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Show -141- (to I Fanny 1 me tbe hat.) It gives "0111-- thatf s the word. ,ow that be realaHt it! pleastl' to Now, the let tell 10\1 how I'm living. When:r boarded m&tle tbe assistant cbet. me ship 1 was AUl$tant chef! They'll eat ve-ry well on that ship! At the end of a mcmth there'll bt onll skeletons on 'board 8 real ghost Ihlp! ' ••• BLlt, after who \fU replaod Good. to few days they t"placed me wi ttl It men from te.lllng into the, hole, .·nd I .hi. on tnt! 'bri<1g. •. 1njtlre Jow, look out, something terrible 1s goin.g happen. I h·aven f t written to YOU betor' bDau,e we ad" much trouble when we arrhed at o:rt Sdd. J/4 eG.llQr on board died trom a oontag10u.s diseas.) so the' port au thor! tiu thOught 1 t wtu the plague and quarantined (Horrified.) us. The .Plague! Iou herd u--th$ Plague! hi a botlt! Arui to think. in grallmar .s' hQol home tor m.onth to .geel sailing in the his MCk! The 11 t tle too1--& 'Plague on hnny: t B\.t't he doesn t have it he 'Ou.r Be hasn't cct it, but he gQuld have cau.ght it! And 1t doesn't seem to wo:r.rl him that it' a a te:rr1ble The plague! !lalady. Why, Jour neCk 8Wn 19,. Jour mouth bangs Dpen,. and 10.ur tORgue looks like a An 'lOW' till! yOtlr body ls oovere<I wi tb sares and 10\)'1:" It<Hlaoh goes rotten and Jour navel swells up and turns blaek like a b arskln. A.b, the l1tt.le fool! M4t1ufa, .ou haven't stopp0d glvlng us heart failure' go on, eontinue tha t when one ot h1 a ft-le,ndfJ caught the mtUl.ps. I ke-pt him And now b keep hIm frem it. plague! In the: plagu19 up to port deoided :that thank f couldn t wr1 t$ us. .•. .•.. But the or doctors diu cted the it wun' t the plague. corpse and they goodn$s. Ceear: Well, Fanny: So we W(l}:re r'61e sed The voyag 11 Aden. everything that ! IV re ship ing to ilfl now we If I told you :rvlou. S ! would nn r finl She nJ m n v r stop en route, 8.nd But, I unfortunately, upaoial1 If when we bypassed that s rgrettabl 1 to' of -then the 8Alebr' oman t rtr was d y gr' et which in tbe olden |