Argosy All-Story Weekly — "Sea Marauders" — page 132: what you’re looking at

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oa “Vat i is der matter mit der Indians?” he asked, rousing the sleeping slave driver. Mr. Frisbie didn’t know, but would have a look. With his employer trailing in his footsteps he crept to the top of an elevation and scanned the quiet scene. Scattered over the field twenty Piutes snoozed their heads off. Mr. Frisbie, reverting to the vernac- ular of the pub, began to swear. A sudden palsy halted his flood of speech, while his solitary natural eye almost popped out into space. On the pine stump he saw not the artificial orb that had made vassals of the noble Piute, but a rusty tomato can. THE U U “Under ane Siscided tin aha See sietitless and a prisoner, Teposed: Mr. s Lyman Frisbie’s glass eye. At the base of the ‘stump, flat on his makes back, reposed the intrepid buck Indian all see- | ing” ornament and snuffed out its vision. Withacry of rage Mr: Frisbie struck the can violently away and with who had sneaked up on the “ it went the glass eye, shattered. WENTY Piutes, the sleep still in their eyes, gathered about the pine pedestal and witnessed Mr. Fris-— bie’s downfall. ‘To this. day he is re- ferred to by the Piutes as “the man with the lying eye.” END v The Stream That Sings the Sweetest HE stream that sings the sweetest And dances with the breeze Is not as wide as shadows s Of its friendly mountain trees, And it cannot hear the ocean For its own wild harmonies. The stream that sings the sweetest Makes the greatest stir When it meets the bitter ocean, But it bears a breath like myrrh, And spells the moon had woven When the mountains sang to her. O heart, that knows the gladness Of earth that has its dream, Why cannot you go singing Like this little mountain stream That gleams to death in waters That, a moment, catch the gleam? 4 4 7 ¥ * rte oe ae UNA A A a4 4 ' 1 7 “Bath Wea AS edo) TFB SA Rae nat ye ( d a 1¢ Se, 7 Me % UBL) As : TO 2 ; RCARLARE ap AY: Al Pate ot " : \A —— » { v af, iy eg eth t Tk a} . & . eT) tH 4 . ae i ) RNY gigas A Ke)