Adventure, May 1, 1927

This May 1st issue of Adventure magazine contains five short stories, two serials, and one complete novelette. William Rose Benét opens with "From the Cab," a dialect poem celebrating locomotive engineering, specifically the 4-6-2 Pacific-type engine. Captain Dingle's "Homeward Bound" depicts Humpy Rogers, an aging sailor who passes up a berth on a homeward-bound clipper to help a young man claiming to have a wife and baby at home. Rogers later learns the young man was a con artist. Aboard the Murray, Rogers finally heads home via Calcutta, but the ship is rammed and sinks in the Bay of Bengal. Rogers survives with his precious logbook. The narrative concludes with him stranded in Noumea, learning of a death aboard a prison-store steamer needing a replacement sailor. Harold Lamb contributes "Rusudan," described as a complete novelette. Additional contents include Edward L. McKenna's "Jim Clancy Shoves Off," Lyman Bryson's "The Greatness of Little Mungye," Hugh Pendexter's "Kingbird," and sections devoted to outdoor activities and advice.