Eri's

Eri's battle-flags, and just now his opponent was the gray Atlantic.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

And John Baxter was Captain Eri's friend, a friendship that had begun in school when the declaimer of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech on Examination Day took a fancy to and refused to laugh at the little chap who tremblingly ventured to assert that he loved "little Pussy, her coat is so warm."

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Captain Eri's answers were cheery and to the effect that the young lady had an errand up town, and would be home pretty soon, he guessed.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Captain Eri's calls at the billiard room were few and far between.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Captain Eri's answer was in the form of a parable.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He was disposed to lay the blame upon Captain Eri's advertisement, and hinted that the latter was not "catchy" enough.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Then Eri's GOT to do it!" asserted Captain Perez dogmatically.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Captain Perez looked surprised, and then some of the trouble discernible in Eri's face was apparent in his own.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But Captain Eri's hand was on his arm, and he rose and went.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But even Captain Eri's calmness was more or less assumed, for he did not go fishing the next morning, but stayed about the house, whittling at the model of a clipper ship and tormenting Captain Jerry.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907