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If there had been, a fellow couldn't be advertising her to the crew of an oil-tanker at high-noon, could he? No! But there was a girl, and there was a friend of mine call him Cogan. Oh, not a bad fellow no worse, maybe no better, than you or I, or most any of the old crowd we used to know, and he happened to drift down the Isthmus way into Colon during the Revolution. Ever there?"
"Why, of course it happened, and just as I've told it. But not to anybody named Cogan. There was no Cogan, or rather" Kieran rolled over on his side and rested his head on his elbow "I'm Cogan." "Oh-h-h. Oh-h-h. And you're Campbell, the old champion athlete?" "Yes, I'm Campbell. And I'm Cogan. And I'm Kieran, pump-man on this wall-sided oil-tanker at fifty-five per month." "But why?" "Why, why?"
Hilmer's ambition to christen a seagoing giant, and she had been chosen to act as godmother to a huge oil-tanker only a year before, but a serious accident had laid her low. Now, though she was unable to perform the rite herself, she had intrusted her part to her faithful friend, Mrs. Starratt. It was to be done by proxy, as it were, with Mrs.
The passenger, who knew the big man for the boson, gazed up the dock also and saw that it was the pump-man coming; and he was singing cheerily as he came: "Our ship she was alaborin' in the Gulf o' Mexico, The skipper on the quarter " Usually it is only the drunks who come over the side of an oil-tanker singing, but this was no drunk.
And on an oil-tanker. I'm not hiring a rough rider, or a policeman, or an aeroplanist just a pump-man." Through his open door the new superintendent caught the wink which his head clerk directed at the second clerk. And caught it so easily that the thought came to him that to share in the humor of the head clerk may have been one of the recreations of his predecessor.
Must have struck a busy concern, too. From daylight to ten, eleven at night once in a while a night lapping over. Nothing doing but work. I don't mind work, but this indulging a lawless passion for it not for mine. I've had three months of that, and I think I'm due for a change. And don't you think that's enough autobiography to qualify me for pump-man on an oil-tanker?"
Hundreds of submarine-chasers have now been built, and a number of destroyers and other craft completed and placed in service. The first merchant ship to be armed was the oil-tanker Campana; guns manned by navy men were on board when she sailed for Europe, March 12, 1917. The big American passenger-liners St.
"Of course, and I'm after a berth as pump-man on your oil ship sailing to-day for the Gulf." "And what, may I ask, do you know of our class of ships?" "Only what I've heard most modern oil-tankers afloat, and I'd like to try one out and sail the Gulf again, if you'll give me the chance." "M-m what are your qualifications?" "Qualifications? For pump-man on an oil-tanker?" "Pump-man yes.
In a series of experiments made under the supervision of the Navy Department after we entered the war an oil-tanker ship was so successfully painted in imitation of the color-rays of light that, at three miles, the tanker seemed to melt into the horizon. The effect was noted in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.
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