Cheyenne record., 1919-04-10

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
II he found It out. They probably
would have logged him, at that, Il they
had known he was hlling us fun 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 Q lot Of other yarns
that cannot remember. but did not
believe him because I saw he was
picking out certain men TO tell certain
yarns to-that L. spinning them where
they would be more sure Of being be-
heved 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 I
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. pretended
that the Old Man had had this garby
pushed overheard because he was too
Tree with his mouth. But this did not
seem to do any good, % 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 I
was right I said that Of course he
knew that a ship could not draw near
Cape Helles and get away again un-
less at least one man was lost, or that,
II It did get away. there would be
many casualties aboard. said It had
always been that way and claimed
that the Old Man had pushed this
Earby overheard because someone had
to 60. I said on our other trips no
one had been sacrificed and that was
SA0 AC06OA wo ANU 6uACASN ~ u4OSAAe
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 had to tell him. Ei-
ther he thought the Old Man knew of
his EARNING or else he did not think
hevnaa1p ~ hA a.
appeared that very watch and we did
not SEQ him again until we were on
the homeward voyage and q steward
happened to dig into q provision hold.
There was our lying friend. with .
Life belt on, another under his head,
and the blight Of . rope around his
waist. fast asleep Why he had the
rope do not know, but he was scared
10 death and thought We were going
to chuck him overheard at once. I
think he mu6t have told the o6lcsEs
everything. because I noticed them
looking pretty hard at moor at least
I thought I did: maybe It was my
conscience, II may brag about hav-
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 -.->.r-~--ss,-,-
The fourth voyage was pretty rough.
too. The old girl would stick her
nose into the seas and many times I
thought che would forget to come out
We had lot Of sand piled up aSainss
the wheelhouss and after we dived
pretty deep one time and bucked out
slowly, there was not Q grain Of sand
left It looked like the 90 was Just
kidding N. 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 TAs pans and dixiso
hanging o. ths VAN stood sdaiGAk
out when tie sAtp plteAed. and ssvssel
heavy onss came Down o. Q cooks
Asad while he was atting under tAam
during . heavy ~. That naAs Nm