Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 23, 1924 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

- ARGOSY-ALLSTORY 1 Eee Vg 9 See Se SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1924 VoL. CLVIUI NUMBER 2 By GARRARD HARRIS CHAPTER I. A KICK REPAID. HE schooner Windsor Castle, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, eased up the coast of Panama from old Porto Bello, tacked into Colon Harbor, and let her crazy quilt patchwork sails come rat- tlng down. Then she dropped her mudhook and slowly swung her bow to the fresh- ening trade wind from off the Caribbean. “Get that bloomin’ dory off the davits; Hi’m going ashore.” “Captain Harry Montmorency Scruggs was fat, pompous, and black as tar, yet he spoke with a mixed cockney and extreme 1A English accent. He went sedately below, and returned to deck after a bit attired in white duck and a panama hat, which ac- centuated his exceeding brunette type. Also he was wiping his mouth.and the odor of rum was quite pronounced in his vicinity. The old Windsor Castle was loaded near- ly to the scuppers with coconuts, mainly; some balata, cohune nuts, many odoriferous hides of cattle, deer, and tiger; a few bags of vanilla beans; some mother of pear! shell, a few tons of copra. A cage up near the bow held about a hundred parrots bought from the San Blas Indians; another cage held some fifty monkeys, also to sell. Five young goats roamed about the deck. 161 Gomichboo