Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1918-11-29

garbies believed. This chap was the
real original Baron Munchausen when
it came to EARNING, and for a while he
had me going too. He would whisper
some startling tale to US and make us
promise not to tell, as he had picked
it from some other ships message, and
the Old Man would spread-eagle him
if he found it out. They probably
would have logged him, at that, If they
had known he was filling us full of
wind the way he did.
He told me one time that Henry
Ford had invented something or other
for locating subs miles away, and also
another device that would draw the
sub right up to it and swallow it
whole. He had lot of other yarns
that cannot remember, but I did not
believe him because 1 saw he was
picking out certain men to tell certain
yarns to-that is, spinning them where
they would be more sure of being be-
lieved and not just spinning them any
where.
So I got pretty tired of this stuff
after q while and when we put out
from Brest on the fourth voyage
got this fellow on deck in rough
weather and began talking to him
about the chap who had gone over
board the time before and had been
cut up by the propeller. I pretended
that, Of course, he knew all about it
that the Old Man had had this garby
pushed overheard because he was too
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 I got
hold of our prize liar again. figured
that he would be superstitious and
, was right. I said that Of course HI
knew that a ship could not draw neal
l Cape Helles and get away again I'm
less at least one man was lost, or that
{ if it did get away, there would b.
2 many casualties aboard. said it hat
: always been that way and elaine,
, that the Old Man had pushed thi
/ garby overheard because someone ha
!. to go. I said on our other trips n
e one had been sacrificed and that wa
e the reason we had suffered SO much
and that the Old Man had been calle
s down by the French minister of tn
S navy. I told him the Old Man woul
Y pick on whatever garby he though
e he could best spare.
n That was all had to tell him. 3
e Their he thought the Old Man knew {
l. his EARNING or else he did not thin
r himself Of much account, for he di
q appeared that very watch and we di
IS not see him again until we were q
4 the homeward voyage and stewal
happened to dig into a provision hol
le There was our lying friend, with
Re life belt on, another under his hea
to and the blight Of a rope around b
Re waist, fast asleep. Why he had Il
" rope I do not know, but he was scare
Re to death and thought we were goil
as to chuck him overheard at once.
ne think he must have told the Office
y everything, because I noticed the
r. looking pretty hard at me-or at lea
be I thought I did; maybe it was n
SIS conscience, if I may brag about ha
pit ing one-and thought one of the lie
en- tenants was just about to grin at I
lst several times, but we never heard a.
ed more about it, or any more yarns fre
ep our wireless friend.
ad The fourth voyage was pretty rous
Ter too. The old girl would stick h
'er nose into the seas and many times
en- thought she would forget to come O
IN We had lot Of sand piled up agar
re the WheelhOuse and after we div
Use pretty deep one time and bucked {
IN. slowly there was not a grain of sa
nd left. It looked like the sea was j,
led kidding us, for we were almost il
aW quiet water, and here it had just tax
to one sea aboard to clean up the sa
de. we carried all the way from Bre
TO During the whole voyage you CO..
its. not get near the galley, which "
re- where our wireless friend hung
hat when he could. The pans and dix
did hanging on the wall stood strai.
be out when the ship pitched, and seve
les heavy ones came down on q coo
the head white he was sitting under tn
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