ordered him aloft to examine a sail on the royal roal yard Taint safe ae caps cap's protested the boatswains boatswain's mate m the th ropes foot has got to be he fixed first Do as as' I tell you joul out thundered the captain The The ropes foot are all aU right I know the they are arc The man went up Five minutes lat later r he heme came me tumbling tumbling tum tum- bling down through the rl rigging from the top of or the mast a distance of or over o feet With a bang he landed on the hell belly of the mainsail and bounded Into one of the covered canvas boats The sailors thinking him dead crowded about him In a circle To ro their amazement he sat up His IUs eyes wandered vacantly about until thc they rested on the leathery Jeather taco faco of or the skipper when they lighted up with ith Intelligence he said slowly you was i mistaken about them I foot r. r J |