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Th' ol 1 man's p'mission t' play of! a few harmless games in th' cabin. • r th' tub t ' i — , ' Cap wusn't goiu' 1' take any chances, an* made a bolt fer th' deck, ; _ "He made a break fer th' wheel which had been left in .v 5* "X c"' ft? 1 * oP «an .pur_?? u droPPf d w L hen he saw 'at 6. 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Yes, sir, we'd first tied th' tiller an' then took off th' wheel as clean as a whistle.. 7- "That wus s'prise No. 3, Ter the skipper turned over in th f air ?n' slid along on his port eyebrow like one 0* them ice-yachts, an', in th' meantime, we'd been bailin 1 water over th» side t' give him a cool reception^ l_rjnnr.-ii-T»r r i ■- n, - HM^^^-if^MWHMmMMMMiMMn.^i« t «,^! f^-.»»g««»v>»-v<«JTg»-»"^-r"-"-^' -r^-wr-Bga-Mwn' *""S3|tr'tffl^*r^|7lHlMltHTfK^'''"''' T"''r''' -"Ya "" •■-"-"-■■—"ffrny T:f.— ■ -»n.«^«i6!^B4BaaMHB(B ST. PAUL GLOBR BINNACLE IMS HALLOWEEN YARN 2. "We'd put th' parrot on deck t' give th f alarm at th f proper minit when Davy Jones got his pumpkin head lit up, an' I 'us pertendin' t' dive fer apples jis' t' keep the Captins' attenshun at tracted when he took advantage 0' my position an' over I went in th» tub, 5. "Well, sir, th* oV man purtnear dropped when he saw 'at them witches had* run off with th' wheel, but that wusn't all. There 'us Davy hid behind th' binnacle holdin' up one o' th' ugliest pumpkin faces you ever want t' look at. 8. "Th' rest o' it tfas easy, an' afore the ol» feller could git an' even keel, we soused him 'ith a couple o' buckets o' brine that took away all th' breath wot he had left. 3. "Just then th' parrot sang out 'breakers ahead/ which 'us th' appinted signal, an' none o' us bein' able t' see th' critter me an* Bill both pertended t' think it 'us th' doin's o' witches. Th' 0I 1 Cap wusn't goia' t' take any chances, an' made a bolt fer th 1 deck, 6. "That settled it as far as or Walrus 'us concerned, an* he didn't stop t' take a better look, not him, but scooted like he'd seen a ghost. Me an' Bill wus ready fer him. howsomever, an* had carried off th' steps. 9. "As a finishin* touch, Bill jammed another bucketful down over his head, an' th* way he spluttered an 1 made swimmin mo tions you could see 'at he thort he 'us overboard an' goin' through th' breakers. He 'us mighty shook up when we took 'im below, an 1 he thinks t' this day we 'us boarded by a pack o' witches."