Mountain View Union High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Mountain View, CA)

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MARIE G-ARLIEP1' THOS. KLECKNER E RIARGARET VVRIGHT w 4 4 1

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DIA RGARET DECHMAN DONALD J. DIORK ESTHER FRAZICR

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Eiivraiurr A Svnuth S7221 Epianhe BY JACK G. NORTH, JR., '16 lfffffx '. W-X ft J i ' f vi!-E-9994? 4 W -- www eb E- A ' fj 'X' jill ., , . ffn f' N gfgiflilgfz about the ori in of su erstition reminds me o' the Iufygyl WW . . g Vp . 552. time .l. cruised on the Dark Seaf' muttered old Bill Rus- sell, as he sat cross-legged, smoking a pipe among half QQ lf 'a dozen old salts, who were busy spinning yarns in the 4Sailors' Retreatf :fy UNine-tenths of all seamen are superstitious, he began. 'tl was the other tenth, but fshiver me timbers' Qi., if I am not one of the nine now. Yes, and all because 'I shipped on the 'Dark Sea., 'Alt was in the early part of nineteen hundred and thirteen, Feb- ruary thirteen, to be exact. l was tadrift on the beachf broke. USO giving my mains 'l Qtrousersj a hoist and taking a reef up in her, 1 picked up my sea bag from the sawdust covered floor of Maloney's Saloon, and hoisted anchor, beating the wharves of San Francisco for a job. Finally, after a long fcruise' I landed a job on the barkentine KDark Sea', bound for the Sandwich Islands with a cargo of beef. Don't the natives over there kill their own meat U? What should they Want with beef?'l interrupted a dapper Kdropper in'. With the trace of a grin, Bill answered: NVell, I suppose they fig- ured on spreading it between their islands. I was stowed away in her fo'cls'l with the rest o' the crew and awaited the bosun's pipe for all hands on deck. We sailed at three i11 the afternoon, Friday, the thirteenth, but mind you l had never given credit to superstition. Evidently the cap- tain was ignorant of the date of sailing, tho' a practical impossibility, or if he knew, he kept his calendared secret exceedingly close or nearly every last seaman would have refused to sail. Three days of mild sailing, and the fourth-that was a 'whop- per.' A forty-mile gale hit us. The watch below was piped on deck, everything was shortened and then we close hauled on the starboard i.