The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-08
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| home wanders down the aisle of
| half-crowded car--that Is. of course,
+a-ear-rpAeFe- everyone has-pushed
and TANNED at the door to get in
side so that each might have whole
seat to himself--looking this way and
/ that for a soft place to light. when
all of a sudden he spies n seat to the
rear occupied by a man in uniform.
/ Is II any more than natural that
| body is attracted to that particular
| seat? And is ii not for the reason
| that the uniform has caught his eye
and the unknown personality therein
/ his curiosity as we'll as admiration
| Well then didn't we have a perfect
| right to sit right down beside sailor
| the other night as we came galivant-
! ing across the country to this garden
spot? That being settled, let us get
started away from here.
Don't mind II I sit beside you, do
your"
| Certainly not"
These cinders are certainly bad,
| aren't they"
"sho' are: these oil burners are
fierce"
"rh huh"
| Business OF peusing before launch
ing attack. Newcomer rams his tiQger
I between mis- tp4laT anu HEM DNhpS MS
brow and emits "Phew" The
| gangway is clear.
Heap hotter here than 1t is in
| France"
! YOU been TO France
! yep, just got back "
! How are things over there"
! Great That's the wonderfulest
| country YOU ever seen. There are
more pretty girls there than you
zh SIT Mt al nf
/ them fallin' over your neck tryin' to
i kiss you and stick flowers in your
4 button holes Them folks are so glad
to see the American uniform a sailor
! can't snatch time to smoke q pill
form them DANES hollerinE Sammy.
| Sammy" ! amt no sooner lit ashore
fore one OF them had me by the arm
shown me all over town"
when did YOU go over ,"
II went over with Sims as soon as
was war declared last February"
I Are YOU on dreadnought ?"
Not me. I'm on a DESTROYER. the
fastest and best baby that cuts the
/ sea"
ooh. see You are submarine
chaser. How wonderful"
/ A short pause, during which the
sailor chan smiles to himself
Have You seen any submarines
YETI"
II saw so We got three of the
buffers the first day out from Havre
] seen the gunners pump two right
on the perryscope and heard them
babies In the other one hollerin' fer
help. Yes, sir, them submarines are
plumb out of date now. AS soon as
one of EN- sights "a destroyer he sticks
his tail between his legs and scoots
| for home, Them babies are as scared
of an American gunner as n rabbit
= is OF a dog All we got to do Is to
/ wind up and they duck Yes, sir.
we got three of them before dinner
time"
That's funny. never saw any
thing of il In the papers"
There's heap OF things you never
: see IN a paper He, took his sui:~
case Off the rack. opened 1t. dug out
his utensils and proceeded to polish
his shoes. After which he ferreted
} out his comb and brush and proceeded
to make himself tidy. His inpromptu
, toilet over. he replaced the articles
and put the suitcase back on the
{ rack. He then proceeded
) why, one day we got rid of seven
teen of EN- ! guess you didn't see
that In the paper either. but that 8
exactly what we did"
My goodness
Yes. sir. seventeen OF 'em all in
one day II seems like them suckers
was doing a powerful heap of prowl-
: Ing around In the channel. and il all
; mined and everything to keep them
= out. The English scratched their
3 heads and worried how II all was
= coming about. and all the time them
suckers was sendin', transport after
} transport to old Davy Finally the
; officers up In London sent for Sims
/ and asked him what he thought allied
: the matter Sims smiled and told
them fellows to leave II to his boys
We put up the channel. and when
L we -cnIaaa- Ia a certain tiaee-~--- howe
TO and snooped around. After a, while
D Sims seen sub and the sub seen him
or course, the sub made break &c
get out of the road. and when she
done that Sims seen that she dived
straight down. She just kicked her
heels right up In the air and RICH,
down she went like a rock or some
thing.
This looked 'spicious to Sims so he
got couple of sailors rugged ND tr
hurry and sent them down in diving
suits right after the sub And they
soon found the secret OF the whole
mess. The suckers had built a sub
marine base right on the bottom. II
was all walled up with steel with
doors In 1t. what the subs slipped In
and out Of
Well. the divers dove up and told
Sims what they seen. and he put In
for shore. where he a great big steel
net Then he went out and located
the place and dropped this net all
around and over the contraption they
had built there. After he got II fixed
like he wanted II he gave some sort
of secret German signal and thew
all-seventeen of 'em-come Dustin
out to sink some sort of helpless
boat or something, and the last one
of EN- poked their nose in this net
and all we had to do was to haul 'eu1
up and make for shore"
Remarkable, Remarkable. And
there wasn't thing in the papers
about it,
Sure, there are a heap of thin gs
you never see In a paper
We were beginning to realize It.
Then there are a lot Of other
things fellow on the water sees ex
cept subs. Take the fish All the
way over wolf-nsh. whales, sharks
mullets. catfish and goodness knows
what other kinds followed our little
destroyer with smiles all over their
faces. They looked like they was
proud to be near boat like ours
Then up in the clouds there was
a drove Of balloons and airships over