Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 11, 1925 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ARGOSY-ALLSTORY LO ERS ee eS ee Se SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1925 NUMBER 2 VoL. CLXX Fhe pig, Gun By RICHARD —— ¥ Author of ‘“‘ Jes’ Sal,’’ CHAPTER I. LINKERSPORT. INKERSPORT is a few miles up a small [eve that empties into the Atlantic Ocean, and the water is salt, except during low tide in a spring freshet, but that is not the reason Cyrus Bullitt, who was born there, and who grew up there, right in Linkersport, went to sea, and made his career on the big ships. During all his early life and up to his nineteenth year the sea had for Cyrus no particular attraction. It was good for summer bathing on the sandy beach beyond 1A 161 Jagged Point, and for mackerel or flounder if you could borrow a dory. Besides, it softened the severity of both winter and summer at Linkersport, where there were no extremes and where nothing much ever happened. As for the mystery of the sea, the lure of it, its hinted romance, its beckoning fingers to lands far away, and to people strange and new, it meant nothing like that in Cyrus’s young life. He was not that sort of a boy. Now if the sea had been equipped with a set of mechanical lathes, and a good laboratory with a porcelain kiln, and chem- com chooks (E(0)