Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-22

that the Old Man had had this garby
pushed overheard because he was 100
free with his mouth. But this did not
seem to do any good, so had to think
up another way.
When we were out two days / got
hold of our prize liar again. l figured
that he would be superstitious and |
was right. 1 said that of course he
knew that ship could not draw near
Cape Helles and get away again I'M
less at least one man was lost, or that,
if it did get away, there would DE
many casualties aboard / said it had
always been that way and claimed
that the Old Man had pushed this
garby overheard because someone had
to go, l said on our other trips no
one had been sacrificed and that was
the reason we had suffered so much,
and that the Old Man had been called
down by the French minister of the
navy. / told him the Old Man would
pick on whatever garby he thought
he could best spare.
That was all l had to tell him. Eli
Their he thought the Old Man knew of
his EARNING or else he did not think
himself of much account, for he dis
appeared that very watch and we did
not see him again until we were on
the homeward voyage and a steward
happened to dig into provision hold.
There was our lying friend with a
life belt on, another under his head,
and the blight of a rope around his
waist, fast asleep. Why he had the
rope do not know, but he was scared
to death and thought we were going
to chuck him overheard at once. |
think he must have told the officers
everything, because / noticed them
looking pretty hard at me-or at least
I thought / did; maybe it was my
conscience, If / may brag about hay-
ing one-and / thought one of the lieu
tenants was just about to grin at me
several times, but we never heard any
more about it, or any more yarns from
our wireless friend
The fourth voyage was pretty rough,
too. The old girl would stick her
| nose into the seas and many times |
thought she would forget t. come out.
We had lot of sand piled up against
the wheelhouse and after we diyed
pretty deep one time and bucked out
| slowly, there was not a grain of sand
| left. 1t looked like the sea was lust
| kidding US, for we were almost into
| quiet water, and here it had just taken
one sea aboard to clean up the sand
we carried all the way from Brest.
During the whole voyage you could
not get near the galley. which was
where our wireless friend hung out
when he could. The pans and diyies
hanging on the wall stood straight
out when the ship pitched, and several
heavy ones came down on a cooks
| head while he was sitting under them
during a heavy sea. That made him
superstitious, too, and he disappeared
and was not found for two days. But
he was a landsman and not used to
heavy weather.
When we got'to the Gallipoli PENN
sula. the fifth time our battle fleet
and transports lay off the straits. We
could not reach the little harbor on
! the Turkish coast. but the whole fleet
felt happy and fairly confident of vic
tory. We lay off Cape Helles, and it
was there we received the news that
there were submarines lying around
! Gibraltar. Then they were reported
/ off Malta. We got the Jews from Brit
ish trawlers and transports. Our Off
/ fhn he, ii ,Nk ol, Al
Dardanelles without putting in some
where for a fresh supply of fuel, and
| that the allied fleets were on the look
on. at every place where the subs
might try to put in. But they got there
| just the same.
/ Then the British superdreadnaught
Queen Elizabeth, "the terror of the
with whole feet of cruisers and de-
/ stroyers, and all the Limeys said,
shell get through. Nothing will stop
her."
One of the boys aboard of her told
me he had no idea the Dardanelles
would be as hot place as he found
it was. Cav blimey," he said, "what
with lodging shells and submarines.
you cawn't 'elp but run onto bloomin'
mine. Hi don't mind tellin' you" he
said, that Hi was scared cold at first
And then Hi thinks of what oily joe
| (the chaplain) told us one service.
Hin times of dynger. look upwards
e says. So Hi looks upwards. and
blimey hif there wasn't bally plane
4 a fnf he hnr
hupward looks. Oily Joeg sings out,
but he weren't nowheres near. Blarst
me. there weren't nowhere you could
look without DOM yer bloody heye a
dirty trick
When the Queen Elizabeth entered
the Dardanelles, the Turkish batteries
on both shores opened right on her.
They had ideal positions, and they
were banging away in great style. And
the water was simply thick with
mines, and for all anybody knew, with
subs.
Yet the old Lizzie sailed right along,
with her hand up on the main deck
playing, '.Everybody's Doing It." 1t
made you feel shivery along the spine.
and believe me, they got great hand
from the whole fleet.
They say her Old Man teld the boys
he was going TO drive right ahead and
that if the ship was sunk he would
know that the enemy was somewhere
in the vicinity. Well. they were headed
right, but they never got past the