Tip Top Weekly No. 61: Frank Merriwell in the Mines — page 32: what you’re looking at

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30 . TIP TOP WEEELY. | : . ® fowl just as they went about it. He opened it, and The Emerald Ring. thers in the bird he found the emerald re § , . ‘| How did it come there? Why, the girl had knocked = . her ring, in washing her bands, into a plate of fruit ‘‘When I was a cabin hoy on board the ship Cale-° parings that was there. The fruit parings had gone donia in the old days,’’ said a sailor not long ago down the spout to the fowls, and one of them fowls during a stormy passage on 80 swallowed it—a chicken’ll swallow anything; and that An Old ocean steamer, ‘‘I was such a y fowl was the one that the cook had killed. little chap that they called me! ‘Well, he rushed on deck, as you can believe, and Tar’s Y Mouse. On oue trip there was a there, befure the whole company, he showed them the arS Yarn. gentleman aboard, a first-class proof of my innocence, and convinced them that poor | passenger, who had a young Mouse, who lay there senseless, was neither a thief nor daughter; and this girl wore an emerald ring on her. a liar. : left hand, and two others on the right. very morning: ‘‘Well, well,’? said the sailor, ‘‘and here’s what I’ve 1 brought her meal and water to dip her hands in, and got to show for it.’? He opened his collar, and showed, she said it kept ‘em white. She used to laugh at my tied around bis neck with. a ribbon, a beautiful dia- rough hands. mond ring set with emeralds. ‘One day, after I had been round and attended to! “I don’t wear that—it wouldn't look quite right on all the rooms, the captain called ine and said, ‘Mouse, ! my hands.’? He smiled as he showed his hands, horny go at ouce and give the young lady that ring that you and rough with the handling of the ropes. ‘‘But I don't took.’ | . ; ; part with it, neither. After they went ashore, that girl ‘* ‘What ring, captain?’ !and her father, they came back to me with that ring, ‘* ‘Don't you act as if you was innocent, you young | and I’ve kept it by me ever since, and always shall.” rascal. This morning Bide saw the young Jady. take off | her rings as usual, to dip her hauds in the water you | a Lronght, and when she wasn’t looking you took the | emerald. “°T never did, captain !? | The Australian blacks are as fond of throwing the ‘* *Take care! No one but you has been in the room, | Pra, Mouse, and she has been to me and coniplained of the | lishmen, with more or leas eft. _ 4 “Captain, I swear I am innocent! I baven’t taken anything from anybody !? ‘ “You won't confess it, then?’ 40 41¢ wasn’t me! It wasn’t me!’ I cried, bursting | | | ground asa boundary: into tears. i it-a few paces, grasping his boomerang at one end with ‘* ‘Very well,’ said the captain, loudly; ‘go and: his right h fetch the carpenter.’ . | ee = . — ‘*} knew what that meant. The carpenter was the ! He advances, raises his arm, with the elbow bent, biggest man we had on board, alnost as tali as the miz- ; zen iiast, he seemed to me, aud be used to wield the: ‘cat’ when auy one was whipped. He had a prudge against me, aud I knew the pain would be awful. ‘*But I brought the carpenter, just the same. He and the captain talked a while in the captain’s room, and when the carpenter came out I could tell by the smile “" ' kes on his face that he had a job on band. we ds away, and twenty yards aboye the earth, where : +. | 16 flutters and hangs for an instant in the air. Then it ‘That afternoon the cook told me that I was to be spins back to the thrower, and falls within a few yards n bomerang contests appears line of spears is laid onthe downwards. ‘left to right, he sends the boomerang on its course, | Boomerang. with bis favorite weapon. A : boomerang, to see who is the best man, as some Eng- raw! brains, are of shying at the | Throwing the lebian eccoannt Hach man The thrower steps back from: above his head, and the convex edge of the weapon With a rapid, circular movement of the arm from ' with the concave edge in the direction of the line of. . flight at the moment of delivery. The weapon fliesswiftly. ‘until it reaches its culminating point, seventy or eighty. made an example of,’ and given thirty strokes with : (enim, The palm is given to the thrower whose boom- the ‘cat,’ on the deck, before the whole ship’s com- |; turn : — | any, early the next morning, for stealing the young | Orin e his Livan tehe Pe ieorang’ ts thrown when its ady 's ring. , | | object is a flying bird, so that if it misses its mark. it **That night was an awful night forme, If I could: shail return’ to the thrower. The weapon is thrown have felt sure that I should have been drowned at once ; differently when used for fighting purposes. instead of being snapped up by the pak he should: Then the thrower runs rapidly forward, and deliver- oped and ' ing it at the level of his hip, makes it strike the ground have od re overboard. Every minute I prayed that that ring would turn up, and save me from | on one of its horns ten or twelve yards from him, The my terrible flogging, but it was in vain. 7 | weapon then ricochets, files straight away for sixty ‘Next morning, as I lay trembling, the big carpen-: yards, keeping a horizontal line three or four feet from ter came and dragged me out on the deck. I was half: the groun ; and gradually rises until it is spent and dead with fear, but I could see all the passengers and: fajls to the earth. a the crew gathered together in silence. It was dreadful.| The interesting author from whose book we have con- And there was the young lady who owned the ring | densod this description of the boomerang. contest, also. looking cold and pitiless. describes the nerve of a stalwart warrior who offered '. “J was stripped to the waist, and the carpenter tied ' himself as a target to the boomerang throwers. Grasp- me up to the mast, and made ready with the ‘cat.’ | ing a shied of light wood, two feet long, a ‘foot wide, Then the captain stepped up and said: ‘Mouse, once! and four inches thick, he placed himself thirty paces. more I-ask you to confess that you took the ring.’ from the boundary live of spears, and challenged any. . ** ‘Captain,’ I replied, ‘if you was to cut me to pieces, | one to hit him. oo | I conldn’t confess that and tell the truth.’ His assailants, standing the other side’ of the line, . ** *Visten, boy,’ he went on, his voice trembling a/ threw at him in rapid succession, but one at a time, Httle, ‘if you've thrown it into the sea, or lost it, 17! He, watching them with a kean eye, avoided a hit, now: pay for it, I'll replace it; but you’ve got to tell me—do! by a slight movement of his body, and again by catch- ae hear?! ‘ *. 7 : ling the Soomerang on bis shied. ‘Be as nat bit once. 4E burst into tears, and told him again and again | His nerve was marvellous, fora blow from a boomer- that I-knew nothing about the ring. Then he turned to 8ug either kills or wounds severely. ~ the people and said, ‘This boy niust be a little thief oat = . and oo ee ped Whip him, ee 4 ; os ———— :“The carpenter struck me once, and again, anda : . third time; but after that I never counted, for! fainted SURE EO GET. WELL. dead away lefore be bad gone to the tenth stroxe.. . * When I came to myself, where do you. think [ was? Mamma—‘‘Run for the doctor. Little Dick. is very Why, 1 was in that young lady’s room, lying on her} gick,”? gor Isaw that very ring—theemerald! = = eg UWWThy. b —_ . mo ary + Why, how do you know? . | it aeons TT cosh ha ene conten bed how **Tt’s enowing, and he basn’t had a chance to try his , and she was taking careof me; and on her fin- | Papa—<‘Don’t worry. He'll be all right to-morrow,’’ couldn't bear to see me whipped, had been killing a ' new aled since Christmas.’’ COME DOO CY, S CO)