CAP'N ERI
By Joseph Crosby Lincoln
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I -- A LAMB FOR THE SACRIFICE
CHAPTER II -- THE TRAIN COMES IN
CHAPTER III --THE “COME-OUTERS'” MEETING
CHAPTER IV -- A PICTURE SENT AND A CABLE TESTED
CHAPTER V -- THE WOMAN FROM NANTUCKET
CHAPTER VI -- THE SCHOOLHOUSE BELL RINGS
CHAPTER VII -- CAPTAIN ERI FINDS A NURSE
CHAPTER VIII -- HOUSEKEEPER AND BOOK AGENT
CHAPTER IX -- ELSIE PRESTON
CHAPTER X -- MATCHMAKING AND LIFE-SAVING
CHAPTER XI -- HEROES AND A MYSTERY
CHAPTER XII -- A LITTLE POLITICS
CHAPTER XIII -- CAPTAIN JERRY MAKES A MESS OF IT
CHAPTER XIV -- THE VOYAGE OF AN “ABLE SEAMAN”
CHAPTER XV -- IN JOHN BAXTER'S ROOM
CHAPTER XVI -- A BUSINESS CALL
CHAPTER XVII -- THROUGH FIRE AND WATER
CHAPTER XVIII -- THE SINS OF CAPTAIN JERRY
CHAPTER XIX -- A “NO'THEASTER” BLOWS
CHAPTER XX -- ERI GOES BACK ON A FRIEND
CHAPTER XXI -- “DIME-SHOW BUS'NESS”
CAP'N ERI
CHAPTER I
A LAMB FOR THE SACRIFICE
“Perez,” observed Captain Eri cheerfully, “I'm tryin' to average up with the mistakes of Providence.”
The Captain was seated by the open door of the dining room, in the rocker with the patched cane seat. He was apparently very busy doing something with a piece of fishline and a pair of long-legged rubber boots. Captain Perez, swinging back and forth in the parlor rocker with the patch-work cushion, was puffing deliberately at a wooden pipe, the bowl of which was carved into the likeness of a very rakish damsel with a sailor's cap set upon the side of her once flaxen head. In response to his companion's remark he lazily turned his sunburned face toward the cane-seated rocker and inquired:
“What on airth are you doin' with them boots?”
Captain Eri tied a knot with his fingers and teeth and then held the boots out at arm's length.
“Why, Perez,” he said, “I'm averagin' up, same as I told you. Providence made me a two-legged critter, and a two-legged critter needs t