Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . sent twomen over with a dory, telling them to ask the commander toallow the Martin to lie at anchor where she was. The blue-fish received a hearty welcome from the steward of the scoutpatrol, and the fishermen evidently delivered their message,for presently the commander came out again on the windybridge with his megaphone. I cant give you permission to lie at anchor where youare, he shouted. No? said Captain Larsen, very much crestfallen after 207 his not altogether disinterested contribution to the larder ofthe United States Navy. But if I were you, added the comm
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . sent twomen over with a dory, telling them to ask the commander toallow the Martin to lie at anchor where she was. The blue-fish received a hearty welcome from the steward of the scoutpatrol, and the fishermen evidently delivered their message,for presently the commander came out again on the windybridge with his megaphone. I cant give you permission to lie at anchor where youare, he shouted. No? said Captain Larsen, very much crestfallen after 207 his not altogether disinterested contribution to the larder ofthe United States Navy. But if I were you, added the commander of the 235,Id stay there until I were chased away! And stay we did, all day and night, and part of thenext day. By the afternoon of September 12, with bait binsempty and thirty-six hundred bluefish as the fruits of theMartin s shortest and most successful trip of the season, wehove up the anchor, hoisted the head sails and the mainsail,and ran into New York before a strong, fair wind and a fol-lowing sea. R. C. M. 208. ^^ , ? ^ DC ^ D. -^ E •- UJ « -J COo ns ^>t -*^ 3- *.v:i;^ ,5;^^ *^^s^ Japanese Announcements and Programmes I HAVE recently placed on exhibition in the Japanesehalls a collection of old Japanese souvenir j^rogranimesand announcements of theatrical performances, concerts,story tellers, meetings for flower arranging, of hokku orJapanese poetry societies and of the No theatre. Suchsouvenirs, printed from wood blocks on oblong sheets of aspecial paper called hosho, and decorated with pictures, arecollected and preserved by Japanese amateurs for their per-sonal enjoyment. The collection, made by some one interested in aestheticdiversions, and displayed in part in the Museum, I boughtin Japan in 1909. The pictures on these programmes are, asa rule, too slight to interest the foreign collector of colorjjrints and they have ahnost escaped his notice. They are,however, very interesting when we know about them, and tellmuch about a side of Japanese life concer
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