■
he Professor
and the Lion"
Bravery, Doctor, said my friend tin-1 to it” -„¡.i n n
iirfi officer,
nfflr.r isn't
inn't such a .. simple
»1__ _ .. thin
. -1
*ll4 Hoskins modestly.
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third
as you think it One man is brave in brave man and a pretty woman are
b* the finest sights in creation.
one way, and anotheriu a different one
ought always to be together.”
Often enough, that which is called 1
t
here
was something in his tone that
bravery is nothing more than custom
made
her
blush, and though she agreed
You wouldn't go up on tile fore-roval-
yard in half a gale to reef sail, would with him, she took the first opportunity
of clearing off to another part of the
you? Not you! You’d be afraid deck.
Well, you might think me a brave man
Shortly afterwards we put to sea.
because I would. But then I’d be *or
the next few days we had tbe
at rifld to cut a chap’s leg off, and you best
weather, and everything went
wouldn’t.
smoothly. I could see one or two
That was what old Captain Hoskins, things that set me thinking. The
whom I used to sail with, could never first was that the old man was making
understand. If a man was a bit nerv himself uncommonly attentive to Miss
ous about the sen, he used to look Sandford. The second was that Mr.
down on him as all sorts of a coward. Hay, in a quiet and timid sort of way,
But there came a day when he learned was thinking a good deal of her too.
better.
For my part, I thought the girl fancied
It happened when I was with him Hay rather than Hoskins; and though
in a three-masted sailing-ship, the she couldn’t avoid the "old man,” and
Arrow. We lay at Singapore, along could not help listening to bis sea
side Tanjong I’agan wharf, loading yarns, I could see her eyes turning
with a general cargo for Liverpool. forwards towards the waist, where
The principal object in that cargo was Hay was putting in his time looking
a lion that we were shipping for at the lion.
London. It lay in a strong cage of
One afternoon the skipper was sit
wood and iron, with a door in the ting b' side Miss Sandford on the poop
front through which it could be fed. deck, when Hay came up the com
It was a fine big brute, and every time panion and made his way towards
it stretched Itself you could see the them.
muscles slipping over its sides and the
“There’s something I want to tell
big, wicked-looking claws peeping out you, Captain,” he said. “It’s getting
of the pads of its feet in a way that on my mind and making me quite un
made you very thankful for the bars. comfortable. That man whose busi
We had a passenger or two, one of ness it is to look after the lion isn’t
whom was a young girl who went by doing his work properly. The animal
the name of Hilda Sandford. Directly isn’t getting enough food. It Is "de
the old man set eyes on her trim figure veloping a savage nature. And yester
and her wealth of golden hair, he was day, when I went to'see the man about
struck all of a heap, so to speak, and 1 it, I found that he was iutoxicated.
could see that he was promising him 1 really think you should interfere.”
self a mighty pleasant voyage.
Of course, the “old man” should
The other passenger was a strange, have interfered. But he didn’t like
lean, wiry man, who wore gold eye being told his duty by the little Pro
glasses, and kept peering about the fessor, especially when the girl was
ship in a most uncomfortable way. about, so he just sneered.
He gave his name as Professor Hay,
“I si. pose you’re afraid of the beast
though we didn’t find out what he pro escaping?” he said.
“I should certainly regard it as un
fessed until later.
An hour or two before we started fortunate,” tbe little man replied.
this Mr. Hay came up to the old man “You see, a drunken man might be
about the fastenings. I must
and began asking him a lot of ques- careless
<
really insist upon your speaking to
tlons.
him.
”
“Captain,” he said nervously, "I hope I
“He’s not one of my crew,” said
we shall have a quiet passage.”
“I don’t see why we shouldn’t,” Hoskins. “I have enough to do to
look after them. If any of them get
said Hoskins genially.
drunk,
they'll hear of it. But this chap
Mr. Hay looked up at the sky.
<
“There BeemB to be * good deal of is a passenger, even if he is only a
steerage one. He can do as he likes
wind about,” he said.
“Pretty fair,” said Hoskins. "That’s with his spare time. If you’re so
frightened about the beast,
what's going to take us home. Not darned
i
better look to the fastenings
being a steamer, we can't do without you'd
:
it.”
I yourself.”
"Excuse me,” said the Professor
"You're sure it's quite safe?” asked
Hay.
1 stiffly, “that is not my business. The
“Safe!” says the old man, getting on i animal does not belong to me. I have
what I believe to be my duty and
his high horse, "safe! I’m sailing this done
<
ship,”
' can say no more.”
He turned away without even a
Tlie Professor smiled apologetically.
at the girl.
“You will excuse me, Captain,” he glance
|
“That man.” said Hoskins, looking
said, “I did not mean any offence.
him, “is frightened of his own
The fact is 1 am constitutionally nerv- after
i
weather. I'll show you the sort of
mau I am. 1 should love a bit of dan
ger for your sake.”
