The Log of the Water Wagon; or, The Cruise of the Good Ship "Lithia"

by Bert Leston Taylor; W. C. Gibson

“Wait for the Wagon,

Wait for the Wagon,

Wait for the Wagon,

And we’ll all take a ride.”

[81] ]Jack Redwood and Hy Jinks, of the ’Frisco Bohemian Club, cut in with a barber-shop tenor and a sterilized barytone, and were promptly and loudly hissed by the snakes in the trailer.

Hennessy Martel hogged the limelight by offering to loop the Water Gap in a ball-bearing catamaran, without the aid of a net, and the Captain, scenting trouble, side-stepped the Gap and made a quick getaway.

At 5 P. M. the lookout reported a sour mash freighter. The [82] ]passengers are kissing the hem of his cardigan jacket and calling him another Columbus.