. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... -s kicking and butting the poor dummy, he joined inthe merriment and seized on the dummy to throw it over-board, thinking the clothes were Ryans, but when informedthat they were his own, he began to show temper andsaid he would lick the man if he knew who it MACS DUMMY BED-FELLOW, Why, said he, I came near throwing my own oil clothesoverboard. Some of the boys kept him hot all that day, and when helearned that Hooper was the man he could sa}- no more,—hi
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... -s kicking and butting the poor dummy, he joined inthe merriment and seized on the dummy to throw it over-board, thinking the clothes were Ryans, but when informedthat they were his own, he began to show temper andsaid he would lick the man if he knew who it MACS DUMMY BED-FELLOW, Why, said he, I came near throwing my own oil clothesoverboard. Some of the boys kept him hot all that day, and when helearned that Hooper was the man he could sa}- no more,—his great friend Hooper had plaj^ed this trick that nearlycost him a suit of oil clothes. He never could overlookit. Hooper thought that McKenna ought to take a jokethat he played with better humor, so their friendship, bein^strained to this pitch, Hooper had to look around for anew confidant, and as I was the onhy neutral just then, hebegan to tell his troubles to me, and wanted me to takethe navigating kit from Rounds, so he could turn him for- *96 TO THE ALASKAN GOLD FIELDS. ward. He said he would do it if I would navigate theschooner the rest of the voyage. I made but one answerand that was, Rounds is a good navigator, but he saidthat Rounds was not sailing the vessel on the right trackand had got her in light trade winds, when, if he had goneright, we would have had good fresh trades
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