Adventure Magazine Cover — page 53: what you’re looking at

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The Third Mate Finally he raised his eyes to the twisted, wo-begone face of the late Perry Goriott. “Oh, my! Oh, my!” he moaned, wagging his head in affected distress. ‘‘Where’s the baby-carriage?”’ Then, with a quick change of tone, ‘‘For heaven’s sake, don’t you two dips ever read the newspapers?”’ he bawled. ““Haven’t yer heard about this Western fakir they call Sunshine Smart, that’s gold- bricked the Universal Insurance Company wu cea Se < SPS), ete Sate eg Ne ey ae eS a * % } ; 809 for $20,000 and they can’t get a hook into him? You haven’t, hey? Oh, my! Oh, my!’ he laughed derisively. ‘The two of you ought to be buttoned up with safety- pins! He probably thought the Gerrys had sent the infant class down to see him and it was up to him to amuse yer, so he gave yer a lemon to suck! And Reddy, the loafer “ he gazed inquiringly about for the latter. But Reddy had disappeared. Ss Memes Rie cael MATE by Frederick Booth HEN the third mate returned from his initial voyage on the Sharon, the whole ship, fore and aft, had a great deal to say about what a wonder of a man he was; exaggerations of course, for the affair happened in the night, with no one else there to see—but he had the scars on his body to show what a fight he’d had with the heathen. There are still a few ancient mariners in New Bedford, and Fairhaven just across the river, who remember this third mate. Ben- jamin Clough was his name, and he came from somewhere up in Maine; Monmouth, I think. He was counted a queer card among sea-going men, with not much to say; not very popular forward, but always re- spected and rated a good sailor. He was a powerful fellow, with a pair of arms like the flukes of an anchor, and he had a voice that broke deep in his throat, and resem- bled nothing so much as the sound of a fog- horn below the horizon—a typical North Coast voice. The Sharon was a square rigger, built for sperm-whaling in the Pacific Ocean, and she left her berth alongside one of the Fairhaven wharves, on this particular voyage, on a Oo comicbooks C©