Evening star., 1918-02-10


Japhet and Ham and I used the shell
for poker chips. and we had enough t
give us fresh supply for a four-hand
ed game every night during our trip"
'Why do you ask?" queried Noah
looking at Morgan through the larg
end of a telescope.
'Oh. no reason in particular" sait
Morgan. "Only 1 want to verify you
story as we go along, and l had al
ways understood that you had only
two of each kind of animal on board
and I really didn't see how Mrs. Noaf
could make any kind of e stew out OF
two oysters"
There are oysters and oysters" ex.
planned Noah. I'VE kept two fol
breeding purposes. but the others were
for home consumption. But to resume
there we were, out in the middle OF
that vast tract of water when Ham
cry floats down the percolator-'peris-
cope two miles to leeward""
Stuff and nonsense" muttered
Themistocles,
Hush" whispered Nelson. S'Gfve him
time. Give him time. We've got him
on the hip. He'll hang himself in just
two minutes"
ut was a terrible shock" said Moan
"rd been wondering all along what in
thunder we'd do If one O. them dad
hinged submarines tried to jump aboard
/ knew they were undesirable and
wouldn't have any consideration 1or
me, but I'm no Hun, and after all We
sea dogs has got heart. | didn't realiy
feel as if / could rap one of EN- over
the knuckles with a marlnsplRe, anu
tell him to sink and leave no trace
Great Beelzebub!" muttered kldd
Trapping a submarine on the knuchles1
I suppose he'd tap dreadnaught on
the wrist"
LET him alone, let him alone" said
las
gallows every second. and in three e
minutes he'll drop. I've got him just
where 1 want him. Wen have him In
old Doc Cooks class in jify.
So the patriarch was allowed TO con-
tinue.
II rushed up on deck to see If Ham
really knew what he was talking
about" he went on, "and sure enough,
scope, turning first this way and then
that, and all the time drawing nearer
and nearer the ark. Finally 1t spied us
and came rushing onward at thirty-one
knots an hour. and in less time than 1t
takes to tell it was trying to shin up
the companion way and get aboard.
hated to do 1t, but rules is rules. and
I batted the poor thing over the ears
with a steamer chair, and 1t sunk with
a splash into the sea, never to rise
again.
Il
"A wonderfully thrilling adventure .
said Nelson. But I'd just like to know
one thing, DR.. Noah-and that is, how
in all Cimmeria you could see a peri
scope five thousand and nine hundred
odd years before the periscope was in
vented?"
That's a solar plexus.' calculated
Columbus.
Bully" cried Hendrix Hudson, glee-
fully, clapping Nelson on the back.
Shem, Ham and Japhet glanced anx-
iousIy at their father. but the old man
was calm amid the laughter over his
presumed discontinue. and gazed stead
lily at his adversary with plying con-
tempt.
1.-The rather limited apparatus which
you and the seafarers of today call a
periscope," he said, was not. it is true.
in existence at that time. but in prin-
ciple 1t was a living and vital part of
every giraffe In the world. as 1t still is,
and II you don't believe me I'll take you
over to the zoo and prove 1t. have
told you only Of the first we en-
countered, but Il was only the Begin
ming. Before night we were surrounded