Show EITHER A FIB OR A MIRACLE Old Shellback Had Not Well Weighed Hit Words Before Recounting Marvelous Tale near Admiral Rogers of the nn yells y-ells the following story of n conversation conver-sation he heard between two old sailors It was n rat ship t I was sallln In that trip said one of the shellbacks One ot the dlngdpst rat ships I ever knew They was rain In It from bow to stern rats In the hold In the galley gal-ley In the steerage In the focastle In the old mans roomeverywhere Rats Nothln but nimeby It got so bud we had to put In an get them off So we hooked up to a dock and fumigated I waft on deck an I saw them rats leavln 1 counted tm They was fifteen million of em Fifteen million asked the oilier Aint that a lot o rats Are you sure Sure Yen Tin sure They was fifteen million rats and I counted em More than tint every rat weighed half a pound They was big tnt snrsy Ones rrrMelllnV Fifteen million rats and every one weighed half a pound and they nil came off your ship Thats seven million and a half pounds of rats Say Jim what wan the tonnage of that ship Oh about 150 lonsJudge |