El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

sim Perkins. Now, when he started
in to tell a yarn
Maybe you could eat EN-" con+in-
ned Uncle AshdOod, but co1Ildr't
We tried, and we couldn't. We felt If
was our duty to keep eggs low in price
but we begun to gag on eggs. and we
seen it was no use. When a man gets
so that the sight of an egg makes
him tremble in the legs he's eof to
give up tryin' to eat seven hundred
million dozen and have a little sense
Comrades all and good felIers'
saws lust like these here cold store %
fellers says, Tt can't be done W.
can't eat 'em as fast as they're laid g
let's think Of the folks back home
some thousands miles nor -by-ea Inv
west from here. Our duty to them
where they is so all can enjoy them.
regardless Of price. But no cold stor-
age I says. Cold storage is crooltv
to eggs I says, and not one poor.
helpless egg shall be cold stored except
over my dead body
IF you meant that" said Sim Per-
kins, -vindictively, Il hope they cold
stored 'em."
"The question" said Uncle Ashdod
paying no heed to Sim Perkins I'M
kind remark, "the question was how to
get them eggs to New York. There
wasn't no use tryin' to patch I'D the
sally Ann, for she was a gone shin.
and there wasn't any other way that
we could see. There wasn't thing
tEat would float So I sat down. win
an them penguins and auks and gem
nets and gulls cacklin' around to tell
they'd laid more eggs, and I thought
hard"
Pain We in the head muchY' asked
Sim Perkins.
cant remember" said Uncle Ash
dod Il was thinkin' so hard I didn't
notice whether it panied me in the
head or not. What flOats% I saws 10
myself. Wood floats says, and
sometimes life preservers does. and pa
per does, and apples, and maybe
Swiss cheese would If the holes was
big and the cheese wasn't too thick
But I wasn't sure about the cheese.
and I didn't have any anyway. So I
went on thinkin'. What you thinkfn'
so hard abOutE says the second mate
Whatu float I says. That's easv'
says he, iCe'll float So when we got
the inside of the iceberg followed out
What iceberg?" asked Sim Perkins
savagely.
1.-THE one we picked out" said Uncle
Ashdod. at was a whopper of an
iceberg, too. We followed her ont
and we filled her with eggs. We nut
eight million dozen and sixty-fOur eggs
In her and when she was loaded full
we took snow and made a deck on
top Of them eggs. First we put soft
snow, because that wouldn't bust the
eggs, and then we put hard snow. be
cause that wouldn't touch the eggs.
and then we put ice for us to stand
on, because we had hobnailed shoes.
So there she was. all loaded and ready
to sail. and 7 sent the crew south-by-
south-by-south. to where the South
Pole was
''Anna-Nigh-Usl And Saph-Fire-
Herr And Baron MunchausenI" said
Sim Perkins angrily "And you had
I 'em fetch the South Pole for a mast
for that iceberg, didn't your
"Why, no." said Uncle Ashdod. 1--WE
remembered about a Teller that had
motor sledge when he was tryin' to
get to the South Pole, and how he'd
lost it, so we was huntin the motor
sledge. And we found it. Yepi We
found it, and fetched it, and rugged
couple of paddles on to it, and jammed
it into the iceberg. and she made the
neatest mOtOr-iceberg you ever see.
I Not speedy but steady and sure.
: Boys says, as we chugged, chugged
along, were goin' to have a mighty
rousin' reception when we chug into