The Grain Ship

"The Grain Ship"--_Harper's Monthly_. "From the Darkness and the Depths"--_New Story Magazine_. "Noah's Ark"--_The All-Story Magazine_. "The Finishing Touch"--_The Popular Magaz...

"The man at the wheel had heard me arguing with the mate about making port, and, counting upon my sympathy, had prevailed upon the others forward to insist upon it. Well, you kn...

"The conditions would try anybody's temper, and I had my own troubles. There was a passenger on board, a big, fat, highly educated German--a scientist and explorer--whom we had...

"'Remember this, boys,' I laughed, thinking of the last poor devil, with his arms pinioned to his side. 'When you've lost enough blood to see it in a lump, stab for it.'

"Hippo made a plunging charge upon rhino and met that formidable tusk. But the hide of a hippo is something akin to armor-plate, and there was no damage, though the big brute wa...

At the end of each voyage he visited home, deposited the money he had brought, and waited in the street just long enough for a sight of Minnie, sweet and matronly, and for a sig...

Memory is treacherous. In a few days I had forgotten this yarn with the other, and might never have recalled it had I not ascended to an upper floor in the lofty Flatiron Buildi...

"I spoke at random, yet none too soon. A pistol exploded in the mate's window, and a man went down, shot through the heart--the last one to join the rush over to starboard. But...

"The deck and rail were a foot thick with mud, and the small, spar-deck guns could hardly be distinguished. I saw at once that I would need help, and signaled to be hauled up. O...

"Unwearied in well-doing, glad that I was an instrument in helping this worthy young woman, I assured her of the success of my mission--before opening the telegram. And she than...

Casey, a smaller edition of the proprietor, appeared, and the three men were led to the back room, where they seated themselves at a round table, while the proprietor himself to...

"To git sailors to come to yer house on commission," retorted Hennesey, hotly; "an' fur fear I'd be makin' too much, ye sind me to a bloody coaster, whose min are in the union,...

"I can," said Murphy, mournfully and hopelessly, "if ye'll do yer share. Give me a brick to carry in me pocket, and I'll make 'em wark. They're rival factions from Limerick and...

"All to the good, as far as our lives are consarned," said Murphy; "and mebbe for your ship, Skipper. It'll be hard to salve her, of course; but she won't git the poundin' she'd...