About a week later, the girl was
sitting on the poop-deck, reading a
book. The “old man" was marching
up aud down with a quarter-deck trot,
easting glauces at her and thinking
how pretty she was, when suddenly he
uttered a howl that would have fright
ened au elephant and sprang into the
port mizzen rigging. 1 was near at
the time, and 1 looked at him, wonder
ing whether he had gone mad. Then
1 saw what he bad seen, and 1 went up
to the starboard mizzen shrouds as
quickly as he bad gone up the port
ones. The girl raised her head and
looked up at the Captain aud he gaped
down at her and tried to shout. But
for some time he could only make
faces.
“Look! look!” be yelled at last,
“come up the rigging!” The lion is
loose!”
She sprang to her feet and.looked
al>out hQr. Not four yards away from
her tbe lion was playing with a coil
of rope, the terrible claws alternately
exposing and sheathing themselves.
The creature was paying no sort of
attention to the girl at the moment,
but of course it might take it Into its
head to spring on her at any instant.
As she stood, she was cornered be
tween the stern of the ship and the
cabin door. There was nothing to be
done but to climb up the rigging.
She tried, but the first step was too
high, and she could not manage it;
when she realized that, I thought she
was going to faint
Hoskins was Just going down to
give her a hand, but at that moment
the lion looked up and saw him,
and lashing its tall gave ________
a muffled
roar. The “ old man” stuck where he
was then, and sort of shivered all over
like a Jelly. As for the girl, she moaned
despairingly, and gave herself up for
lost. Just then—out of the cabin came
Professor Hay.
He took one look around and saw
the lion. Then he picked up a broom
that someone who had been washing
deck3 had left leaning against the
deck-house, and pushed at the lion
with it looking it straight between the
eyes. He kept walking forward, push
ing the beast gently before him right
into the waist and back into its eage,
in spite of several ugly snarls. When
he had it safely fastened in, he came
astern again, looking not tbe least bit
excited or worried, and put the broom
carefully back in its place. The girl
was looking hard at him. and her eyes
were shining; but he didn’t seem to
be aware of It. Captain Hoskins had
come down the rigging and was look
ing a trifle ashamed of himself. He
hadn’t known it was so easy to push
lions into their cage with a broom,
After a bit he spoke up.
“That was a fine bit of work. Sir.”
he said. “If I hadn’t seen it, I couldn’t
have believed It.”
“Oh, it's nothing,” said the Pro
fessor. “It was my business. I have
tarrM wild animals.”
After that he seemed to dismiss the
whyle subject from bis mind, and went
down into the cabin. But I saw him,
later In the evening, talking to that
girl, and he must have had something
important to say to her, for when the
“old man” met her next morning ami
l>egan making excuses for himself,
she cut him short.
“Captain Haskins,” she said, “do
you remember advising me to marry
a brave man?”
“I do,” said Hoskins, a bit puzzled.
"Well,” she said softly, "he asked
me yesterday; and I’m going to take
your advice.”
All of which shows you, Doctor, that
bravery is very much a matter of cus
tom. As for poor old Hoskins, we had
mill-pond weather the whole way
home, and he hadn't even a chance to
show himself.—Sketch.
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••PUSHED AT THE U0N, TAWKIN
t nt me ¿giyp you a bit of
Xry r-^e.Mfcdford.
When
ous on
'{qp to overtime.”
f
.ri looking for JMnan to marry,
I have never been al
with
never select a coward. A girl like you
7. ^meone who will protect ner in
someone she can rely
-
^!.u“UVou to Engiand safe on and look up to.
•Tm not thinking of getting mar
ried «be said shyly. "But when I do,
f*eo-
advice in mind. Captain.
walked off into the
cSge. It r"X T
»°"kins- "Thi!nk
bad fixed UP
f nttnlrtion for
JLrefullr And aa for getting
seemed to hay£. ..fore it for at least
Id be <ri«d if youd think
him, for he stood
Hoaklns looked
a quarter of an ho^-
w Migs ’The^^i with a frightened1 toot
after him, an<1
Atting near.
-Ob. Captain!” she said. “Please
Sandford, who wn«^ t<} have on n
‘ Nice sort of cMfi
thflt ^t d0"MH, Sandford!" be said.
ship.” be said. A™
haven’t you a word for a poor old sea-
to stick to dry «»nd-
g fp|loW- b* * ¿ho worship« the very ground
"Well.
you.she
•»„ mau.r.1,i on’ Think over It None
™
> for
him
filing
'me ,«i my* if
lf ** 1 •
breve deserve the fair, yon
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“Ah." be «ild-
.n right In knO?
mustn’t ■'P’’”
you see A ™ ofo ibem- Rot -¿Yoa
“ - were
uumMl rising a* _ tbougn ■ an*
I woman. It's
A m*" Iu7-v„..-
• ex«*1®* "vJ,
nldpr than
“You are older
than I »m.
¡distre«*
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dITr<l*n:t
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brev.
wKh a man « uf n<)thing.”
ought to be afrau
gf anything.
on,T
ronr
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Captain?” »be a’,kS-kiIlii "You <*n
"Not I,” "«id J’^ Xrbatch^b;
“oM man" mw thnt h
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yon for
far "Waitr be »•«.
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wp rH there, IT
bare a bit of rooffh
abe exclaimed
yoo re 0»*’
“Oh, It’s all right
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