The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1899, Page 28

o5 THE SUNDAY OCALL. <8 THere s the Only Bumboat Tloman on the Coast to the gay and nolsy haymakers, volces reached the sldewalk and told of lled Irish ballads as she passed possible customers. Where the music was the loudest, there she remained the was a stranger who listened longest for she found the biggest crowd. d after had finished he told I walked sometimes ahead. some- at wonderful I Califor- times behind her, until she reached where money was tiful and Jackson street. Then I said, “Didn’t o s like hers were rare. next thev buy anything?” 1868, the peasant girl sailed for “Och—it's a bad night. There’s no all ne to try her fortune shippin’, and there’s no money from nderland of the West. the, poor sailors. They hain’t got reets were not paved with gold, enough, they hain’t got enough to found voices as sweet as her spend on liquor. I can’t blame them for ,un- own, which required money to culti- taking a drop—it's a bad night and I 3 wouldn’t be out here if I didn’t have to 1boat woman on this ard on - the water through the long hours of to the lonely midnight And tb she takes the 1 through thirty years dar. over pre- and cheerless s the last car ze, - unpoetical story ith the patie rough .. love, VE T i e was the beginning of a life as suc- be-sure now, that 1 wouldw't. This s s €5 ateian e Y. cessful as it has been exceptional; for all I've taken in to-da : 1 she s them fOT 44 hegan in California’s palmy d She thrust her horny hand into the t} hild bor when the w ht of the nu s and folds of her bedraggled skirts and s. Burns is the bumboat woman, gold dust oy nced in payment the clutched tightly some loose pleces of . worth of th ticles, just because a BB EBES . counted them over to herself. tune smiled upon her efforts; now! . claimed, ‘just 1e. more prosperous, and think of that— 5 t her liberally. on my feet all da t tha “And youg lur out of that, too,” I ted. “Well, that is too bad. I ill buy something.” »d bless you, good lady, come had under the light and thin you can see what you're buyin'.” s and been invested her , her property 1in value, lorious pros one upon h She might tain the education she e met her fate. It was She hu basket to her wiry e fi v t at the prospect of making nd stoopned under the ligt et lamp whose rays were si of her face. daughter’s is now nearing (; s, and thirty of .. king ‘up and carrylng her . he fumbled the goods over in her to-d. ket like a ribbon clerk on bargain efell ship and crew when this form of Handk iefs, socks, combs, ing the hoodoo was neglected. elastic and pins, talking all the while. sald that she was the last person “It's purty hard for a woman old a the gangplank of the fll-fated ltke me to be doin’ this, but I'm and that th lors in thelr not complainin’ about the people, : f L for it’s the best city in-the world for a 1 t 1 an to be makin' a dacint livin'. ] s are hard now but when hippin’ pieks .‘then T'll be S e & o 1 I'm > old and stiff . 5 now and ! s T used to be, ; JOHN : These han pure linen, e e every thread Three for two i T as T e aying. in o 5 the patk darlint, 2666000660000 ., there’s an a at the other end } narriage there is yet all probability this bumboat y will work until the eve of her cottage with > to Europe h her daughter. 3 home to which toil hard on the [ tted he long tediows i like 2 y midnight s i ANNABEL LEE. Tnteresting Manner in Which 2 Lobster [a g’ . (v Gl ] ’ e i » that instead of ed the head > body and was repeated un- sened on the left more began the ifter half an for 1 the tender from which emed to be little turnout. I ind that, although yvered with an in- approximate solidity oiled ed- to be touc efforts to ge During the th lay and that from conside ¢ next lous rapid- : : : % big again nce more, : ig claws , ) : me a spite- Tty operation which T have just : : took place ive witnessed e wore big lobs ) through ; e varied . e which dders, which , unlike those As the New Shell Began to Harden on the Day After the Condition of the Lobster at the End of the l‘HS‘tIThG Following Evening the Body Shells Entirely Splltllmmedldtcly After He Had Escaped From 1 Shedding Was Finished, and the Old Shell by Its Side Day of the Chanaina Process. and the Convulsions of the Large Claws Beaan. the Old Shell and Is Quite Exhausted