Respecting Ermengarde, the Lady Water Buffalo, we find entered in our log—"On board the Tin Lizzi for Siccawei via Ports. yN., Land. a° b' E, s. Ermengrade sighted have to with s. Steam Roller standing by: About to learn what happens if irresistible force meets immovable obstruction when Ermengrade gets under way. So ends this day at sea,"
'A glorious day on the Great Western Sound, rakish passenger liners, bound for the Columbia Country, pass us. In the offing, a EM. freighter with its precious cargo of pure waters. Unthinkable that calamity should mar this calm. 'Trouble, however, darkens the horizon. Quick, the binoculars! At a command, the Tin Lizzie leaps toward the' scene. "Save the women and children first," we ery, Pshaw! Here is but 'a dispute as to the rules of ion. The Steam Roller, Capt. Wun Lung, is heading three points South of East and doing about two knots when the Ermengarde, Zee Hu-la, Master, crosses her bows without the formality of a warning signal. Leisurely craft, these; and have stopped for all interchange of com-piiments between skippers. Opportunities like this to enlarge our vocabulary and stock of general information are all too rare. aetat nine (Chinese is on Ermengarde's bridge within easy reach of that appendage which, in ships of her type, serves at once as steering gear and engine-room telegraph.
id a foreigner attempt to navigate her, we should subsequently be reading, "Among those contributing wreaths, ete." Zeo, however, is a skilled mariner and accomplished lawyer. From his post he addresses Won Lung who is purple with indignation and not without reason; for, if Zee be a trustworthy biographer, not only is Captain Wun's ancestry shrouded in my-story but the fate of his posterity is extremely unpleasant to contemplate. Wun, in turn, obliges with sorite genetic hypotheses respect Zee which convince us that we attended the wrong medical school. His is a theory of the origin of species decidedly at variance with Darwin's but none the less calculated to incense the good people of Dayton, Tenn.
The youngster is having a shade the better of the argument when Wun, recollecting his reeponsibility. to his owners, sounds three shrill blasts of the siren to convey that, so far as he is concerned, the incident is closed. Just what Zee
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