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HER FIRST EXCURSION RUN.
than the New Idlewild. Trimmed with
her colors, ebo was a chipper littlo
creature, shooting through tho wat?r
Rod and black posters were struck off ijk0 n uttlo white water sprite in holi
three weeks before and had been posted jay drce3. Sho always mado a pleasing
in nil tho store windows in the small appearance with her pure white pas
river towns; so when tho rtNow Idlewild" BenKcr deck, trimmed in golden Fcroll
hoisted her gangplank on tho brightest work, that glistened in tho sunlight,
morning of last June, all things bado xho paesongors wero infatuated with
fair to mako her first excursion run a tho dainty salon: it was so perfectly
great event on the river.
Her captain sworo that she was the
neatest boat of her sizo and class on the
wholo Mississippi river; and tho mate
assented and sworo very hard, and said
white and bo scrupulously clean. When
night came, and tho white-liveried
waiters turned on the lights, the salon
was a fairy land. Some danced, eorao
sang, and some kept up their ceaseless
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that sho was the prettiest little boat tho babble until they nearly fell asleop on
river had ever 6eon. Ul course, tnuro their feet.
were a few great whito palaces, with There were etill others who loved to
large gilded anchors swinging between B-,t outside and watch the search light
their smokestacks, sweeping up and g0 chasing inland, mile after mile.
down the river, as if tlioy had a mort- Where it Hashed on tho bluftV, they
gage on all creation; but they were not seemed liko great black mountains, fifty
patronize! to a groat extent by tho peo- miie8 away.
pie along the levee, for they wero not
accommodating enough to stop at small
landings.
They were making good timo that
day. Tho excursionists demanded a
fast boat, and tho captain always tried
to keep his name good as the most ac
commodating steatnboatman on the
river. So he told the engineer to
"shove her."
Tho firemen were stripped to their
Down below, on ths lower deck, it
was never very lljht. Even when tho
sun shone fiercest it was bright only in
spots. But near tho engines it was hot
with fever dampness.
Tho freight was piled high; and there
was an odor of stagnant river water,
combined with many odors lc68 pro
nounced. on tf"s June day the rousta
bouts were working fast ana hard; for
waists; so the littlo steamer gained tho excursionists soon grew impatient it
speed in proportion to tho flow of the boat stopped too long at a landing
smoky perspiration down their white vhen 6he loaded or unloaded freight,
backs. And as sha churned along 6ho And the excursionists had to be pleased,
was making as much noise almost, and else the patrons of tho Idlewild might
shrieking with aB much audacity as a forsake her for her rival boat the Mary
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On the glistening upper deck tho
throng of excursionists was chattering
and twittering away like magpies.
Snuggled in a few quiet corners
Morton.
There was more freight than usual on
this trip, and tho roustabouts did not
gamblo between landings, but as soon
as the boat puilcd away from shore
were the usual number of invalids, old nearly all of them lay down on tho grain
people and cooing doves.
The invalids and old people drank in
tho flowing green panorama, and looked
over the water far away how far, they
alone knew. Tho cooing doves cooed
and forgot tho great river and green
bluff: but they looked volumes and
sacks to 6lcep until the mate yelled them
out for tho next landing.
Even "Canary Jim," the blackest,
smallest, toughest of them all, sang
littla, and his usual rollicking cry of
"Holla nigga, holla, hoo o-hoo!" had
changed to a dismal half song, half
aid little, whilo the gabbling crowd chant of, "It's haa'd, haa'd; ha'ad to bo
paraded the upper deck said volumes bo a nigga, nigga, so ha'ad, and his one
and looked very little. - or two attempts at raillery had dismally
The wheezy brass band near the bow failed to win the loud applause of shout
helped the passengers to a keener ap- and laughter usually his due.
preciation of tho glorious "day when Occasionally a paesenger unaccus
they compared the delicious silence tomed to the river would stand and
while it ceased playing to the blaring, watch the roustabouts bear tho heavy
drunken music when it played. casks and boxes up to the wharf-house;
When the first horn blared and the and if he prided himself as an observer
first pipe shrilled, a young college man of men, he would not fail to remark
remarked, as he looked sidewise by something about the strangeness of a
twisting his eyes: "I don't see where life that made men of such terrible
that band gets the 'brass' to inflict itself muscular force the serfs of comparative
on suffering humanity;' but one of the pigmies.
bevy of pretty girls in blue flannelB who As the boat neared the end of thiB
had him in charge threatened "NoW.see trip the roustabouts slept nearly as soon
bere.WUliam Henry, if you try airing as the gangplank was raised. Lying
your brains much more we girls '11 put sprawled out over the piles of heavy
you overboard, because we're going to freight they slumbered a3 if srupified
enjoy ourselves." William Henry with- by drugs. At least, they all tried to
drew into himself in savage silence sleep; but there was ono among tnem
for about two minutes, when the same who could not. He was the only white
girl beckoned to him from a shaded roustabout on board; and for a long
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tranced that he was going to stand in
range of the band all day.
When the band struck a full cres-
time he had hung around the bar, hop
ing to get another drink. Once he
had been a man of 6uperb muscular
force. Even now. one cculd see a rude
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endo, she clapped her hands to her pink suggestion of strength in his corded
ears and led the way to the stern of neck and hands, and a rent in his greasy
the boat, followed by the other girls cotton shirt showed great ropy muscles
and, finally, by William Henry. over bis ribs; but his eyes were dull and
There, the singing roar of the chug- his whole body drooped as he shambled
ging, paddles and the hiss of falling along, as.tfaough he had long ago grown
spray drowned the brazen howls and weary of holding it erect,
discords of the bsnd, and lulled them When he felt certain j hat he could
into dreamy, mellow swells of faraway get no more whiskey, he touched down
sausic, and tho pleasure seekers could to the lower deck and lay down on some
eottiro of watching tho smooth water bales of hy, where he could look out
curve and curl silently behind the keel over the river,
and mingle with the trail of foam The ater was smooth and swirt and
Some stayed near tho band and ap- strong where ho looked, and he felt
plaudea occasionally and called for tempted to let it carry him below tho
more, but the people who went to the surface, down where he could be cool;
stent coasted those who stayed as be- but after a while he rolled over and
yofid redemption. faced the boiler, trying to sleep. He
No boat oa the river moved easier saw Canarj Jim" lying on his stomach
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