41 Lure O Gold 1904

"
The Steam Collier
that the last of this fuel had just been thrown into the
furnaces.
We re chucking in a lot of hams and sides of bacon
next," said he. "Chow will be short on our last day
out. But bacon-burning don t bother me, for I never
touch pig in any shape."
"No," observed the Doctor, coming along,
"it isn t
the best kind of food, but men working as hard as these
are on this ship ought to have something in the way of
meat. Speaking of eating, I d like to have my legs
under the table at the Palace Grill just about now."
"Wouldn t I though!"
exclaimed the second officer.
"
If we have good luck we ll be in by to-morrow night."
I saw the squat little figure of the Jap coming along
the deck with an instrument in his hand. It looked
something like a zither.
"That s his yo-kin, as he calls it,"
remarked Doctor
"
Quaritch. It took him nearly a month to make it."
He took the instrument from the boy
s hands as he
came up.
"
See how ingeniously
it s constructed."
Mr. Lovell and I admired the neat workmanship of
the yo-kin, which was flat and made of wood, prettily
painted
over with a brave show of decoration. In
stead of strings the yo-kin had wires of various lengths,
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