The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-02-14

being carved on the slab. The walls
are covered with tablets erected by
relatives and friends of some deceased
person, and some of the inscriptions
are very unique. One of them relat-
ed the story of young officer of some
fusilier regiment who met his death
while drinking small beer when hot.
1t pointed out the advisability of
drinking stronger beverages when one
| is warm or of abstaining entirely.
We stayed in Winchester from Mon
day until Saturday when We went to
Southampton, arriving there at noon.
one of the piers and told to stay
there. None of us had any lunch
cached about our persons and nearly
every one started out to remedy the
fault. Three other fellows and /
hunted up little eating place which
had sign tackled on it-Eating House
First Class Dining Room, Second
Class Dining Room. We tried the
second class room and the man in the
lead got as far as the door. He
wasn't to blame, as she had a cold,
but the rest of US had seen the light
more quickly and we turned around
and went into the door with the first
class sign on it. We passed through
long, dark passage that was full of
peculiar kind of smell. We thought
it was sort of second cousin to the
one emanating from the second class
dining room. When the waitress
came to take our order, we could see
through the open door the kitchen and
on into the second class dining room
beyond. From this we couldn't figure
it out any other way but that the
food for both rooms was prepared in
the same kitchen. We talked it over
and decided to stay and see what
happened. She told us that the menu
was ham and eggs or eggs and ham,
with glass of water with each order.
After taking our order for ham and
eggs she left, and we looked around
to see what the room was like. There
was one window. Most of the panes
were broken, the apertures being
covered over with paper. AS far as
admitting light was concerned the
window might as well have been
boarded over. There were three tables
and eleven chairs, all of which looked
as though they had been through the
! first battle of the Marine and had
been wounded in the lower extremities
For the rest, the room had two doors,
four walls, ceiling, a floor and two
or three inches of dirt over every
thing. There was a-But just then
the door opened and as the waitress
brought in our ham and egg there
hoated in through the portal an in
Gescribably peculiar odor ! never ID
find out what il wos but it relieved
me from any Ges,re 10 eat. We look
ed at the eggs with respect but not
in admiration paid for the four glass
es OF water and left
On the way back to the she'd Sweet
and | stopped to watch a couple of
sailors who were wrestling with
some coils of rope. They were splic
ing several places and they showed
us several different ways of hitching
one piece onto another. Between the
splicing and their stories we forgot
about the time and when we got back
everyone was on board and all the
berths were taken. But that didn't
bother US half as much as the feeling
of vacancy under our belt buckles.
Try as we would, we couldn't scrape
up anything to eat.
After night of semi-consciousness
and no rest we started out again on
the search for edibles. At that time,
we were lying off lie Harve, and the
thought that we would probably hike
ten or twelve miles when we disem-
barked spurred us on to greater
efforts. Finally, we separated, Sweet
going one way and | another. The
next time we met, he had big slab
of Swiss cheese and | had four ship
biscuits. We sat down by the rail
and ate, breaking the biscuit with our
heels to facilitate mastication. This
was at eight o'clock. For short
time we were happy. We had eaten
and were completely filled with peace
and good will. At nine o'clock both
of us began to have misgivings, and
for the next four hours we sat look
ing at each other, wondering which
one was the more to blame.
When we got off the boat, we went
out to British rest camp. 1t wasn't
very far, only three or four miles, but
| didn't enjoy it very much as
wasn't feeling very well. j figured
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