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rS^ Pll? ]\k ST PAUL GLOBE^ '^™^^ r .' <gurmjv? august '&& 1004 \ How "Binnacle JimT Helped Hold Up the Arctic Fast Mail V ff \Q_J___H n >K_\ O^^* f ( V<^ // JfH )JBw-#-f __£ ■ li\ >' %l f^*±^Jl V 5 \ r I *-^' ""■_ fm •<■ *^ - _W____fip^^ *"Tl flf «tS C v r. "I've been castaway on desert islands many a time and tzss**^ . "**•—fS» - , *'^^Jgs^r never complained, but when th* crew o' th» 'Dancin' Sal' 'us 2. "Just when things 'us lookin' th' worst (especially fei u^,;,,,^,,,. A ., lfP „ . ; packed in th'ice off Greenland one winter an' we run out 0' pro- Davy Jones) wot does that very same ape do but haul off an' sight 3- Wcdidn t have no jolly Roger runl up, so when th' lelier visions, r says, gimme th' tropics every time. Poor Bill, who • a sail, leastwise wot stood fer one, up in them forsaken latitudes. come alongside we grappled him afore he had time V port his wusn>t strong naturally, had begun t' rave, an' while I 'us cookin' It/us a life saver fer. poor Davy, fer we 'us driven desprit, an' th' . helm, an tb . fact oth matter 'us the lubber 'us too set back V up a little overshoe brotb, I kep' thinkin' 0' th' yarns I'd beard way th' ol' man brightened up an' got ready t' board that furrier ! -put up a scrimmage, an' we took th' craft an' cargo without th' spun o' scurvy an' so on. . J | *ud a made or Henry Morgan jealous. , j L | QSS ° a man • _; -^4. »J^dg..p.po«n«n. not f fI.J M »bb« aboard (there em & "Th'thing *us worked by dogs, mind yo\ accordin' t' th r . : high * a ' <*!t'us a tidal wave you mipht say ie» we ( v *' landed ! X ,4' '' t'us dis-ap-pointin' not f find blubber aboard (there . custom o'th'kintry, an'th» Cap'bein'un.familliar : 'ith.that sort .■ h ; gh 6 an> d " ir p V rt^ the e«J^su-^rise-o"h'naW« who Vad-» be n' nothin' but a ol' mail sack) but we took charge 0' th' craft 0 . negation just sot back an' let the critters have their head, an; Sehted us hiTh^ffin? L an' BUIv 'us too b"v findin' a U"e notwithstanding, an cc sail with colors hopeful Th' sol skipper *£ b | lieve *i J t aforeiWe could reef in or jump we > us scu( l din * *"' te,<J "^'"'h' ™f f^^wlat happened we ?ed*ed 'a ' port. You'd actually be su-prised wot a clean pair o' heels J.hat mountain right smacK into port. mmor n llkely , h . Cap had run down one 0 . th , proimnent cltlMns . rig showed. ; -' '. 7/...- _. ..->. " .- ..' .' • ' , . __. J 1 , — ■- - ■ \^___^_^i ______ ■—-=^_" lOlflßv '- "(T 8, Well, sir,.you'd be su-prisea at th* progressiveness o them natives. If they didn't jerk us 7. "Th' feller 'us in charge o 1 the port it seemed, an* th' reception he gave th' or man wasn't U p ftn » aye .$ trial fer robbin' the mail, an* when th' thing come off wot does me an' Bill do but up jist wot we 'us lookin' for. not us, an' as th' chap wot we'd over-hauled come runnin' in jist at that an turn state's evidence t* save our own bacon, an' get off scot free. They give th' ol' man ten days, ' f time raakin' complaints it didn't take half an eye t' see a storm comin\ an* 1 said as much t' Bill in privit. an » w _j en you stop t' think a day up there is sii months, I reckon he's in that icebox y^t." rm , ■■ ■ iii mstsaaaKWKMamßmmamm^aiß6BKaKßti^REsS3S3E& iiSJ- ____^^'^__-o___y \ ' if i^^fttl Z*^^""^' l# "^a St ___**^^_#^^^ *& fi _^^ __^^ m^^^A ~* •' w^ _? J^%&^^^^ -^ ___f^- * ____^^ __^ _r V m ' '■ » _# It i n--. <3-i^_____*_^ t How "Binnacle Jim" Helped Hold Up the Arctic Fast Mail ST. PAUL GLOBE . <g£rHBJVf JLUGUefT : 14r& IGQjL