The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-09-05

garbies believed. This chap vas the
real original Baron Munchausen when
1t 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 60 tell, as ne had picked
1t from some other ships message, and
the Old Man would spread-eagle him
II he found 1t out. They probably
would have logged him. at that, IL 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 1t and swallow 1t
whole. He had q lot of other yarns
that / cannot remember, but I did not
believe him because I 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 / got pretty tired Of this stuff
after a while and when we put out
from Brest on the fourth voyage /
got this fellow on deck in rough
weather ana began talking Il him
about the chap who had gone over
board the time before and had been
cut up by the propeller. 1 pretended
that, Of course, he knew ell 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 I had to think
up another way.
When we were out two days l got
hold Of u prize liar again. 1 figured
that he would be superstitious and /
was right. / said hat Of course he
knew that a ship could not draw near
Cape Helles and get away again I'M
less at least M nan was lost. OF that,
II 1t did get away. there would be
many casualties aboard. / said 1t had
always been that way and claimed
that the Old Man had pushed this
garby overheard becnuse had
to 60. ! 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. I told him the Old hun would
pick on whatever garby he thought
he could best spare.
That was all I had ( tell him. III
Their he thought the 0id hfnn 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 9 him again until we were on
the hoineward voyage and q steward
happened to dig into q provision hold.
There was our lying friend. with a
Efe belt on. another under his head,
and the blight Of q rope around his
waist. fast asleep. Why he had the
rope ] do not know. but ne 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-oF at least
thought I did; maybe Il was my
conscience. II l may brag about bav-
ing one-and I thought one Of the lieu
tenants vas Just about 10 grim at me
several times. but we never heard any
more about Il 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 to come out,
We had . lot Of sand piled up against
the wheelhouse and after we dived
pretty deep one time and bucked out
slowly, there was not 9 grain Of sand
Iokk n looked IKE the ~ was just
kidding us, for we were almost Into
quiet water. and here It had just taken
one sea Aboard to clean up the sand
va cnrried an TIE way from Brest
i. ,irfne the whole uosage van could
not st near the galley. which wat
&here orr wireless friend hung out
when be could. The pans and dlxiel
hanging on the wall stood straight
ont when the ship pitched. and several
Heavy ones celne down On 4 cpok,n
head while he wae sitting under Shem
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